AI News — Page 14
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Burnham moves to abolish DSIT as tech sector revolts
Andy Burnham has asked officials to draw up plans to abolish the science and technology department, drawing warnings from techUK and the Startup Coalition.
Staffordshire targets £2bn AI boost to county economy
Staffordshire County Council has set out plans for AI to add around £2bn to the county's economy by 2030 through SME support and skills programmes.
UK finance chiefs turn sharply more optimistic on AI
Deloitte's quarterly survey finds 73% of UK chief financial officers now expect AI to improve business performance, up from 39% two years ago.
Meta in talks to lease $10bn of compute to Anthropic
Meta is discussing leasing computing power to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years, marking a shift into infrastructure sales.
Labour's AI tsar warns middle classes face biggest hit
Simon Johnson, chair of the government's AI Economics Institute, warns AI could push 10-20% of UK workers out of good jobs and sharpen inequality quickly.
UK researcher backdoors an open AI model for under £75
Manchester Metropolitan's Katie Paxton-Fear implanted a backdoor in an open-weight model in about an hour for under £75 ($100), using ten training examples.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro slips months behind schedule
Bloomberg reports Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro is months late as coding performance falls short of internal goals, with Alphabet shares dipping nearly 3%.