Sunak urges UK to scrap National Insurance as AI hits young jobs
Former PM Rishi Sunak tells BBC that AI is flattening the UK youth jobs market and proposes abolishing National Insurance over time to keep hiring attractive.
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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
UK calls on AI firms to co-build national cyber defence
Security Minister Dan Jarvis is to ask AI companies to help build UK cyber defence capabilities and announce £90m for SMB cyber resilience at CYBERUK.
UK firms stuck on basic AI, £35bn growth opportunity at risk
AWS research: UK AI adoption has grown to 64% but only 24% reach advanced-use maturity — a one-point rise that risks leaving £35bn in productivity gains on the table.
UK launches £500m Sovereign AI Unit to back British startups
Tech Secretary Liz Kendall has unveiled a £500m Sovereign AI Unit investing directly in UK AI startups, with first equity ticket to Callosum and GPU access for six others.
Bank of England urges City firms to strengthen AI cyber defences
The Bank of England has summoned City firms to discuss AI-cyber risk, urging banks and payments firms to strengthen defences against Claude Mythos-class threats.
Microsoft faces £2.1bn UK cloud-licensing lawsuit after CAT ruling
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has cleared a £2.1bn mass claim against Microsoft over Windows Server cloud-licensing practices, representing nearly 60,000 UK businesses.
Sony AI's Ace robot beats elite table tennis players
Sony AI's Ace robot won three of five matches against elite table tennis players — a robotics milestone published in Nature, with pointed limits on wider usefulness.
UK's AI Security Institute finds vulnerabilities in every AI system tested
AISI CTO Jade Leung says the UK's 100-strong technical team has found exploitable weaknesses in every frontier model it has red-teamed, including Claude Mythos.
