Trump ban on AI access to foreign users forces Anthropic to suspend models June 13, 2026 President Trump has banned non-American nationals from accessing Anthropic’s newest AI model, forcing the company to suspend the model for all users. Anthropic, which is the maker of Claude, said the US government cited national security for its banning order before it pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from use. The decision has raised concern [...]
London Tech Week day five: A week that gave me confidence in the UK tech ecosystem June 12, 2026 From the office to the climate, the conversations at London Tech Week point in a clear direction: UK tech is moving from potential to deployment.
BGC boss warns tech giants over black market ads ahead of World Cup betting surge June 12, 2026 The boss of Britain’s gambling trade body has urged major tech platforms to crack down on illegal betting adverts ahead of what is expected to be the biggest World Cup for gambling in history. In an open letter seen by City AM, Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) chief executive Grainne Hurst warned that black market [...]
When AI’s taken all the work, what will we all do? June 12, 2026 The possible abundances of the AI-powered future mean that our lives won't be nasty, brutish and short – but will they be devoid of meaning?
Don’t ask SpaceX for projections, reach for the stars June 12, 2026 Elon Musk can’t provide concrete figures showing how much money SpaceX will make from space tourism or asteroid mining because his horizons are lightyears away, says Rainer Zitelmann In 1949, 20 years before the first moon landing, the world-famous American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein wrote the short story The Man Who Sold the [...]
KPMG report on AI found riddled with AI hallucinations June 12, 2026 A new probe into Big Four KPMG’s report on agentic AI found that the majority of its references were flawed, amid the latest news of AI-hallucinated reports published by professional services firms. The investigation, conducted by GPTZero, focused on KPMG’s October 2025 report, ‘Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI’, which summarises [...]
AI is transforming job references June 11, 2026 A startup with less than $20m just automated trust with an AI model that gathers references. Every executive should read this.
UK defence chief: Adopt AI or lose future wars June 11, 2026 Britain’s most senior military officer has warned that the UK risks losing future conflicts unless it dramatically accelerates the adoption of AI across its armed forces. Speaking at London Tech Week, chief of the defence staff Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton said AI would be as transformative for warfare as the internet was for [...]
The ‘like’ button ruined social media – are we making the same mistake with AI? June 11, 2026 The ‘like’ button was a single design choice that had profoundly harmful downstream effects. AI sycophancy could be the next one, says Annabel Gillard I’ve been working on the human impact of AI in our work and lives since 2020, but City AM asked a genuinely new question that prompted this piece. Given that we [...]
London Tech Week day three: Workers are adopting AI quicker than their bosses June 10, 2026 How is AI changing the future of the workplace? Russ Shaw reports from day three of London Tech Week.