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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Trump rejects UK plea for exemption from Anthropic AI ban
Washington has rebuffed Downing Street's request for a carve-out from the Anthropic export ban, even as a Monday meeting and an industry letter pile on pressure to lift it.
Ex-KPMG audit head backs £10m round for AI audit firm
Audit AI startup Cortea has raised £10.3m (€12m) to expand into the UK, with Dawn Capital and KPMG's former global audit head among the backers.
Starmer seeks UK carve-out from US Anthropic AI ban
Downing Street is lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic's top models after a US export order locked out all foreign nationals.
AI coding boom outruns banks' testing, expert warns
AI-generated code is flooding banks faster than they can verify it, creating an operational resilience risk as testing capacity fails to keep pace.
Most UK insurers now run AI, but execution gap widens
More than half of UK insurers have embedded AI in core functions, but a gap between ambition and operational scale is becoming the industry's main challenge.
UK firms embrace AI but managers lack skills, CMI warns
A Chartered Management Institute study of 1,000 UK managers finds only 5% report transformational AI gains, with most firms stuck in the pilot phase.