• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Housing market, Tesco, Orbex

  Thursday 12 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - There are "tentative signs" that the housing market in England and Wales is recovering from a months-long slowdown after uncertainty around the autumn budget and economic pressures, estate agents and surveyors have reported. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said its members were feeling more optimistic about the year ahead than at any time since December 2024, as inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices became less negative in January. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Housing market, Tesco, Orbex

  Thursday 12 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - There are "tentative signs" that the housing market in England and Wales is recovering from a months-long slowdown after uncertainty around the autumn budget and economic pressures, estate agents and surveyors have reported. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said its members were feeling more optimistic about the year ahead than at any time since December 2024, as inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices became less negative in January. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Franchise businesses, Lloyds, small businesses

  Wednesday 11 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government needs to eradicate "unsustainable" gaps in the policing of franchise businesses after a series of scandals to hit the sector, a parliamentary committee has found. The conclusion forms part of the business and trade committee's small business strategy report and follows a Guardian investigation in December which revealed claims that Adrian Howe, a former Vodafone employee who had agreed to become a franchisee in 2018, drowned after becoming convinced his deal with the multinational company would prove financially disastrous. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Index of corruption, net zero, small businesses

  Tuesday 10 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - It would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the current rate of growth, according to a thinktank. A two-decade stagnation in disposable incomes has created a "mood of unease" across the country, the Resolution Foundation says, warning of the risk of "further political disruption" unless pay growth accelerates. In the 40 years to 2005, the typical disposable income of working-age families in the poorest half of the population doubled, after growing by 1.8% a year on average once adjusted for inflation, according to the thinktank. In the final decade of that period, growth in disposable incomes rose by 4% a year and looked on course to double within 18 years. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Train drivers, bank chairs, Ocado, cash ISAs

  Monday 09 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Labour will introduce legislation to lower the minimum age for train drivers to 18 in the House of Commons this week, as figures show fewer than 3% of drivers on Great Britain's railways are under 30. The government is pressing ahead with its proposals for teenage recruits, lowering the minimum age from 20, in a move that ministers hope will stave off a potential shortage of thousands of drivers. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Water executive bonuses, British Steel, Gorton and Denton by‑election, Vladimir Alexeyev shooting, Tata Steel, M&S

  Sunday 08 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The government will move to shut down loopholes that have allowed executives at struggling water companies to keep collecting hefty payouts despite a bonus ban introduced last year, according to reporting in the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Amazon, Barclays, Epstein

  Friday 06 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon announced plans to spend $200bn on artificial intelligence and robotics this year, the latest tech giant to vow fresh enormous investments in the artificial intelligence arms race. The news of the investment comes one day after the Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced it was cutting approximately a third of employees. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Bond markets, Nike, ElevenLabs

  Thursday 05 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A government minister has defended long delays to a military spending plan that are also stalling the UK's next-generation Tempest fighter jet programme, but refused to say when it will be complete. The defence investment plan (DIP), originally expected last autumn, has faced repeated postponements amid warnings that the military faces a £28bn funding gap over the next four years. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Migration, women in tech, mini-nukes

  Wednesday 04 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK economy would be 3.6% smaller by 2040 if net migration fell to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to combat a much bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said falling birthrates in the UK and a sharp decrease in net migration last year had led it to consider what would happen if this trend continued to the end of the decade. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Benefits, tax rises, NMC Health, Thames Water

  Monday 02 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Struggling hotels, restaurants and nightclubs are calling for more financial help with business rates after it emerged that Heathrow is among the biggest beneficiaries of a multibillion-pound package of state support. The UK's biggest airport is in line for a discount of nearly £900m on its rates bill over the next three years. That is a fifth of the total £4.3bn "transitional relief" fund announced by the chancellor in the budget for all businesses facing big bill increases. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Heathrow wins £900m relief, Artemis slams IPF takeover, Trump says Iran in 'serious talks', Zelensky expects delays to discussions, Starmer urges former Duke of York to testify in US, Iran faces inquiry demands

  Sunday 01 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK prime minister Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor should give evidence to the US Congress regarding his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to The Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Trump, Apple, Asda, Quiz, Amazon

  Friday 30 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba, the White House said. The order, which ratchets up Trump's pressure to topple the Communist government, declares a national emergency and establishes a process for the US secretaries of state and commerce to assess tariffs against countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to the island nation. The White House has yet to specify tariff rates for violating its new policy of blocking Cuba from buying oil. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: The Original Factory Shop, water bills, CityFibre

  Thursday 29 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Original Factory Shop homeware chain has called in administrators, putting 1,200 jobs at risk, putting the decision partly down to higher costs from government policies. Administrators from Interpath have been appointed at the 137-store discount retailer, which was bought by the private equity firm Modella Capital less than a year ago. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Royal Mail, Meta, Quiz, Darktrace

  Wednesday 28 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Royal Mail has been criticised for offering an "unacceptable" performance over the crucial Christmas period after it failed to deliver letters and cards on time to about 16 million people, Citizens Advice found. The consumer watchdog, which carried out research into Christmas deliveries, said that figure was 50% higher than in 2024, and the highest level over the festive period in five years, excluding when Royal Mail was hit by strike action in the run-up to Christmas four years ago. - Guardian

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