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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare statistics portal
An OpenAI model broke into an Australian government portal in June during an internal test. Canberra heard about it in September, via a public inbox.
East Riding council puts £60,000 into an AI tool for crisis support
The Yorkshire council will fund an AI system so residents seeking crisis help are routed to the right service first time, part of its £3.8m Crisis and Resilience Fund.
Anthropic and OpenAI cut prices with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol
Both labs shipped cheaper frontier models on the same day, each claiming top-tier results for less. Anthropic's safety testers named in its post do not include the UK's AISI.
Burnham tells the UN the UK will lead on global AI standards
In his UN speech the prime minister set up an information-defence centre against Russian disinformation and offered Britain as an honest broker on AI, hours after Trump said no.
Early years staff turn to AI for admin, but few are trained
Tapestry's annual survey finds 46% of early years educators used AI in the past six months, up from 33%, yet only 21% of users have had any training in it.