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UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face

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Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the moment it spots a flagged shopper. […]

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Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk

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Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale […]

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Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

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Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain’s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put […]

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UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet

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Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podcast, Kendall, the UK’s science and technology secretary, made a pointed case […]

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Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028

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Most tech founders chase a bigger valuation. Thought Machine’s boss would rather talk about revenue, and he has just crossed a milestone worth boasting about. The London core-banking company has passed $100m in annual revenue for the first time, tech.eu reported. It also took a fresh £30m ($41m) from a “tier 1” bank, and pushed […]

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UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

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Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to Bloomberg. She sets it out in an essay for the Chatham House think tank, published on […]

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UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges

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Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity responsible for finding and removing child sexual abuse material online. The IWF identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of […]

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NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul

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The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update is expected to reach 200,000 patients over the next year before […]

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The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets

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The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock delivered the warning to reporters after the company posted its annual results, as Reuters […]

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The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

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Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. On Monday, […]

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