A taskforce including Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco wants a compact setting out what communities get for hosting datacentres. Chapelcross and Loughton show money is not the only thing blocking sites, and England has already promised host councils their growth-zone business rates.
Britain’s security establishment spent the week lining up against frontier AI. MI5 revealed an AI Threat Assessment Centre, the AI minister said a Medicare-style breach of UK systems “seems likely”...
Google DeepMind's Thor Schaeff demonstrates designing a voice from a text prompt, replicating his own voice in Google AI Studio and generating a two-host podcast through the Gemini API.
Anthropic's launch clip introduces Claude Duet, an app that brings you what needs your attention, keeps working after you put your phone down and checks with you before acting on your behalf.
A Wiz researcher explains how Gemini 4 Argon found over twice as many vulnerabilities as baseline models in shadow testing, including a master key exposed in healthcare software.
An essay in the Lowy Institute's Interpreter argues that regional coalitions, not global summits, are the realistic route to binding AI rules. Set beside the G20's light-touch consensus, the EU's deferred high-risk rules and the UK's missing AI bill, that argument leaves Britain with an open question.
The CMA's proposed strategic market status for Microsoft is one stage in a process measured in quarters, not weeks. We set out the dates, the Google precedent and what the Copilot inquiry could change for UK buyers.
Anthropic's study of its own workforce shows junior technical hiring shrinking as AI agents take on implementation work. UK vacancy and employer data show where the same pressure is visible, and where it is not yet.
