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Despite the ‘DeepMind mafia’ drawing billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis’ former lieutenants are building a UK border AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ at companies that labs…

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A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving text messages threatening to unlink Apple IDs from stolen iPhones (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The AI paradox: more automation, more humans, more work | Dan Sender Interviews with world-class product…

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UK High Court rules London Metropolitan Police can continue to use live facial recognition; police say technology has led to more than 2,100 arrests since 2024 (Connor Jones/The Register)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: The hills we die on A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du, Sally…

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OpenAI says it will make London its largest research center outside the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI’s European headquarters is in Dublin (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 26, 2026

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: OpenAI says it will make London its largest research center outside the US, without giving specific…

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Uber plans to test driverless taxis in London using Baidu’s Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in the first half of 2026, with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 22, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The next AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff Interviews with…

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Impressions from a test drive in London in a car using Wayve’s self-driving technology; Wayve has raised $1.3 billion since its launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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Paid to London, which helps the providers of agent monetizing and monitoring costs, increased a seed of $ 21.6 million led by Lightspeed, a source indicates an evaluation of $ 100 million (Julie Bort / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 29, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: A 4 -step setting to build delicious products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype) Interviews…

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A look at London "neocloud" NSCAL startup, which won an investment of $ 500 million from NVIDIA and aims to evolve up to 300,000 GPUs worldwide, tied with Coreweave (Iain Martin / Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 23, 2025

Iain Martin / Forbes:: An overview of the startup “Neocloud” based in London NSCALE, which won an investment of $…

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The London Stock Exchange is launching a blockchain-based platform, marking its push in digital assets, initially focused on private funds (Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 15, 2025

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:: The London Stock Exchange is launching a blockchain-based platform, marking its push in digital assets, initially…

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The statement of the UK data center, currently 477, should jump ~ 100 in the next five years, with more than half in London and in neighboring counties (BBC)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 16, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Can the web survive a generative AI? – With Matthew Prince The Big Technology Podcast…

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Why India’s foreign minister visited Mongolia – The Diplomat

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Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

How Kohl’s lost its way and is trying to become relevant again

Walmart heir Lukas Walton buys minority stake in Chicago Bulls

How Nike, Levi’s and Taco Bell win

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Evangelical Christians humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them

President Mike Johnson admits he’s running a protection racket for Trump

Senate Democrats launch preemptive strike to stop Trump from intervening in midterms

Trump threatens to block Republicans’ midterms if they don’t pass SAVE Act

Top House Democrat suggests Trump may have terminal illness

AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarification from the Trump administration, but are reluctant to press for answers, fearing retaliation (Politico)

daily volume on Polymarket’s U.S. platform increased from around $50 million in mid-May to more than $200 million as of June 20 (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

Streaming services must comply with a California law that prohibits showing ads at a louder volume than the content being watched starting July 1, but its implementation is unclear (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

A look at advanced chip packaging, now more dependent than ever on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan, and efforts to solve this bottleneck in the United States (Don Clark/New York Times)

Insurance technology startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark’s open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Browsing: London

Despite the ‘DeepMind mafia’ drawing billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis’ former lieutenants are building a UK border AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving text messages threatening to unlink Apple IDs from stolen iPhones (New York Times)

UK High Court rules London Metropolitan Police can continue to use live facial recognition; police say technology has led to more than 2,100 arrests since 2024 (Connor Jones/The Register)

OpenAI says it will make London its largest research center outside the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI’s European headquarters is in Dublin (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

Uber plans to test driverless taxis in London using Baidu’s Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in the first half of 2026, with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

Impressions from a test drive in London in a car using Wayve’s self-driving technology; Wayve has raised $1.3 billion since its launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

Paid to London, which helps the providers of agent monetizing and monitoring costs, increased a seed of $ 21.6 million led by Lightspeed, a source indicates an evaluation of $ 100 million (Julie Bort / Techcrunch)

A look at London "neocloud" NSCAL startup, which won an investment of $ 500 million from NVIDIA and aims to evolve up to 300,000 GPUs worldwide, tied with Coreweave (Iain Martin / Forbes)

The London Stock Exchange is launching a blockchain-based platform, marking its push in digital assets, initially focused on private funds (Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg)

The statement of the UK data center, currently 477, should jump ~ 100 in the next five years, with more than half in London and in neighboring counties (BBC)