↧
How Dominic Cummings’ favorite AI firm captured the British government
LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience. Two of those four — Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg — go on...
View ArticleTony Blair admits UK will need ‘a little persuading’ to embrace digital ID
LONDON — Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has doubled down on his call for Britain to embrace digital IDs — while acknowledging that public skepticism would have to be overcome first. Speaking at a...
View ArticleBritish MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
LONDON — Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence....
View ArticleBritain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram
LONDON — As riots swept the U.K. in recent days, far-right groups plotted attacks on immigration centers and swapped manuals for making petrol bombs on the fringe social network Telegram. Social media...
View ArticleTony Blair’s AI mania sweeps Britain’s new government
LONDON — On stage at the Tony Blair Institute’s annual conference, five days after the July general election, the eponymous founder regaled the audience with evangelical zeal. The freshly removed Tory...
View ArticleTony Blair’s NHS dream? Fewer GPs, more chatbots.
LONDON — Tony Blair proposes closing most local GP surgeries and replacing them with super primary care centers, a leaked report shows. The former prime minister’s report envisages a radical overhaul...
View ArticleMike Lynch yacht disaster: Missing tycoon’s ties to UK spy chiefs
LONDON — It was a freak yachting accident that gripped the world. And the disappearance of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch in stormy seas off the coast of Sicily was even made stranger by the fact that...
View ArticleTech policy: 20 people to meet at Tory conference
LONDON — They may have suffered a historic defeat, but many in the Conservative Party feel that instilling a renewed sense of the central role that tech will play in shaping the U.K.’s long-term...
View ArticleElon Musk dismisses UK summit snub, says he doesn’t want to go anyway
Billionaire Elon Musk hit back Thursday at reports he was not invited to an upcoming U.K. investment summit over his incendiary social media posts about far-right riots that engulfed swathes of the...
View ArticleUK’s Keir Starmer: Don’t be scared of AI
LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that Britain “needs to run towards” the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence. Speaking alongside former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....