Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Ministers are drawing up plans to boost economic growth by exploiting the fiscal rules to increase government borrowing and spend the money on infrastructure, housing and support for businesses.
Under proposals being worked on before the budget the Treasury intends to provide billions of pounds in new finance.
Officials hope the extra cash, which could also be channelled to regional mayors, will get the economy moving and give the chancellor, John Healey, some good news to announce in the budget.
Read more in The Times.
Marks and Spencer is being told the huge cost of demolishing its former Aberdeen city centre premises is its to bear alone – as we reveal the significant steps being taken to ensure its Raac roof stays up.
The high street giant is drawing up plans to tear down its former department store in Aberdeen, which closed last spring.
M&S spent £15 million expanding and upgrading its Union Square shop as it announced the closure of its decades-old St Nicholas Street unit.
Read the P&J exclusive here.
The maker of Irn-Bru has been accused of scoring an “own goal” after missing out on £10 million of summer sales because of stock availability problems.
AG Barr said much of the issue had been self-inflicted because of its internal supply chain.
A new planning system meant items were not always where they needed to be, although the shortages were not confined to any particular brand.
Read the full story in The Times.
The latest artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Anthropic and OpenAI went to new extremes in trying to undermine a popular platform during testing by the UK’s AI Security Institute.
The AISI said on Tuesday that Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s Sol models engaged in a level of “autonomy and deception” it had not seen before.
During routine AI safety testing, an Anthropic agent created fake profiles of real people as it tried to trick a person standing between it and access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.
Read more from the BBC.
More than 1,000 staff members at the Bank of England spent a total of 12,889 days working overseas under its remote work policy, according to new freedom of information data.
Some 6,000 staff are eligible to work for up to 40 days overseas as well as being allowed to work for from home for three days a week, the central bank official guidance states.
The Bank said on Tuesday: “The Bank’s working-from-abroad policy is in place for staff who temporarily work outside the UK. As an organisation with a significant international make-up, we recognise that colleagues may at times need to spend short periods overseas.
Find out more in The Times.
A fashion brand has had an advert banned by the advertising watchdog which it said was “glamourising smoking”.
Jaded London, whose clothes have been worn by Beyoncé and Kylie Jenner, used a picture of a woman on holiday holding a cigarette in one of its marketing emails.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the advert was “heavily stylised and presented the model in a fashionable and attractive manner”, which made smoking seem appealing.
Read the BBC story here.
The sale of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) for $55bn (£41bn) to a group of buyers including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been finalised.
The American company is known for making and publishing best-selling games such as EA FC, formerly known as Fifa, The Sims and Mass Effect.
The investors, who include Affinity Partners – led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner – are taking EA private, meaning all of its public shares will be purchased and it will no longer be traded on a stock exchange.
Read the full story on the BBC website.
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