Labour pulls £1.3bn funding for ultra-fast supercomputer and AI projects

Keir Starmer takes £1.3bn sledgehammer to UK economy in Tony Blair snub

The Labour leader is ditching the Conservative plan for AI just weeks after former PM Tony Blair backed artificial intelligence investment.

Government cancels £1.3bn in AI funding as spending cuts bite

The new Labour Government has shelved £1.3bn of “unfunded” investment for UK tech and AI projects promised by the Conservatives. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said no new funding for the programmes had been allocated in the previous Tory government’s spending plans, and therefore will not be taken forward. It included £800m for the creation of an exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh and £500m of ad…

Labour pulls £1.3bn funding for hyper-fast supercomputer and AI projects

A Whitehall department says cash committed by the previous Tory administration was not allocated in its budget and so will not be taken forward.

"Pro-Growth" Labour Scrapping Investment into UK Tech and AI

The so-called “government of growth” has abandoned yet another investment initiative—the £1.3 billion fund aimed at supporting UK tech and AI projects. The Edinburgh exascale supercomputer’s future has been thrown up in the air – one of the world’s fastest computers that could revolutionise breakthroughs in AI, medicine, and…clean low-carbon energy.[…] Read the rest

UK government cancels £1bn AI investment plan

Plans for AI investment in the UK have been shelved, leaving the future of a supercomputer unknown.

Labour Government shelves plans for £800 million supercomputer at Scottish University

THE Labour Government has shelved an £800 million plan to build a state-of-the-art supercomputer at Edinburgh University according to reporters…