Gartner predicts 70% of 2026 AI-led mainframe exit projects will fail
Analyst firm warns generative AI cannot deliver promised legacy code conversion, with 75% of mainframe-exit vendors expected to pivot or disappear by 2030.
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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Bank replaces 12-person QA team with AI and books $6m loss from zero-price bug
A financial firm that disbanded its QA department for automated testing lost roughly $6m after an erroneous discount code pushed product prices to zero.
Iceland deploys invent.ai across 1,000+ UK stores for stock availability
Frozen food chain replaces traditional forecasting with AI-driven replenishment covering more than 1,000 UK stores and online grocery operations.
MoJ pilots Justice Transcribe for family courts as lawyers call for child safeguards
Ministry of Justice tests in-house AI against accuracy, cost and safeguarding thresholds, with Law Society pushing retained audio and bias evaluation.
DfT publishes bias-mitigation design for Gemini-based consultation analysis tool
Alan Turing Institute report shows how DfT's Consultation Analysis Tool uses LLM-as-a-judge, human review and explicit demographic safeguards.
MPs told UK has 'outsourced' AI to US billionaires as China positions as responsible actor
Commons business and trade committee hears UK AI development is dominated by US hyperscalers while Beijing backs global governance talks.
Bank of England's Bailey names Anthropic's Mythos as cyber risk to financial system
BoE Governor Andrew Bailey tells Columbia audience regulators must urgently understand whether Mythos can identify exploitable vulnerabilities in banking systems.
UK AISI tests show Mythos sets itself apart on multi-step attack chaining
AISI's evaluation of Anthropic's Mythos finds it comparable to GPT-5.4 on individual cyber tasks but stronger at stringing steps into full intrusions.
Anthropic adds Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to board as Trust-appointed majority
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan, taking Trust-appointed directors to a majority and deepening the lab's life-sciences ties.
Tesco deepens AI personalisation deal with Adobe, targeting Clubcard data
UK's largest grocer pairs Adobe's AI with Clubcard data covering 24 million households to accelerate personalised marketing ahead of Thursday's annual results.
LLMs fail 80%+ of differential diagnoses when patient data is incomplete, JAMA study finds
Mass General Brigham evaluation of 21 leading AI models finds failure rates above 80% at the open-ended start of clinical reasoning, with NHS-relevant implications.
Lloyds adds AI 'board bot' to reduce bias in executive decision-making
Lloyds Banking Group deploys Board Intelligence's AI agent in its boardroom to help directors prepare for meetings and reduce human bias in decisions.
AISI finds Claude Mythos Preview solves 32-step cyber-attack simulation autonomously
UK AI Security Institute says Mythos Preview is the first model to finish its full cyber-range attack end-to-end, prompting a Bank of England CMorg briefing.
