AI in the UK

In a break from the regular schedule, Niels Footman grills co-host Matt Wilkinson about his new book, The Buyer in the Loop.
Matt discusses how buyer personas, which could traditionally only offer a snapshot in time, are made into dynamic, responsive personalities with the infusion of AI.
How do they work? Do they really improve sales results? And, as elsewhere, are we in danger of offloading our marketing thinking to AI tools?
Matt answers all these questions and more. Plus the usual round-up of the week's UK AI stories in Quick Hits.

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
The UK government gets serious about domestic AI procurement, just as one of UK AI’s leading lights gets poached by Anthropic. What does this mean for UK AI?

While a leading UK think tank notes an increasing loss of control of AI agents, OpenAI reportedly makes it harder to track what AI agents are doing. Just what is going on?

Plus all the week's quick UK AI hits...

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
Hot on the heels of OpenAI, Anthropic and the AISI, among others, reporting rogue agents, the National Cyber Security Centre has rushed out safety guidance for UK companies looking to use AI agents. Is now the time to get really worried?
Developers in the UK are planning to build their own gas-fired generators to power two huge data centres. Could this be the real environmental cost of the rush to build out our data infrastructure?
Plus all the latest quick hits for the week...

This week, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss:
Some of the UK's biggest data centres are taking shape in Scotland with the government providing 80% debt guarantees. Do the sums, and environmental concerns, add up?

The Medical Research Council has announced a new AI-backed research facility in Cambridge that promises to help speed up the drug validation process. But the big prizes may have already slipped away.

Plus all the week's other UK AI news...

On this week's show, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
In a major shake-up, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has stepped back from his CEO role at Google DeepMind to become Google's chief scientist. What's really powered this move? And what does it mean for London's fabled "Knowledge Quarter"?
Armed with a potentially disruptive technology - but not, yet, any products - UK startup Olix has raised £230m in its latest funding round. What chance does this promising AI chip company have?