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Wayve Camden Autonomous Bus Pilots Log Fall Fog Interruption Thresholds

Wayve’s Camden autonomous bus pilots have begun logging fall fog interruption thresholds for TfL, recording when embodied-AI perception hands back to safety drivers as moisture and street glare breach confidence bands on north London test loops.

Owen Griffiths

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Microsoft UK Expands Copilot Data Boundary Controls for NHS Trust Staff Tenants

Microsoft UK widened EU Data Boundary controls to NHS trust staff Microsoft 365 tenants running Copilot, letting clinical administrators use summarisation without patient identifiers leaving UK processing enclaves.

Owen Griffiths

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Cohere UK Offers On-Prem Legal Embeddings for City Law Firm Document Archives

Cohere’s London team began piloting on-premises legal embedding models for a Magic Circle alumni firm that wants semantic search across seven decades of matter files without shipping text to US cloud regions.

Owen Griffiths

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Faculty AI Wins MoD Contract on Logistics Forecast Models for Bases

Faculty AI won a two-year Ministry of Defence contract to forecast spare parts and ration usage across UK bases, replacing spreadsheet models that failed during joint exercises in Estonia.

Owen Griffiths

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DeepMind London Unit Ships Watermark Tags for Synthetic Media in Newsrooms

Google DeepMind’s London team released an open toolkit that embeds watermark tags in synthetic images and audio, pitching UK newsrooms on provenance checks ahead of Online Safety Act duties on misleading content.

Owen Griffiths

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