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

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This week we got into the big stories reshaping UK AI right now: a £1 billion exit for Faculty AI into Accenture's global practice — a fantastic result, but one that raises the familiar question of whether Britain can hold onto its best companies. We also dug into the growing digital divide in AI education, the Law Society demanding clearer guidance on who's liable when AI-assisted legal advice goes wrong, Ofcom's urgent intervention over Grok generating illegal child imagery, and HMRC's algorithmic tax enforcement expansion. Our take: the UK's AI ambition is real, but governance and education are visibly struggling to keep pace. Listen to the full episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/niels-footman/episodes/Keith-Swain-of-Solveway-on-Whether-the-UKs-AI-Leadership-Upskilling-is-Built-to-Last-e3jmhae

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