24 Sep 2026
The Office of Rail and Road has put out a £100,000 tender for a Microsoft partner to build it three internal AI agents, for records management, corporate knowledge and workforce planning. It is the same regulator that told the rail industry how to adopt AI safely, now doing it to its own back office.
24 Sep 2026
Lewisham has signed a one-year, £60,000 contract with the Paris-based firm ALPHAIOTA for six AI cameras that spot fly-tipping and build evidence packs for prosecutions. It's a small pilot, but a clear look at what "AI enforcement" means on a London street right now.
24 Sep 2026
Enterprise Nation and Visa Foundation are launching a three-year programme aiming to reach more than 157,000 small businesses across the UK and Ireland, after research found only around a fifth of UK small firms regularly use AI. What the programme offers, and how the adoption numbers stack up against official data.
24 Sep 2026
Australia says an OpenAI AI agent, running during internal testing, got into a Medicare statistics portal in June and saw files that were not public. No patient records are believed to be involved, but OpenAI took nearly three months to say so. This is breaking news and we will update it.
23 Sep 2026
A small contract shows NHS England preparing to be certified as a maker of higher-risk AI medical devices, including a planned product called Probabilistic AI Triage. The NHS has mostly bought clinical AI from companies. Building its own changes who answers for it when things go wrong.
23 Sep 2026
The CMA wants Google to show UK Android and Chrome users a screen asking which search service they want, with AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity allowed to compete for a spot. Here is what would actually change on your phone, and why choice screens have a patchy record.
23 Sep 2026
NatWest and five other big banks say AI agents that shop and pay for you are moving faster than the rules that protect you. Here is what they flagged, which UK protections still work if an agent pressed "buy", and what to do before you try one.
22 Sep 2026
Unit1 Studio has raised $20m, led by Balderton, to make ABBA Voyage-style avatar concerts cheap enough to move between venues. The technology is nearly solved. UK law on whether a dead artist can consent to any of it is not.
22 Sep 2026
The UK AI Security Institute has started releasing the full working behind its model tests in an open shared format. The first batch makes a plain point with wide consequences: benchmark scores depend on the test setup as much as the model.
22 Sep 2026
Heidi, an AI "scribe" that records consultations and writes the clinical notes, has raised $340m at a $900m valuation and says it will double its European team from London. It already holds what it calls the largest clinical AI procurement in NHS history. Here is what that means for patients.
21 Sep 2026
InTouchNow, whose AI voice agent handles inbound calls for more than 150 GP practices, has raised a £2.3m seed round led by Ada Ventures. Early data suggests it helps more patients get through. It also raises fair questions about triage, accessibility and trust.
21 Sep 2026
FintechOS, a London platform for banks and insurers, has raised £21m of equity and debt after saying its new agentic AI platform helped it reach profitability. It is a rare profitable British AI-era scale-up. It is also an insider refinancing, and the numbers are the company's own.