Anthropic's first standalone European consultancy, backed by UK buyout group Hg, will embed AI engineers in firms and compete with Accenture and the Big Four.

Policy simulations by Ed Balls and two former civil servants find generative AI good at summaries but prone to bland, spin-led proposals, the FT reports.

Junior minister Liz Lloyd told MPs the datacentre, telecoms and energy split across departments is clear for business, and recast the £45bn tech figure.

Most UK financial services leaders in a KPMG survey think AI will change the industry more than 1986's Big Bang, with 88% expecting benefits across the UK.

The new AI Biosecurity Lab pairs £100m of public money with up to £200m in OpenAI and Anthropic credits to detect biological threats and speed countermeasures.

Councils, schools and police forces report more long, inaccurate complaints written with AI, adding to backlogs that also hold up genuine UK grievances.

Nikhil Rathi told the City Dinner that UK institutions lag fast-moving AI, that agents will reach UK consumers soon and that the FCA will use its powers harder.

Axel Springer has begun redundancies at the Telegraph, saying the title will rely more on technology, data and AI as it builds a global premium media business.

The AI Security Institute's report on its Mythos 5 incident finds motivated-looking reasoning that could fool monitors; Anthropic has published its own review.

OpenAI has rebuilt containment for frontier model training, using an offline copy of the web and its strongest agents as red-teamers before resuming runs.

Councillors in Canterbury approved a brownfield AI data centre by Era4, formerly Carbon3.AI, after a debate over its closed-loop cooling and daily water use.

Budget AI package funds AISI, agentic cyber defence, chip-design skills, local AI partnerships and £10m a year of research on jobs.