NCSC warns UK organisations to prepare for AI-driven patch wave
UK NCSC says AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and a 'forced correction' patch wave is coming, urging perimeter hardening and update-by-default.
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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Rigby Group chief: UK AI strategy 'disjointed' as 1.6→6GW data centre target stalls
Rigby Group CEO Steve Rigby says UK AI sovereignty is constrained by power grid bottleneck, not capital, and policy must move beyond departmental silos.
UK biometrics watchdogs warn police AI oversight is years behind rollout
Met scans 1.7M faces in 2026 (+87%) as commissioners say facial recognition law is at least three years away and Police.AI rollout outpaces regulation.
Only 10% of UK small businesses give staff AI security training, survey finds
MoneySuperMarket survey of 250 UK SMBs reveals 44% worry AI exposes them to cyber threats but few invest in formal training; Scotland leads adoption.
Cerebras targets £85-£93 ($115-$125) IPO share price, valuing chipmaker at £29bn
Nvidia rival Cerebras files for second IPO attempt with $4bn raise targeted; revenue jumped to $510m in 2025 from $290m in 2024.
AISI: GPT-5.5 matches Anthropic Mythos on offensive cyber tasks
UK AI Safety Institute says GPT-5.5 hit 71.4% on Expert-tier cyber tasks and completed its 32-step corporate-network attack range — second model to do so after Mythos.
System C ambient-AI tool deployed across 15 councils, lifting assessment capacity 40%
System C's FormFlow Assistant is in 15 English council adult-social-care teams and reports 68% documentation efficiency gain and 40% end-to-end assessment uplift.
47% of UK job seekers have had an AI interview; 30% walked away from one
Greenhouse survey of 1,132 UK candidates shows AI interviews now standard at the top of the funnel — and a third of UK applicants have abandoned a hiring process because of one.
Made Smarter ships Cheshire AI toolkit with Scan-Pilot-Scale framework for SME factories
Government-backed Made Smarter North West and DBT's AI Champion publish a SME manufacturing AI toolkit centred on a Scan-Pilot-Scale adoption pathway.
Anthropic Mythos found thousands of zero-days; White House blocks expansion
Anthropic's Mythos cyber model has surfaced thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw. The White House opposes broader rollout.