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Britain “has been overdue a more coherent strategic response to this threat. The threat environment has vastly changed, and the government’s response has so far been split across several departments." But she cautioned there was “a real difference between a centre inside the Cabinet Office and an agency accountable to Parliament.”

The new National Centre for Information Defence is a welcome, if overdue, step towards the UK mounting a more strategic response to foreign information warfare in the age of social media and AI.

Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow specialising in cyber at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told the BBC western tech firms had been supporting Ukraine for some time - partly for altruistic reasons but also because they gain very valuable data and intelligence from an active conflict. "Given this, it's no surprise that OpenAI is now also providing defensive cyber security services" he said.