As American behemoth OpenAI pulls the plug for now on a big investment in the UK, James Moore argues the picture isn’t as bleak as it looks T he UK government’s plans to turn the country into an “AI superpower” are in trouble. The decision by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to mothball its plans to invest billions in a huge data centre in the North East of England (where investment is sorely needed) called Stargate UK, surely raises questions about ministers’ grandiose claims. Granted, the