Diraq and QM Technologies has announced the first-ever tight integration of GPUs and silicon quantum processors with the deployment of a system using the NVIDIA DGX Quantum architecture to achieve real-time communication speeds of 3.3 microseconds between quantum hardware and NVIDIA Grace-Hopper superchips, orchestrated through QM’s OPX1000 hybrid controller.

Work AI leader Glean has announced it raised $150 million in Series F financing, bringing its valuation to $7.2 billion.

Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language Models) by up to 95% while maintaining model performance. Having spent 2024 developing the technology and rolling it out to initial customers, the company has announced a €189 million ($215 million) investment round.

Against an ever-changing economic backdrop, UK companies have cited employee benefits costs as a pressing challenge, according to Gallagher’s Workforce Trends Report. The report also found that organisations are looking to adapt their benefit strategies to address economic pressures and the diverse needs and expectations of their workforce.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will launch Finland’s first NATO DIANA accelerator programme at the beginning of 2026. The application period for next year’s accelerator is now open for companies from all NATO member countries.

Malt has released its annual Malt Tech Trends report, providing an in-depth analysis of the evolving tech landscape and jobs, focusing on 2023 vs. 2024.

OpenTrade has announced it raised an additional $7 million in strategic funding led by Notion Capital and Mercury Fund, with participation from existing investors AlbionVC, a16z crypto, and CMCC Global.

After three intense days marked by entrepreneurship, innovation, and high-level connections, South Summit Madrid 2025, co-organised by IE University, concluded its 14th edition with the announcement of the winners of the Startup Competition.

The tech job market experienced a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to rapid digitisation and remote work, and has since travelled in a very different direction.

Mobito, a Brussels-based mobility data analytics platform, has secured €1 million in funding to enhance its technology infrastructure and expand its footprint across Europe.

The Founder and Group CEO of AI and data upskilling firm Cambridge Spark has called for all C-suite executives to be sent on AI upskilling courses so that AI strategy can be implemented in every department of every enterprise.

Sage and its partner Village Capital awarded six grants totalling $170,000 to select startups from the ‘Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Program’, powered by Sage Foundation. The grants were awarded at the Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Summit, a two-day event of learning and networking for the Core Cohort of the programme, which ran in Atlanta, USA, from 4-5th June 2025.

London & Partners and the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) have announced the launch of the Frontier Innovation Fellowship, an accelerator set to grow the next frontier tech giant.

A Harvard, MIT, and Wharton study revealed that VC pitches voiced by men were more than twice as likely to secure funding as identical pitches voiced by women.

One in seven businesses have lost a day or more to a cyber event in the last 12 months, according to global research[1] for commercial insurer QBE, which also emphasises that a major share of cyber attacks stem from a supplier’s vulnerability.