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The AI Safety Institute has open released a new testing platform to strengthen AI safety evaluations.

• Updated: 10 May 2024

The AI Opportunity Forum has held the second of its 3 planned, formal meetings.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

British AI company Wayve announces $1.05 billion investment to develop the next generation of AI-powered self-driving vehicles

• Updated: 7 May 2024

Government prepares for age of AI with the publication of a new report from The Alan Turing Institute outlining the importance of AI to support strategic decision-making on national security.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

SAPIENT enables interoperability of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled sensors, combined with intelligent fusion and sensor management.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan host EdTech roundtable in the heart of government.

• Updated: 18 April 2024

UK and Republic of Korea forging ahead with plans for the AI Seoul Summit on 21 and 22 May.

• Updated: 12 April 2024

Remarks by Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMA, delivered during the 72nd Antitrust Law Spring Meeting. Washington DC, USA.

• Updated: 11 April 2024

The CMA has outlined 3 key risks to effective competition on AI Foundation Models and has set out plans for further action in the market.

• Updated: 11 April 2024

The UK and US have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will see them work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models.

• Updated: 2 April 2024

The Geospatial Commission and The Alan Turing Institute are exploring how artificial intelligence can be applied to support decisions about the UK’s land.

• Updated: 22 March 2024

G7 nations have signed an agreement to unite and harness the innovative potential of AI to usher in a new era of global productivity and economic growth.

• Updated: 15 March 2024

Government outlines action to make UK a world leader in tackling ethnic and other biases in medical devices.

• Updated: 11 March 2024

The Committee wrote to regulators asking them for an update on how they are adapting to the challenges posed by AI in July 2023. The responses from regulators are published here.

• Updated: 6 March 2024

The Committee wrote to government departments and public bodies, asking them for an update on how they are adapting their governance processes for AI in July 2023. Their responses are published here.

• Updated: 6 March 2024

New funding to boost research collaboration and a new partnership to further global AI safety are part of measures announced by the UK and France.

• Updated: 29 February 2024

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan and the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on Business and Investment have co-chaired first meeting of AI Opportunity Forum.

• Updated: 15 February 2024

Letters requesting a set of regulators to update their strategic approach to AI, with the intention of increasing the transparency around how they are implementing the AI Regulation White Paper proposals.

• Updated: 15 February 2024

The UK is on course for more agile AI regulation, as the government publishes its response to the AI Regulation White Paper consultation today.

• Updated: 6 February 2024

The UK's armed forces and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) recently collaborated in an AUKUS trial in Australia.

• Updated: 5 February 2024