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The UK just hosted a major AI day with little attention: NVIDIA pledged $250M in compute for AI safety research with Oxford, UCL and Imperial, while AI deployments accelerate across the NHS, Danaher's AI-run lab, Liverpool's 'City Brain', and UK banks like Lloyds and Starling — highlighting NVIDIA's dominance of the AI stack and the UK's growing role in building it.
A former Meta AI researcher shares a 10-point thread on the UK's sovereign AI debate, arguing that smaller, well-scoped teams can validate new directions without billions, and that nurturing local talent and managing expectations are crucial for the UK's AI ecosystem.
OpenAI announces a new agreement with the UK Ministry of Justice to provide ChatGPT access to 2,500 civil servants and introduces UK data residency options for API, Enterprise, and Edu customers. The partnership builds on OpenAI's MOU with the UK Government to expand sovereign AI capabilities and support the UK AI Action Plan.