AI Weekly - Washington Pulls the Plug

A US export directive switched off Anthropic's newest frontier models for every UK business overnight, and Starmer scrambled for a carve-out. The week's other stories all circle the same gap: Britain is adopting AI faster than it can govern, staff, fund or secure it — and the controls sit largely elsewhere.

Key stories:
• US forces Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos as Starmer seeks a UK carve-out
• Government's £200m adoption package targets SMEs as 40% of projects stall in pilots
• CMI finds only 5% of managers report transformational AI gains
• PwC's billion-ad jobs barometer shows a 62% AI wage premium, countering the doom forecasts
• UK fraud hits £1.3bn with deepfaked central bankers and eight scams a minute
• KPMG report selling AI assurance is caught with 40 of 45 citations fabricated
• £30m backs NHS AI cancer diagnosis, halving scan-analysis time from eight days to four