Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021
Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
Labour MP Graeme Downie, the chair of the UK's cross-party coalition on secure technology, warns that Chinese components in smart devices pose a sabotage threat
Lucy Fisher / Financial Times :
Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts
Votes of millions of people don't count. — Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination. — archive.ph/waCUV ...
The UK opens a consultation on AI and copyright, aiming to offer an “opt out” exception to copyright law, forcing companies to open models to scrutiny, and more
Campaign for Protection of Rights Fights Back Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : Top AI labs aren't doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest Find out how algorithmic tools are use...
How Elon Musk could influence UK politics, amid a clash between his ultra-free speech vision of X and Labour's mission to clamp down on online hate speech
The Guardian :
Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech
A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’ Bluesky: @edwardluce , @pickardje , and @bondhack X: @xdaily , @maxtempers...
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy
British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … X: @nickswan73 , @hkanji , @james_coe1 , and @krishnanrohit . LinkedIn...
Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works
Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials