Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Sturgeon ‘close to tears’ as she opens box containing her memoir
Nicola Sturgeon has admitted being close to tears as she unveiled the first physical copies of her memoir.
The former first minister, an avid reader, has posted a short video of herself opening a box full of hardback editions of her book, Frankly. Clearly moved, Sturgeon pulled a copy covered in her picture and posed with it next to her face against a backdrop of heavily loaded bookshelves.
The long-time SNP leader was pleased with what she saw. “Amazing,” she said, before ending the video. “I might actually start to cry so I better go now.”
Rising cost of food pushes up shop price inflation
Shop prices jumped again over the past month driven by a surge in food price inflation, according to new figures.
Data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and NielsenIQ showed shop price inflation increased by 0.7% in July, after rising for the first time in nearly a year in June.
Food price inflation rose for the sixth consecutive month to 4% compared with the same period last year, from 3.7% growth in June and above a three-month average of 3.5%.
SFA bring in aviation experts to help referees
Aviation experts who train pilots have been brought in by the Scottish FA to help improve communication between VAR officials for the new football season.
Willie Collum, the SFA's head of refereeing, has revealed top referees in Scotland attended a meeting with two pilots to help prepare them to stay calm in high-pressure scenarios.
The hope is to benefit communication between officials at the Video Assistant Referee centre and those at stadiums, going into the new league season which starts on Saturday.
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Google triggers turmoil for web businesses with AI overhaul
Google is overhauling its dominant search engine with an “AI mode” that will no longer provide links to other websites, in a major shift expected to cause turmoil across the web.
The tech giant will launch the feature in the UK from Tuesday. Instead of showing links to websites, the AI mode generates its own answers using information from around the web.
The update, seen as a landmark moment for the web, is likely to lead to more turbulence for websites that have already seen huge drops in traffic from Google as the company pushes AI-driven answers into its search results.
Read more in The Telegraph.
EasyJet tycoon loses copyright battle against charity-fundraising site
The billionaire founder of easyJet has been defeated in a long-running copyright legal battle against a charity-fundraising site.
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the tycoon behind easyGroup, last year filed a lawsuit against Easyfundraising, accusing the Staffordshire-based company of copyright infringement.
A High Court judge ruled in favour of the fundraising platform, but Sir Stelios mounted an appeal, arguing there were a “number of contradictions” in the judgment. But in a ruling last week, the UK Appeals Court upheld the decision and sided with Easyfundraising.