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Oct 23, 2026

UK announces £100 million AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind

The UK government announced £100 million in funding for a national AI Biosecurity Lab to defend against biological threats, with support from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. The lab is part of a broader £600 million AI security funding package.

Oct 23, 2026·3 sources

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▪AI Minister Kanishka Narayan stated that the UK's strategy creates institutions outside existing departments to position the nation as an honest broker for monitoring AI and building sovereign technological capabilities
▪OpenAI and Anthropic are providing up to £200 million worth of AI model credits to support the UK's AI Biosecurity Lab
▪Established by the Conservative government in 2023, the AI Security Institute evaluates the risks of advanced AI models to support technical standards and guardrails

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