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The Brief
Channel news with a view. The facts, what it means and the quote that matters, in about three minutes.
Michael Page
Top-end AI and data architect pay in London rises 20%, says Michael Page
Quant
Seven UK banks put tokenized sterling deposits into live customer use
Outerlimit
Egress founders return with $16m to police what AI agents do
Deloitte UK
UK workers pay £958m a year for their own GenAI tools, Deloitte finds
Microsoft
Microsoft and the Met dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing kit for hire
Quorum Cyber
Quorum Cyber agrees to buy Ontinue from EQT in Microsoft MDR deal
Eurostar
Eurostar puts an app in ChatGPT as AI traffic outruns bookings
Onnec
Cabling bottlenecks leave a third of data centers with wasted AI hardware
Cytix
Cytix raises $7m to govern the risk in AI-era software changes
British Business Bank
Treasury puts £100m behind first-time VC managers beyond London
Quickline
Quickline passes 60,000 rural premises under Project Gigabit
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Government opens its first AI Growth Lab to law firms and lawtech
Openreach
Openreach warns 350,000 business sites to get off copper phone lines
Datel
Evergreen’s Pine Services Group buys Sage partner Datel
Office for National Statistics
ONS finds a third of UK firms with 10 or more staff use AI
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Half of surveyed security providers refer to UK security codes
Claranet
Claranet buys rival MSP Six Degrees through an administrators’ sale
Information Commissioner’s Office
UK organizations now need a data protection complaints process
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Most UK firms using AI have no policy for it, official survey finds
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology