AI in the UK

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
Hot on the heels of OpenAI and Anthropic revealing major security breaches by their agents, the UK’s AI Security Institute announced a rogue agent of its own. How concerned should we be?

NScale, the UK’s aspiring data centre champion, has raided Silicon Valley to acquire a machine-learning software platform. Will it create a full-stack AI behemoth?

In moves that have both confounded and delighted the tech industry, Andy Burnham has made the AI minister a Cabinet role (and kept Kanishka Narayan in place) while abolishing the department tasked with driving the government's AI policies.
Just what is going on?
And CuspAI, an AI-powered "search engine for materials", has landed a £334m series B funding round. A ringing endorsement of the UK's push towards "applied AI"? Or an inflated bet on an untested business model?
Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss these issues and the other big stories in UK AI this week...

This week, Matt and Niels talk to Chris Jeyes, a criminal barrister of more than 20 years standing and now the founder of Lextrapolate, an AI training, governance and strategy consultancy for the legal profession.
We discuss:
- How AI is changing the legal landscape already
- Why lawyers keep using "hallucinated" research
- How aspiring lawyers can learn the ropes in the age of AI
- How a business built on the billable hour is preparing for the future

On this week's show, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
UK tech investment enjoyed its strongest start to the year for four years, with AI accounting for nearly three-quarters of VC funding. How can the UK sustain this level of success?
As Rachel Reeves pushes the financial sector to make AI training mandatory, we ask: why is there such a big gap between the UK’s cutting-edge AI development and enterprise adoption?

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
The UK government's defence review has earmarked £5bn for the development of autonomous drones. Just how big a deal is this?
How much water do UK data centres actually use? We dig into a complex and opaque issue feeding an increasingly polarised debate.