{"id":22949,"date":"2026-05-04T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/uk-invention-agency-grants-50m-of-public-money-to-us-tech-and-venture-capital-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:37:21","slug":"uk-invention-agency-grants-50m-of-public-money-to-us-tech-and-venture-capital-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/uk-invention-agency-grants-50m-of-public-money-to-us-tech-and-venture-capital-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"UK \u2018invention agency\u2019 grants \u00a350m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding \u2018crazy\u2019 scientific projects to benefit the UK<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s \u201cinvention agency\u201d has pledged \u00a350m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund \u201ccrazy\u201d ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/prime-ministers-article-in-the-daily-telegraph-21-june-2021\">restore Britain\u2019s place as a scientific superpower<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/03\/uk-invention-agency-aria-pledges-70-million-public-money-us-tech-venture-capital-dominic-cummings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eddfb37e443cd437d8a10a1cbfa56dd54c759d6c\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9fbc5f721778efb8dfb14a7f20b4380a\" title=\"UK \u2018invention agency\u2019 grants \u00a350m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms\" \/>Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding \u2018crazy\u2019 scientific projects to benefit the UK<br \/>\nBritain\u2019s \u201cinvention agency\u201d has pledged \u00a350m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.<br \/>\nDreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund \u201ccrazy\u201d ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to \u201crestore Britain\u2019s place as a scientific superpower\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding \u2018crazy\u2019 scientific projects to benefit the UK Britain\u2019s \u201cinvention agency\u201d has pledged \u00a350m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects. Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund \u201ccrazy\u201d ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to \u201crestore &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/uk-invention-agency-grants-50m-of-public-money-to-us-tech-and-venture-capital-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK \u2018invention agency\u2019 grants \u00a350m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}