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“This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said in a news release.

But UK takeover and merger rules dictated that, having had an expression of interest rejected, Earick's consortium needed to make an offer by 24 October or announce they would not do so.

Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith told a fringe meeting the Conservatives needed "bold" policies that would take voters by surprise at the next election.

Talks to secure Treasury backing began in early spring but an answer on whether it will be forthcoming is urgently needed.

Human hands, however, are equipped with thousands of nerve endings of dizzying variety, giving fingers the feedback needed to grip and manipulate tools.