The UK Opens a £100M AI Biosecurity Lab as Sweden Bans Chatbots From Government PCs

Two governments moved on AI security in opposite directions on the same day — one investing in frontier access, the other locking it out.

The UK is launching a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab with access to models from OpenAI and Anthropic, part of a total security package of roughly £600 million, according to @daogangtang. The lab's focus on biosecurity signals where governments now locate the sharpest AI risk — not in rogue chatbots but in the possibility that advanced models lower the barrier to engineering biological threats.

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