Boston Consulting Group's inaugural Intelligent Cities Index, released July 27, ranks Singapore 11th and Hong Kong 36th among 61 cities across 39 countries, with London leading the overall index. The …
Microsoft says UK grid connection delays could take up to eight years, threatening its £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) data center investment plan. The company warns that projects in Leeds, Newport, and L…
Gartner's Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit 2026, running September 14-15 in London, aims to help enterprise leaders move AI projects from experimentation to production by addressin…
The UK government has updated its national resilience plans and will launch a public awareness campaign later this year to help people prepare for potential food and water shortages caused by severe w…
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and…
An analysis of Y Combinator's 2026 batch data reveals that 77% of 477 startups are based in San Francisco, signaling a re-concentration of AI startups in one city. The trend contradicts the remote-wor…
South Africa's Tshwane and other African cities seek a voice in data center development as AI infrastructure booms, warning that local communities must benefit and not bear costs like strained power g…
At a recent Agentic AI Meetup hosted by Orbital in London, Toby Dickinson Williams and a speaker posed the question of whether people would trust an AI agent to buy their house, using the high-stakes …
Britain's tourism industry, worth £147bn annually, faces a new overnight visitor levy proposed in the King's Speech, which critics argue will cost the sector £6bn and 19.5m domestic visits. The Taxpay…
An OECD report finds three in four jobs in London are highly exposed to generative AI, with routine cognitive tasks in finance, professional services, and creative industries most at risk. The Office …
London workers face the highest exposure to AI-driven job displacement among major global cities, according to a new OECD report. Nearly 80% of jobs in the capital are highly exposed to generative AI,…
A post argues that most effective altruists (EAs) should avoid living in high-cost-of-living areas like the Bay Area or London, citing significant savings on housing that can be redirected to donation…
London-based robotics startup morph embeds sensing and adaptive control directly into reconfigurable deformable materials, creating soft robotic cells that can change shape and stiffness in real time.…
A developer explains the real-world latency behind LLM API calls, tracing the journey from user prompt through submarine cables to data centers and GPUs. The post highlights how geographic distance, e…
A developer built AEGIS (Artificial Earth Global Intelligence System), an AI crisis command platform with persistent memory, during the Agent Memory Hackathon. The system uses Vectorize Hindsight to e…
Flintly, a London-based AI workspace startup founded by Jason Edwards, launched a platform that automates creator and influencer marketing campaigns for brands and agencies. The tool handles briefing,…
London has secured a major strategic win in legal AI, with 25% of top UK and US law firms basing their global senior AI hires in the city, compared to 10% in New York. The UK hosts 315 legaltech and A…
Poolhouse, a new 21,500-square-foot pool hall designed by the teams behind Topgolf and Puttshack, opened in Liverpool Street, London. The venue features twenty full-sized pool tables with AI technolog…
Polaroid launched an international ad campaign criticizing AI and data centers, with billboards featuring anti-tech slogans like 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' The ca…
Anthropic signed a 158,000-square-foot London office lease to quadruple its local staff to 800, while OpenAI confirmed plans for a permanent London office for 544 employees by 2027. Both AI giants are…