The UK government and $11bn ElevenLabs signed an MoU on voice AI for public services, safety research, and talent. It is the fifth such deal, but the OpenAI one produced nothing.

London Tech Week 2026 - AMD pledges £2bn and Nebius £1.7bn for UK AI, joining Starmer’s £400m compute push as Britain targets Europe’s AI hub.

Wizz Air will be the first European budget airline to offer Starlink in-flight internet from 2027, a cost gamble that rivals Ryanair & EasyJet have so far avoided.

Stepful raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT to scale its AI 'school-as-a-service' for hospitals, after training 32,000+ healthcare workers.

Jim Bridenstine's Quantum Space is going public via a $1.2bn SPAC merger to build manoeuvrable spacecraft for the next space race, listing on Nasdaq as QSPC.

Meta is filing for contempt against NSO Group, saying the Pegasus maker kept targeting WhatsApp despite a permanent injunction & that it foiled fresh phishing attacks.

From HiBob's modular mid-market platform to Rippling's HR-plus-IT consolidation, these are the HRIS systems built for companies scaling past 100 employees.

At London Tech Week, Britain's Cosine signed up BT, HSBC, BAE & others to build Lumen Sovereign, a UK frontier AI model trained on the Isambard-AI supercomputer.

Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to co-develop AI memory for Vera Rubin and beyond, as memory becomes the AI industry's toughest bottleneck.

Google has ordered 3M+ TPUs from Intel for 2028 and Nvidia is testing its 18A process, a rare vote of confidence in the struggling US foundry as TSMC strains.

Bending Spoons, the Milan group behind Evernote, WeTransfer & Vimeo, has filed for a US IPO on Nasdaq, with 2025 revenue of $1.31bn & a reported $20bn target.

Amazon is paying Corning billions for optical fibre to wire its US AI data centres, the glassmaker's third AI megadeal of 2026 after Meta & Nvidia.