European Wealth Managers Fight Back Against AI Disruption Fears
St James's Place, Schroders, and Lombard Odier defend their business models as US fintech AI tax tool sends wealth management shares tumbling.
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
St James's Place, Schroders, and Lombard Odier defend their business models as US fintech AI tax tool sends wealth management shares tumbling.
National AI lead Alex Murray acknowledges bias in policing AI tools including facial recognition, as £115m national centre aims to minimise risks.
Sky News reveals most English police forces continue using Microsoft Copilot after West Midlands Police blocked the tool over fabricated evidence in an Israeli football fan ban.
Bedfordshire police used AI tools to translate 100,000 messages and analyse 1.4TB of evidence in a major fraud case, as government pledges £115m for police AI rollout.
Complaints pile up from Gemini users after months of conversation history disappears, with Google blaming a temporary bug and promising restoration.
The race to build AI data centres has created an acute shortage of DRAM and NAND memory chips, driving up costs for phones, PCs and consoles — with no relief expected before 2027.
International regulators unite to address privacy risks from AI systems creating realistic images and videos of people without consent, with particular focus on child safety.
Ofgem reveals over 140 data centre projects seek grid connections totalling 50GW — exceeding Britain's peak daily energy demand of 45GW this month.
Coca-Cola is embedding AI into its marketing pipeline, moving from price-led growth to AI-powered persuasion as inflation pressures ease across consumer markets.
Cybersecurity shares tumble — CrowdStrike down 8%, Okta 9.2% — after Anthropic launches a Claude-based vulnerability scanner, deepening AI disruption fears.
Deutsche Bank's proprietary AI tool dbLumina forecasts major disruption to wealth management, trading and financial services roles over the coming decade.
Scotland Yard confirms it is using Palantir's AI to analyse sickness, absence and overtime patterns to identify potential misconduct among its 46,000 staff.
Newport-based Pontiro secures seed investment to scale its medical image anonymisation platform, which has cut NHS data processing times by up to 98%.
Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Rhondda Cynon Taf councils deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot across 3,500 staff, saving thousands of hours and boosting care quality.
The world's largest dairy cooperative deploys an AI assistant built on 50 years of cooperative data to provide personalised guidance to farmers in their own language.