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This Strategy builds on the UK's strengths but also represents the start of a step-change for AI in the UK, recognising the power of AI to increase resilience, productivity, growth, and innovation across the private and public sectors.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, enacted on 19 June 2025 by the UK Parliament, establishes a broad legislative framework governing data access, privacy, and digital services. It covers customer and business data access, personal data processing, electronic communications, health and social care information standards, biometric data retention, trust services, and provisions relating to copyright and the development of artificial intelligence systems.

The AI Research Resource (AIRR) is a UK government initiative providing AI-specialised high-performance computing capacity to public researchers, academia, and small and medium-sized enterprises. Announced as part of the AI Opportunities Action Plan in January 2025, the government committed £1 billion to expand AIRR capacity by at least 20x by 2030. The programme operates through two compute clusters — Isambard-AI at the University of Bristol and Dawn at the University of Cambridge.

The Action Plan will consider how the UK can:(a) Build an AI sector that can scale and be competitive globally.(b) Adopt AI to enhance growth and productivity, and support delivery of the government's five stated missions.(c) Use AI in government to transform citizens' experiences of interacting with the state and boosting take-up in the wider economy.(d) Strengthen the enablers of AI adoption, such as data, infrastructure, public procurement processes and policy, and regulatory reforms.

The Introduction to AI Assurance, published in February 2024, is a piece of guidance which aims to help organisations to better understand what AI assurance is, and how it can be implemented. The guidance aims to drive the responsible development and deployment of AI systems.