Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

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How lower-cost finance could deliver bill savings to millions with no upfront costs

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...

The prime minister wants fixing the crisis in social care to be the defining mission of his premiership.

Tickets are on sale for a fundraising concert in Melton Mowbray in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

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To me, this is a head-scratcher.

Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, and then solid strike action from 5th October until 11 December in a row over jobs and course cuts, ...

A Swiss private equity firm and UK investor have bought a 1,570-bed student housing portfolio for £165m.

Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action