The growing divide between surface-level AI adoption and meaningful impact across safety-critical industries
The growing divide between surface-level AI adoption and meaningful impact across safety-critical industries

Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from experimentation to mainstream business adoption. Around 78% of organizations reported using AI in 2025, reflecting how quickly the technology has become embedded across business operations. Yet, only 25% o…

Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round
Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round

America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors have just handed it $55mn to try. The New York startup has raised a Series C led by healthcare-an…

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

British startups to “scale here” and “stay here”, as UK PM unveils £400M chip plan

The UK prime minister today reiterated the government’s intention of encouraging British startups to ”scale here” and “stay here”, as he announced plans to develop Britain’s sovereign compute offering…

Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain
Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain

For years, the AI boom has run through a handful of factory floors in Taiwan. That dependence is starting to look risky enough that even Nvidia and Google are shopping for a backup, and the unlikely name on the list is Intel. Google has placed an order…

Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out
Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out

The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies said on Monday. The multi-year agreement will create ab…

Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech
Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech

Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK fronti…

Executives are cutting jobs for an AI future that hasn’t fully arrived yet, even as productivity gains remain difficult to prove — data neither confirms nor refutes an AI unemployment apocalypse

A growing number of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs, but economic data paints a more complex picture as companies cut junior roles before proving AI delivers meaningful productivity gains.

Nvidia and Hyundai go deeper on robotics, with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas at the centre
Nvidia and Hyundai go deeper on robotics, with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas at the centre

The lobby of Hyundai’s Seoul headquarters now waters its own plants. On Monday it was also handling security and deliveries, a row of robots laid on for one important visitor: Jensen Huang. Nvidia’s chief executive was in the South Korean capital to de…

PhysicsX raises $300M at $2.4BN valuation

PhysicsX, a London startup using AI to transform engineering, compressing complex designs and simulation processes that once took months into seconds, has raised $300m at a $2.4bn valuation.The new va…