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Government launches Scale UK Connect pilot to keep 200 scale-ups growing at home
A new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade pilot will give 200 high-growth UK firms expert advice, investor connections and international opportunities in a bid to stop promising companies stalling or leaving Britain.
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DSIT publishes annual UK AI sector study for 2025
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The regulator says Meta's planned changes could let it harvest content from UK businesses' websites for its own AI products without their consent.Across the tech desk
The latest across UK technology, startups and scaleups Funding
- British Business Bank commits up to £46m to a pre-seed deep tech fund aiming to create 80 companies
- Innovate UK is offering sensing SMEs a flat £80,420 grant at 100% funding, closing 7 October
- Innovate UK opens a £12m materials call covering power electronics, 6G and metamaterials, closing 28 October
- Prevalent AI's investor took a board seat eight months before the $22m raise was announced
Founders
- Companies House confirms software-only accounts filing from April 2028 but pauses profit and loss filing for small firms
- Government consultation on data intermediaries closes tonight after an extension
Scaleups
- DSIT publishes UK CertifID trust mark rules and promises action over unauthorised use
- DSIT study puts UK semiconductor revenues at £10.6bn, with 24 companies taking three quarters of it
- Synectics wins £1.4m of bus surveillance contracts for a UK regional authority
- Companies House records kyu holding more than half of Public Digital's parent company
Exits
- MedPal AI finalises eMARx purchase price at about £446,633, below its July estimate
- Pri0r1ty buys Pirkx out of administration for £50,000 and a capped royalty
AI
- Government rolls out AI tool and rule change to speed up planning decisions
- Basingstoke distributor Hammer adds Swedish sovereign AI platform Eggsplain for its EMEA channel partners
- Government launches AI Biosecurity Lab with £100m UK funding and £200m from OpenAI and Anthropic
- Chancellor to set out AI investment package ahead of Budget
Tech
- Government uses AI tool and new rules to speed up planning decisions in England
- CMA opens probe into Meta's commercial terms over dominance concerns
- Government unveils voluntary standards to tackle investment bias against women in UK tech
- Hammer Distribution adds Swedish firm Eggsplain to channel portfolio for sovereign AI
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