John Healey unveiled his first budget last week, and while much of the attention focused on measures aimed at easing cost-of-living pressures, the UK chancellor had a few AI-related measures up his sleeve too.
With £700 million of new AI spending announced, and £500 million of that focused on security measures, we took a deep dive into the measures to ask what effect they might have and what message they send about the government's priorities. Listen to the full episode
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