Insurer Admiral will cut 500 jobs in the UK to save £100m, it has announced. The proposals are related to Admiral's UK insurance business only, and will affect about 5% of its workforce. We recognise this will be a difficult time for affected colleagues, said Alistair Hargreaves, Admiral Insurance UK's chief executive . While the Cardiff-based company uses artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, adoption of AI is not believed to be responsible for these changes. Admiral said the job cuts would make the firm faster and more efficient.

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Trump to meet China's Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence - US politics live Trump administration calls banned journalists' White House access a privilege, not a right, brands coverage a security risk Trump to meet with China's Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence Trump to meet with China's Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on the two countries to establish a dialogue on AI similar to the communication between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. "Governments with the greatest AI capabilities have the greatest responsibilities to humanity, to establish channels for dialogue, transparency, trust and cooperation," Guterres said. Tech executives including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang of Nvidia will reportedly attend a state dinner at the White House on Thursday evening.

As Xi meets Trump, who's winning their trade war? Share As Xi meets Trump, who's winning their trade war? on social media Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to hold talks with United States President Donald Trump at the White House during his state visit - the first by a Chinese leader in more than a decade - as the world's two largest economies are locked in an ongoing tussle over trade and artificial intelligence. Trump is expected to welcome Xi on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews outside the US capital, Washington, DC, in a rare gesture for a high-stakes three-day visit by the Chinese leader. He ramped up tariffs on Chinese goods after returning to power in 2025, and has since imposed curbs on the sale of AI chips to Beijing as the two nations compete for supremacy in the AI race. The future of their fragile trade truce will be high on the agenda when the two leaders meet on Thursday.

The tech giant OpenAI will share its AI cyber defence system Daybreak for free with the Ukraine government to help it protect civilian infrastructure, like hospitals and power plants, from cyber-attacks. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the national cyber incident response team, Ukraine recorded nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025. Daybreak is able to quickly identify weaknesses in digital systems and help develop fixes. Under the deal, Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable. George Osborne, former UK chancellor and now Head of OpenAI for Countries, said: Protecting civilian infrastructure means defending it against both physical and digital attacks, so people can continue to live, work and access essential services.