Episode Description
Britain spent the week writing frontier AI policy as the cost of job displacement and energy capacity landed. Three regulators issued a cyber-resilience statement, the King's Speech bundled three bills, UK AI funding hit £8.3 billion, and Morgan Stanley confirmed Britain leads developed-world AI job losses.
Key stories:
- Anthropic to brief the Financial Stability Board on Mythos at Bailey's request
- BoE/FCA/Treasury warning: frontier AI cyber capability exceeds skilled human attackers — but a UK universities study of 100M dark-web posts finds AI isn't yet supercharging cybercrime
- King's Speech bundles Regulating for Growth, CMA reform and Cyber Security and Resilience
- Barclays AI 100 launches as UK AI funding trebles to £8.3bn — but UK data centres eat 5.8% of national electricity, with 100+ new sites planning to burn gas
- Morgan Stanley AlphaWise: UK net AI job losses hit 6% over 12 months — worst in the developed world — against 10.3% productivity gains
- Microsoft DELEGATE-52 finds frontier models corrupt 25% of content over 20 interactions; Atlassian's AI chief concedes organisational productivity hasn't yet appeared
- HMRC signs a 10-year £175m AI deal with British scale-up Quantexa
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