ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all …
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 UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. I…
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 interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. “We shouldn’t depend solely on systems …
Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Ama…
Pony.ai will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, ahead of a service on Uber. The Chinese self-driving company announced the plan on X on Thursday. “We look forward to working with local officials, and our partn…
Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The round came three months after its Series A and lifted its valuation from $1.5bn. The same day, B…
NHS England’s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will c…
UK defence companies plan to invest a combined £19.75bn over the next 12 months, according to new research from law firm White & Case. Research company Censuswide surveyed 250 senior decision-makers at UK defence companies and defence technology st…
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection offi…
BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations h…