Insights from Inline Policy listing pageThis blog looks at the UK government’s discussions and actions around online safety over the past year, sketching out the main factors influencing its policy direction.
Throughout March and early April 2026, rumours swirled that leading AI firm Anthropic was developing a tool with unprecedented cyber capabilities. Early indications suggested it would be able to identify — and potentially exploit — technological vulnerabilities in ways not only highly sophisticated but impossible to anticipate through traditional cybersecurity paradigms. Some speculated this would spell the doom of entire swathes of the $200bn+ global cybersecurity industry, or even upend the traditional financial systems on which incalculable numbers of people depend.
