UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it

The Register · 2026-09-02 · UK · verified record

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UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it Jump to main content Search TOPICS Security All Security Cyber-crime Patches Research CSO Off-Prem All Off-Prem Edge and IoT Channel PaaS and IaaS SaaS On-Prem All On-Prem Systems Storage Networks HPC Personal Tech Cx0 Public Sector Software All Software AI and ML Applications Databases DevOps OS Platforms Virtualization Offbeat All Offbeat Columnists Science BOFH Legal Site News About Us Special Features All Special Features VMware Explore 2026 Cloud Infrastructure Month 2026 HPE: AI Explainers Agentic AI The Future of the Datacenter AWS:Reinvent Nvidia GTC Supercomputing Month Computex 2026 AI Infrastructure Month 2026 The State of Storage 2026 RSA Conference Vendor Voice All Vendor Voice Modernizing Financial Services with FIS and AWS Barco Infinidat Everpure Rubrik Make it real with Capgemini and AWS Money Movement Hub ZTE Nutanix: Scale Kubernetes. Not Chaos. AWS New Horizon Digicert Netscout Resources Intelligence Webinars & Events Newsletters Search Sign in AI Security AWS Microsoft Developer Open Source BOFH Who, Me? On Call Podcasts REG AD security UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards Connor Jones Connor Jones Cybersecurity reporter Published wed 2 Sep 2026 // 10:44 UTC MOST POPULAR virtualization Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries SECURITY Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access virtualization VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade virtualization A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter OS PLATFORM Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase The UK government has rejected proposals from members of the the House of Lords to bring AI vendors within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra argued that regulating AI vendors and frontier model developers through the bill would not prevent hostile actors from misusing their products.…