Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has made millions of drone flight data points available to over 100 companies and the UK government, creating a regulation-free marketplace for AI training data from the …
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 House of Lords proposals to bring AI vendors within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, with Cybersecurity Minister Ba…
Zack Polanski of the UK's Green Party has called on the government to pause data center construction, citing environmental and societal impacts, as the Labour government aggressively courts energy- an…
Andy Burnham has signed a landmark military AI deal with Ukraine, making Britain the first international partner to access Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs database, with the first trial technology to be ro…
Businesses invested more than £11 billion in UK data centres in 2025, driven by AI demand, with NVIDIA planning up to £11 billion in 'AI factories' and up to 120,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, Microsoft co…
Microsoft made passkeys the default sign-in method in Entra ID in September, forcing millions of tenants to migrate, while Entrust recorded one deepfake identity attack every five minutes—a 2000% surg…
The UK government announced a £1.1 billion ($1.47 billion) AI Hardware Plan on June 8 during London Tech Week, aiming to build a domestic AI chip sector and capture 5% of the projected $1 trillion glo…
The UK government is urgently assessing the economic impact of losing access to frontier AI models after Donald Trump blocked foreign nationals from using Anthropic's Fable 5, according to the Financi…
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…
Weakening UK electric vehicle targets could cost consumers £3 billion a year by 2030, require importing an extra 17 million barrels of oil, and add 2.5% to national emissions, according to Carbon Brie…
The UK government announced on August 12, 2026, plans to introduce legislation regulating AI's role in gene synthesis, shifting from voluntary guidelines to mandatory biosecurity rules. The move, anno…
The UK government's AI and Data Readiness team has developed 'Project Kestrel', an end-to-end prototype that uses OpenAI large language models to generate 'synthetic emails' for training an email-sort…
Graduate job vacancies in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since 2020, with Indeed reporting a 7% year-on-year decline, while AI skills demand reached a record high, appearing in 9.4% of UK jo…
The UK government has signaled it will introduce binding AI regulation if voluntary safeguards fail, a stance between the EU's AI Act and the US's laissez-faire approach. The government has allocated …
Two years after the UK government published its AI whitepaper, no binding legislation has been enacted, leaving the promised regulatory framework unrealized. The whitepaper, released in March 2023, pr…
Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, proposed requiring data centres to post refundable deposits potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars before reserving grid capacity, aiming to curb speculative…
Ajinomoto, a Japanese food company best known for MSG, controls over 95% of the Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) used as a dielectric layer in every high-performance CPU and GPU, making it a critical but…
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…
The growing use of AI in warfare poses a much bigger threat to the UK than advances in frontier AI models, experts Nicholas Fairfax and Max Rangeley told City AM, warning that AI could enable small ac…