The FCA has warned Premier League clubs that crypto sponsorship deals with unauthorised firms bring risk and expose clubs to legal trouble. Britain’s financial watchdog has put football clubs on notice. The Financial Conduct Authority issued a formal warning on Wednesday. It targets clubs in the Premier League and beyond. The regulator says sponsorship deals […]
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Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand
Drones will need to be programmed with moral guidelines as AI-driven decision making reduces human involvement in autonomous warfare, according to a former UK spy chief.
David Omand told the Guardian that he had changed his mind on unmanned weapons systems, more than a decade after concluding that autonomous drones could not comply with international humanitarian law.
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority has warned football clubs that sponsorship deals with unauthorised crypto firms could expose fans to financial harm while creating legal, money laundering and reputational risks for clubs. According to the FCA, it has written to…
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews, and prevent it from being used for the "fine-tuning" of Google's AI models.
"In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews," the CMA announced. "This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate c …
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South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers
South Korea has leapfrogged India to become the world’s sixth largest share market, leaving equity markets in the UK, Germany and France trailing in its dust. But despite the runaway success, some are raising concerns that the Kospi index is too dependent on two freshly minted trillion-dollar chipmaking companies.
Chip company SK Hynix last week claimed a seat in Asia’s trillion-dollar company club, alongside South Korean compatriot Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC. Explosive demand for chips used in AI has propelled the trio past the valuation threshold.
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A policy analysis from mid-2026 When Sir Keir Starmer stood before cameras on 13 January 2025 and unveiled the AI Opportunities Action Plan, he made a characteristically blunt argument: the UK could either shape the AI revolution or be shaped by it. “We will not be a technology taker,” he said. The plan itself , commissioned from […]
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BNP Paribas expects UK economic growth to slow to 0.7% in 2026 from 1.4% in 2025, with quarterly momentum dropping to about 0.1%. Inflation is projected to rise to 3.4% before easing only gradually, keeping it above the BoE target. Monetary policy is seen tightening by 50 bps in 2026, while 10-year gilt yields stay elevated before falling to 4.30% in 2027. Growth slowdown and delayed relief for gilt yields “Economic activity is expected to slow down in 2026, with growth limited to 0.7% after 1.4% in 2025; following a forecasted +0.4% q/q in Q1, the average quarterly pace would fall to around +0.1%.” “This slowdown would occur against a backdrop of renewed inflationary pressures triggered by the war in Iran: inflation would reach 3.4% y/y before easing only gradually to 3.23% y/y in 2027, remaining well above BoE’s target.” “In this context, and contrary to the initial
