U.K. Firms Move to AI-Native, Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure July 14, 2026 Organizations seek to modernize IT environments to balance resilience and sustainability as AI adoption accelerates, ISG Provider Lens® report says
What founders need to unlearn about fundraising and the one question no one thinks to ask investors July 14, 2026 At SCALE Summit on 22 April, a panel of EIS and SEIS investors came together to share exactly what they look for, and where founders are missing a trick. Here are the takeaways for your next raise. Fundraising is usually talked about as something you do when you need money, as if it’s a phase [...]
Reeves issues warning to successor as she battles to defend record July 14, 2026 Rachel Reeves is set to issue a stern warning to her successor in Number 11 as she battles to defend her record after two years in office ahead of the overthrow of Labour’s election-winning leadership. In what is widely expected to be her final act as Chancellor before Andy Burnham is made Prime Minister next [...]
Top investors managing $3tn to gain access to UK infrastructure projects via AI platform July 14, 2026 Top global investors managing around $3 trillion in assets will be given access to “fragmented” British infrastructure projects under plans for an AI platform designed to fix the industry’s investment woes. Both national and regional projects will be connected to trillions of global capital through the AI platform, dubbed InvestConnect, in a bid to accelerate [...]
Grid delays force Starmer-backed AI data centre to seek alternative power July 13, 2026 One of the UK’s flagship AI infrastructure projects is being forced to source its own energy supplies after discovering it would not be granted grid connection in time for its eagerly anticipated opening. Nscale, the British AI unicorn backed by Nvidia, is now looking beyond conventional electricity connections for its flagship £2bn data centre in [...]
Why do six Premier League clubs still not have front of shirt sponsors? July 13, 2026 Not so long ago it was unthinkable that a Premier League club would go into a new season without a sponsor on the front of their shirt. In recent years Chelsea and Nottingham Forest have made headlines for starting a campaign with a vacancy in that prime spot, precisely because it was such an anomaly. [...]
Monzo founder joins Anthropic as AI talent race heats up July 13, 2026 Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield has joined Anthropic, as the US AI giant steps up its recruitment drive for senior tech leaders. Blomfield announced on Monday that he is taking a leave of absence from Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team, where he will work alongside co-founder Tom Brown on the [...]
Cloudflare Introduces Precursor; One-Click Behavioral Defense Against Modern Bots July 13, 2026 Built on one of the world’s largest networks, Precursor is the only defense of its kind to replace disruptive checkpoints to stop evasive bots without slowing down users
Rory Sutherland joins Adam Smith Institute as senior fellow July 13, 2026 Advertising executive Rory Sutherland has joined free-market think tank the Adam Smith Institute as a senior fellow, strengthening the organisation’s efforts to promote behavioural economics and free-market policy as the UK grapples with sluggish growth. Sutherland, vice chairman of advertising giant Ogilvy and one of Britain’s best-known marketing figures, will advise the Institute on how [...]
Burnham has a chance to build trust in AI July 13, 2026 The biggest risk to the continued success of the UK tech ecosystem isn’t the plight of founders, it’s the risk of a backlash that comes from a lack of trust, says Euan Blair Andy Burnham wants to reset AI policy away from championing global scale ups and founders in favour of UK workers. As a [...]