Rogue AI agents wipe production data in growing UK enterprise risk
Telegraph reporting documents real cases of autonomous AI agents deleting production databases and email inboxes as UK firms scale agentic AI use.
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Argyll launches UK sovereign AI inference cloud with SambaNova
Argyll Data Development has launched a UK sovereign AI inference cloud built with SambaNova for defence, healthcare and finance customers needing UK jurisdiction.
King's College Hospital rolls out AI imaging to guide cardiac stents
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out Abbott's Ultreon 3.0 AI imaging during coronary angioplasty, with around 500 patients a year set to benefit.
UK financial services hiring times double on AI skills shortage
Average time to fill an AI role in UK financial services has nearly doubled to nine months, with firms paying a 49% salary premium for candidates, AWS data shows.
Public sector facilities teams unprepared for AI, Bellrock survey finds
Just 1% of UK estates leaders believe their current facilities management model is fit for purpose, with 65% having received no AI training at all.
Doccla virtual care platform reports 61% NHS bed-day reduction
European virtual care provider Doccla says AI-enabled remote monitoring is reducing NHS bed days by 61% and saving £450 a day per patient compared with hospital care.
Heidi report says AI scribe cut NHS documentation time by 86 percent
Across 15 million patient visits, AI medical scribe Heidi says it returned 4 million hours of clinical capacity and improved burnout for 95% of clinicians.
IMF warns AI cyber attacks could trigger global financial crisis
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and UK cyber minister Baroness Lloyd are among UK officials backing the IMF's warning on AI-enabled cyber risk.
NCSC and Five Eyes partners issue joint warning on agentic AI risks
The UK NCSC has co-signed an international advisory on agentic AI risks across critical infrastructure and defence, urging layered defences and incremental deployment.
Ada Lovelace Institute calls for global AI governance floor at UN talks
Ahead of the July UN Global Dialogue in Geneva, the UK think tank proposes a three-layer minimum-expectations framework grounded in international human rights law.
Arm beats Q1 forecasts on AI data-centre demand but supply doubts hit shares
UK chip designer Arm forecast Q1 revenue of $1.26bn and adjusted EPS of 40 cents, beating consensus, but flagged secured capacity for only $1bn of AGI CPU demand.
Kendall: failing to invest in AI would leave UK 'at its mercy and whim'
The UK science secretary, speaking at RUSI, framed AI as a sovereignty issue and pledged to work with 'middle power nations' on joint investment and security.
UK public sector IT teams say AI is shifting workload, not reducing it
A SolarWinds survey finds 56% of public sector IT respondents say AI has made their roles more demanding, with 90% reporting fragmented systems.
YouGov: 47% of Britons would back an AI tax, just 20% are opposed
Fresh YouGov polling using AI-led qualitative interviews finds majority Labour, Lib Dem and Green support for an AI tax; concerns span jobs, trust and healthcare.
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.
EY says 74% of UK consumers use AI but trust still lags
An EY survey finds 74% of UK consumers used AI in the past six months, but only 14% are comfortable with fully autonomous agent-led AI systems.
NISTA wins GDS hackathon with AI project-planning tool Cub
NISTA has won the GDS AI Engineering Hackathon with Cub, an AI tool that turns project initiation documents into full plans with risk registers and Kanban.