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The UK just committed £1.3 billion to AI hardware, worker training, and putting AI in courtrooms

The UK government used London Tech Week to announce a £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan and a £200 million AI Adoption package, alongside reforms that will put AI into the justice system and a new data lab aimed at preventing homelessness. The announcements represent the most concentrated burst of technology investment the current government has […]

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Engineers who helped build Salesforce’s Agentforce raised $5.1M to build its opposite

A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, not its software vendors. Who is backing Zaro The angel list is senior for such an early round. Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and GitHub chief Thomas […]

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The UK is reviewing its £330M NHS deal with Palantir, and may pull the plug in 2027

The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this week, telling Times Radio that “the current health secretary is reviewing every single aspect of that […]

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Vertical Aerospace gets a second VX4 flying, doubling its test fleet on the road to certification

Building an electric air taxi is less about one dramatic first flight than about doing it over and over until regulators are convinced. Vertical Aerospace has just put a second aircraft in the air to help it get there faster. The Bristol-based company said on Tuesday that its newest full-scale prototype completed its maiden piloted […]

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A UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost

The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvanced, the Birmingham-based SaaS company whose software touches more than 40 million NHS patients a year, has launched what it bills as the UK’s first […]

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Deliverance AI exits stealth with £6m ARR to run agentic AI inside companies’ own walls

Enterprise AI has a stalling problem, and it is not the models. Companies have poured money into chips, private clouds, and pilot projects, then watched most of them stop before they ever reached production. A London company called Deliverance AI thinks it knows why, and on Tuesday it came out of stealth to sell the […]

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The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

The UK government and ElevenLabs have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how voice AI can improve public services, deepen safety research, and build AI talent in the UK. The MoU, signed by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan and ElevenLabs CEO Mateusz Staniszewski, was published on Sunday by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. ElevenLabs, which […]

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The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week

London Tech Week opened the way these events increasingly do: with a leaderboard of investment pledges. By the end of the first morning, the UK had collected several billion pounds in AI commitments, most of it aimed at the unglamorous machinery of compute. Prime Minister Keir Starmer kicked off the keynotes with a new national […]

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Uber opens a London waitlist for Wayve robotaxis as the UK’s driverless race kicks off

London’s robotaxi era is starting with a sign-up form. Uber has opened a waitlist for Londoners who want to ride in a self-driving car, the clearest sign yet that driverless taxis are about to reach the capital’s streets. The rides will be powered by Wayve, the London-based self-driving startup, under a partnership in which Uber […]

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A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can

Between commercial aircraft at 10km and conventional satellites at 500km lies a band of near-Earth space that has never been used commercially. Very low Earth orbit, or VLEO, sits at 200 to 300km, an altitude historically reserved for spy satellites and the International Space Station. Reading-based NewOrbit announced on Monday an oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A to […]

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