AI startup boss warns UK cannot become ‘dependent’ on overseas tech Tech UK AI infrastructure company Valarian has raised $50m (£37m) in fresh funding as its boss said countries should focus on controlling AI infrastructure rather than competing to build their own frontier models. The Series A round, led by Silicon Valley investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA), takes the London firm’s total funding to $70m and marks [...]
Trump to reject UK plea over Anthropic ban as AI ‘kill switch’ fears grow Tech The White House is poised to reject Keir Starmer’s attempt to restore British access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, in a move that has exposed how dependent the UK has become on a handful of American Big Techs. Downing Street has spent recent days lobbying Washington for an exemption after the Trump administration blocked [...]
Google hit with UK-first AI crackdown over publisher content Tech Google will be forced to give publishers greater control over how their content is used in AI-generated search results after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) unveiled what it described as a “world-first” intervention aimed at re-balancing power between Big Tech and content creators. The move comes as publishers increasingly complain that Google’s AI Overviews [...]
Meta spies on workers’ every click to build the AI that will replace them April 22, 2026 Meta will be installing tracking software on its employees’ computers to capture their every keystroke and mouse movement, using the data to train the very AI models the company hopes will one day do workers’ jobs for them. According to Reuters, Meta confirmed the programme – known as the Model Capability Initiative – (MC) in [...]