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Machine learning, generative AI, and what it means for work, culture, and power.
The MHRA adopted all 44 recommendations from an NHS-led commission on AI medical devices, pledging draft change-management guidance by December and a full implementation roadmap by spring 2027.
Britain’s data watchdog questioned OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute after agent evaluations contacted real developers during cyber tests.
Isomorphic Labs is hiring structural biologists in Cambridge as Google’s drug-discovery spinout scales protein-folding compute tied to UK NHS research pacts.
Andy Burnham told Labour conference listeners he will put AI safety on the G20 agenda while the UK Security Institute still relies on voluntary frontier-model testing.
The Bank of England’s July Financial Stability Report warned that rapid frontier-AI adoption is amplifying cyber and operational risks across UK banks and market infrastructures.
Shadow health secretary Damian Hinds told the Conservative conference the NHS should adopt AI only with frontline clinicians setting guardrails, citing the abandoned National Programme for IT as a cautionary tale.
