AI Weekly - Sovereignty Without the Levers

July 20
43 mins

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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