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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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
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