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Launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 model prompts fresh calls for UK AI regulation

By Frank Hersey ( August 8, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, has prompted UK civil society to renew calls for regulation of AI technologies, describing a growing gap between the capabilities of the technology and those of regulators to govern them. OpenAI itself states it has activated safeguards around the model’s capabilities and the UK’s AI testing center has assessed the model.The much-anticipated launch of the latest model by OpenAI, one significantly more powerful and responsive than the previous, highlights the need for an AI Bill in the UK says the Ada Lovelace Institute, a think tank that promotes society’s use of data and AI....

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