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Mozilla says Microsoft is abusing its dominant position wherever it can, including the US, UK, and India.

UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release

Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the U...

Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of...

British Indian AI Minister Kanishka Narayan Warns Of ‘Inevitable’ Cyber Breach As UK Strengthens Defences | VIDEO

AI breach of UK cyber defences ‘likely, if not inevitable’, minister warns

Kanishka Narayan said developers must ‘build machines that leave us human beings in charge’.

Gears Of War: E-Day Was Taken Down By DDoS Attack, Developers Confirm

The botnet assault took place on Sunday, with developer The Coalition saying its on top of things now

​Modern Warfare Runs On Code That Can't Be Trusted By Default

In a software-defined battlefield, code is continuously entering, moving through and executing across operational environments.

The U.K. won back access to pre-release OpenAI and Anthropic models

The White House reversed a policy that had required U.S. approval before AI companies could share new models with British safety testers

London not ready for driverless 'robotaxis', report warns

A London Assembly report has urged transport officials to hold off on introducing driverless taxis until stronger safety measures are in place

AI Falls Short in Systematic Review Searches

AI can speed up early literature searches, but experts say it still misses key studies — especially gray literature and trial registry data. Medscape News Europe

Brits still aren't comfortable handing over too much control to AI

Brits fear the potential for AI to take over tasks completely, and have concerns about AI agents ignoring laws and morals.

UK can’t rely on AI that could be switched off, Turing chief tells Guardian

The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an intervi...

The Jaguar Type 01 Might Be Huge, But These EVs Are Even Longer

Even if you put huge pickups and SUVs aside, there's a couple EVs that are longer than the Jaguar Type 01, and one even has two fewer doors.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving in Europe, as it seeks to get it approved in more countries.

OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks

OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety. LO...

Dyson’s slimmest wet floor cleaner just got a huge upgrade and its own self-cleaning dock — where to buy

Dyson launched the W1 PencilWash + Dok, an upgraded $349.99 wet-floor cleaner with an 84,000-filament roller, a magnetic charging dock, and an automatic self-cleaning mode.

Can Britain’s fastest woman outrun Vodafone’s new super-fast mobile plan?

Vodafone has devised SuperMobile - a new super-fast mobile plan, to combine a playlist with exercise - and who better to put it through its paces than Britain's fastest woman?

3 dilemmas on keeping AI under control are converging

In March, artificial intelligence agents powered by leading Chinese models reportedly displayed deception, concealed failure and pushed against imposed limits in controlled test...

Infinite Computing: When AI And Quantum Computing Become One

There is a new way to think about the future of computing. Combining AI and Quantum into a concept of infinite computing.

Gigatokens and Civo Bring UK Sovereign AI Tokens to Regulated Firms

Frontier AI inference processed in the UK, zero data retention by default, published per-token prices LONDON — Gigatokens, a Behavox company, today named Civo, the UK sovereign ...