Imperial College and Thomson Reuters bring AI lab to London Tech London is staking its claim as a world-leading hub for AI research with the announcement of a new Frontier AI Lab, a partnership between Imperial College London and Thomson Reuters. The lab promises to bring cutting-edge AI development, until now largely the preserve of a handful of tech giants, to the heart of Britain’s capital. [...]
UK businesses wasting millions on ChatGPT-style AI tools Tech Companies could be wasting millions on AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude as they rush to boost productivity. MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 study found that while employees in over 90 per cent of companies regularly use personal AI tools, only 40 per cent of organisations have official LLM subscriptions. Despite [...]
UK firms overpaying billions in corporation tax, research finds Politics UK firms overpaid £14.2bn in corporation in the last tax year, according to research by a leading accountancy firm
ITN: Profit slashed at ITV, Channel 4 and 5 news giant April 7, 2025 Profit at ITN, the organisation which powers ITV News, Channel 4 News and 5 News, was slashed almost in half in 2024. The business has reported a pre-tax profit of £779,000 for its latest financial year, down from the £1.4m it posted for 2023. The total for 2023 was also significantly down from the £8.9m [...]
Thomson Reuters snaps up British AI startup that provides legal advice August 21, 2024 Information giant Thomson Reuters has snapped up British artificial intelligence (AI) company Safe Sign Technologies as it looks to grow its suite of AI-powered research tools targeted towards the legal industry. Safe Sign has been building and developing a legal specific large language model (LLM) that aims to make reliable legal advice more accessible. Both firms [...]
Almost half of UK corporations set to ramp up legal spend amid M&A resurgence July 8, 2024 Nearly half of UK corporations are predicting an increase for their legal spend as the demand for legal advice on M&A transactions has clawed back
Square Mile and Me: Kleinwort Hambros CIO Gene Salerno on making it across the pond May 9, 2024 Gene Salerno, CIO at SG Kleinwort Hambros, tells us about meeting Bill Clinton, an awkward reception dinner, and swapping New York for London.
Law firms filed over 1,000 legal tech patents globally – but only 1 was filed in the UK July 13, 2023 Law firms around the world are increasingly investing in technology to remain competitive, new data shared with Morning Wire reveals. Exactly 1,184 patent applications for legal services technology were filed globally in the year ending September 2022, according to data obtained by Thomson Reuters from the World Intellectual Property Organisation. China filed the most with [...]
ITV ‘actively exploring’ Traitors producer All3Media acquisition June 16, 2023 Broadcaster ITV has confirmed it is “actively exploring” an acquisition of Traitors producers All3Media. It follows reports the TV channel was seeking to buy the production company from its joint owners Warner Bros Discovery Inc., which is facing a debt issue, and Liberty Global. The business would be combined with ITV’s Studios unit, according to [...]
Thomson Reuters ups forecasts despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainties May 3, 2022 Thomson Reuters raised its 2022 forecast after beating first-quarter expectations and warning of the ongoing economic woes.