Overview
- The Prime Minister set out the package on Monday at London Tech Week and launched a DWP-designed AI assistant that will be trialled online for about three months as a 24/7 'Jobcentre in your pocket' to help with CVs, applications and career advice.
- Ministers created an Early Careers Jobs Alliance with £20 million of funding to study how AI affects entry-level roles and to run summer pilot AI bootcamps in Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen that guarantee paid apprenticeships for completers.
- As part of a sovereign compute strategy the government announced plans to buy roughly £400 million of specialist AI chips and expand domestic computing clusters to give UK firms access to high-performance compute.
- Business Secretary Peter Kyle signalled a more interventionist state role by saying ministers will take larger stakes in fast-growing firms to try to keep companies and tech jobs in the UK, and industry group Cosine has formed a coalition to develop a 'Lumen Sovereign' frontier AI model.
- Ministers are also reviewing evidence on online harms affecting children and have committed to publish proposals before Parliament's summer recess, with the wider skills drive already reaching about 1.7 million workers according to the government.