UK government department responsible for science, technology and digital policy, including AI safety, telecoms, and data regulation.
The tenth annual Cyber Readiness Report surveyed nearly 7,000 smaller businesses, 1,000 of them in the UK, and Britain came out with the highest successful-attack rate of any market in the study, at an average $35,908 per incident.
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Ministers explored forcing the largest AI companies to submit products for safety testing before launch. The plans lapsed with Starmer's premiership, and the department that was writing them has since been abolished.
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The AI Security Institute employs more than 100 technical specialists and cannot compel a single submission, so when US-vetted bodies saw the model first, Britain's only available lever was a statement about close collaboration.
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The East Havering application concedes non-alignment with net zero by 2050 while projecting more than 72m tonnes of CO2e over 60 years. The conflict is now on the record.
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Medly AI's $8m seed took the headlines. The government research contract running to 31 March 2027 is the document edtech product teams should actually read.
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