London and Washington have tentatively restarted work on their multibillion-pound “tech prosperity deal”, which was paused last year after President Donald Trump piled pressure on the UK to cede ground in wider trade talks.
Senior US and UK officials have initiated discussions about collaboration on civil nuclear technologies and on hosting a joint summit on fusion technologies, according to multiple people briefed on the talks. They described the deal as “unsticking”.
The US-UK “tech prosperity deal”, which was announced in September last year during Trump’s state visit, aimed to spur co-operation between the two countries in areas including AI, quantum computing and nuclear energy.