Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What builders need to know this week The headline number is real and recent — per GOV.UK, London Tech Week 2026 produced more than £6bn of new investment and roughly 8,000 new jobs, announced across a single week in June. Compute is the spine of it — AMD committed £2bn for next-generation AI compute, Nebius is investing £1.7bn in new infrastructure, and Oxford Quantum Circuits secured record funding. New compute means new teams to run it. Reflection is the talent story — the ex-DeepMind open-weight lab plans 100-plus UK hires within 12 months, scaling to 1,000-plus roles within three years. This stacks on an already-hot market — it lands on top of the UK's £500m Sovereign AI Unit and an £8.2bn first half for UK AI startups. Demand is not slowing. Being discoverable is the edge — when…
