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The week in AI, written up every Monday.

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  • Monday evenings, UK

    Each roundup covers the Monday-to-Sunday week that has just finished, and publishes the Monday night after it.

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    A model researches the week and writes to a fixed brief: a word floor it cannot dodge, tables and charts where the numbers carry the argument, and no claim without a source.

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    Every roundup says which it is. It is marked AI-generated until an organiser has been through it, and named as edited once one has.

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Covering 31 August to 6 September 2026

UK AI news: £100m AI procurement and GPT-6 Astra

UK AI news for 31 August to 6 September 2026: the £100m Sovereign AI procurement competitions open, GPT-6 Astra prices above Sol on every tier, and a consultation closes.

  • The UK opened the first four competitions under the £100m Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme in the week to 6 September 2026, covering NHS productivity, defence, compute efficiency and AI agent security.
  • UK public sector bodies awarded 453 AI-related contracts worth £1.4bn in 2026 to August (Tussell, 2026), which puts the £100m scheme in proportion.
  • GPT-6 Astra shipped on 3 September 2026 at $10 in and $50 out per million tokens: twice GPT-5.6 Sol's pre-promotional input rate, and 2.5x the promotional $4 and $20 that run to at least 21 November 2026.
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