Episode Description
Britain spent the week discovering how many AI decisions get made somewhere else. Andy Burnham asked officials to plan the break-up of DSIT — the department housing AISI, the Sovereign AI Fund and UKRI — days after Rachel Reeves demanded a serious plan on AI sovereignty at Mansion House.
- Burnham's DSIT break-up plan draws objections from techUK, the Startup Coalition and Matt Clifford
- UK banks shut out of Anthropic's Mythos, which Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan has had since April
- Simon Johnson reports chief executives privately saying they could manage without 10-20% of staff
- AISI measures open models 4-7 months behind the closed cyber frontier at 40% of the cost, as a researcher backdoors one for £75
- Moonshot ships Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters; Gemini 3.5 Pro slips
- NHS scribes save six minutes per consultation as Healthwatch finds 81% want consent first
- The Nuffield Foundation counts 45 justice AI tools with seven evaluated, days before the CPS apologises for hallucinated citations
- HSBC UK and Visa complete the first live agentic payment
- IBM falls as clients divert software budget to hardware, while 73% of UK CFOs report AI optimism
- Yorkshire Water's audited three-year ledger: 726 faults caught, £12.87m in value, 571% return
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