A City investment banker shared an email that should embarrass an entire profession: a law firm ran up nearly £250,000 of billable time on a stock market listing raising just £2m. That's 12.5% of the growth capital, gone before a single pound went to work.

This week, David Richards MBE takes the IPO legal bill apart line by line and shows exactly where AI replaces it: verification, due diligence, document negotiation and assembly.

Then to Sheffield, where LEXcelerate has cut the human labour in a remortgage to 15 minutes per file at a fixed price. And to Centrica, owner of British Gas, which announced 1,300 job cuts alongside a £600m digital and AI overhaul, the clearest sign yet that the automation wave has landed on UK shores, with customer service going first. Plus the Tech & AI Layoff Tracker: Monday.com's AI-first restructuring (~620 roles), Uber's first AI-attributed cuts, and fresh reductions inside Amazon's AGI unit.

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