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AI in the UK
Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety effort focused on testing frontier models.
- AI investment pledged since the Action Plan (Jan 2026)
- £68bn
- Sovereign AI fund for British AI companies (Apr 2026)
- £500m
- AI Growth Zones designated (Jan 2026)
- 5
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Adoption
Google puts generated classroom simulations in front of teachers
Google Research has released a library of more than 30 AI-generated STEM simulations for teachers, backed so far by a study of twelve of them.
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Adoption
Manchester researchers forecast UK air pollution with Nvidia Earth-2 models
A University of Manchester team has produced UK-wide air quality forecasts at two-to-three-square-kilometre resolution, training the model in about two days on a single eight-GPU node.
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Strategy
The January 2025 AI Opportunities Action Plan (50 recommendations) is still the national plan; the government’s progress site reports £68bn of AI investment pledged since. A £500m Sovereign AI fund launched in April 2026.
Regulation
No AI bill: the May 2026 King’s Speech put AI only inside other bills, such as regulatory sandboxes. In March 2026 the government dropped its preferred copyright opt-out for AI training. The AI Security Institute published its first Frontier AI Trends Report.
Compute
Five AI Growth Zones, the latest in North Lanarkshire (Jan 2026). Isambard-AI ranks 11th in the world, with a £250m cloud deal adding research capacity. OpenAI paused Stargate UK in April 2026, citing energy costs.
Key labs
Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, Wayve, Ineffable Intelligence, Cusp AI, Nscale.
Notable models
Isomorphic Labs’ Drug Design Engine (Feb 2026); Wayve robotaxis went live on Uber in London on 3 Sep 2026, with safety drivers.
What to watch
Whether Stargate UK restarts; what copyright policy replaces the opt-out; how Wayve and Waymo move towards driverless London service.