18+ hour, 14+ min ago   (514+ words) More than 800 hospitality businesses have called on Andy Burnham to make good on his support for lower VAT, piling pressure on the prime minister ahead of next month’s Budget. Pub giants, restaurant chains, hotels and some of Britain’s best-known chefs…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (140+ words) OpenAI has pushed back plans for a mega stock market debut as boss Sam Altman said the company needed to focus on AI safety before opening itself up to public investors. Altman said OpenAI would not float in 2026, telling Fortune…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (434+ words) The Conservatives and Reform UK have clashed over plans to abolish inheritance tax as Kemi Badenoch prepares to put tax cuts at the heart of her pitch to voters. Badenoch is considering pledging to scrap inheritance tax if the Tories…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (778+ words) Anthropic boss Dario Amodei has called for the AI industry to slow the development of its most powerful models, warning that progress is moving “drastically faster” than safety work can keep up. In an essay published on Saturday, Amodei said…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (722+ words) Angela Rayner has warned Reform UK that its record £72m fundraising haul from two cryptocurrency billionaires could be caught by retrospective rules being pushed through parliament. The housing secretary said new restrictions on political donations from Britons living abroad, or those…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (560+ words) Andy Burnham’s government is considering slowing planned minimum wage rises for young workers amid concerns that higher employment costs are making businesses more reluctant to hire them. Downing Street and the Treasury are examining whether the rapid increase in wages…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (142+ words) Soho Square Capital, an investment firm focused on financing established and growing UK and European SMEs, is pleased to announce a growth investment in Strathberry, the Scottish luxury leather goods brand. This marks Soho Square’s first investment from Soho Square…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (607+ words) Apple shares slipped after investors gave a muted reception to new chief executive John Ternus’s launch of the tech giant’s first foldable iPhone alongside a string of price rises. The iPhone maker entered the foldable market on Wednesday with the…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (383+ words) Surging government bond yields could force John Healey to deliver an “emergency Budget” in which the UK’s new Chancellor drives through a wave of spending cuts in a bid to bear down on Britain’s ballooning debt pile. UK gilt yields…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (591+ words) Andy Burnham and John Healey have been warned against using an “accounting trick” to ramp up borrowing given the volatility shaking bond markets and traders’ vigilance to extra gilt issuance. Analysts at Oxford Economics said that it looked likely the…...