British deep-tech start-up loc.ai raises £1m to break SMEs free from the cloud’s ‘inference tax’
A British deep-tech start-up promising to liberate AI-powered businesses from spiralling cloud bills has secured £1 million in pre-seed funding, in a deal that points...
Bubble Robotics surfaces from stealth with $5m to build the ocean’s autonomous workforce
A British-backed robotics start-up promising to replace ageing offshore vessels and crews with always-on underwater machines has emerged from stealth with $5m (£3.95m) in pre-seed...
HMRC backs down on free-drugs VAT raid as pharma giants threaten UK exodus
The taxman has been forced into a tactical retreat over a contentious VAT levy on free medicines supplied to seriously ill patients, after Britain’s pharmaceutical...
Ministers urge British boardrooms to sign cyber-resilience pledge as AI threat escalates
Ministers are turning up the heat on Britain’s biggest companies to fortify their cyber-defences, warning that a new generation of artificial intelligence tools, including Anthropic’s...
Britain’s tech sector haemorrhages female talent as nine in ten women quit within a decade
Britain’s technology industry is bleeding female talent at an alarming rate, with nearly 90 per cent of women abandoning the sector within ten years of...
Three licensed venues a day are going dark as Britain’s hospitality sector buckles
More than 300 pubs, bars and restaurants have served their last pint and plated their last cover since the start of the year, as Britain’s...