Prime Minister Andy Burnham is loosening the state pension triple lock as 10-year gilt yields sit above 5%, with savings of 15 billion pounds a year by 2040. None of that money reaches borrowing before the next election, so gilt holders are being handed a promise about spending in the 2040s.
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- Evidence45
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- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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- Evidence50
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- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
British police arrested five men over a suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford, the airfield US bombers use to strike Iran. Reports split on a Tehran motive, while a UAE presidential adviser says Iran's attacks have made US bases more important to Gulf hosts.
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The National Centre for Information Defence is meant to detect, attribute and disrupt foreign information attacks. The evidence Burnham cited includes Russian forgery of the branding of 28 British organisations.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Their first face-to-face meeting produced warm words and three live splits. The one with a written requirement behind it is a Finnish and Norwegian plan, backed by more than 20 countries, to gate model launches on safety testing.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
The leaders of Australia, Canada, Germany, the EU, Bahrain and Singapore have signed Finland's call for compulsory pre-release testing of frontier models. The UK has not, and its offer at the UN is a defence AI partnership with Washington.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
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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- Evidence58
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
Jack Thorne, president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, told a London audience that some screenwriters are using prompts instead of writing, and he wants employers able to prosecute those who do not declare it.
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- Incentives72
- Confidence55
The two-hour cap and overnight notification blocks were written to end a US trial, and the UK's work and pensions secretary now expects them in Britain as a matter of course. That is how a settlement becomes a spec.
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- Evidence54
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives71
- Confidence49
No 10: Full Confidence is one Manchester developer's library of more than 300 written political crises, and it is ranking above Monopoly Go in the UK. Timeliness did the distribution work.
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- Adoption48
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- Confidence46