Keir Starmer

Microsoft has shifted from GPU scarcity to a power infrastructure crisis, with AI chips sitting in inventory due to inability to build data centres and secure power connections fast enough to deploy them.

“UK Prime Minister comments on Microsoft's £30bn AI infrastructure investment in Britain.”

The UK and US have signed a landmark technology partnership whereby US tech giants including Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google are pledging billions of pounds in AI infrastructure investment, with a major data centre project in Northumberland expected to create 5,000 jobs.

“UK Prime Minister describing the AI agreement as 'a generational step change' between the two countries”

“Attended G7 summit on AI standards and governance.”

Indonesia and Malaysia have temporarily blocked xAI's Grok chatbot over its role in generating non-consensual sexual deepfakes, marking the most aggressive governmental response so far to AI-generated abuse.

“Said that Ofcom has his full support to take action regarding Grok's deepfake abuse issues.”

Microsoft announces a $30 billion investment in UK AI infrastructure and operations from 2025-2028, including $15 billion in capital expenditures to build the country's largest supercomputer with 23,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

“His AI Action Plan is part of UK-US Technology Partnership and he praised Microsoft's $30 billion investment as vote of confidence in UK's AI leadership.”