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UK AI Regulation: Eight Months of Deferred Legislation and Repeated Boilerplate

UK AI Regulation: Eight Months of Deferred Legislation and Repeated Boilerplate

23 February 2026
Analysis of 25 parliamentary written questions spanning June 2025 to February 2026 reveals a UK Government AI regulatory posture characterised by formulaic repetition, consistent deferral of legislative commitments, and a structural reliance on existing frameworks to answer questions about novel risks. Despite repeated ministerial commitments to bring forward AI legislation and launch a public consultation “later this year,” no such consultation had materialised by the analysis date of 23 February 2026.
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When AI Agents Build Their Own Social Network

When AI Agents Build Their Own Social Network

20 February 2026
If you've been following tech news recently, you've likely encountered something rather unsettling: MoltBook, a social network where AI agents chat amongst themselves whilst humans can only watch from the sidelines
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The AI Governance-Policy Disconnect

The AI Governance-Policy Disconnect

20 February 2026
Recent industry discourse reveals a fundamental coordination failure within organisations developing AI frameworks: the systematic separation of AI governance from AI policy functions
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