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The UK and US have signed a “Tech Prosperity Deal” as part of the visit, with an aim of strengthening ties on AI, quantum computing and nuclear power.

Google has promised £5bn for AI research and infrastructure over the next two years.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves opened a £735m data centre as part of the investment on Tuesday in Hertfordshire.

There are some concerns that accepting so much money from US investors will mean the UK relies too much on foreign technology.

In July, Trump made clear his intentions were for the US to win global the AI race.

One of the ways it stated it would do this was to “export American AI to allies and partners.”

The UK government has signed number of deals with US technology companies, including an agreement to use OpenAI services in the public sector and a £400m contract to use Google Cloud services in the Ministry of Defence.

Satya Nadella said he thought the agreement defined “the next phase of globalisation” and argued that having access to foreign tech services leveraged digital sovereignty rather than threatened it.

On the growing issue of AI taking over jobs, Nadella said Microsoft also had to “change with the changes in technology”, having laid off thousands of staff this year despite record sales and profits. He described it as “the hard process of renewal”.

The government also said there was “potential for more than 5,000 jobs and billions in private investment” in north-east England, which has been designated as a new “AI growth zone“.

Last year, the government announced a £10bn investment into a data centre to be built near Blyth, Northumberland.

It has now announced another data centre project dubbed Stargate UK from OpenAI, chipmaker Nvidia, semiconductor company Arm and AI infrastructure firm Nscale.

That will be based at Cobalt Park in Northumberland.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman said Stargate UK would “help accelerate scientific breakthroughs, improve productivity, and drive economic growth.”

However the UK version is a fraction of the firm’s US-based Stargate project, which OpenAI launched in January with a commitment to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for itself.

So far, reaction to the agreement has been broadly positive, but its clear that there are many challenges ahead for the UK if it is to fulfil its intended potential.

The Tony Blair Institute described the news as a “breakthrough moment” but added that Britain had some work to do: “reforming planning rules, accelerating the delivery of clean energy projects, and building the necessary digital infrastructure for powering the country’s tech-enabled growth agenda,” said Dr Keegan McBride, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s emerging tech and geopolitics expert.

Matthew Sinclair, UK director of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, hailed the agreement as “a powerful demonstration of the scale of the AI opportunity for the UK economy.”

But the Conservative Party highlighted that other big international companies such as the pharmaceutical giant Merck have recently cancelled or delayed their UK expansion plans.

Satya Nadella spoke to the BBC News in between board meetings, shortly before jumping on a flight to join Donald Trump as he arrives in the UK on a three-day state visit. Nadella will be among other tech leaders, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, attending the Royal state banquet on Wednesday.

He said he would use Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot to help him decide what to wear.

“I was very surprised that there was a very different dress protocol, which I’m really not sure that I’m ready for,” he said.

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Cyber A.I. Group, Inc., an emerging growth Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and IT services company engaged in the development of next-generation market disruptive AI-driven Cybersecurity technology, announced today the appointment of Alex Epshteyn as Chief Innovation Officer.

Mr. Epshteyn brings over 28 years of executive leadership and advanced technical expertise in AI, complex systems integration, real-time data visualization and large-scale infrastructure projects. In his new role, he will lead CyberAI’s innovation initiatives, overseeing product strategy, research and development and the continued evolution of CyberAI’s expanding patent portfolio including Sentinel 2.0—the Company’s patent-pending AI-powered Cybersecurity subscription platform.

Working in collaboration with Dr. Peter J. Morales, CyberAI’s Chief Technology Officer / Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Epshteyn will drive efforts to align advanced innovation with enterprise needs and global market expansion. His appointment underscores CyberAI’s commitment to industry leadership, product excellence and the delivery of intelligent Cybersecurity solutions tailored for middle-market companies worldwide.

“Alex is a world-class innovator with an extraordinary ability to design, architect and commercialize cutting-edge technologies,” said A.J. Cervantes, Jr., Executive Chairman at CyberAI. “His deep experience spanning AI and mission-critical infrastructure will play a pivotal role as CyberAI accelerates the launch of our CyberAI Sentinel 2.0 platform and we position the Company for rapid growth and scale.”

Mr. Epshteyn previously served as CEO and CTO of Zignage, a premier real-time data visualization and digital signage company powering clients such as the New York Stock Exchange, Mizuho Bank, BMO and Morgan Stanley. He also founded Ngaged Software, an AI-powered education technology startup whose platform, BriteClass, was deployed at Harvard, MIT, Brandeis and NYU, among other colleges and universities. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Hewlett Packard Consulting, SIAC, Arup Consulting and Adler Group, contributing to initiatives that spanned trading systems for the NYSE, national emergency response infrastructure and major transportation hubs including JFK and Penn Station.

“Cyber A.I. Group represents the future of intelligent Cybersecurity and I am honored to join its exceptional leadership team at such a transformative time,” said Mr. Epshteyn. “The opportunity to pioneer AI-driven innovation while delivering secure, scalable and adaptive solutions through CyberAI Sentinel 2.0 is one I greatly look forward to. Together, we can help enterprises navigate an increasingly complex digital threat landscape with confidence and resilience.”

Mr. Epshteyn holds a B.A. with honors in Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics from Columbia University and completed graduate work at NYU’s Media Lab at the Tandon School of Engineering. He has developed custom software and data analysis tools, while also volunteering at NYU Tandon to mentor undergraduate engineering students.   Through his appointment as Chief Innovation Officer, CyberAI strengthens its commitment to delivering next-generation, AI-powered Cybersecurity solutions to a global marketplace.

About Cyber A.I. Group, Inc.

Cyber A.I. Group, Inc. (“CyberAI”) is a next-generation technology company pioneering the development of advanced proprietary platforms at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. With a mission to redefine how organizations protect, predict and respond to digital threats, CyberAI is positioning patent pending technologies that enable autonomous threat detection, adaptive risk mitigation and intelligent system resilience across enterprise and cloud environments as a low-cost alternative for small and medium-sized businesses. At the core of CyberAI’s innovation is a team of world-class technologists, data scientists and Cybersecurity experts dedicated to creating breakthrough solutions that are scalable, secure and globally deployable. The Company’s technologies are designed to address the most urgent and complex challenges facing today’s digital infrastructure, from AI-driven security orchestration to autonomous anomaly detection and predictive analytics for critical systems. CyberAI’s commitment to continuous innovation and deep IP development is positioning it at the critical intersection of AI and the global Cybersecurity landscape. By fusing Artificial Intelligence with real-world cyber defense expertise, the Company aims to set new standards for intelligent infrastructure protection and digital trust. For more information, please visit: cyberaigroup.io

September 16, 2025

By Elizabeth Tucker–

Many of us lacking experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) find it unnerving. There is the prospect that it can do everything we do, only better—or at least adequately and cheaper. “You won’t be replaced by AI; you’ll be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI better,” quoted Irvington Superintendent Mara Rasevic in a recent conversation. If AI is changing the contours of the workforce, then schools need to train students to use it effectively. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) this summer established the National Academy for AI Instruction so that teachers can stay on top of their new responsibility to impart AI literacy and also learn how to employ it to make their own working routines more efficient. The AFT has also published Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools, now already in a revised edition.

Jerrod Blair, Director of Technology and Integration in the Irvington school district, articulated an overview of how teachers there are using AI. “Some teachers are exploring how AI can save time on routine tasks, like generating practice questions, lesson ideas, or feedback prompts, so they can focus more on engaging with students,” he said. “Others are experimenting with AI as a discussion starter in class, for example, asking students to evaluate an AI-generated response for accuracy, bias, or completeness.”

Many districts, including those in the rivertowns, are using the AI teaching platform MagicSchool. Hastings has introduced it at the elementary level. In Sleepy Hollow, according to Technology Integration Specialist Jean O’Brien, AI is being used in instruction from elementary to high school and in math and science classes as well as in the humanities.

At Sleepy Hollow High School, social studies teacher Alyson Nawrocki finds MagicSchool especially useful in providing students individualized feedback on their writing. “The AI feedback is never in place of teacher feedback,” Nawrocki says, “but it’s useful as a checkpoint if I’m conferencing with another student so the rest of the class can keep working productively.”

MagicSchool assesses students’ writing according to Nawrocki’s own rubric. For example, under “thesis,” the AI software might opine that the writing is clear but too general, or under “analysis,” it might note that the writing successfully reports what happened but needs to explain why those events mattered. Students can revise on their own and then submit a final version to Nawrocki to read.

Another feature MagicSchool offers is a text leveler, which adjusts a text for different reading levels. Blair says, “This doesn’t replace the original text, but it gives teachers another way to ensure that every student can engage meaningfully with the material. For example, a teacher might provide the original text alongside a leveled version so that students can build confidence and gradually work toward the more complex version.”

MagicSchool’s character chatbot allows students to engage in conversation with figures from history. In Nawrocki’s class, students interviewed a World War I soldier about his experience. In another assignment, her students were assigned to read an article about early human migration into North America and then, using details learned from the reading, instruct the image-generating Canva AI to create a magazine cover picturing its contents.

When asked about the technology’s drawbacks, Nawrocki allows that “some students begin to rely too heavily on AI. This can discourage them from taking creative or intellectual risks, which are essential parts of the learning process.”

Then, of course, there is the temptation to use AI to fabricate homework assignments. To counteract this, Nawrocki says, “I no longer assign traditional ‘original’ homework that could easily be completed by a tool. Instead, I design assignments that require students . . . to show their thinking process. . . .The focus is less on producing a polished product at home and more on engaging in authentic skill-building that can be observed and assessed directly.” She might ask her students to relate their homework to the day’s lesson or illustrate historical processes in a drawing or diagram, rather than answer a straight question in writing, as would lend itself to generation by AI.

According to Jerrod Blair, many Irvington teachers as well “are thoughtfully adapting their assignments to reflect the reality that students have access to AI. This doesn’t mean starting from scratch; instead, it’s about asking deeper questions, emphasizing process and critical thinking, and creating opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in multiple ways.” But also, Blair says, “the district sees this as an opportunity to teach students how to use emerging technologies ethically.”

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