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In an industry briefing hosted by techUK, Claire Harrison, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), shared the agency’s strategic journey to becoming an AI-enabled health regulator. The session highlighted MHRA’s evolving role in supporting the UK’s ambition to be a science and technology superpower by 2030, and its commitment to innovation, modernisation, and cyber resilience.

As cloud computing becomes increasingly integral to how organisations store, process and derive value from data, the issue of digital sovereignty is more salient than ever.

Welcome to this week’s update on the fast-moving world of global trade, digital policy, and transatlantic relations. Here’s what’s shaping the global agenda right now. 

Cloud has the potential to support a more sustainable digital economy, but organisations should see it as the foundation for sustainable best practice and not a panacea.

GreenOps means maximising the value of your cloud provisions for sustainability as well as typical considerations like performance, security, and cost.

As the sector evolves, cloud solutions are set to play a pivotal role in achieving industry goals and advancing the clean energy transition.

Understanding AI’s footprint is crucial, yet thorough data on the energy and environmental impact of AI inference — the use of a trained AI model to make predictions or generate text or images — has been limited.

If sustainability is the goal, then the cloud must be understood not as the solution but as an enabler.

Emissions data is often what’s holding us back from more sustainable approaches to cloud use; it’s often incomplete, it’s not granular, and its primarily retrospective, making it difficult, as users of those services, to know what to do.

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Hear from, Martin Taylor, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO of Content Guru, on how technology can help UK retailers meet increasing customer expectations across generations.

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Guest blog by Alyson Scurfield, Chief Executive at TSA

Today the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation launched its Trusted third-party AI assurance roadmap. The roadmap is intended to ensure the widespread adoption of safe and responsible AI across the UK.

Elm’s real-world deployments offer practical insights into what’s possible when these technologies are localized, secure, and designed with people in mind.

The UK tech sector stands at a unique inflection point. We have the cloud infrastructure expertise, the research excellence, and – crucially – the regulatory wisdom to lead a different vision.

As enterprises deepen their reliance on public cloud services, many are now considering what their ‘lifeboat’ options would be in the event of a fundamental cloud compromise.