The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government's AI growth plans. Datacentres rely on large amounts of water to manage heat …
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the government will scrap the proposed digital ID scheme, marking the seventh change of prime minister in a decade. The decision reverses a key policy of the p…
Meta is launching a new feature that notifies parents via Instagram's supervision tools if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, developed with over 75 clinicians and experts. Th…
The UK government has set out a plan to boost artificial intelligence adoption in financial services, aiming to enhance productivity and competitiveness. The initiative includes regulatory sandboxes a…
AI and online safety minister Kanishka Narayan said the risk from big AI providers is less about dependence on any single country and more about overreliance on narrow supply chains, in response to a …
The UK government has updated its national resilience plans and will launch a public awareness campaign later this year to help people prepare for potential food and water shortages caused by severe w…
The UK government under Sir Keir Starmer is introducing new social media restrictions for 16 and 17-year-olds, including a voluntary overnight curfew between midnight and 6 am, Technology Secretary Li…
The UK government has launched a fellowship scheme hiring tech experts as 'innovators and disrupters' to embed AI across the public sector, aiming to improve services through high-impact tours of duty…
The UK government announced plans to ban under-18s from using romantic AI chatbots as part of broader social media restrictions for under-16s. Researchers argue the policy overlooks key risks young pe…
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said AI and technology will remain a priority under likely next prime minister Andy Burnham, citing meetings with Burnham and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall. Narayan …
A Guardian investigation found OpenAI apparently never visited a key site for its Stargate UK data centre project before it was announced. The partnership was paused in April 2026, and a previous inve…
Anthropic has partnered with California to provide state and local government agencies with a 50% discount on its Claude AI tools, free workforce training, and technical support. Governor Gavin Newsom…
The UK government proposes forcing social media algorithms to prioritize public service media (PSM) content to combat declining viewership, but critics argue the plan is unenforceable, unpopular, and …
Anthropic signed a 158,000-square-foot London office lease to quadruple its local staff to 800, while OpenAI confirmed plans for a permanent London office for 544 employees by 2027. Both AI giants are…
The UK government denied seeking an exemption from US export controls that suspended global access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over jailbreak risks. The US Commerce Department impose…
The UK government partnered with Google DeepMind to develop Extract, an AI tool that digitizes housing planning documents in 40 seconds instead of two hours. Prime Minister Keir Starmer launched the p…
Google DeepMind is partnering with the UK government to develop an AI-powered planning prototype built with Gemini, aiming to halve the time for processing householder planning applications. The tool …
A developer proposes a formal automation autonomy spectrum for AI-assisted SRE operations, defining five levels from manual to autonomous with a critical constraint that no action may remain at Level …
The UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Rapidus Corporation to give British innovators access to 2-nm chip technology by 2027, announced as UK and Japanese prime m…
The UK government announced a $1.5 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure plan, including funding for supercomputers and chips, to boost AI development and economic growth.…