#UK AI policy
6 stories taggedUK AI policy.
King Charles Pressed Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic Leaders on AI Safety at a Private Scotland Summit
The British monarch hosted a private gathering on September 18 to push some of the most powerful figures in AI toward shared safety principles. Regulators are divided, the technology is moving fast, and a royal summit cannot close that gap on its own.
The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.
Chinese AI models are arriving fast, free, and competitive with the most expensive US systems. What that means for the global tech race, and what Britain might learn from it.
Scottish MPs Want to Pause AI Data Centre Building. Here's Why It Matters.
The SNP and Scottish Greens are backing a freeze on new AI data centres across the UK, where around 450 already exist. The political fight is sharpening fast.
UK's Former AI Strategy Chief Joins Anthropic in Senior Role
Matt Clifford, the tech investor who shaped Britain's artificial intelligence policy under two prime ministers, has taken a senior position at the US company behind the Claude AI assistant.
The Data Centre Dilemma: How AI's Hunger for Power Is Reshaping British Towns
The UK government wants three times as many data centres. In Slough, locals are already living next to metal-clad giants that drink water and burn electricity at a scale that rivals whole neighbourhoods.
Smart lamp-posts that recognise your face: should you be worried?
A Warwickshire company is fitting street lights with AI cameras, solar panels and number-plate readers. Civil liberties groups say Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance network nobody voted for.