Here are the stories making the business headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Gatwick cancels flights due to sickness and Covid
Gatwick will cancel around 82 departures over the coming week because of short-term sickness and Covid in the air traffic control tower.
Airport boss Stewart Wingate said he was "very frustrated" by a series of problems at Gatwick's air traffic control.
Around 30% of air traffic control staff are not available, Mr Wingate told the BBC.
The largest number of cancellations will be on Friday 29 September, with 33 departures affected.
No cancellations are expected for Tuesday or Saturday.
Sick days at work hit highest level for 10 years
UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, research suggests.
Staff took on average 7.8 sick days in the past year, up from 5.8 before the pandemic, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) found.
The trade group said the rise was a "worry" and blamed stress, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis.
These conditions were having "profound impacts on many people's wellbeing", it added.
The research analysed rates of absence in more than 900 organisations, representing 6.5 million employees.
Upbeat Oliver Bonas bags £9m profit
Painful increases to household bills did not deter shoppers from splashing their cash at Oliver Bonas last year.
Sales topped £115m for the year to December 31, Companies House accounts reveal. This helped the retailer – which sells jewellery, stationery and fashion – achieve profits of £9million
Sales 'remained resilient' and this year 'things are slightly brighter' as inflation has eased, the firm said.
The middle class favourite now has more than 80 stores across the UK and Ireland, including Schoolhill in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen City Centre stairs to close for 10 weeks
A granite staircase in Aberdeen City Centre will be closed off to the public for a number of weeks to allow improvements.
The Back Wynd steps, which connect Union Street to the Green, are a key route in the heart of town and were built in their current form in 1922.
The city council hopes they will become easier to use for the visually impaired after the Scottish Government-funded works, which will involve repairing the handrail and restoring the balustrade. Read more on Aberdeen Live.
Dennis the Menace poster is appropriation, says Scottish MP
Marketing officials in Westminster have been accused of “cultural appropriation” after claiming that the Dundee-born comic strip Dennis the Menace was created in London.
The world’s most mischievous boy was created at The Beano’s offices in Dundee by George Moonie, the graphic novel’s editor, in 1951. Dennis has continued to create mayhem ever since, but now a row has erupted over his city of provenance.
A new UK government billboard campaign features computer-generated images of Dennis and his faithful dog, Gnasher, alongside the slogan: “Created in London, unleashed in more than 100 countries”.
The assertion was branded “utter garbage” by Chris Law, the Scottish Nationalist MP for Dundee West.
Britain has one year to prevent AI running out of control, Sunak fears
Rishi Sunak fears that there may only be a year to prevent artificial intelligence running out of control as the technology makes breakneck improvements that could be exploited by bioterrorists.
The Prime Minister believes there is a “small window” to address safety concerns before a powerful next generation of systems is released, Whitehall sources told the Telegraph.
It comes as Mr Sunak prepares to host an international AI safety summit in November, when world leaders are expected to press the top AI labs to make safety commitments as they develop new versions of their models.
Officials fear the next wave of AI could be orders of magnitude more powerful than today’s technology such as ChatGPT and that the next 12 months are crucial to getting ahead of the problem.
Subsea cable factory lays out £1.4bn bid
A project to manufacture the world’s longest subsea electricity cables in Scotland is seeking to raise £1.4billion to start factory construction by next summer.
XLCC hopes to produce high-voltage cables for use in the XLinks project, led by the former Tesco boss Sir Dave Lewis, which is seeking to import solar and wind power from Morocco to Britain via a 2,360-mile cabling route.
Although a separate company, XLCC is backed by many of the same investors as XLinks, including Lewis and Greg Jackson, the Octopus Energy chief executive.
It already has planning permission for its proposed cabling factory at Hunterston in Ayrshire, according to The Times.