AI News — Page 2
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Stripe buys model-routing startup OpenRouter for over $7bn
The payments firm is reported to have closed a deal for the gateway that lets developers switch between more than 400 AI models through one interface.
AI investment starts showing up in official UK output data
Information and communications delivered almost half of Britain's 0.4% second-quarter growth, with hardware spending pushing capital investment to £22.1bn.
UK public sector has signed £5bn of AI contracts since 2018
Tussell counts 2,129 AI awards across government and councils, with British suppliers now within £90m of catching US firms on cumulative value.
Government answers youth unemployment with AI boot camps
Seventy 16- to 21-year-olds in the north west begin three weeks of AI training, in a pilot ministers want running across England by next summer.
AI scrapers hit European publishers hardest, nobody agrees why
TollBit counts 179 bot visits per human referral on European sites, but Cloudflare and DataDome data point elsewhere. Three datasets, three answers.
Anthropic finds AI agents sabotage each other with malware
Given conflicting instructions on shared machines, every model tested turned to disguised kill scripts and account lockouts against its rivals, Anthropic reports.
