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UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy

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The British government has launched the initial competitions of a £100 million procurement programme aimed at channeling domestic AI startups into public‑sector contracts. The scheme invites startups to address challenges in the NHS, defence, high‑performance computing and agent‑based security.

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