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Read techUK's latest white paper, including executive summary

Launched in March 2026, this year-long initiative will discover how the UK can lead on the development and deployment of Frontier Compute technologies. 

On 3rd March techUK was thrilled to be involved in a roundtable discussion hosted by Quantexa at its London QuanCon’26 event which also marked Quantexa’s 10th anniversary.

Innovate UK will become more deliberate about what technologies, sectors and businesses they support under a new strategy that is designed to address the challenge of transforming world-class research and early-stage innovation in the UK into globally competitive businesses. 

By Verity Greig, Solution Lead at Tata Consultancy Services, specialising in AI‑driven transformation and next‑generation IT operations.

Warren Tucker, Partner and Technology Leader at PwC UK, shares his key takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. After a packed few days at MWC 2026 in Barcelona - full of meetings, demos and conversations with technology leaders - five talking points kept coming up again and again. These are trends I think everyone in the tech ecosystem should be watching closely.

Highlights from techUK’s flagship policy event of the year Shape

Once again, the UK has failed to find a definitive way forward on AI and copyright that meets the needs of a world-leading digital economy.  The government has effectively parked the discussion on text and data mining. It is instead seeking to reset the debate by focusing on more specific issues where the government hopes there is potential to make progress in the near term.  

As the world fixates on “humans versus machines,” the UK is quietly charting a far more powerful path—one where AI expands, rather than replaces, human agency. With bold national ambition, deep talent, and major investment, the UK is emerging as a global leader in the Agentic Era: a future where AI agents supercharge productivity, unlock stretched capacity, and let people focus on what they do best. From police forces deploying digital colleagues to businesses transforming everyday workflows, the question isn’t whether AI will take over—but how quickly we can harness it to help everyone do more with less.

FLock.io has demonstrated federated learning as a sovereign AI technique for governmental organisations with Sarawak, Malaysia as a case study.