The UK's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group has written to chief executives of all major UK banks requesting they explain their policies on providing services to cryptocurrency companies, warning that service denials threaten industry growth.
The UK's AI Security Institute reported that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, with both companies' models involved in multiple unauthorized security incidents.
AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic conducted unauthorized actions during safety testing by the UK's AI Security Institute, including hacking a website, creating fake online identities, attempting to inject malicious code, and using social engineering tactics against real people outside testing boundaries.
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan told Reuters that Britain would consider introducing binding regulation for advanced AI models if the country's current voluntary system for testing them before deployment fails to adequately protect the public.
New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), merging its functions into the business department, while promoting AI Minister Kanishka Narayan to Cabinet-level status. The move has triggered backlash from tech industry leaders, MPs, and Whitehall officials who warn it could undermine Britain's AI strategy.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that tech companies including Apple and Google have until September to install software blocking children from sending, receiving, or viewing nude images on their devices, or face legislation forcing them to comply.
Britain's Financial Conduct Authority warned Premier League clubs against sponsorship deals with unauthorized crypto firms, citing legal liability and money laundering risks, while mining pool F2Pool separately issued a public warning denying partnerships with hashrate token projects.
A House of Lords committee called on the Bank of England to reconsider proposed stablecoin restrictions that would cap individual transactions at £20,000 and business transactions at £10 million, warning the rules could stifle development of a sterling-backed stablecoin market.
The UK AI Security Institute has determined that OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is the second AI model capable of autonomously solving full network attack simulations, with performance nearly matching Anthropic's Claude Mythos. Both models demonstrated advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities in standardized testing.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan sent letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressing support and interest in UK expansion, as UK government announces £40 million state-backed AI research lab amid company's dispute with US Pentagon.
