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Blackwall raises £75m at a £1.6bn valuation, four times its 2025 price.

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The Estonian-founded firm filters bots and AI agent traffic from inside hosting providers’ own infrastructure. AVP led the round.

#Cybersecurity #AI

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AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel has left Google DeepMind to launch Metis Reasoning, a London lab building AI that shows its working and only accepts claims backed by evidence.

No results or model yet.

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Microsoft has pulled out of the deal to anchor what was billed as Britain’s largest sovereign AI data centre.

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The reason is power, not demand. Nscale’s planned facility in Loughton, Essex, was due to switch on early next year with 23,040 Nvidia chips serving Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

Grid officials have reportedly told the company the site may not get enough electricity until the 2030s.

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The Cheshire start-up has raised £1.9m to find contractors hidden in supplier deals, just as new Right to Work rules bring fines of up to £60k per worker. 🔍

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#RegTech #UKStartups

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Jensen Huang announced @nvidia stakes in five UK startups, Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente and Riverlane, plus $250m in compute for AI safety research.

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The UK is making a consequential bet on AI in healthcare: approval can no longer be the finish line.

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If an AI medical device keeps learning and changing after deployment, should yesterday’s safety assessment still be enough?

The government says no. All 44 recommendations of its AI healthcare commission have been accepted, pushing regulation towards continuous monitoring throughout a product’s life.

The harder question now: when an AI system changes, who carries the risk when it gets something wrong?

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.@SchneiderElec makes $22.6 Billion bet on PTC as industrial AI race accelerates

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Hugging Face started with a chatbot that was better at sass than answers. Now Nvidia is spending roughly $13 billion to own it.

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Behind the eye-watering price tag is a much bigger bet: whether the future of AI belongs to a handful of companies guarding their models, or to millions of developers free to tear them apart, rebuild them and make them their own.

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A breath sample instead of an invasive biopsy?

That's the vision behind Respiro Diagnostics, which has raised £1m in pre-seed funding led by Zinc Venture Capital and SFC Capital to advance its breath-based liquid biopsy platform for earlier lung cancer detection.

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#HealthTech #MedTech #LungCancer

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As AI, electric vehicles and data centres push batteries to their limits, one British startup thinks it has found a smarter way forward.

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UK biotech RQ Bio has raised £86M in an oversubscribed Series A led by Frazier Life Sciences to advance RQB01, a long-acting antibody designed to protect immunocompromised patients against seasonal influenza.

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The automotive repair industry has long lacked its AI moment.

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Partly believes it has built it, and investors have just backed that vision with £40 million.

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Speaking to industry leaders at London Tech Week, The Prime Minister, outlined a strategy that combines investment, innovation, workforce training, and public safeguards in an effort to position Britain as one of the world's leading AI nations.

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As fleet operators face mounting pressure to manage electric, hybrid and conventional vehicles within a single operation, the need for better data has become increasingly urgent.

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Volteum, a fleet intelligence platform focused on supporting this transition, has raised €2.5 million in fresh funding to expand across the UK and Western Europe.

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As enterprises race to build more capable AI systems, one challenge continues to stand in the way: high-quality training data.

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London-based BeatpulseLabs is betting that the future of enterprise AI will be shaped not by bigger models, but by better datasets.

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SpaceX plans a record $75 billion IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, offering rare retail access while analysts warn of high risk and volatility.

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The UK just redrew the rules of the AI search economy, forcing Google to hand publishers real control over how their content fuels generative AI systems.

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For years, publishers fed Google’s search engine, now regulators say it’s time they finally get to decide how their work powers AI answers.

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Ramp just raised $750M at a $44B valuation, betting that AI spend is now a “third pillar” of corporate finance, alongside people and vendors.

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The big shift: companies aren’t just paying humans and suppliers anymore, they’re increasingly paying models in tokens.