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Directors are moving AI from experiments into boardroom governance plans. New IoD survey insights show artificial intelligence becoming a strategic control issue, not only a technology deployment question.
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The UK’s under-16 social media ban would reshape digital commerce. Platforms, brands, sports rights holders, and agencies face a tougher youth engagement environment as age assurance moves from niche compliance tool to mainstream digital infrastructure.
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Anthropic’s model shutdown has turned AI access into service risk. Users seeking refunds after Fable 5’s withdrawal have exposed deeper questions over continuity, governance, and procurement.
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Japanese investment has widened Britain’s industrial and technology policy agenda. The £18bn UK-Japan package spans clean energy, finance, defence, AI, quantum, cyber security, and advanced industrial cooperation.
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Cyber Essentials Plus now demands firmer proof of cyber hygiene. Jon Abott, CEO and Co-Founder of ThreatAware, explains how v3.3 tightens scope, MFA, and patching requirements as organisations face stricter evidence standards.
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AI use is rising faster than workforce readiness levels. Skillsoft says 86% of employees use AI, but only 24% feel fully equipped.
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Global trade disruption is becoming a permanent operating condition. DMCC says tariffs, AI, supply-chain stress, and clean-energy competition are rebuilding commercial flows.
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Most UK businesses are missing from AI-generated commercial recommendations online. LLM Listed says 87% of analysed UK businesses failed to appear for primary commercial AI search terms, despite many continuing to invest in traditional SEO.
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Executives still rely on instinct when data arrives too late. Confluent research finds 82% of UK leaders feel forced to choose between fast and informed decisions as data access, timeliness, and confidence remain persistent barriers.
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HMRC has set the agent MFA rollout timetable now. Accountancy practices must prepare access controls before final activation between late September and mid-October.