EPISODE · Apr 20, 2026 · 28 MIN
Nice Talent, Shame About the Infrastructure
from AI in the UK · host Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson
In this week's AI in the UK, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss:Anthropic has produced a model apparently so fearsome, the Bank of England governor cited it as a security risk in a recent speech. How real is the threat to the UK?OpenAI walks away from a multi-billion pound UK data centre, then signs a London office lease (as, incidentally, does Anthropic) just days later. So for frontier AI, is the UK pivotal or peripheral?A Bristol startup discovers that selling an AI as a woman who'll never ask for a raise is not, in fact, the marketing win of 2026.
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In this week's AI in the UK, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss:Anthropic has produced a model apparently so fearsome, the Bank of England governor cited it as a security risk in a recent speech. How real is the threat to the UK?OpenAI walks away from a multi-billion pound UK data centre, then signs a London office lease (as, incidentally, does Anthropic) just days later. So for frontier AI, is the UK pivotal or peripheral?A Bristol startup discovers that selling an AI as a woman who'll never ask for a raise is not, in fact, the marketing win of 2026.
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