Tech Now and Palantir: contrasting visions for UK tech

A medical expert who survived a near-fatal cycling accident is now testing the future of prosthetics in a new BBC iPlayer episode. Shiona McCallum meets him in Tech Now: Building My Body, which also sees Paul Carter venture inside Amazon’s AI chip lab in Austin, Texas. The human story of resilience contrasts with a corporate battle over the National Health Service. Critics are questioning how Palantir, the US data analytics company, won a showpiece NHS contract, while the company itself complains about the politicisation of procurement.