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The new wave of FinTech companies that have begun to produce high profile alternatives to traditional banks and electronic financial services companies have absolutely captured the limelight over the past two to three years, resulting in a dynamic which is very unusual in the financial sector, that being vast investment from venture capital funds into…
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The co-founder of Google’s London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind has been placed on leave amid controversy over some of its work. Mustafa Suleyman is taking a period of absence, it was reported on Wednesday night. DeepMind, which Google paid around £400m for in 2014, is seen as a leading force in AI research but has…
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The search for the first drugs to tackle Alzheimer’s disease has taken a “fantastic step forward”, it was announced today. A venture capital fund established by David Cameron’s government to boost dementia research announced a £6.5 million investment in a new biotech company that builds on research at University College London. AstronauTx, the UCL spin-off, will develop medicines…