Zaid Al-Fagih, Co-Founder and CEO of UK and Qatar-based healthtech firm Rhazes AI, has warned that unless the UK urgently upgrades its NHS AI infrastructure, it risks watching its thriving healthcare sector shift operations to Gulf nations like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. 

On 21 June, British satellite propulsion startup Magdrive will launch its Rogue thruster into space for its first in-orbit demonstration, marking a major step forward for the UK's space industry.

Yorkshire’s first bean-to-bar chocolate company, Bullion, is a masterclass in the power of a business story. Founded by Max Scotford in 2016 as a side hustle inspired by a Saturday morning TV segment, Bullion officially launched in 2017. Within a year, the Sheffield-based brand had moved from Max’s kitchen to a full-scale factory, expanding to multiple sites with a café, bakery, and thriving team by mid-2025.

Controversies over data, intellectual property, and licensing go hand in hand with generative AI (GenAI). The machine learning algorithms used by GenAI models require data to identify patterns and interdependencies that enable them to generate suitable responses to prompts. Therefore, volume and data quality are fundamentally important to the effectiveness of AI models.

Office use across Europe has returned to around 70% of pre-pandemic levels, prompting businesses to rethink how they bring employees back into physical workplaces. Many are investing in technology that encourages collaboration, streamlines operations and supports sustainability goals.

Conscium has developed a platform to verify AI agents for accuracy, responsiveness, and other performance indicators, such as fairness, explainability, and alignment. Conscium has partnered with WPP to provide AI verification services to the leading marketing services company and selected clients. In the coming months, these services will be available to any organisation which deploys AI agents.

DeepL has announced the deployment of an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems. This transformative computing platform will enable DeepL to translate the entirety of the internet – which currently takes 194 days of nonstop processing – in just over 18 days, marking a significant leap forward in DeepL’s research and product capabilities.

Anastasia Kalashnikova is an expert in strategic product development expertise and hands-on digital product experience – a combination that ultimately led to the founding of Storra, and set her on the path to bring the idea to life.

Since 2010, the number of companies diving into tax-advantaged share schemes has surged by 90% – a clear sign that the appetite for sharing the pie isn’t just growing, it’s booming.

Marketing is one of the most critical drivers of success for your startup. It builds your brand, attracts customers, and keeps your growth engine running. When it comes to execution, you’ll face an important choice – should you create an in-house marketing team or outsource the work?

UK Finance has released a new report on the progress made by banks following the introduction of the Disability Finance Code for Entrepreneurship (DFCE) in December 2024, which aims to improve the entrepreneurial landscape for disabled individuals.

Angel Academe, the angel network that has been investing in women leaders for over ten years, has launched the UK’s first female founder focused EIS fund in partnership with fund manager, SyndicateRoom.

We hear it constantly: automate, optimise, accelerate. Organisations across the globe are throwing themselves into workplace AI, chasing productivity and advantage. But as we embed these systems deeper into our businesses, we need to ask a harder question: what happens to the human heart of the workplace?

British Business Bank’s Start Up Loan is a government-backed personal loan for business purposes that is available to individuals looking to start or grow a business in the UK. It has provided support to aspiring entrepreneurs across the UK. In addition to the finance, successful applicants also receive 12 months of free mentoring and exclusive business offers which can help them succeed in their journey.

Across the world, numerous organisations operate as startup accelerators or incubators. These are often affiliated with universities, backed by governments at various levels, or sponsored by large corporations. Their primary objective is to support and nurture innovative new businesses. Large organisations frequently reach a scale where rapid innovation becomes challenging, making startups a vital source of new and groundbreaking ideas.

As Keir Starmer announced ambitious plans for UK AI growth at London Tech Week, and Rachel Reeves outlined £86 billion in the Spending Review for tech funding, skills investment must accompany infrastructure investment. This comes as the UK ranks 13th globally for AI readiness, according to Coursera’s inaugural AI Maturity Index.

LGBTQ-friendly policies can have a significant impact on innovation in major US firms, according to new research from Aalto University and the University of Vaasa. Existing studies have found a link between profitability and workplace diversity more generally, yet this is the first to specifically examine sexuality and gender-inclusivity as it relates to innovation.

The government’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA) is set to come into effect next April 2026, and whilst that might seem a while away, sole traders should start planning now to minimise any financial strain. The crux of the initiative is in its name; the government is making all tax reporting and filing a digital process.

Eighty nine percent of female tech leaders are thriving, but opportunities are still limited with women still making a tiny fraction of tech leadership with just 5% in the UK and 11% in the US according to a new report from AND Digital.

According to Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report, “implementing or leveraging AI” is the number one priority for marketers. Still, the survey showed that although 96% of the specialists implemented generative AI in marketing operations, only 32% had fully applied it. The question is not whether firms should but rather how they implement gen AI tools in their marketing strategies.