OpenAI UK Ltd's accounts show its 110 London staff averaged £2.3m each in salary and shares in 2025, about double the £1.1m of the year before. The average spans researchers and sales and government affairs staff, so it is a weak guide to what an AI researcher costs.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 30%
- Operator
- Operator 37%
- Investor
- Investor 33%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence70
Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes and let couples leave an extra £1m tax-free. For owner-operators planning succession, it stays an opposition promise until the party wins power and passes it into law.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 10%
- Operator
- Operator 44%
- Investor
- Investor 46%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives78
- Confidence66
Daybreak enters a Ukrainian defence that already runs Google's AI tools
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government its Daybreak cyber defence system and GPT-5.6 Sol for nothing. The only figure published alongside the deal is CERT-UA's count of nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
OpenAI gives Ukraine free Daybreak access to find weaknesses in hospital and grid systems
Daybreak identifies weaknesses in digital systems and helps develop fixes. CERT-UA counted nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025. The free access extends a pattern OpenAI already runs with European firms and UK banks.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
Canada and Germany put roughly $300M CAD behind Bengio's LawZero
Both governments funded Yoshua Bengio's safe-by-design institute at Montreal's ALL IN, where Cohere agreed terms with Germany's Aleph Alpha and OpenAI's managing director called Canada an obvious place for a data centre.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence45