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October 6, 2026

Is it illegal to train frontier AI in the UK?

Recent comments by AI minister Kanishka Narayan sparked confusion amid the country’s neolab boom


Martin Coulter

5 min read

UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan speaks on stage at Sifted Summit.

The UK government has spent much of the past few years trying to convince the world’s biggest AI companies to build in Britain, promising new data centres, billions of pounds in investment and a regulatory environment that can help the technology flourish.

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Martin Coulter

Martin Coulter is Sifted's news editor, based in London. You can follow him on LinkedIn and X

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