Alex Kendall, CEO and Co-Founder of Wayve, a billion-dollar UK company that uses deep learning to solve the challenges of self-driving cars, has been presented with the Princess Royal Silver Medal, one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s most prestigious individual awards. 

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent.  

The programme, which will open to its first cohort in the 2026–27 academic year, intends to enrol 100 scholars over its first 4 years.