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The Briefing, 2 November 2026

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Welcome to Monday’s briefing. It’s a quiet morning for workplace AI tools, with no substantial new releases to report. In the wider news, National Grid has agreed to buy land for Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, which could power a planned AI datacentre.

Elsewhere in AI

National Grid has agreed to buy land for Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, which could power a neighbouring AI datacentre, The Guardian reports. Read

OpenAI plans a US policy campaign after Tuesday’s midterms, proposing mandatory AI safeguards and greater community input into datacentre developments, Axios reports. Read

Western Australian police scanned 1,380,882 faces during a five-month facial-recognition trial, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts, The Guardian reports. Read

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