GBRX, the technology arm of Great British Railways, has placed two cohorts of AI apprentices across rail after naming skills as a key constraint on adoption.

Firms such as Electric Twin sell synthetic voters to MPs for a sliver of a real focus group's cost. Critics say the personas miss minority views and new topics.

Peers on the International Relations and Defence Committee seek evidence by 26 November on which AI issues need multilateral answers and the UK's part.

Over half of UK adults who use AI for personal advice rate it above friends and family, an SMF poll finds. The think tank wants a right to know and safeguards.

Research reported by Press Gazette finds ChatGPT and other AI assistants favour councils, police and national titles over local publishers on local queries.

The world's 100 largest unicorns rose 56% in value to $4.6tn, with AI firms adding $1.9tn. The UK now has 68 unicorns, a third of Europe's, says PwC's report.

The Pensions Regulator says even diversified schemes may carry hidden AI exposure, and asks trustees to test portfolios and question advisers on a market fall.

The UK's AI minister wants the state to build AI capacity as well as regulate, and says a £13,000 frontier-model test found 500 new public-sector flaws.

The US carmaker is absorbing a 15-person, mostly UK-based team whose AI makes 3D worlds from video, aiming to close the gap between simulated and real driving.

Five AI tools that highlight likely prostate cancer on MRI could be used in the NHS during a two-year evidence period, under draft NICE guidance up for comment.

The police watchdog is investigating whether a detective breached force rules by using Microsoft Copilot for case decisions and entering sensitive data into it.

Platform DC wants to turn the Crosfields soap works, closed in 2020, into an AI campus promising 20 to 30 permanent jobs and a community fund for nearby areas.