The UK Digital Sovereignty Brief

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The Digital Sovereignty Brief #7 - The model broke out and then broke in
An OpenAI model, mid-evaluation, autonomously broke into Hugging Face — the platform much of the AI economy runs on. The engineers who cleaned it up…
 • Martin De Saulles
The Digital Sovereignty Brief #6 — "DSIT is abolished"
The department that had just asked whether Britain should hold a position on the sovereignty of its own data was abolished this week, its digital and AI…
 • Martin De Saulles
The Digital Sovereignty Brief #5 — "Oversight is not control"
The UK designated the four cloud providers its financial system runs on — and reached their Luxembourg, Irish and UK subsidiaries, not the US parents…
 • Martin De Saulles
The Digital Sovereignty Brief #4 — "Cut off at the whim of its partners"
Parliament, the Bank of England and the NCSC all named Britain's technology dependency in a single week — while the US gate on GPT-5.6 lifted, on…
 • Martin De Saulles
The Digital Sovereignty Brief #3 — Off, back on, out of our hands
The US switched Anthropic's top models off worldwide, then back on eighteen days later; told OpenAI to vet its new release through Washington; and…
 • Martin De Saulles

June 2026

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