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This week’s UK tech funding deals include a record funding round by AI infrastructure firm Nscale and finance platform Tide. UKTN tracked £961m worth of UK tech investment this week (22 September to 26 September), a 314% week-on-week increase across seven funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Nscale – ...
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Trump told Fox News that Mamdani gave "a very angry speech" on Tuesday night. The mayor-elect directly addressed Trump. Read more ›
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The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google. For context, parameters are a measure of how a model understands and responds to queries. More parameters generally means more capable, though training and architecture are also factors. Bloomberg... Read more ›
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Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory. Read more ›
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Kim Kardashian accused ChatGPT of causing her to fail her law exams, calling it "insane" in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. Read more ›
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New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani targeted Donald Trump in his victory speech, pledging to fight corruption and support unions. Read more ›
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John Mulaney is developing a TV show with the attorney who argued in front of the Supreme Court opposing President Donald Trump's tariffs. Read more ›
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A familiar face will be helping Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani set up his new administration before he takes office in 2026. Lina Khan, former Federal Trade Commission Chair under President Joe Biden, has been officially announced as one of Mamdani's transition co-chairs, alongside Grace Bonilla, Maria Torres-Springer and Melanie Hartzog.Mamdani's platform is focused on affordability, with fighting corporate corruption a key way he hopes to lower prices for New Yorkers. Mamdani's... Read more ›
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When did we all start ignoring Nintendo? Was it the Wii era? Because that's the moment Nintendo stepped away. That's when Nintendo decided to leave the raw-power console fight to PlayStation and Xbox, and let them slug it out while it did something else. Nintendo decided to focus on innovation and creativity and rethink the idea of the console, the Wii being the result. I remember how it was greeted... Read more ›
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Surveillance footage showed the left engine of the UPS cargo plane that crashed on Tuesday in Kentucky, detached from the wing, an official said. Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani beat former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to win the race. Read his full acceptance speech. Read more ›
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CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres Read more ›
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Reports suggest that, internally, the Food and Drug Administration is facing a crisis of confidence. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration has killed a short-lived IRS program designed to make filing tax returns fast and free. What happened? The fate of IRS Direct […] Read more ›
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The Republican Party has had better days. In Tuesday’s off-year elections, the GOP lost every major race by a mile. Democratic candidates won the Virginia governor’s race by around 15 points, the New Jersey gubernatorial election by 13, and Georgia’s statewide public commissioner elections by more than 25 points. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Supreme Court justices […] Read more ›
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The Federal Aviation Administration said it was cutting flight capacity by 10% across the 40 busiest markets to ensure safety during the shutdown. Read more ›
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Former investment banker Eric Sim, 55, says people should use their money to buy freedom, not to impress others. Read more ›
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Sam Altman is fully ready to be replaced by AI. He said in a single-digit number of years, AI will be able to lead a major OpenAI division. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court’s Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but only slightly so. At least two of the Court’s Republicans — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down those tariffs, and […] Read more ›
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With the help of complete CPU domination in the consumer/gaming marketplace thanks to chips such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD has achieved a record breaking $2.8 billion in client revenue. Read more ›
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A new survey of over 300 US and UK gaming executives found that 72% view Steam as a monopoly. "Furthermore, 88% said that at least three-quarters of their revenue came from Steam, while 37% reported that the platform accounted for 90% of their total revenue," adds Techspot. From the report: Atomik Research conducted the recent survey on behalf of Rokky, a company that helps game publishers minimize the impact of... Read more ›
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The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has confirmed the allocation of its £55bn research and development (R&D) funding for its associated research agencies and bodies. The funding will go towards a wide range of science and technology projects as part of DSIT’s plan to support long-term R&D funding. DSIT’s funding allocations, announced ... Read more ›
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PartnerBridge, a platform for software businesses to discover and action partnerships, has launched in the UK after the completion of its beta programme. Founded to “level the playing field” for SMEs looking to benefit from lucrative business partnerships, PartnerBridge’s RelateIQ product automates manual labour associated with the partnership process. This includes research and discovery, analysis ... Read more ›
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Californian digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to invest £3.9bn into a data centre development in Hertfordshire. The site, which will be built on an 85-acre plot of land recently acquired by the company, will add 250+ MW of compute capacity to the UK. There have been plans to place a major data centre ... Read more ›
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October offered a timely reminder of the fragility of the UK’s digital sovereignty. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage — which took down services at HMRC, major financial institutions, and even Premier League VAR — was not simply a technical glitch. It was a wake-up call. Similarly, the cyberattack on JLR underlined how deeply the ... Read more ›
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London-based AI startup Synthesia has closed a $200m (£151.7m) funding round that has valued it at $4bn, according to reports. Sources close to the company reportedly told Forbes that existing Synthesia investor Google Ventures (GV) led the round. A valuation of $4bn would place the company close to the most valuable AI businesses in the country, surpassing ... Read more ›
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According to the latest data from global research and advisory firm Forrester, partnerships are expected to drive 70% of global B2B revenue this year. As the sector reaches a pivotal moment, Jon Mead saw an opportunity to leverage his 20 years of experience to build PartnerBridge, a platform designed to optimise partnership potential. A US ... Read more ›
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Monzo chief executive TS Anil will step down early next year, with the bank set to replace him with Diana Layfield, a former senior Google employee. Anil has led the London-based fintech for almost six years, first joining as the head of Monzo US before being named group CEO in 2020. During his time at ... Read more ›
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Negative customer experiences with AI services may have cost UK retail firms as much as £8.6bn, according to new research. Analysis from the Centre for Economics and Business Research on behalf of Trustpilot looked at how poor AI service caused lost revenue among firms over the past 12 months. It found that negative experiences with ... Read more ›
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London-based AI startup Stability has announced it will be working with Universal Music Group to develop automated music generation tools powered by “responsibly trained AI”. The strategic alliance will see Stability – which has developed a number of image, video and music generation AI tools – work with the music giant and its artists to ... Read more ›
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Charlie Thurston is the co-founder and chief executive of Different Dog, a data-led ecommerce subscription platform that offers premium pet foods. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Thurston discusses the importance of having a team behind you who care about your mission, how diversity forms naturally when hiring the best people and how a passion ... Read more ›
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