Team Techopia
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Google halts Finnish data centre works amid environmental scrutiny
Finnish authorities have ordered Google to halt preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data centre sites pending environmental assessment. Police are conducting a preliminary inquiry into activity at Muhos, while Google has acknowledged falling short of its standards.
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MintNeuro moves brain-interface chips towards production
Imperial spinout MintNeuro has raised $5 million to commercialise semiconductor chips designed for neural devices after securing an earlier multi-year supply agreement with US neurotechnology company Motif.
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NHS sets out £839m GP software framework
NHS England is preparing an £838.7 million framework excluding VAT for GP patient records, clinical software and research, with an open structure designed to broaden the primary care technology market.
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DWP’s AI training push is mostly foundational
Department for Work and Pensions data shows 128,779 AI course completions in 12 months, but almost 98% came from two introductory modules, separating broad AI literacy from deeper technical capability.
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Behavox reserves UK GPUs for regulated AI
Behavox has committed $8 million to dedicated Civo GPU capacity in the UK, tying AI infrastructure directly to where sensitive financial communications and trading data are processed.
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AI bills outrun finance teams’ forecasts
Pigment’s latest CFO Index finds consumption-based AI costs exceeding expectations at 83% of surveyed organisations, even as confidence in returns remains high and planned spending continues to rise.
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Atlassian puts engineers inside the AI sale
Atlassian is expanding its forward-deployed engineering team from 46 people towards 100 after working with more than 100 enterprises, making hands-on implementation part of how it delivers production AI.
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Rivercell builds the data before the virtual cell
Paris biotechnology company Rivercell has raised $25 million to generate purpose-built experimental cell data and train an AI model intended to predict how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes.
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RSA gives AI agents identities of their own
RSA is extending identity controls to AI agents, creating records of ownership and permissions while applying policy to individual tool calls as regulated organisations move autonomous software into sensitive systems.
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VoltR turns used lithium cells back into production
French battery company VoltR has secured €22 million to expand remanufacturing capacity sixfold, betting that usable lithium cells can return to production before eventually reaching material recycling.
