UK workers and bosses split on AI: KCL study finds one in five fear civil unrest
A KCL/Policy Institute study finds 70% of Britons worried about AI's economic impact and 20% expecting civil unrest, as employers stay sharply more optimistic.
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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Cambridge's Tessera AI maps UK hedgehog habitats from 20 petabytes of satellite data
The University of Cambridge's Tessera Earth-observation foundation model is being used to map UK hedgehog habitats and changes that threaten declining populations.
HSBC CEO tells staff not to fight AI as bank job cuts mount
HSBC's Georges Elhedery told staff AI would destroy and create jobs as the bank's UK peer Standard Chartered formalised a 7,800-role AI-linked cut.
QBE: 75% of UK firms fear supplier AI risk but only 28% audit suppliers
Insurer QBE finds 75% of UK businesses are worried about supplier AI cyber risk but only 28% of AI-using firms audit how their third parties deploy the technology.
Standard Chartered to cut 7,800 jobs by 2030, citing AI automation
London-headquartered Standard Chartered will cut 15% of back-office roles by 2030, the first major global bank to explicitly tie thousands of redundancies to AI.
Thames Water deploys satellite AI in Swindon to target 100m litre leak loss
Thames Water has signed a 13-month deal with Origin Tech for satellite-AI leak detection in Swindon, after a trial found 800 leaks and saved 8.7m litres a day.
