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A cross-party committee of MPs and peers wants a dedicated UK AI law and a single regulator with enforcement powers. On the same day, OpenAI said it would back binding UK rules for the few companies building the most powerful AI. That includes OpenAI itself. Tom Duff Gordon is OpenAI’s head of policy for Europe, […]
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“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, the think tank Verdant published a policy […]
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London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies manage security and compliance. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the round, the company said in its funding announcement on 9 September. FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First also invested. John Daley, the chief executive, and Jack […]
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Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK institute before launch. TNW has not independently verified the report. The FT reported […]
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The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by £7.8bn to 2030. It brings the government’s civil and military space spending under one plan. The government’s announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. […]
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The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the government’s media Green Paper, which opened on 23 June. That […]
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King Charles is convening about 30 senior figures from the AI industry at a Scottish country house this month. He does not intend to tell them what he thinks. Joseph Bambridge reported the plans for Politico. Two people familiar with them spoke on condition of anonymity, because nobody has announced the event. One of them […]
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The UK minister responsible for health innovation has told MPs that public mistrust of Palantir is making patients less willing to hand their medical records to the NHS, and that the number of people formally opting out of data sharing has risen by roughly 60,000 over four months. The admission sits in a letter from […]
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The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had already been reviewed and cleared by a government department. Matt Clifford will step […]
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Uforce, the London-based drone company built from Ukrainian battlefield manufacturers, is in talks to raise about $500m at a valuation of around $5bn, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Valor Equity Partners, the firm run by SpaceX board member Antonio Gracias, would lead the round. Yazhou Sun and Rebecca Torrence cited people familiar with the matter who […]
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