First Secretary Louise Haigh warned at the TUC congress in Brighton that artificial intelligence poses "huge risks" to national security and society unless proper guardrails are put in place, saying t…
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell the TUC annual congress in Brighton on Tuesday that the UK Government will "heed the warnings" of AI experts about the technology's risks while pursuing its pote…
A report by environmental thinktank Verdant estimates UK data centres will create only 10,400 permanent jobs by 2035, about 25% of the 40,000 forecast by trade body techUK, and finds existing faciliti…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned that a bursting of the AI 'bubble' could trigger a global economic crash, citing risks from high leverage, market concentration, and cross-investment betw…
A study by The University of Manchester and The University of Edinburgh warns that Labour's AI plans risk worsening UK inequalities, with AI adoption concentrated in London and the South East and amon…
James Dacombe, a 25-year-old sixth-form dropout from Harrogate, is set to become Britain's newest billionaire after his AI chip company Olix was valued at $3.3 billion (£2.5 billion) following a $312 …
Andy Burnham became Prime Minister of the UK on 20 July 2026, succeeding Sir Keir Starmer, with pre-transition briefings indicating a strong focus on AI, including plans for a dedicated AI Minister an…
Researchers extended PubHealthBench, a public health QA benchmark, into a retrieval-augmented setting and found that hybrid retrieval consistently improves recall and ranking quality. Providing retrie…
The UK Government's AI Safety Institute has merged the open-source AgentThreatBench benchmark into its official inspect_evals framework, which is used to evaluate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthr…