Daily AI Briefing: Insight & Analysis​

Financial services leaders are becoming increasingly bullish on artificial intelligence, with most UK institutions planning to raise spending despite concerns about job losses. Lloyds Banking Group’s 2025 Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey found t...

Honeywell and partners have won £14.1 million in government funding to transform aerospace manufacturing using artificial intelligence and 3D printing. The initiative, Project STRATA, is backed by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme and ...

British startup Nscale has opened its first physical office in Mayfair, London, marking a key milestone less than a year after launching. The move follows a $155 million (£115.5 million) Series A funding round that underscored strong investor backing f...

Bristol-based Quantum algorithms firm Phasecraft has raised €29 million in Series B funding to accelerate real-world quantum solutions, bolstered by international partnerships and UK government support, positioning the UK as a leader in the quantum rev...

Artificial intelligence is transforming private equity, shifting from a support tool to a central driver of value creation. KPMG experts Cherie Gartner and Gavin Geminder say AI now underpins successful strategies, with portfolio companies seeing gains...

Optimising cloud expenditure is fast becoming a priority for UK organisations focused on efficiency and innovation. Recent examples show that businesses can reduce cloud costs by nearly half without altering application code—simply through strategic re...

Artificial intelligence is triggering one of the largest waves of capital investment in modern economic history. Companies worldwide are set to spend about $375 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025, with investment climbing to $500 billion in 2026, acc...

The Ministry of Defence has launched a £900 million procurement framework to accelerate the development of advanced digital decision-making tools for the British Army. The Digital Decision Accelerators for Defence (DDAD) Open Framework is designed to f...

Preparatory works are due to begin later this year on a landmark £10 billion data centre development at the former Blyth Power Station site in Northumberland. The project, led by QTS, a subsidiary of US investment giant Blackstone, secured outline plan...