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Blackwall raises £75m at £1.6bn valuation as AI agents crowd the web

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London gains another AI lab as AlphaGo veteran launches Metis Reasoning

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Microsoft pulls out of Nscale’s Essex AI data centre after grid delay pushes power Into the 2030s

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US lifts block on UK testing of unreleased AI models after ministerial lobbying

Britain’s AI Security Institute will once again receive pre-release access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, after the White House lifted a 17-day freeze on…

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IMF says AI spending keeps world growth near 3% despite energy shock

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Blackwall raises £75m at £1.6bn valuation as AI agents crowd the web

CoComply raises £1.9m to find the contractors companies cannot see

London gains another AI lab as AlphaGo veteran launches Metis Reasoning

Microsoft pulls out of Nscale’s Essex AI data centre after grid delay pushes power Into the 2030s

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