25 Aug 2026
A widely watched Stanford study has been updated, and the headline is stark but specific: no broad jobs collapse, but employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed roles is now 19% below where it would otherwise be. The data is American. Here is what it means, and what it does not.
25 Aug 2026
UK robotics firms have raised nearly £190m in 2026 so far, already past the whole of last year, according to a new Tracxn report. The rise is real – but two rounds account for about three-quarters of it, and Cambridge has out-raised London and Bristol combined.
25 Aug 2026
Starling has given every business customer a free AI assistant that does not just answer questions but acts on the account – setting aside tax, flagging invoice scams and guiding sole traders through Making Tax Digital. Here is what it does, and what to watch.
25 Aug 2026
Prevalent AI, founded by GCHQ alumni, has taken its first outside money in nine years – £16.1m – to sell the idea that corporate AI fails for lack of "context", not data. Why that unglamorous problem is quietly deciding whether business AI works.
24 Aug 2026
A contract award quietly published on 22 August 2026 shows the Department for Education has hired Professor Rose Luckin's consultancy to design a national framework setting the minimum skills school staff need to use technology, data and AI safely. It is a signal of where DfE is heading, not a rule schools must follow yet.
21 Aug 2026
British AI money spread well beyond the big model labs this week, from a £300m data-centre deal in Lanarkshire to four university spin-outs and the Sovereign AI Fund's first bet. Meanwhile ChatGPT kept changing the terms of everyday use, and a US court found an expert report that was mostly ChatGPT. All 17 stories, grouped and in plain English.
21 Aug 2026
Digital Health and Care Wales has opened a procurement framework for Ambient Voice Technology – AI that listens to consultations and drafts the clinical notes. It is worth an estimated £10m and covers every health board and GP practice in Wales. Here is what it means, and the questions it raises.
21 Aug 2026
West London Waste Authority is exploring AI-enabled cameras on collection vehicles to spot contamination in household recycling. It has not bought anything – this is an early "what's available?" step – but it is a concrete example of AI reaching an everyday council service.
21 Aug 2026
Aberdeen's HexSeed has raised more than £600,000 to grow diamond coatings out of captured carbon dioxide and use them to stop AI power chips overheating. It is an early-stage bet on one of AI's most physical problems: heat. Here is what it is really claiming.
20 Aug 2026
Parliament's science advisers have published an evidence review on screens and AI in children's lives. The honest finding cuts against both the hype and the panic: outcomes depend on who is using them, how and why.
20 Aug 2026
Experian has made British consumers' personal credit scores available inside ChatGPT, in what it calls a UK first. It is genuinely convenient. It also raises a fair question about routing your financial data through a chatbot.
20 Aug 2026
London startup Callosum has raised $100m (£73.5m) in the first investment from the UK's Sovereign AI Fund. It is not building an AI model. It is building the software that decides which model and which chip each job should run on.