An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from…
Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small…
Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday and is worth about $353m, Reuters reported. Lawyers had previously value…
A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That…
Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference…
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, according to the Ukrainian presidency’s account of talks in Kyiv between …
A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime were responsible, according to the Telegraph. Tony Diver, Rozina Sabur and Matt Oliver broke the story on Saturday. It is thought to …
Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years, according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as it…
Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict camera-enabled eyewear. It gave two reasons: film piracy, and customer privacy. Tak…
Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the British state. Bloomberg reported the raise, describing the UK’s public AI fund as a backer. The Cambridge company came out of steal…