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BT joins Anthropic’s AI cyber defence project
BT has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, giving the telecoms group controlled access to Claude Mythos Preview for defensive security work.
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PoliceAI puts public-sector AI under pressure
The Home Office’s £115 million PoliceAI programme will test how far public-sector automation can go in policing without weakening trust, evidence standards, or accountability.
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UK AI hardware plan targets the compute stack
The UK government wants to strengthen domestic AI hardware capability through investment in innovation, skills, procurement, and deeptech finance.
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UK AI adoption push moves into delivery
The UK government is tying AI adoption to skills, sector plans, worker voice, regional growth, and evidence on how jobs are changing.
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Oulu data centre campus expands Nordic AI capacity
Glesys and Trevian are developing an AI-ready data centre campus in Finland, with modular expansion potential of up to 300MW.
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EU puts AI and data centres on the grid agenda
European policymakers are treating AI growth and data centre demand as energy-system issues, with new initiatives on grid AI and sustainable integration.
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ICEYE raises €450m for sovereign space intelligence
Finnish satellite company ICEYE has raised €450 million as defence, resilience, insurance, and public-sector demand for space-based intelligence accelerates.
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EU cloud plan turns compute into industrial policy
The European Commission’s Cloud and AI Development Act proposal puts data centres, cloud sovereignty, AI factories, and public-sector adoption into one infrastructure agenda.
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G7 cyber declaration sharpens Europe’s resilience agenda
Europe is linking telecoms resilience, AI security, post-quantum migration, and SME protection into a wider G7 framework for digital infrastructure risk.
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Orange’s SFR deal tests French telecoms consolidation
France’s telecoms market is heading for a major competition test after Orange, Bouygues Telecom, and Free–iliad agreed terms to carve up parts of SFR.



