As always, businesses and inventors are at the forefront of innovation and contribute to the development of technologies. However, all progressive innovations, whose popularity grows rapidly, require regulation. The true revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is proof of this truth. Despite the great potential of AI, its rapid development also presents an important question of how we can ensure safety, ethics, and the protection of rights in this new technological reality.

Marketers may never feel they’ve fully cracked search, but just as strategies were starting to settle, along comes AI to quietly disrupt search completely. A drop in brand website search traffic later and we’re no longer experimenting with AI search – we’re right in the thick of a transition period.

Healthtech is booming big time. But once you build a good-to-go MVP and land your first users, you have a horde of challenges to tackle.

A long-term and potentially critical development is underway in the world of AI – the emergence of AI browsers. Recently launched products from the likes of Perplexity AI and The Browser Company, along with rumours of an OpenAI competitor, have put the topic of AI browsers on the agenda. This matters because, if executed correctly, AI browsers have the potential to become a linchpin development in the shift to agentic AI.

Xero has published new independent research revealing UK small businesses are missing out on the benefits of celebrating key achievements. The research showed that milestones often go unrecognised with only 43% of small businesses believing that it’s important to acknowledge wins, while two fifths (40%) admit they never celebrate, citing they’d never thought about doing so (64%).

Better Medicine, a startup developing AI-powered diagnostic tools for radiology, has raised €1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Soulmates Ventures, with participation from Specialist VC, UT Ventures, and several angel investors.

At the intersection of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, one of the most promising tech frontiers of the next decade is rapidly taking shape. According to Grand View Research, the global market for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is valued at over $2.4 billion today and projected to grow to $6.5 billion by 2030. Once limited to research labs and clinical institutions, BCIs are now becoming accessible to indie developers, startups, and even hobbyists — thanks to non-invasive EEG headsets, Bluetooth protocols, and open-source machine learning tools.

Collaboration tools have revolutionised how teams and companies work together, but when it comes to families — the most personal and enduring "teams" in our lives — technology still hasn't caught up.

With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new Robert Walters’ data reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up.

StartUpNV, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is again sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Startup Week, Wednesday, 17-20th September.

AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited all-cash takeover offer of Google’s Chrome internet browser for $34.5 billion.

Every founder knows the feeling. An investor update is looming. The numbers are solid (ish), the story feels messy, and you’ve rewritten the deck twelve times trying to make it all make sense.

July in European tech didn’t follow familiar playbooks. From polarising deal sizes and sector shakeups to grant funding stepping into the spotlight and regulators breaking seasonal patterns, the month revealed a handful of market anomalies that deserve a closer look.

A Danish medtech startup behind a technology that accurately measures cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) has just closed a €1.7 million funding round following expansion into several European markets. 

Productivity growth in Europe is uneven and slowing – a trend that shows no signs of improving. As hybrid work becomes the norm and economic pressures intensify, many organisations are asking a fundamental question: why isn’t productivity keeping pace with expectation?

NineSixteen Studios is the latest venture launched from cocreatd. Founded with Ben Kaluza, one of the UK's leading tech content creators (900k followers), and serial entrepreneur Jono Fereday, NineSixteen Studios helps tech companies produce premium creator content that people actually want to watch.

As a founder in a business built on human connection, the rapid rise of AI can feel overwhelming. Without AI, could our businesses become obsolete? Does my human-centric approach still have value in an increasingly tech-driven world?

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, Micro, Small, and Medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) are responsible for nearly 50% of the region’s GDP. Yet, despite their economic importance, access to capital remains a persistent challenge. For many of these companies, the financial tools needed to scale and innovate remain unjustly out of reach.

As a startup entrepreneur, the journey to becoming an iconic leader is not about following the crowd, it’s about embracing your uniqueness, leading with authenticity, and strategically positioning yourself for success.

While the UK's skills shortages have persisted during the last few years, recent data has revealed a promising improvement. Skills shortage vacancies fell from 36% in 2022, to 27% in 2024, according to the Department for Education's latest Employer Skills Survey.