The government has committed £8.9m in funding to a series of projects aimed at removing regulatory barriers to creating new technology. The funding, which will be delivered by the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), will back projects including a licensing regime for street cleaning robots, an AI tool to improve flood risk assessments in planning applications…
Regional leaders in the four UK nations are being offered £30m to support local science and tech specialties as part of a government fund to drive innovation throughout various hubs. The latest regions set to receive backing from the £500m Local Innovation Partnerships Fund – first announced during last month’s Spending Review – are the…
US-based tech giant OpenAI is expanding its relationship with the British government with plans to heavily invest in UK AI infrastructure as the firm prepares to increase its office space in London. The ChatGPT developer on Monday evening signed a strategic partnership with the UK government committing it to support the expansion of essential AI…