Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to read books through to the end. The Booker Prize Foundation is launching a short story collection entitled All Around th...
Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to read books through to the end. The Booker Prize Foundation is launching a short story collection entitled All Around the World, including works by the Booker prize winners Anne Enright, David Szalay and International Booker prize nominee Nadifa Mohamed. The collection was curated by another former winner, Roddy Doyle. Continue reading...
GUANGZHOU, China, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading advanced air mobility (“AAM”) technology platform company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.
GUANGZHOU, China, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading advanced air mobility (“AAM”) technology platform company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.
Deliverance AI, the UK-founded Agentic Operating System (OS) for the enterprise, today announced its emergence from stealth with £6m ARR, more than 30 employees and six enterprise customers within three months of incorporation.
Deliverance AI, the UK-founded Agentic Operating System (OS) for the enterprise, today announced its emergence from stealth with £6m ARR, more than 30 employees and six enterprise customers within three months of incorporation.
narvo vexar/iStock via Getty Images Let the Game Begin The Italian banking system is quite unique in Europe. Most scholars believe that the modern banking system was born in Renaissance Italy, and one of the banks that started at that time - the Siena-headquartered Banca Monte dei Paschi ( BMDPF ; BMPSY ) - is at the center of the story we have to deal with today. Monte dei Paschi was one of the l...
narvo vexar/iStock via Getty Images Let the Game Begin The Italian banking system is quite unique in Europe. Most scholars believe that the modern banking system was born in Renaissance Italy, and one of the banks that started at that time - the Siena-headquartered Banca Monte dei Paschi ( BMDPF ; BMPSY ) - is at the center of the story we have to deal with today. Monte dei Paschi was one of the last banks to recover from the GFC and the sovereign debt crisis, but in recent years it has become a rather lively and important player in the restructuring of what many call "the Italian Banking Risk!" with reference to the well-known board game. Before we deal with the news, allow me to explain a few things for those who are not familiar with this system. In Italy, the banking sector has to be viewed as a two-tier system dominated by two big institutions and many regional and national banks. The two big ones are Intesa Sanpaolo ( ISNPY , IITSF ) and UniCredit ( UNCRY ; UNCFF ). They account for roughly 40% to 45% of Italian banking assets. I have covered both of them several times and currently own a stake in Intesa but am also bullish on UniCredit and its attempt to buy Commerzbank . Because of this situation, many have argued that the country needs a third large player to compete in Europe, and the government has also viewed this favorably. This leads us into an intricate maze of cross-ownerships. Moreover, some banks are intertwined in intricate relationships with big insurers, involving national and European champions such as Generali ( ARZGF ; ARZGY ) and Unipol ( UFGSY ), but also industrial foundations, public stakes held by the Italian Treasury, and a few key families. At the center of this web is where we find Monte dei Paschi, which was rescued in 2017 involving state aid amounting to EUR 5.4B, which made the Italian Treasury hold, at peak, a 68% stake in the bank. Once Luigi Lovaglio was appointed CEO in 2022, the bank underwent an incredible turnaround, which ...
Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead of navigating disparate applications and dashboards, a single system will increasingly ask: What are you trying to accomplish? That sounds like a user experience breakthrough. It is. But the more impo...
Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead of navigating disparate applications and dashboards, a single system will increasingly ask: What are you trying to accomplish? That sounds like a user experience breakthrough. It is. But the more important implication is organizational. When software no longer relies on humans to provide context, companies can no longer assume that knowledge lives in employees' heads or is buried inside disconnected applications. The company itself has to become machine-readable. The winners in the AI era won't simply deploy more intelligent models. They'll build the data foundations, semantic context, and governance frameworks that allow machines to understand how the business works and act on that understanding with confidence. Context is becoming infrastructure For years, companies treated context as a human layer on top of data. The data platform held the records, then the BI tool visualized them, and the analyst interpreted them. And finally, the business leader made the judgment call. Agents collapse those layers. When an executive asks, “Why is customer churn rising in our enterprise segment?” an effective agent needs to know far more than where the customer data lives. It needs to understand how the company defines churn, which accounts count as enterprise, whether product usage data is more reliable than survey data, which renewal events matter, what the sales team has logged, what support tickets suggest, and whether the answer differs by geography or product line. This is why semantics — the definitions, relationships, rules, and assumptions that give data meaning — are moving from a technical concern to a boardroom issue. A semantic layer used to sound like plumbing for data teams. In an agentic enterprise, it becomes the shared language between humans and machines. If every...