{"id":23924,"date":"2026-07-14T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-uk-wants-to-catch-up-in-the-global-ai-race-but-is-too-wary-of-risks-to-go-all-in\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:37:30","slug":"the-uk-wants-to-catch-up-in-the-global-ai-race-but-is-too-wary-of-risks-to-go-all-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-uk-wants-to-catch-up-in-the-global-ai-race-but-is-too-wary-of-risks-to-go-all-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK wants to catch up in the global AI race \u2013 but is too wary of risks to go all-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK fears a \u2018triple whammy\u2019: oversized investment in AI stocks, slower adoption of AI than predicted and the breakneck pace of AI\u2019s development<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today, we\u2019re discussing the UK\u2019s difficult position in the AI race, new doubts over OpenAI\u2019s path toward a trillion-dollar stock market debut and the changes to IRL tech reporting in the age of AI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/08\/chatgpt-ai-therapy\">My patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Darghouth | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jul\/12\/software-developers-engineers-ai\">Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/13\/uk-catch-up-global-ai-race-risks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f5d41198ae3cc2b1c475307fde6b096c7244361e\/663_0_6627_5304\/master\/6627.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ab3842a7c18e38373f50b55080976b5\" title=\"The UK wants to catch up in the global AI race \u2013 but is too wary of risks to go all-in\" \/>UK fears a \u2018triple whammy\u2019: oversized investment in AI stocks, slower adoption of AI than predicted and the breakneck pace of AI\u2019s development<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today, we\u2019re discussing the UK\u2019s difficult position in the AI race, new doubts over OpenAI\u2019s path toward a trillion-dollar stock market debut and the changes to IRL tech reporting in the age of AI.<br \/>\nMy patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Darghouth | The Guardian<br \/>\nChasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK fears a \u2018triple whammy\u2019: oversized investment in AI stocks, slower adoption of AI than predicted and the breakneck pace of AI\u2019s development Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today, we\u2019re discussing the UK\u2019s difficult position in the AI race, new doubts over OpenAI\u2019s path &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-uk-wants-to-catch-up-in-the-global-ai-race-but-is-too-wary-of-risks-to-go-all-in\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The UK wants to catch up in the global AI race \u2013 but is too wary of risks to go all-in<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}