Former Labour deputy joins Palantir as tech giant targets UK growth September 18, 2026 Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has joined Palantir as a senior vice president as the US tech firm looks to expand its work with the British government while facing mounting scrutiny over its public sector contracts. Watson, who served as an MP for 18 years and held ministerial roles under Gordon Brown, will work [...]
U.K. Public Sector Adopts Platform-Based Delivery Approach September 18, 2026 Fiscal pressures, cybersecurity concerns and responsible AI requirements are reshaping digital delivery across government, ISG Provider Lens® report says
Phoenix Education Partners to Acquire Fuel50, Advancing the Future of Workforce Transformation September 17, 2026 Acquisition accelerates Fuel50's capabilities and its reach with enterprise employers, as workforce intelligence becomes central to the AI-enabled workplace
Month-old Deepmind spinout nears $4bn on ‘future capability’ bet September 17, 2026 A British AI startup founded just last month by three former Google Deepmind researchers is nearing a $4bn (£2.9bn) valuation – despite having no product or website. Emulate is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700m in a seed funding round led by Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners in a deal that [...]
Beacon Acquires Haize Labs to Power AI for the Real Economy September 17, 2026 Haize Labs leadership will anchor Beacon’s new applied AI research group, accelerating the deployment of AI across the essential businesses Beacon owns
CogitX AI Appoints Michael Ellgass as President, Retail September 17, 2026 Walmart and Circana veteran joins CogitX AI to grow its sovereign AI platform, focusing on Fortune 500 retailers, brands, and agencies
Aera Technology Named a Leader for the Second Time in the IDC MarketScape™ for Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms September 17, 2026 Aera enables enterprises to connect and scale AI-powered decisions across the value chain — from high-volume automation to complex, situational decision-making
Elliptic Launches Its Decode Agent to Answer On-Chain Risk Questions and Shows Its Work September 17, 2026 Hours of tracing, answered in seconds, with the evidence attached
H5 Resources Named an OpenAI Select Partner September 17, 2026 H5 Resources, a Uganda-based tin producer rebuilding the historic Mwerasandu mine through modern engineering, open operational data, and applied AI, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260826229268/en/ The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program [...]
Musk skips King’s AI safety summit with world’s biggest tech chiefs September 17, 2026 King Charles will warn some of the world’s most powerful AI companies against letting humanity “lose control of our destiny” on Thursday, as he brings tech bosses together in Scotland amid escalating warnings about the new technology. The King will host executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind at Dumfries House in Ayrshire to [...]