AI minister updates guidance after ‘don’t thank ChatGPT’ advice to civil servants October 1, 2026 Britain’s AI minister has ordered changes to government guidance that urged civil servants to limit their use of AI, saying it failed to reflect ministers’ ambitions to ramp up adoption across Whitehall. Kanishka Narayan said guidance published last week had now been updated after it advised government workers to use AI only when necessary, choose [...]
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Burnham grid shake-up offers data centres escape from power queue September 30, 2026 Britain’s data centre developers could be handed a new route around years-long waits for electricity under Andy Burnham’s plan to open up the power grid to competition. The prime minister unveiled Great British Grid (GB Grid) on Tuesday, a publicly owned arm of Great British Energy that will aim to challenge existing network operators and [...]
What can steam trains teach us about progress in AI? September 30, 2026 Contrary to popular belief, Stephenson’s Rocket did not hail the dawn of the steam age. Likewise, AI has actually been in development for decades, but progress could now begin to move faster than steam trains ever could, says Paul Ormerod The economics Nobel Laureate Robert Solow famously stated in 1987: “you can see the computer [...]
Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI ‘can’t replace lived experience’ September 30, 2026 Big Four giant Deloitte’s new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm’s advisory arms return to growth. Revenue for the year ended 31 May 2026 for the UK arm was up 2 per cent to £5.81bn, with growth across all businesses. The firm’s technology and transformation arm led with 4 [...]
End the non-competes! Tech bosses warn ‘unfair’ rules are choking UK growth September 29, 2026 Some of Britain’s leading tech founders have called on the government to tear up “unfair” employment restrictions they say are choking growth and leaving UK startups struggling to compete with Silicon Valley. The bosses of Elevenlabs, Synthesia, Fuse Energy and a string of British AI startups have signed an open letter published on Tuesday demanding [...]
AI doom headlines aren’t spooking all investors September 29, 2026 Retail investors' response to AI doom headlines disproves the common notion that they move as a herd, writes Finimize CEO Carl Hazeley.
Anthropic warns investors of ‘existential risk to humanity’ in IPO pitch September 29, 2026 Anthropic has warned investors that its most advanced models could pose “existential risks to humanity” in an initial public offering pitch document that also revealed ballooning losses and surging costs at the AI juggernaut. In a prospectus published before its eagerly awaited public debut, Dario Amodei’s tech giant argued AI would transform the global economy [...]
Markets should accept cheap money isn’t coming back September 29, 2026 We are no longer living in the post-financial crisis world, and the market needs to adjust, writes Helen Thomas.
Nvidia launches AI agent safeguards alongside record buyback September 28, 2026 Nvidia has launched new safeguards designed to stop AI agents breaking out of controlled environments, after a series of security incidents have fuelled calls for tighter oversight of the technology. The chip giant said its Open Agent Safety Platform could have prevented OpenAI agents from breaching Hugging Face earlier this year, when thousands of agents [...]