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Stanford's Hazy Research has shipped the first credible open-source framework for personal AI agents that run on your own hardware. For UK operators, local-first has stopped being a manifesto and started being a curl command.
Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5 into the $20 tier and MiniMax M3 matches it on agentic work. For a small team, the value question has quietly flipped.
The government has launched a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to back home-grown AI firms. The headline money is for startups — but the knock-on effects reach much further down the chain.
The headline tiers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity have all landed around twenty dollars a month. Here is how a small UK retailer should think about per-seat spend now the sticker price is commoditised.
Gemma 4 adds built-in tool calling and vision support, and Ollama now runs it fully. For a retail team, that means document, shelf and stock workflows that never send an image to the cloud.
A new supercomputer in Bristol and five designated AI Growth Zones signal a national push on compute. We look at what that build-out plausibly does — and doesn't do — for an SME's cloud bill.
Microsoft has open-sourced an Agent Governance Toolkit with a policy engine that intercepts every agent action before it runs. Even a small team should put a layer like this in front of action-taking agents.
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