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Land Registry and Ordnance Survey are deepening property-data integration nationwide. Their three-year agreement will connect ownership and geospatial information more closely across a property market worth trillions of pounds.
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UKAEA has spun its engineering AI technology into commercial operation. Singular Machines has secured strategic investment and an Arup contract for its coEngen agentic-AI platform.
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Gallos Technologies has raised £35m for security and resilience investing. The funding, led by Ventura Capital and Aberdeen Investments, comes as private capital moves more aggressively into defence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and other technologies with national-security applications.
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UK startups are challenging government’s record on technology procurement access. New evidence shows SMEs captured 21% of direct public procurement spending in 2025, while startup advocates argue central government technology buying remains concentrated among large incumbent suppliers.
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Government funding will expand human-based drug testing technologies across Britain. A £20m Cambridge hub and nine Innovate UK projects will develop organoids, lab-grown tissue, and AI tools intended to improve pre-clinical research.
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AI is reshaping hiring expectations across fast-moving technology companies today. Ben Potter, Product — OSS & Developer Relations at Coder, argues that AI is raising the value of judgement, communication, curiosity, and demonstrable impact rather than simply increasing output.
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WP Engine has opened Smart Search AI beyond hosting customers. The semantic-search product can now run across WordPress sites generally and includes integrations for ecommerce, headless deployments, and external AI agents.
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Seeing Machines reached positive second-half cash flow as volumes surged. Automotive royalty revenue rose 135%, with safety regulation accelerating deployment of its AI-powered driver and occupant monitoring systems.
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AI confusion is pushing businesses towards costly technology investment mistakes. Bobby Brown, founder and CEO of Nucleo, argues that understanding the difference between artificial intelligence and intelligent automation is essential to choosing technology that solves the right business problem.
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Cyber incidents affected three in ten UK manufacturers last year. Make UK found production downtime, higher costs, and supplier disruption among the consequences, while only around half of manufacturers currently maintain an incident-response plan.