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Insurance and technology leaders will meet in New York to examine the governance, infrastructure and operating questions surrounding agentic AI.

New Ipsos findings show technology anxiety at a long-term high in Britain. For brands, AI adoption now depends as much on perceived control and proof as capability.

New IPA evidence shows commercial media is increasingly consumed alone. Brands now need to distinguish between personal relevance and the rarer power of shared attention.

The CMA’s latest heating-oil redress scheme exposes a wider commercial weakness: pricing systems built for normal trading can fail customers precisely when certainty matters most.

Ipsos’s latest work on digital twins points to a useful role in early innovation screening. But the research industry needs to define where simulation ends and evidence begins.

A new UK capability study shows retail media’s data promise is real. Its next commercial test is whether brands can compare results across networks with confidence.

Westminster’s reporting overhaul promises less paperwork. The commercial consequence is a sharper test of whether companies can produce reliable, connected and reusable evidence.

From global research groups to agile specialists, these five UK market research companies offer distinctly different strengths for B2B insight projects.

The return of higher inflation is being driven by household energy costs rather than a broad revival in price pressure. Commercial teams need sharper demand signals.

New European research suggests unclear product information is still costing fashion and sports retailers sales, while leadership attention remains elsewhere.

The new Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme addresses a stubborn scale-up problem: promising technology needs a demanding first customer, not another innovation showcase.

The extension of the UK’s data intermediaries consultation gives firms a little longer to consider a harder question: can their data operations cope with consumer-directed sharing?

The FCA’s latest findings show that AI has overtaken familiar media as a trusted investment research tool. Financial firms must respond at the point curiosity begins.

New ONS analysis suggests that conventional measures miss much of the infrastructure supporting AI, cloud services and data-intensive business models.

Government action on subscription traps and misleading discounts will force businesses to distinguish genuine loyalty from revenue retained by friction.

Britain’s new safeguard investigation into PET imports makes a low-visibility packaging material a strategic issue for food, drink and consumer-goods businesses.

AI is beginning to shape product discovery, but shoppers remain reluctant to hand over the final decision. Retailers must design for a divided purchase journey.

Academic work is increasingly viewed not only as intellectual contribution, but as an asset class capable of generating economic return. The balance between commercial integration and independence will become one of the biggest challenges facing universities over the next decade.

The latest wave of always-on marketing agents promises constant intelligence. The harder commercial question is whether teams can explain, test and govern what those systems recommend.

The UK’s second-quarter growth was supported by June spending, but record heat shifted where and how people bought. Retail planning needs to treat weather as a demand-routing variable.