UK AI Governance Tightens: Parliament Summons Giants, PM Pushes Global Standards, and Defence Deal Deepens

UK MPs have summoned OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta to a high-stakes parliamentary hearing on 13 October, issuing a stark warning that Britain's AI rules are "not yet fit for the future." The Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee will grill the companies on whether safety testing should be mandatory, what should force a halt to powerful model development, and if regulators need power to block releases. Committee chair Liam Byrne flagged a crisis of trust as...