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UK Compute Infrastructure: Five Years of Rhetoric, Shifting Goalposts

UK Compute Infrastructure: Five Years of Rhetoric, Shifting Goalposts

24 February 2026
A five-year parliamentary record on UK compute infrastructure reveals a persistent pattern of ambitious commitments, missed milestones, and recycled assurances. The 2021 pledge to deploy an exascale supercomputer by 2025 was quietly abandoned without parliamentary acknowledgement, replaced by successively reframed targets. Ministerial responses across successive governments demonstrate institutional continuity in aspiration but chronic weakness in delivery accountability.
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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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