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Ryan Morrison

UK defence technology lab signs MOU with Google Cloud

The Ministry of Defence says it will become more agile in the way it works with tech companies to avoid being too late to the AI party.

UK government puts up £50m in fresh funding for AI safety research

The cash will be spent building tools and programmes to help organisations role out artificial intelligence more safely.

‘Faster action’ needed on making social media platform data APIs available

Though access is being mandated in the Online Safety Bill, it could be delayed for years. Researchers want that to change.

Keir Starmer wants to ‘speed up’ pace of AI regulation

Labour plans to introduce top-down regulation of artificial intelligence backed by legislation.

This start-up says it can use discarded crypto mining rigs to train AI models

MonsterAPI says it will be able to add Macbooks, games consoles and even Tesla cars to its network in the future.

Rishi Sunak touts UK AI safety research at London Tech Week

The Prime Minister says Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI will offer models to researchers for safety training.

Reddit apps to shut down over API pricing hike which could see bills hit $20m a year

Reddit says its corpus of data is “very valuable” and so is charging developers to access the dataset and APIs.

Adobe offers IP indemnity from generative AI copyright claims

The vendor says images used in its Firefly generative AI tool are all stock images, or from the public domain with appropriate licences.

Microsoft brings OpenAI models to its Azure Government Cloud

Microsoft says its government cloud won’t share data on the public internet nor use information to train models.

Is Rishi Sunak’s government ready to abandon its ‘light touch’ approach to AI regulation already?

As Labour calls for AI licensing, there are signs the government is wavering on its plans to police automated systems.