
Trump rejects calls to slow AI as Amodei urges global limits
The US president dismissed calls to slow AI development, saying AI guardrails are possible while the race with China runs on, as Congress weighs action.
Artificial intelligence coverage with the Business Matters filter: not the hype cycle, but what AI adoption actually looks like inside UK firms – the tools, the costs, the failures, and the regulation heading down the track.

The US president dismissed calls to slow AI development, saying AI guardrails are possible while the race with China runs on, as Congress weighs action.

Dario Amodei has urged the industry to accept an AI development slowdown, with Elon Musk and Sam Altman backing him and OpenAI delaying its listing.

Tony Blair Institute report says UK AI manufacturing capacity must grow, urging ministers to lift the sector to 10 per cent of gross value added by…

Veenoo Sharma's SHE Leads with AI, a fully funded female founder accelerator for 30 women, will start at Dubai's DIFC Innovation Hub on 16 November.

A Denodo survey of 850 executives on agentic AI adoption finds 56 per cent of organisations say finding trustworthy data is a barrier to deploying AI.

AI drug design startup deepmirror has been awarded a Sovereign AI grant by Innovate UK to fund a £1m project expanding its molecular property dataset.

Claude Mythos 5.1 went only to US vetting organisations, the first time Anthropic has bypassed the UK AI Security Institute before releasing a model.

Fast Company has named Anthropic No 1 on its Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list, citing Claude Code, Claude Cowork and a valuation approaching $1trn.

Arm Holdings chief executive Rene Haas says an AI cancer cure will come in our lifetime, and predicts humanoid robots in wide use within five years.

The Mistral AI funding round of €3bn, the largest venture raise in Europe, values the Paris-based open-weight AI model developer at more than €21bn.

Simply Business's 2026 SME Insights Report puts AI adoption among UK small businesses at 47 per cent, up from 22 per cent in 2025, with confidence…

The Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill goes before parliament on 8 September as Geoffrey Hinton warns superintelligent AI could be catastrophic.

Nvidia Hugging Face deal: the chipmaker agrees to pay $12.93bn for the developer platform, with Jensen Huang pledging it will stay open to all AI models.

OpenAI Astra launched on 3 September as president Greg Brockman said the world had entered the AGI era, days after Sam Altman called AGI a marketing…

The first self-driving taxis London can hire are now on the Uber app, with 15 licensed Wayve cars and a human safety driver in each ready…