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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

UK AI Politics Heats Up Over Frontier Model Access, Superintelligence Ban Bill

The UK House of Commons, where Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced the Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Anthropic’s decision not to give the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to Claude Mythos 5.1 has intensified concerns over Britain’s role in frontier AI safety, as MP Alex Sobel introduces a bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Oxford Launches BOLD Lab With 80 AI Researchers to Rethink How AI Learns

More than 80 researchers from the University of Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London are coming together through the BOLD Lab to pursue fundamental AI research. Photo: Oxford Engineering Science

Oxford has officially launched the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab, a UKRI-funded AI research initiative bringing together more than 80 researchers from Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London to pursue new approaches to fundamental AI research.

UK AI Companies Raise £10 Billion in First Half of 2026; UK Accounted for 39% Europe Investment

Sovereign AI UK Fund Unit has announced that UK based AI companies have raised £10 billion in the first six months of 2026. Pic Credit: Dan Lynn on Unsplash

While praising the homegrown AI companies, Wise also noted that these companies still lag behind their US and China based peers in terms of capital investment and overall AI adoption.