Policy
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Defence AI taskforce changes procurement tempo
The UK wants defence AI delivered faster and differently.
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Apple’s Siri delay tests EU platform rules
Apple’s EU Siri delay has become a platform-regulation dispute.
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Dutch cloud gap tests ERP modernisation
The Netherlands faces a practical sovereign-cloud gap for critical workloads.
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EU gives AI labels compliance shape
Europe’s AI transparency rules now have a practical compliance route.
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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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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.



