🇬🇧 UK–US Ink Huge Tech Pact
During Trump’s London stopover, the UK and US hammered out what’s shaping up to be a monster tech deal - covering AI, semiconductors, telecoms, and even quantum. Big names like Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are expected to join discussions.
Oh, and BlackRock is throwing around about $700m into British data centres as part of the setup, which smells a lot like groundwork for a sovereign AI strategy.
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🏗️ Nvidia + OpenAI Go Heavy in the UK
Fresh reports suggest Nvidia and OpenAI are teaming up on hefty AI infrastructure builds across Britain. Think massive compute clusters, chip pipelines - the whole skeleton of AI.
It’s sold as ensuring “sovereign AI capacity”… though, if Nvidia calls the shots, the word sovereign feels a bit slippery.
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🧪 Meta Quietly Spawns “Superintelligence Lab”
Meta finally admitted it’s running a new lab aimed at chasing “superintelligent” AI. Internally it’s being called TBD Lab. Small footprint now, but clearly positioned for the frontier-model race.
It’s a double play: catch up with OpenAI/Anthropic and convince investors Meta’s not sitting idle. Eyebrows definitely raised.
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👥 UK Workers Quietly Lean on AI
According to The Guardian, about a third of British workers admit they’re sneaking AI into their workflow without telling the boss. Over half also fear it’s reshaping society in ways that don’t look great.
The kicker? Most still don’t trust AI to replace actual human connection. People use it, but kinda side-eye it at the same time.
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🔐 Cybersecurity on Edge: AI-Tailored Attacks
Security experts are warning: AI might soon tailor zero-day exploits at individual victims instead of broad swathes. Personalized cyberattacks, basically.
Which makes AI-driven defense less of a “nice to have” and more of a “humans literally can’t keep up without it” situation.
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🏦 Even Central Bankers Using Copilot
Turns out the Bank of England’s governor has been using AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot to help draft or polish his speeches. Handy shortcut, sure… but some critics are uneasy about national economic policy being shaped through autocomplete.
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