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Sole traders spend 27 hours yearly on tax admin. With Making Tax Digital approaching, Monzo Business has launched a free built-in tax tool to help sole traders and landlords meet new HMRC requirements, as research shows many remain underprepared and lose significant working time to compliance tasks.
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AWS disputes claims its AI tools caused December outages report. The Financial Times said engineers let Amazon’s Kiro agent make production changes that led to a 13-hour disruption. AWS says misconfigured access controls — not AI — affected one service in a mainland China region during the busy holiday period.
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UK SMEs are leaning on AI, and disputes are rising. A dispute resolution lawyer says ‘almost right’ outputs and jurisdictional blind spots can harden positions and inflate costs.
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Audion has launched Audion AI to optimise digital audio campaigns. The company says the agent turns a brief into multi-platform media plans, spanning streaming, podcasts, digital radio, and audio-first video, and adjusts spend during delivery using contextual signals and measurement data. It also unveiled a refreshed brand identity with launch.
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UK unemployment rises as AI reshapes hiring decisions. New data suggests scale-up founders are slowing recruitment as automation accelerates and employment costs climb, raising questions about how artificial intelligence is influencing the broader labour market.
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Endava expands AI-native strategy through global Miro partnership. The technology group will deploy Miro enterprise-wide to accelerate AI-driven collaboration, embedding the AI Innovation Workspace into its Dava.Flow™ methodology to shorten decision cycles and improve delivery alignment across nearly 12,000 employees.
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ExtraHop launches new tools to power agentic security operations. The network detection and response company has introduced enhanced visibility, identity integrations, and Kubernetes telemetry capabilities designed to provide AI agents within security operations centres with the contextual data required to operate autonomously and respond to advanced threats at machine speed.
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UK IT teams lead Europe in future-readiness confidence. Yet fewer than four in ten describe their organisation’s AI capabilities as mature, despite widespread agreement that artificial intelligence will be central to long-term resilience.
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Mature knowledge systems determine AI and growth outcomes. A global iManage study finds organisations with strong knowledge foundations are nearly twice as likely to report revenue growth and are significantly more successful at embedding AI into daily operations.
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UK employees welcome AI but demand human oversight. A nationwide survey of 2,000 employees finds strong enthusiasm for artificial intelligence in the workplace, but clear insistence that accountability and final decision-making authority remain with people as adoption expands.