The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute, in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic's Claude in public services
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that …
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal
Introducing SAIF Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : CMA Begins Probe Into Alphabet Partnership With Anthropic Associated Press : Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigat...
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann
here's why Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London PYMNTS.com : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Microsoft's £2.5B UK Investment Fuels AI Ta...
The UK plans to invest £225M into Isambard-AI, an AI supercomputer 10x faster “than the UK's current quickest machine”, to be built by the University of Bristol
- The U.K. government said Wednesday that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, into an AI supercomputer …
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed to open up their AI models to the UK government for research and safety purposes
LONDON — Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes …
As Starlink builds out its satellite constellation, it is enjoying a very warm reception from the early adopters of its internet service in remote areas
- SpaceX's satellite-based service wins over some early adopters — Coverage so far includes rural areas in U.S., Canada and U.K. Tweets: @xrolet , @business , @economictimes , @sub8u , @economictim...
An overview of Amazon's efforts to fight COVID-19, from lending its staff expertise to funding research/clinical trials, and shipping at-home diagnostic tests
Shipping behemoth Amazon is increasingly throwing its weight into the pandemic response, sharing its staff's web and research design expertise … Tweets: @statnews , @undarkmag , and @erbrod Tweets: St...
Source: following its deal with the UK's NHS, Palantir is in talks with France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland about using its tools to battle COVID-19
- Data-mining firm has an agreement to provide analytics to U.K. — Firm is also in talks with Austria, Switzerland for software Tweets: @holyhologram and @fredericjacobs Tweets: Marie Simon / @holy...
Sources: UK's largest supermarket Tesco has partnered with Israeli startup Trigo Vision to work on cashierless stores, as competition with Amazon heats up
Tesco Plc has turned to an Israeli startup for help as it looks to become the next major food retailer to remove cashiers from some of its stores. Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @business Tweets: Carolina...
Sources: Lyft is planning to expand into Canada by year's end, its first market outside the US, and could then move into Australia and New Zealand
As Lyft begins a large-scale advertising campaign to try to continue gaining market share versus Uber in the U.S., its geographic ambition is rising. Tweets: @amir and @amir Tweets: Amir Efrati / @ami...