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UK government trials AI bootcamps for unemployed young people in Preston
A three-week course in a Lancashire community hub is teaching 16- to 24-year-olds AI skills, with an apprenticeship offer at the end. It's one of the first real tests of whether AI training can get young people into work rather than push them out of it.
UK Minister Says He Is Not Relaxed About AI Either
Jonathan Reynolds tells the BBC people should stay clear-eyed rather than alarmed. Workers at the TUC this week want to know what that actually means for their jobs.
UK minister tells TUC the government will take AI death warnings seriously
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell trade union leaders that ministers plan to chase AI's economic benefits while treating safety warnings from researchers as genuine obligations, not background noise.
The UK Government Has No Idea What Its Biggest Data Centres Are Actually Doing
A freedom of information request revealed that ministers cannot say who is using the UK's largest data centres or why. With AI driving a surge in electricity and water use, that gap in oversight matters.
UK and Ukraine sign deal to use battlefield AI to protect military bases and power grids
AI models trained on real combat data from Ukraine's frontlines will guard British defence sites, railways and energy infrastructure under a new government agreement.
A £5 Million AI Trial Wants to Stop Planes Drawing Heat-Trapping Lines Across the Sky
Google, the UK government and air traffic controllers are teaming up to test whether artificial intelligence can predict where contrails form, then quietly steer planes around them.
UK Government Is Sending Unemployed Young People to AI Boot Camps
A three-week training scheme will teach jobless young Britons to use artificial intelligence tools to find work. The twist: AI is also one of the main reasons those jobs are harder to find.
Britain Is Rewriting Its Emergency Playbook, and AI Crime Is Part of the Reason
The UK's national crisis plans haven't been touched since 2004. A wave of heat records and AI-powered cyber-attacks forced the government's hand.
Andy Burnham wants to abolish the UK's tech ministry. Here is why that alarms the AI industry.
The incoming prime minister has asked officials to draw up plans to scrap the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. MPs, Whitehall insiders and tech experts say the timing could hardly be worse.