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This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI notetaker Granola, service charge collection and allocation platform TiPJAR and more. UKTN tracked £131.1m worth of UK tech investment this week (23 March to 27 March), a 144% week-on-week increase across seven funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Granola – £93.4m ...
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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carLG Display’s Concept Car demo at SID Display Week 2026 began on the outside, where the 29-inch Outdoor LTPS LCD demonstrated how displays could become part of a vehicle’s communication system, not just its infotainment setup. Positioned at the back of the concept car, the screen is designed for V2X (Vehicle-to-everything) communication between the vehicle and its surroundings, potentially showing signals or information to pedestrians, nearby drivers, or other road... Read more ›
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The new 'dreaming' feature doesn't mean Claude is sleeping on the job. Quite the opposite. Read more ›
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Samsung’s idea could let one key do two jobs, depending on whether your hand is resting on the laptop or hovering above it. Read more ›
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White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as proof federal crypto holdings need safeguarding. Read more ›
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Elon Musk once offered Sam Altman a seat on Tesla’s board of directors as part of discussions about OpenAI possibly joining Musk’s electric vehicle company, a Musk ally testified on Wednesday. Shivon Zilis, who has worked for several of Musk’s ventures and has four children with the tech tycoon, ... Read more ›
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Chinese researchers used supercomputers to model Yellowstone, revealing that tectonic forces shaped magma pathways and sparking ambitions for full planetary simulation systems. Read more ›
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To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure. Read more ›
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Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent. Read more ›
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Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […] Read more ›
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Following the first Android 17 QPR1 Beta release a couple of weeks ago, Google is already back to give us Android 17 QPR2 Beta 2. There must have been enough critical bugs that they couldn’t wait until Google I/O in a couple of weeks. This fresh update is available now as CP31.260423.012.A1 for all supported... Read the original post: Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2 Releases for Pixel Phones Read more ›
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The executive director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets said the Senate Banking Committee hearing will happen this month on market structure. bill. Read more ›
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While using batteries properly is of the utmost importance for safety, many people may not be as fastidious about where they store those batteries. Read more ›
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Peak XV-backed quick commerce startup Apna Mart has reportedly laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a… Read more ›
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Circle and Tether are going to make it harder for stablecoins to feel like money, said Ben O'Neill, head of money movement at Bridge. Read more ›
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The two companies are partnering to explore new AI-enabled gameplay experiences. Read more ›
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Snap’s revenue growth accelerated to 12% in the first quarter, lifted by strong growth in the social media firm’s small subscriptions business. Advertising, which contributes the bulk of Snap’s revenue, grew just 3%, a slower rate than the previous quarter. The anemic growth in advertising ... Read more ›
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At NACO Summit, Daniel Eberhard compares the future of Koho to Chinese “super apps.” Read more ›
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At NACO Summit, Daniel Eberhard compares the future of Koho to Chinese “super apps.” Read more ›
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Earlybird VC has closed its eighth early-stage tech fund at €360m (£312m), marking the largest raise in the firm’s history. The Berlin-based VC, which has a central London office, has long invested in promising UK startups including Tilt, Payable and Cerbos. Fund VIII includes support from large institutions and family offices as part of the ... Read more ›
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In-space drug manufacturing company BioOrbit has raised £9.8m in seed funding to accelerate its mission to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs in space at scale. BioOrbit’s solution enables the usage of microgravity to develop crystals of biological drugs at scale that aims to transform how life-saving treatments reach patients worldwide. Currently, 70% of the highest-grossing drugs globally ... Read more ›
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Each year, UK FinTech Week serves as a useful reminder of just how far the national fintech ecosystem has come. Over a decade ago, the conversation was centred on disruption and novelty. Today, fintech is no longer adjacent to financial services; it is embedded within it. Spending time with founders and investors at the Innovate ... Read more ›
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The Crime and Policing Act has become law, bringing in new measures to ensure women and girls are more protected online as new technologies evolve. The wide-sweeping measures cover AI chatbots, non-consensual images published online, image hashing and banning ‘nudification’ apps. The Act means AI chatbots, like X’s Grok, are required to protect users from ... Read more ›
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The UK boasts one of the world’s best ecosystems for funding early-stage tech companies. But for the scores of startups securing pre-seed and seed investments, the majority seem to struggle to extend beyond that. Much has been said about the UK’s supposed scaleup funding gap, wherein UK-headquartered startups struggle to secure the funding needed to ... Read more ›
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Christchurch-based Online Oceans has raised £4m to scale its build of autonomous surface vessels and fleet software for defence and maritime security. Online Oceans is building a new model for persistent maritime coverage. Scout, its autonomous surface vessel, and fleet command platform Tether enable operators to deploy dense, always-connected fleets for missions including anti-submarine warfare, ... Read more ›
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Automated roadside quality assurance provider Highway Data Systems (HDS) has secured £1.25m from the Investment Fund for Scotland, managed by Maven Capital Partners and delivered by the British Business Bank. Glasgow-based HDS develops automated quality assurance (QA) technologies for the road construction and asphalt industries spanning production, haulage and laydown. The company provides a combination ... Read more ›
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Spaceflux, a London-based company providing governments and commercial operators with “space domain awareness” services has raised £3.5m in an extension to its seed round. Founded in 2022, Spaceflux operates a network of optical sensors across five continents that, combined with its AI intelligence platform Cortex, provides organisations such as the Ministry of Defence and UK ... Read more ›
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The UK clean tech sector has reclaimed its spot as the best funded in Europe, according to the findings of a new report. Research conducted by the group Cleantech for UK has found that funding for the sector reached £7.2bn in 2025, up significantly from the £5.6bn raised the previous year. This puts the UK ... Read more ›
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Michael Lazarenko is the co-founder of Embedd a platform that uses AI to convert semiconductor datasheets and documentation into structured, machine-readable models. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Lazarenko discusses why running effective tests is vital, why founders always need to raise more capital than they think and the power of 10-minute naps. What one ... Read more ›
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