{"id":1020973,"date":"2026-07-15T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020973"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:56:57","slug":"uk-banks-lack-of-mythos-access-a-wake-up-call-government-ai-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/uk-banks-lack-of-mythos-access-a-wake-up-call-government-ai-adviser-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK banks&#8217; lack of Mythos access a wake-up call, government AI adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK banks&#8217; inability to access Anthropic&#8217;s powerful AI model Mythos underscores the urgent need for Britain \u200bto build its own AI capabilities and \u200badopt a more strategic approach to the technology, a government-appointed banking industry adviser said. <\/p>\n<p>Harriet \u200bRees, chief information officer at Starling Bank, who was appointed &#8220;AI champion&#8221; by the finance ministry in January, said Britain needed to build AI infrastructure and models, and develop skills so &#8220;we are not fully reliant on U.S. tech providers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK banks&#8217; inability to access Anthropic&#8217;s powerful AI model Mythos underscores the urgent need for Britain \u200bto build its own AI capabilities and \u200badopt a more strategic approach to the technology, a government-appointed banking industry adviser said. Harriet \u200bRees, chief information officer at Starling Bank, who was appointed &#8220;AI champion&#8221; by the finance ministry in January, said Britain needed to build AI infrastructure and models, and develop skills so &#8220;we are not fully reliant on U.S. tech providers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020993,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020973\/revisions\/1020993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}