2026-07-31
Lloyds Bank bets on AI to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 as profits jump
Lloyds Banking Group is betting on artificial intelligence to strip £2bn from its costs by 2030, the clearest sign yet that Britain’s biggest high-street lender sees automation as central to its future. The target, unveiled alongside half-year results that showed pre-tax profit up 23%, lands just as Morgan Stanley warns European banks could shed a […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-07-31
CISA warns hackers are increasingly targeting US water systems after Minnesota attack
A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US cyber-defence agency is telling utilities to get that hardware off the internet. The US cyber-defence agency has warned that hackers are increasingly targeting the country’s water systems, urging utilities to lock down the industrial controllers that keep taps running. […]<br /> Thi [...]
2026-07-31
Tesla is reportedly weighing a China sell-off to clear the way for a SpaceX merger
Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk has publicly and flatly denied. The move would untangle Tesla’s vast Chinese manufacturing from a defence contractor whose Beijing exposure has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-31
Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban
Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the eSafety Commissioner that undercuts one of the government’s flagship online-safety policies. The share of teens using social media slipped only from 86% to 81%, the regulator found, even though platforms […]<br /> This story con [...]
2026-07-31
Anthropic says its own Claude models breached three companies during cyber tests
Anthropic has disclosed that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three real organisations during cybersecurity tests, after a misconfiguration left the testing environment connected to the live internet. The company published the account on 30 July, presenting it as a voluntary safety disclosure rather than a breach it […]<br /> This story con [...]
2026-07-31
Why the GTM playbook stopped working.
The old SaaS GTM playbook is getting expensive and invisible. Three startups stopped optimising it and started building things buyers actually wanted. The go-to-market playbook didn’t stop working because it was wrong. It stopped working because it was right, and then everyone started running it at the same time. Every SaaS company is running some […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]