Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to …
Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity respo…
The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update …
OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastr…
The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock d…
Researchers say babies and toddlers under two should avoid regular screen time, warning that phones and tablets can displace play, sleep, language exposure, and caregiver interaction.
Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% sma…
Bristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised £23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems £23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise clea…
Ministers are considering rules that would make BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 content easier to find on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, as more Britons get their news from feeds. Britain’s culture department said on Monday that it is considering requiring soc…
When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on how much any one person could hold, conservative rules on what the coins could be backed by: critics said the regime would …