The new Labour government has shelved 1.3bn of funding pledged by the Conservatives for technology and artificial intelligence projects, putting the future of the UK's first next-generation supercomputer in doubt. The projects, announced last year, include 800m for the creation of an exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh and a further 500m for the AI Research Resource, which funds computing power for AI. The government argues that these were "unfunded commitments". The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said the funding had been promised by the previous government but had not been allocated in its spending plans. A spokesperson said: "We are absolutely committed to building technology infrastructure that delivers growth and opportunity for people across the UK. "The government is taking difficult and necessary spending decisions across all departments in the face of billions of pounds of unfunded commitments.