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OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path

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In short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says […]

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UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store

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The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Apple Distribution International, Apple’s Ireland-based subsidiary, £390,000 for making two payments totalling more than £635,000 to a sanctioned Russian entity through the App Store in 2022. The fine is, by Apple’s standards, negligible: roughly 0.00001 per cent of the company’s annual revenue. The precedent it sets […]

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Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

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The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital led the round; HSBC Innovation Banking UK also contributed growth financing. One CFO told Origin’s CEO […]

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Openreach expands collaboration with Google Cloud AI to plan its full-fibre rollout

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The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half. Openreach, the BT subsidiary that operates the UK’s largest broadband network, […]

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Dublin fintech Teybridge Capital pledges £600 million for UK SMEs

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The trade finance platform made the commitment alongside 14 other Irish firms as PM Starmer and Taoiseach Martin unveiled £937 million in Irish investment into the UK. The second UK-Ireland Summit, held in Cork on 13 March 2026, produced the sort of headline figures that governments like to announce at diplomatic gatherings. Among them was […]

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UK brings streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ under broadcaster-style regulation

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The UK government announced new regulatory requirements that will bring major video-on-demand (VoD) platforms under tighter oversight by Ofcom, aligning them more closely with traditional television broadcasters. The changes are part of implementing the Media Act 2024 and mark one of the most significant shifts in how online streaming services are governed in the UK. […]

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