A policy analysis from mid-2026 When Sir Keir Starmer stood before cameras on 13 January 2025 and unveiled the AI Opportunities Action Plan, he made a characteristically blunt argument: the UK could either shape the AI revolution or be shaped by it. “We will not be a technology taker,” he said. The plan itself , commissioned from…

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AI chip startup Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, according to reporting by Axios, as the company pivots toward hosting inference-heavy applications for developers and enterprises. The fundraise follows a $20 billion not-an-acquisition agreement with Nvidia in December, under which senior Groq employees joined the chip giant and Nvidia…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. A startup will clean your New York apartment for free. The bill comes due in a currency you might not expect: the data captured during the process. MicroAGI’s new Shift app subsidizes the cleanings by recording workers on the job,…

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Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC today for a proposed public offering. The company also shipped Claude Opus 4.8 last week with a 4x code-reliability gain. NVIDIA used GTC Taipei to open Cosmos 3, ramp Vera Rubin into production, and put a 1-petaflop AI box on developer laptops. Google retires Gemini 2.0…

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Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for ways to stay involved in the market without the need to sit in front of charts for hours at a…

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A Google Cloud survey found that 90% of developers are already integrating AI into their daily work, and on Steam, 7,818 titles disclosed AI use in 2025 alone, a 681% increase over the previous year. AI in video game development is not a side experiment. It is restructuring the pipeline from concept through launch, and…

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Insider Brief SoftBank Group plans to invest up to €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France, with an initial €45 billion phase targeting 3.1 gigawatts across sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel and Bouchain by 2031. The project includes a partnership with Schneider Electric to establish a manufacturing cluster in Dunkirk,…

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Insider Brief The ARM Institute’s 2025 Impact Report highlighted 14 completed technology projects, 18 new project starts, $3.8 million in project funding and a new five-year cooperative agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory worth up to $87.66 million. The organization identified robotics for casting and forging and physical AI for manufacturing as its two…

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Insider Brief Firebird has launched Firebird Labs, a new venture platform focused on incubating and funding startups in robotics, physical AI, aerospace and life sciences, while partnering with OpenAI and Armenia’s Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport to provide AI tools to 50,000 students, teachers and researchers. Firebird Labs plans to invest in and…

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Insider Brief Human Archive has raised $8.2 million in funding from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator and angel investors from frontier AI labs and technology companies to expand its platform for collecting real-world training data for robotics and physical AI systems. The company develops hardware and mobile systems that collect and synchronize video,…

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