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Finance & Banking · 3 min read

NatWest's 2026 Fintech Cohort Is Mostly Autonomous AI Agents — UK Banking's Next Phase Is Here

NatWest named eight startups for its 2026 Fintech Programme — five of them autonomous AI agents. It signals UK banking's shift from AI assistants to AI systems that act independently.

2h ago

Manufacturing & Industry · 4 min read

UK Startup Humanoid Locks In Deal to Deploy 2,000 Robots Across Schaeffler's Global Factories

UK robotics startup Humanoid has signed a binding Robot-as-a-Service agreement with Schaeffler to deploy 1,000–2,000 wheeled humanoid robots across global manufacturing facilities by 2032 — one of the largest humanoid robot deployments ever announced.

8h ago

Government & Policy · 4 min read

Global AI Regulatory Landscape Fractures as EU, US, and Asia-Pacific Diverge on Enforcement

Multinationals now face simultaneous AI compliance obligations under as many as five distinct regulatory regimes, with the EU, US, UK, and Asia-Pacific adopting fundamentally different enforcement philosophies.

Apr 30

Business & Enterprise · 2 min read

Grok Is Down — Again. Three Consecutive Days of Outages for xAI's Chatbot

xAI's Grok chatbot has been down intermittently for three consecutive days, with over 813 user error reports across the US, UK, and Germany.

Apr 24

AI News · 3 min read

ChatGPT and Codex Hit by Major Outage Affecting Thousands of Users Worldwide

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex went down April 20, knocking out 12 service components and disrupting tens of thousands of users across the UK and US for nearly three hours.

Apr 21

Manufacturing & Industry · 3 min read

KUKA Unveils Automation 2.0: AI-Driven Industrial Robots That Respond to Intent, Not Just Instructions

KUKA's new AMP platform lets manufacturers describe production goals in plain language rather than programming robot movements — unveiled at HANNOVER MESSE 2026.

Apr 20