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The UK Parliament has passed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, instituting a permanent smoking ban for anyone born after 2008.

OpenAI is launching Stargate UK, an AI infrastructure partnership with NVIDIA and Nscale to build sovereign compute capabilities in the United Kingdom, with plans for up to 31,000 GPUs over time. The initiative supports the UK's national AI strategy and will enable OpenAI models to run on local UK compute for critical public services, regulated industries, and national security use cases.