UK to invest £100m in'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab The UK says it will establish a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to help strengthen its defences against emerging biological threats. As part of Wednesday's Budget, the government will commit £100m to establishing the new, world first institute with the support of leading AI firms. The chancellor will also pledge millions of pounds in spending across a range of initiatives aimed at shoring up the UK's ability to respond to evolving cyber, biological and AI-enabled threats. AI will transform daily life: every firm, community, hospital, school, and every aspect of our economy can benefit, John Healey said. I understand and share the concerns of working people, so I am setting out a distinctively British approach to AI.

Don't leave AI to tech bros and oligarchs, UK's AI minister says To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain cannot let aritificial intelligence be ruled by tech bros and oligarchs, the AI minister has said. Kanishka Narayan told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast that dealing with the technology requires not only regulation, but building capability and capacity in the state too. He compared AI to the Victorian-era Industrial Revolution, but said the country needed to transition better than it did back then. His comments were recorded the day before Barclays banking group announced it was cutting 5,000 jobs in an AI-led efficiency drive.

Call of Duty promises a return to form - but can it compete with GTA? Call of Duty is back - and it's got a lot to prove. Last year was a low point for the video game juggernaut, with poor reviews for its single-player campaign mode and multiplayer fans defecting to rival titles. So for latest instalment, Modern Warfare 4, publisher Activision is pulling out all the stops to bring fans back on board. But with increasing competition for fans' time and attention, and the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 just weeks away, can Call of Duty still cut through?

Trump says Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: Trump says Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access after row Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access, US President Donald Trump has said after restrictions hampered Kyiv's armed forces. Trump made the comments after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity to the military-grade Starshield network, which is provided by Musk's satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored. Musk previously denied he was behind the slowdown, which affects Ukraine's ability to use drones to attack Russia and protect itself from attacks. Trump refused to be drawn on a report that he had called Musk to ask him to lift restrictions to the service, but when asked about it he said: Bottom line, he put it back.

US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series Picket Fences, and the films Alien and Top Gun, has died aged 93, his family says. Skerritt died on Wednesday of natural causes, his family said: While the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humor, curiosity, wisdom, generosity, and the love he brought into our lives. In a six-decade career, he took on film and television roles, appearing in the film Mash, A River Runs Through It and Ted. He also co-founded TheFilmSchool in Seattle to support next-generation filmmakers and storytellers. His family said he will be remembered for his belief that stories can help people heal, find purpose, and create change.

Manchester City have won their first seven Premier League games of the season but will their 100% record survive Saturday's trip to an improving Aston Villa side? Villa have beaten City in this fixture in each of the past three years under Unai Emery, said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton. They will fancy it this time too - they are seven unbeaten in all competitions, and flying at the moment. Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests. For week eight, he takes on Waffle the Wonder Dog and his owner Simon, who is played by actor James Merry. Waffle's After School Club, featuring James and Waffle, is available on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer right now, with lots of fun after-school adventures for families to enjoy together. Do you agree with their predictions?

Newborn twins fight for survival as conflict fuels Yemen's hunger crisis To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the day they were born, just seven weeks ago, twins Raghad Hassan and her brother Raad have been battling for survival. They came into the world prematurely, as fighting surged in Yemen's long-running civil war between Houthi rebel fighters and government forces. When the Houthis reached their village in the Kahboub mountains in south-west Yemen, their family of seven was forced to flee amid bombs, missiles, and drone attacks - the twins protected only by blankets. What followed was three days on foot heading for the port city of Aden.

'I wasn't thinking straight' says five jobs civil servant Image caption, Kashim Chowdhury wears dark sunglasses, a hat, hoody and gloves as he arrives at court. His face is largely obscured. A civil servant accused of fraudulently juggling multiple public sector jobs has told the court he wasn't thinking straight when he allegedly misled future bosses about his employment status. Kashim Chowdhury said he was in a panic when he applied for a job at the Department of Health (DHSC), failing to declare he was already working at the Department for the Environment (Defra). The prosecution said he already had three full-time jobs at the time, including roles at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and East London NHS Trust.

I once worked opposite a site where a shopping centre was being built. We were warned there might be unexploded bombs from World War Two unearthed during the construction. In the end, there were none, but procedures were put in place as a precaution and we all had to practice filing into designated safe zones inside our building. The PHP story feels like the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb - I have never seen such a dramatic, public and global response to a cyber event that hasn't happened yet. There has been no painful attack like the ransomware we saw knock out M&S and JLR in 2025.

BioWare, the video game studio behind sci-fi epic Mass Effect and fantasy saga Dragon Age, has been closed down. The Canadian developer specialising in role-playing games was founded in 1995 and found millions of fans with its complex, branching narratives. Its last two releases, however, did not meet sales expectations, and parent company Electronic Arts (EA) announced it had decided to close the studio as it cut 400 jobs across the business. In its own statement, BioWare, which was working on a new Mass Effect game, thanked players for being the most important part of the story during its 31-year history. The developer's first big taste of success came in 1998 when it released role-playing game Baldur's Gate, based on Dungeons and Dragons rules.