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Uber says it has defeated £340M lawsuit from London black cab drivers

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Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about £340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former minicab companies. The ruling was first reported by Reuters, which said a copy of the High Court judgment was not yet available According to Law360, […]

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Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO

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Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays, Bloomberg reported, citing the Telegraph. The paper did not say why Microsoft walked away. Authorities have […]

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Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports

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Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom’s use of worldwide revenue, not a specific fine. The Online Safety Act lets Ofcom […]

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OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports

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OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares, the Guardian said. TNW has not independently verified the figures. […]

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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

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“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]

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Ramp passes $2bn in revenue as its Europe chief confirms the $60bn round

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“Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,” Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October. Ramp’s co-founders, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, marked the new valuation with a blog post on 15 October, titled “Ramp at $60B: The End of the […]

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UK watchdog says AWS and Microsoft must do more to ease cloud switching

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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have made it easier to switch cloud providers but still have more to do, the UK competition watchdog said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also proposed bringing Microsoft under its toughest digital rules. The update is the CMA’s first progress check since March, when it accepted voluntary commitments from […]

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Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content

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Britain’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these reports more quickly. In May, X promised to review posts reported through its UK illegal content tool within 24 hours on average. The company also said […]

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Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC

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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, released on 11 October. Smith told the BBC: “Right now, your […]

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UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release

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Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. It reverses a US move that put White House checks first. “I want Britain to […]

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