Nobel laureates urge urgent action on AI's economic impact
More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and staff at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, urge urgent action on AI's economic impact.
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King's Cross AI boom reopens Britain's 'sovereignty' debate
US export curbs on Anthropic's top models have reignited the debate over whether Britain can build sovereign AI, even as US giants pack into London's King's Cross.
UK backs Oxford and UCL labs to make AI cheaper to run
Two government-backed labs will share up to £60m to build open-source AI that runs on ordinary hardware, part of a £1.6bn UKRI strategy.
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.
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.
Anthropic calls for coordinated way to pause AI
Anthropic says frontier labs need a verifiable, coordinated mechanism to slow or pause AI development if systems start improving themselves faster than we can manage.
UK asks firms to share data on how AI is reshaping jobs
The government wants companies to join an AI adoption insights agreement, feeding anonymised workforce data to a new AI Economics Institute.
Give workers more say over AI, UK thinktank urges
A TUC-backed IPPR report calls for a statutory duty to consult staff on AI adoption, warning the benefits will not be shared fairly without worker power.
AISI partners with Microsoft on frontier AI safety evaluation
The UK AI Security Institute has signed a partnership with Microsoft on high-risk capability evaluation, safeguard testing and societal-resilience research.
White House weighs pre-release vetting for new AI models
Trump is reportedly considering an executive order creating a formal AI model review group, prompted by Anthropic's Mythos cyber capability.
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.
US and Europe Race to Roll Back AI Regulations
Both the EU and US are retreating from AI oversight as tech giants invest hundreds of billions in development, with proposed US legislation threatening to block state-level regulation entirely.