The Latest Breaking News from GCHQ

Sir Jeremy Fleming spoke about the ‘potential applications and risks’ of artificial intelligence.

Director Lindy Cameron, who heads up the GCHQ arm, will use a speech this week to warn that the UK and allies of the ‘dramatic rise of China’.

Britain named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of its intelligence communications agency GCHQ on Tuesday, tasked with protecting the country from terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers.

Anne Keast-Butler, currently the deputy director general of MI5, is described as ‘exceptional’

Anne Keast-Butler will be the first woman to hold the top job

She will be the first woman to lead the intelligence agency since it launched 104 years ago

Anne Keast-Butler succeeds Sir Jeremy Fleming as head of the Government’s intelligence organisation.

GCHQ chief says Britain ‘must be able to contest and compete with adversaries in cyberspace’

National Cyber Force says it is engaged in ways to ‘undermine tradecraft’ of Russian, Chinese and other state-sponsored hackers