Yeshwanth Macha spends his days moving between two worlds that rarely overlap: the compliance-heavy back offices of wealth management firms and the peer-review process of academic publishing. That dual footing has now earned him a 2026 Global Recognition Award in the Innovation…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, DeepSeek verbally informed some of its…
South Korea has announced $950 billion in new AI initiatives involving Samsung Electronics, SK Group, and US tech firms, as global AI leaders scramble to close a shortage of the faster chips needed to power and develop more advanced systems. SK Group…
The chief executive of one of Northern Ireland’s leading photography galleries has defended the inclusion of AI-generated images in an exhibition. Deirdre Robb of the Belfast Exposed gallery acknowledged that the images are “controversial” but said the work “does ask questions.” Some…
This week the tech world was gripped by a story that had everything, and that began like a science-fiction thriller. Hugging Face, a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools, announced on 16 July that it had been hacked by a…
Shares in China’s biggest memory chip maker have surged by more than 470 percent on their debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s tech-heavy Star Market. The jump has lifted ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, to a valuation of around 3.3 trillion…
Innovation must remain “Scotland’s greatest export,” Business Minister Richard Lochhead has said, marking the launch of the country’s first National Innovation Week. More than 80 events are taking place across Scotland over the next five days, with over 200 delegates expected to…
Writing in a national newspaper op-ed last week, Mark Logan described Scotland’s tech start-up sector as being in perhaps its most vibrant state in living memory. He pointed to a level of buzz, confidence and ambition he hadn’t seen before, noting that…
The University of Edinburgh has secured EU and UK Government funding to establish the £8.6 million UK AI Factory Antenna (UKAIFA), a European-backed initiative aimed at boosting AI adoption among businesses and researchers across the UK. Set to begin operations next year…
Over the past two decades, Scotland has built up substantial capabilities across several areas of space technology, including small satellite manufacturing, rocket and launch vehicle manufacturing, vertical launch, data analysis, and Earth observation. Scottish technology has already played a role in major…
