Nvidia bets £11bn on UK AI with GPU deal, amid Trump state visit September 17, 2025 Nvidia is pumping up to £11bn into Britain’s AI ecosystem in a move that will see the UK host Europe’s largest GPU cluster by 2026, with 120,000 of its latest Blackwell Ultra chips deployed across new data centres. The investment, unveiled late on Tuesday and timed to coincide with President Donald Trump’s state visit to [...]
The UK’s Tech Prosperity Deal is a high-stakes gamble September 17, 2025 As President Donald Trump stepped on British soil, the two nations unveiled a landmark “Tech Prosperity Deal,” a pact aimed at cementing Britain’s position as a global leader in AI, quantum, and nuclear energy. Hailed by prime minister Keir Starmer as a “generational step change”, the agreement is underpinned by £31bn in private investment from [...]
Trump visit brings ‘historic’ £30bn investment into UK tech and AI September 16, 2025 Microsoft has announced its largest ever UK investment, pledging £22bn to expand AI infrastructure and build the country’s largest supercomputer, as president Donald Trump touched down in London for his state visit. The commitment forms part of a wider US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal, encompassing £31bn of American investment across AI, quantum computing, and advanced nuclear [...]
Trump’s tech love-in highlights Musk rift as Silicon Valley backs AI push September 5, 2025 President Donald Trump’s White House dinner with the chiefs of the US’s biggest tech companies was meant to showcase unity between the president and Silicon Valley. Instead, the glaring absence of Elon Musk underscored the growing rift between the one-time allies as rivals like Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman lined up to praise [...]
Microsoft negotiations threaten to delay OpenAI’s restructuring August 27, 2025 OpenAI’s plan to restructure its business and raise billions in new funding is being stalled as it remains locked in complex negotiations with its largest investor, Microsoft. The ongoing talks, which could extend beyond the end of the year, as reported by the Financial Times, centre on key points of contention that could impact the [...]
End of Windows 10 support will trigger wave of upgrades, Westcoast says August 18, 2025 A withdrawal of support for Windows 10 is likely to trigger a rush to upgrade systems before the deadline, the UK’s biggest IT supplier has said as it posted a jump in sales. The Windows 10 operating system, which was introduced by Microsoft in July 2015, will no longer be supported from October 14 2025 [...]
UK workers feel uncomfortable being managed by AI August 12, 2025 Less than a third of UK workers are comfortable being managed by an AI Agent, according to new research shared exclusively with City AM. New research from Workday found that more than three-quarters of UK organisations are moving to implement AI Agents in everyday management functions, with 40 per cent actively rolling out AI agents, 25 [...]
Big tech hits back as CMA flags ‘harmful” cloud dominance by Microsoft and AWS July 31, 2025 Big Tech companies have pushed back against a damning report from the UK’s competition watchdog, which warned that Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance in the £10.5bn cloud computing market is stifling competition and harming UK businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Thursday published the final findings of its 21-month cloud investigation, concluding that Microsoft [...]
Meta and Microsoft face AI earnings test July 30, 2025 Meta, the owner of Facebook, and Microsoft will post second-quarter earnings after US markets close today (Wednesday 30 July) with analysts focused squarely on how both tech titans are monetising their multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) bets. Shares in both firms have surged around 20 per cent so far this year, fuelled by investor enthusiasm around [...]
Microsoft offers ‘pay-as-you-go’ software concession to cloud rivals after bowing to pressure July 18, 2025 Microsoft will allow its cloud rivals to offer ‘pay-as-you-go’ software to their customers after bowing to pressure over its licensing practices. The US tech giant attracted criticism for the way it offered exclusive software deals to customers of its Azure cloud platform, which rivals said made it difficult for them to compete. But in a [...]