Businesses are preparing to sharply increase their investment in artificial intelligence next year, even as concerns around data privacy, regulatory compliance and security risks continue to weigh heavily on IT leaders. New research from enterprise content management platform Storyblok shows that nine in ten companies plan to raise their AI budgets in 2026, with more than half expecting a “significant” ...
Disabled consumers across the UK continue to face significant barriers when trying to access products, services and customer support, according to new research published today by the Business Disability Forum (BDF). The findings, based on an Opinium survey of 1,073 disabled adults, reveal that more than a third (37%) believe their experience as customers would improve if staff had a ...
Americans spent nearly $2.64 billion on OnlyFans in 2025, cementing the United States as the platform’s largest and most lucrative market, new analysis reveals. Finbold, using data published by analytics firm OnlyGuider, calculated the figures across the first 334 days of the year, and the scale of spending is extraordinary. On average, Americans collectively shelled out $237 million per month, ...
A major US defence technology company is preparing to manufacture next-generation autonomous fighter drones for the British Army on the Isle of Wight, marking one of the most significant foreign defence investments in UK aerospace in years. California-based Anduril Industries, the fast-rising defence start-up valued at $30bn, has partnered with British engineering group GKN Aerospace to build components for the ...
A new bill could see part of the national capital renamed after slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, introduced three months after his assassination. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is introducing legislation to rename the area that until recently had been known as ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza,’ she first told Fox News Digital. ‘Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization that wants ...
SpaceX is gearing up for what could become one of the largest stock market debuts in history, with Elon Musk reportedly preparing to take the rocket maker public as early as next year at a valuation of around $1.5 trillion. If the flotation proceeds as planned, it would sit just below Saudi Aramco’s record-setting $1.7 trillion IPO in 2019. According ...
NatWest has surpassed its headline commitment to lend £2 billion to women-led businesses by the end of 2025, announcing that it has already delivered £2.84 billion in funding across more than 55,900 loans. The achievement comes a full year ahead of schedule and reinforces the bank’s role as one of the UK’s largest backers of female entrepreneurship. The average loan ...
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Tuesday that he had introduced a measure to remove the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, arguing that the decades-old alliance is obsolete, has been costly for American taxpayers and puts the nation at risk of engagement in foreign wars. ‘NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw ...
On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment automatically makes all babies born on American territory citizens. Trump’s effort to overturn the traditional reading of the constitutional text and history should not succeed. Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment provided a constitutional definition of ...
When the South Korean boy band/K-pop sensation BTS takes the stage in Seoul this June, ending a four-year touring hiatus, it will mark more than just a comeback — it will validate one of the shrewdest soft-power decisions in recent memory. In 2022, at the absolute apex of their global dominance, the group’s seven members chose to fulfill their mandatory ...