{"id":332917,"date":"2025-12-24T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332917\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:12","slug":"uk-ceos-expect-ai-cyberattacks-and-cost-cuts-to-dominate-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332917\/","title":{"rendered":"UK CEOs Expect AI, Cyberattacks and Cost Cuts to Dominate 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The bosses of some of Britain\u2019s biggest companies predict a fresh wave of challenges next year, as they absorb the impact Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves\u2019 tax-raising budget in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chief executive officers in sectors including finance, housing, gambling and hospitality told Bloomberg they\u2019re bracing for artificial intelligence trust issues, more cyberattacks and pressure to build on Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s government. Cost cuts will also be on the agenda, according to one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bosses of some of Britain\u2019s biggest companies predict a fresh wave of challenges next year, as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,9285,2339,14525,80,2346,129672,467,129673,1892,86,56,54,55,33827],"class_list":["post-332917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-c-suite","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-gambling","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-margherita-della-valle","tag-markets","tag-marks-spencer-group-plc","tag-taxes","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vodafone-group-plc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}