UK shelves £1.3bn of funding for technology and AI projects
by Julia Kollewe and Dan Milmo from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PP4C)
Britain's first next-generation supercomputer, planned by Tories, in doubt after Labour government move
The Labour government has shelved 1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for technology and artificial intelligence projects, putting the future of the UK's first next-generation supercomputer in doubt.
The projects, announced last year, include 800m for the creation of an exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh and a further 500m for the AI Research Resource, which funds computing power for AI.
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