uk tech policy

Kevin Sullivan’s briefing from Insider Media sets out the sharp legal fault lines at the intersection of UK copyright law and generative AI, warning that artists, educators and policymakers are locked in a high-stakes debate over how models are trained, who pays for creative inputs, and how to...

Five million people in the UK are now being widely reported as facing heightened cyber‑risk after Microsoft ended free security updates for Windows 10, but the real picture is more nuanced — and more urgent — than a single headline suggests. Overview On 14 October 2025 Microsoft formally ended...

Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...

Nscale’s announcement that it will expand UK AI infrastructure in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI marks a significant acceleration in the country’s bid for sovereign, large-scale AI compute — a move that blends private hyperscale investment with geopolitics, national industrial...

Microsoft has pledged a record-breaking £22 billion to the United Kingdom over the next four years in a sweeping commitment to build cloud and AI infrastructure, expand operations, and anchor advanced AI compute inside the country — a package the company says will “power the AI future” in...

The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised significant concerns regarding the competitive dynamics within the cloud computing sector, particularly focusing on the dominant positions held by Microsoft and Amazon. This scrutiny underscores the critical role cloud...

Here’s a summary of the situation based on the CNBC article and the latest regulatory actions: Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the UK cloud computing industry. The CMA highlighted significant “market concentration”...

Microsoft’s recent commitment to train 1 million UK workers in artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of 2025 is a bold and headline-grabbing move that signals not only the scale of tech’s impact but also a deepening corporate responsibility in the nation’s digital transformation. This...