Nice Talent, Shame About the Infrastructure

UK Datacentre Use Surges; Two UK AI Firms Secure Huge Funding Rounds

In this week's episode, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss: * The UK blows past its datacentre energy forecasts and the threshold at which resistance and regulation kick in. Trouble ahead? * Touting AI as a workforce multiplier, AI literacy giant Multiverse hits a $2.1bn valuation. How convincing is its pitch? * DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs raises $2bn in latest funding round. British success story or another loss to global giants?

Keith Swain of Solveway on Whether the UK's AI Leadership Upskilling is Built to Last

On this week's show, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman sit down with Keith Swain, Managing Director of Solveway Apprenticeships, one of the first providers authorised to deliver the government's new Level 5 AI Leadership units. We discuss: * What the 30-hour levy-funded modules actually cover — and what they leave out * The shadow AI problem: why governance training matters when staff are already using tools their employers haven't sanctioned * What SME leaders are really asking for, and whether the programme delivers it * Why the people already inside your business may be your best AI resource

Mythos Worries, Employment Angst, Why Warm Bots May Be Lying To You

On this week's AI in the UK, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss: * Are AIs with warm personalities more prone to peddling misinformation? A leading UK research institute think so... * The fallout from Mythos continues to hit the UK, but the NHS and financial services are seeing very different risks * Almost 50% of London workers could see some of their tasks automated, according to a new report. But just how alarming is this really?

UK AI Hits the Frontier — And Corporation Tax to the Rescue?

In this week's show, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss: * A DeepMind cofounder has landed a $1bn seed round for his London start-up. Could Ineffable AI propel the UK to the frontier AI big leagues? * Ex-PM Rishi Sunak has seen the AI future — and it doesn't involve National Insurance contributions. * Can UK data centres achieve lift-off through NScale and BT?

Nice Talent, Shame About the Infrastructure

In this week's AI in the UK, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss: * Anthropic has produced a model apparently so fearsome, the Bank of England governor cited it as a security risk in a recent speech. How real is the threat to the UK? * OpenAI walks away from a multi-billion pound UK data centre, then signs a London office lease (as, incidentally, does Anthropic) just days later. So for frontier AI, is the UK pivotal or peripheral? * A Bristol startup discovers that selling an AI as a woman who'll never ask for a raise is not, in fact, the marketing win of 2026.