AI News — Page 17
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Nobel laureates urge urgent action on AI's economic impact
More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and staff at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, urge urgent action on AI's economic impact.
Barnsley's £800k AI skills fund opens for applications
The government's £800,000 AI Upskilling Challenge Fund opens on 15 July, offering training grants in Barnsley intended as a national blueprint for AI skills.
Nscale's £2bn UK data centre stalled by grid delays
Nscale has been told the grid cannot power its £2bn Essex AI data centre in time, forcing it towards gas fuel cells as connection backlogs bite across Britain.
Reeves to launch City 'skills compact' for the AI era
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce a financial services skills compact committing City firms to retrain thousands of UK staff for AI, covering some 500,000 workers.
KPMG finds firms rushing into AI but unable to prove value
KPMG's Q2 2026 AI Pulse finds adoption accelerating even as almost half of businesses pause or scale back projects after deciding the cost outweighed the value.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work targets the office agent market
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an agent that fuses its chatbot with its Codex coding tool, in a direct challenge to Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Microsoft Copilot.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 with three tiers and Copilot deal
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 across ChatGPT, Codex and its API in three priced tiers, and made it the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day.
