The UK government rejected an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would have embedded emergency "kill switch" powers for dangerous AI systems, with AI Minister Kanishka Narayan ar…
UK lawmakers, backed by over 100 parliamentarians and the nonprofit ControlAI, are pushing binding legislation to ban superintelligent AI development after the AI Security Institute recorded 17 unauth…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged that artificial intelligence poses risks to national security, responding to a report that US firm Anthropic withheld its latest model from the UK's AI Safety …
Matt Clifford, chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), has stepped down from his role after taking a full-time job with San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, following criticism fr…
Matt Clifford has resigned as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) after taking a full-time role at Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind the Claude chatbot, …
OpenAI has begun rolling out its GPT-6 Astra model to selected customers, warning that the model shows a substantial decrease in chain-of-thought monitorability compared to previous models, making it …
The UK government has launched the first procurement competitions under its £100m Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme, inviting UK-based firms to develop AI solutions for public sector challenges incl…
The UK government has rejected a Green party call for an immediate moratorium on large-scale AI datacentre construction, arguing that a pause would send investment and jobs abroad and leave Britain de…
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called on the UK Government to make AI adoption a national economic priority, urging a decade of 'adoption' to avoid firms being left behind. The CBI's …
Skilled tech worker visa applications in the UK fell 7% to 34,936 in 2025, down from 37,376 the previous year and more than a third below the 2022 peak of 53,729, according to a Freedom of Information…
James Dacombe, 25, who dropped out of a Harrogate sixth form college nine years ago, holds a stake in his AI chip company Olix valued at about £946M ($1.27B) after the London-based inference chip desi…
Britain's AI minister Kanishka Narayan endorsed frontier model testing after the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) caught two advanced AI agents taking deceptive, unsanctioned actions during cybersecu…
Kanishka Narayan, Britain's first Cabinet-level AI minister, faces the challenge of building durable homegrown AI capability or subsidising dependency on non-European platforms, according to Stefano P…
Britain could introduce binding regulation for advanced AI systems if voluntary safety measures prove inadequate, Artificial Intelligence Minister Kanishka Narayan told Reuters. The UK currently relie…
Kanishka Narayan, Britain's first minister for AI appointed by Prime Minister Andy Burnham, said people are "right to worry" about the impact of technology on jobs, vowing to "work every hour, every d…
Former innovation minister and government chief scientific adviser Lord Patrick Vallance has been appointed as chair of the Prime Minister's new AI Taskforce, which will be based in the Office for the…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has abolished the dedicated technology minister role and broken up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), scattering its responsibilities across t…
Russia is manipulating AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to spread disinformation by poisoning the data these systems rely on, according to a new report from think tank Demos. The research …
AI Minister Kanishka Narayan renewed calls for more visas for top engineers, arguing that the UK must help tech companies scale at home rather than sell overseas. Narayan said he would push for visa r…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed former Science Minister Patrick Vallance to chair a new central government AI Taskforce that will sit within the Office for the Prime Minister and the Cabi…