Coverage
Six beats, reported from the UK. Each desk owns a map, a source list and a weekly question. If your organisation needs a private cut of one desk, that is a briefing, not a press request.
We cover frontier labs with a UK footprint, public compute, adoption programmes, and the argument about work. The desk’s current open questions: how Bridge AI money is actually matched; what the AI Economics Institute will be allowed to measure; and whether “fastest adopter in the G7” survives contact with skills and electricity.
Desk: Mara Ellison, with Imran Shah on the Whitehall file.
Design, compound materials, equipment and the unglamorous middle of the stack. DSIT’s 2026 sector study is the baseline document for the year; we read it against company behaviour, not against the press notice. Packaging, skills leakage and the hardware plan’s pull-through are the live threads.
Desk: Nia Okonkwo.
AI Growth Zones, connection queues, private wire, nuclear-for-compute, water and local politics. This desk exists because a model that cannot be powered is a research paper. We treat National Grid, NESO and planning inspectors as technology sources.
Desk: Mara Ellison.
Hardware, error correction claims, UKRI programmes and the capital that is now arriving faster than algorithms. We will not launder a funding round into a capability. We will report both, in that order.
Desk: Nia Okonkwo.
Payments, market infrastructure, and the Financial Services AI Adoption Plan. The interesting UK story is not another neobank. It is whether the City can adopt models inside a supervisory system that still has to explain itself to Parliament.
Desk: Imran Shah.
Imaging, diagnostics, operational AI inside trusts, and the procurement path that kills most of the rest. We write for people who have sat in an IG meeting, not only for people who have sat in a seed round.
Desk: Nia Okonkwo, with clinical readers on call.
Labs, finance, departments, and the capital that still prefers to announce itself here.
Science parks, hardware, and the quiet companies that do not issue a press release.
Campus growth, advanced manufacturing, and the energy geography of new compute.
Compound semiconductors, photonics, hydro and wind, and public compute outside the South East.