AI News — Page 29
The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Aviva detects record £233m in fraud as AI scams rise
Aviva flagged a record £233m in suspect claims in 2025 as fraudsters used AI to fake accidents and documents, prompting the insurer to deploy AI in defence.
Labour unveils AI bootcamps to protect young workers
Liz Kendall has launched AI bootcamps, a £20m jobs alliance and tech training for 400,000 pupils, pledging to make AI 'work for workers' at London Tech Week.
505,000 NHS staff to get Microsoft Copilot to cut admin
NHS England will give 505,000 staff Microsoft 365 Copilot after a trial found it saved 43 minutes a day, with full rollout expected by October 2026.
UK confirms £1.1bn plan to back British AI chips and compute
Liz Kendall has unveiled a £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan: a £750m national supercomputer, advance chip purchases and a record British Business Bank fund to secure UK AI sovereignty.
AI firms take record London office space in 2026
AI companies signed for a record 565,000 sq ft of London office space in early 2026, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Synthesia driving demand, JLL data shows.
NHS trials AI and genomics for safer blood matching
NHS Blood and Transplant has begun a 12-month study of bloodMatcher, an AI tool using genomic data to better match blood for sickle cell patients.
AI could collapse the welfare state, minister warns
Treasury minister Darren Jones warns the UK benefits bill could become unaffordable within a decade if AI puts millions out of work and concentrates wealth.
Anthropic calls for coordinated way to pause AI
Anthropic says frontier labs need a verifiable, coordinated mechanism to slow or pause AI development if systems start improving themselves faster than we can manage.
Cambridge trials 'world-first' AI-designed vaccine
Cambridge researchers have trialled in humans a vaccine whose key component was designed entirely by AI, aiming to protect against whole families of coronaviruses.
