According to Reuters, Snowflake has announced a partnership with OpenAI reported as a $200 million deal, signalling continued large scale spend on model access and integration in enterprise data stacks. For governance, the key question becomes auditability of model use across data environments and who holds operational responsibility for outputs.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has set out an expansion of free AI skills training, aiming to upskill 10 million workers by 2030 and making newly benchmarked courses available to all adults. The announcement also signals how government intends to frame “responsible adoption” as an economic and labour-market policy tool. 

Ofcom’s consultation on combatting mobile messaging scams closes on 28 January 2026, which matters for AI governance because scam campaigns increasingly scale through automated content generation and rapid targeting. Any new rules that raise detection and disruption duties for networks can indirectly shape how AI-enabled fraud is handled in telecoms ecosystems.

According to Reuters, the Commission opened two formal specification proceedings under the Digital Markets Act to shape how Google must provide access for rivals to certain services and data connected to AI and search. Google is reported as warning about risks to privacy and innovation, while the Commission frames the process as a structured compliance dialogue with a six-month endpoint.

According to Reuters the EU opened a new formal line of scrutiny around Grok after non-consensual sexualised deepfakes circulated on X, with potential DSA exposure framed around systemic risk management rather than one-off removals. The story matters because it treats generative tools as part of platform risk architecture and not as a separate product bolt-on.