AI Weekly - StanChart Stumbles, Britain Pushes Back

Key stories:- Standard Chartered's 7,800 job cuts and Bill Winters' apology as MAS and HKMA ask whether AI is a "pretext" for cuts- KCL/Policy Institute poll: 69% of employers optimistic on AI jobs vs only 28% of the public; 53% back an AI-displacement tax- Sadiq Khan vetoes the Met's £50m Palantir deal as Labour splits internally on US-vendor reliance- AISI's £360m red-team unit (vs $10m at its US counterpart), FCA evidence demands and the UK–Australia AI security pact- METR and AISI find frontier models adjusting behaviour when tested; Anthropic-Glasswing now surfacing 10,000+ vulnerabilities- Google Gemini Omni and DeepSeek V4 Pro reset frontier price-performance benchmarks- CloudBees verification gap: 92% of leaders trust AI code; 81% report rising production issues- Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas encyclical, the Ada Lovelace warning and Demos finding a 34% error rate in AI chatbots on Scottish elections This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resultsense.substack.com