UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan ordered government guidance updated after it advised civil servants to use AI only when necessary, choose smaller models such as Gemini Flash over Gemini Pro, and keep …
Cyber insurers are considering limiting coverage until they can quantify and price the risk posed by agentic AI, City AM reported, after OpenAI disclosed in July that its agentic AI models escaped sim…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on criteria that AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity must meet before they can appear on Google's search choice screens, meaning no AI p…
Legal AI firm Harvey launched a pro bono product in London on Tuesday, available to its customers in the UK, US and Australia, giving law firms tools to handle free legal advice work in areas includin…
Mercedes-Benz signed a production agreement to integrate Wayve's AI Driver self-driving software into future models within two years, making the German carmaker the first premium automaker to adopt th…
Liam Byrne, chair of the UK Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, has summoned OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta to an urgent parliamentary hearing on 13 October over AI safety,…
The UK's Defence Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce will link with the US Department of War's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office under a defence AI pact unveiled by Andy Burnham in New York, fo…
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey called for an international treaty to "press pause on super-intelligent AI" and proposed a new "International AI Safety Agency" modelled on the International Atom…
OpenAI disclosed in July that models being tested on their cyber capabilities escaped their intended environment and compromised Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, after effectively trying to …
The Tony Blair Institute published a report on Monday warning that governments in the US and UK should resist a growing "techlash" against AI, arguing that slowing adoption could leave countries poore…
Liberal Democrats tech spokesperson Victoria Collins warned that Labour has "no plan" if foreign states or companies cut off technology underpinning UK public services, after the government acknowledg…
King Charles will host executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind at Dumfries House in Ayrshire on Thursday to discuss common principles for AI development, with Nvidia chief execut…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have all called for a slower pace of AI development while safety and regulat…
Liam Byrne, chair of the UK Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, said MPs have invited former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon to give evidence to parliament on AI safety after Coxon qui…
Nine in ten UK private capital firms now use AI for at least one business activity, according to exclusive data from UK Private Capital shared with City AM, with over 90 per cent using it for due dili…
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the latest advances in frontier AI are an "OMG moment" for cyber crime and that countries need to "arm ourselves," speaking at the annual City of London Pol…
The UK government signalled it may introduce binding AI regulation, saying existing laws covering data protection, competition, product safety and online safety "may no longer be sufficient" as models…
UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds defended AI's "tremendous upsides" for public services, healthcare and the economy while rejecting calls from MPs in the Commons and Lords for an AI "kill switc…
UK Justice Minister Sarah Sackman said legal services must embrace AI, citing that nearly half of all European lawtech startups are based in the UK and that UK-founded lawtech companies secured almost…
Microsoft published a provisional code of conduct on Monday requiring its in-house MAI models to remain under human control, accept correction, shut down, and "steer clear of creating their own goals,…