German conversational AI company Cognigy has announced it plans to invest £50 million to expand its UK operations, increasing its workforce to create over 140 high-skilled technology roles by 2027.
AI continues to dominate headlines and social media. For good reason. It’s already helping many businesses work faster and smarter. The global AI market was worth more than $279 billion last year. It’s expected to grow to $1.8 trillion by 2030. That kind of growth tells you how quickly things are moving.
Slumps in business performance are increasingly destabilising work-life balances. In 2024 sales declined, with just over half (57%) of salespeople reaching their sales targets. This is the lowest figure in five years, marking a continuing trend of attrition: 4% lower than the previous year and 7% lower than in 2021.
Designing and developing micro robots is the stuff of sci-fi, Joana Cartocci, Founder and COO of Robeauté told me, but it is exactly what the startup is doing as part of a mission to give neurosurgeons the tools they need to investigate, treat, and monitor brain diseases.
Tennibot, the innovative sports technology company behind The Rover ball-collecting robot, has announced that its AI-powered autonomous ball machine, The Partner, is now shipping to consumers.
Driven by a young and digital population, neobanks have reset the paradigm for the banking industry in terms of customer experience, product innovation, and pricing. Now, adding to the mix are telecom services that have become an attractive proposition for the fintech sector.
Magdrive, the developers of high-performance plasma propulsion for next-gen spacecraft, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Perpetual Atomics, the company behind pioneering space nuclear power systems.
Latent Labs is launching Latent-X, a frontier AI model for push button protein design, outperforming competing models under identical laboratory conditions.
The UK government is implementing significant immigration changes this month, with further reforms expected. These changes are part of a programme of legislation over the course of this parliament aiming to reduce reliance on lower-skilled overseas labour while still attracting top talent.
Vibe coding is an approach to producing software by using artificial intelligence (AI), where a person describes a problem in a few natural language sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding. (Wikipedia)
The most underrated mode of communication in a brand’s arsenal might just be the ones customers already use daily. While businesses race to embrace cutting-edge technologies, the fundamentals of communication – voice and text – remain powerhouses for customer engagement. So why do so many overlook their potential?
Smartphone technology developed by a Belfast-based entrepreneur could soon help public transport users report anti-social behaviour without fear.
ÄIO, an Estonian biotechnology company developing sustainable, non-animal fats and non-vegetable oils through innovative fermentation processes, has secured €1 million in funding to accelerate development of safer and more ecological alternatives to traditional oils used in cosmetics and chemical industry applications.
The classic “Summer Friday”, once the preferred seasonal reward for office workers, has evolved into something far more transformative for UK businesses. Research from Owl Labs reveals that the four-day work week is rapidly replacing temporary summer perks in the “Big Summer Flex”, with permanent, flexible ways of working that are reshaping workplace culture, for good.
Perse Technology and EDF have partnered to help UK businesses reduce carbon emissions and energy costs.
I used to think the way you speak was just a part of who you are. A reflection of your roots. Your family. Your story. Something to be proud of.
But then I started noticing just how quickly some people make judgments based on someone’s accent. How a certain voice in a meeting gets listened to more seriously. How a regional twang gets laughed off.
A report from The Entrepreneurs Network, one of Britain’s think tanks for entrepreneurship policy, urges the UK Government to establish clear programme standards and classifications for startup support schemes, such as accelerators and incubators.
Scotland’s early-stage investment landscape continues to broaden its international appeal, with 73 investors new to the Scottish market participating in funding rounds during 2024, according to the latest Scotland Newcomer Investors Report from Young Company Finance.
One in five employees across the UK, equivalent to 6.8 million employees, are not receiving any coaching or awareness-building for gender specific issues, such as menopause, fertility, and screening programmes for gender-based cancers, according to research by Towergate Employee Benefits.
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