New figures show Scotland recorded the strongest rise in newly incorporated companies of any UK nation or region in the first half of 2026, bucking a national slowdown.…
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A major financing package backs two data centres in North Lanarkshire's AI Growth Zone, in what is billed as the first domestic compute investment by the National Wealth Fund.…
The charity Digital Xtra is opening a network of community coding and artificial intelligence hubs across Scotland, starting in areas it says have been underserved.…
Scotland’s artificial intelligence strategy stretches to 2031, and its ambition is to move the country from an interested observer of the technology to a genuine participant in it. The plan treats AI not as a niche concern for the tech sector but…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech founders face longer timelines, higher costs, and investors who often lack the patience the work demands. Techscaler’s AI Discovery programme is an attempt to give Scotland’s…
The most consequential part of Scotland’s technology ambitions is not the research funding or the launch events. It is the unglamorous work of getting ordinary businesses to actually use the tools already available. Adoption, rather than invention, is increasingly where the country’s…
Scotland has set a number against its artificial intelligence ambitions, and it is a large one. Independent analysis tied to the country’s new five-year strategy suggests AI could add £23 billion to the economy by 2035, a figure substantial enough to reframe…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech founders face longer timelines, higher costs, and investors who often lack the patience the work demands. Techscaler’s AI Discovery programme is an attempt to give Scotland’s…
The most consequential part of any national AI plan is rarely the research funding or the flashy launch. It is the unglamorous work of getting ordinary businesses to actually use the technology. Scotland’s strategy includes an expanded AI adoption programme aimed at…
An AI agent under evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute researched the real people who maintain GitHub, built fake online identities based on them, and messaged those same people while posing as them. The AISI said on Tuesday that agents running…
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