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LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Britain’s government set out around £600 million ($800 million)of funding on Saturday largely geared towards defending against health and security threats from artificial intelligence.

Backed by up to £200 million from OpenAI and Anthropic and £100 million from Government, the “world-first” unit will help to develop medical “countermeasures” for new pathogens, officials said.

When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor, how do you make sure your pitch earns another conversation? 

Advances in AI are creating unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery, but they are also changing the biological risk landscape. AI can accelerate research, improve our understanding of diseases, and support the discovery and development of new medical countermeasures. However, increasingly capable AI systems also create new biological risks and could lower barriers to harmful activity.

From: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP and The Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP Published: 21 October 2026

When most investors think of Nokia(NYSE: NOK), they probably remember the brick phones that pioneered mobile devices decades ago. What you may not appreciate is that the Finnish company is quietly undergoing a renaissance, and artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of its transformation.

On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access.

From: HM Treasury, The Rt Hon Dan Jarvis MBE MP, The Rt Hon John Healey MP and The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP Published: 24 October 2026

ZARAGOZA, Spain — Aragon’s rugged plains stretch out under a clear blue sky, the buildings visible as “a few tiny cubes sprawled like a throw of dice” across the terrain — as George Orwell wrote in Homage to Catalonia, of his time here during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Today, excavators eat the…