This week's episode follows a single thread: control is becoming the real currency of AI. British businesses and the public sector are scaling AI faster than they can secure the foundations beneath it — model access, in-house skills, and oversight all sit outside their grip. We unpack what happens when adoption outruns control.

Key stories:

• Trump rejects, then reverses, a ban on UK access to Anthropic's models

• Chinese open model GLM-5.2 lands as the open-source escape hatch leads to Beijing

• Lloyds hires 300 specialists while NatWest trains 60,000 staff in AI ethics

• London firms' confidence in staff AI skills falls from 63% to 50%

• Home Office pushes ahead with facial age-checks it knows are biased

• G7 AI bosses split on governance as Bezos downplays job losses

• FCA warns AI financial crime is cheap, fast and invisible

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