9 best HRIS systems for large organizations (2026)

Enterprise HRIS buying guides tend to recommend the same five names. That shortlist hasn’t changed in a decade, and most of those platforms were built for a workforce model that no longer exists. R [...]

Vertical Aerospace gets a second VX4 flying, doubling its test fleet on the road to certification

Building an electric air taxi is less about one dramatic first flight than about doing it over and over until regulators are convinced. Vertical Aerospace has just put a second aircraft in the air to [...]

A UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost

The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvanced, the Birmingham-based SaaS company w [...]

France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how m [...]

Robot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing

America wants to build robots, not just import them. A New York startup has just raised $200mn to do exactly that. Standard Bots has closed a $200mn round that values the company at $1bn, minting a fr [...]

Apple’s real AI story isn’t Siri: it’s a 20-billion-parameter model that runs from your iPhone’s flash

The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an [...]

A $200bn software investor declares the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ over. Not everyone is convinced

Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn I [...]

Alta Ares raised €50M to make shooting down a drone cheaper than the drone itself

A Shahed attack drone costs tens of thousands of euros. The missiles traditionally fired to shoot one down can cost a million or more. A French startup has raised €50mn to fix that maths. Alta Ares, [...]

Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters

The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Az [...]