Beautiful but delayed
A minister calls for beauty, AIGZ developers want decisions.
Happy Thursday, I'm writing this in a nondescript Pret after a day of panel-watching.
Happening Today 📆
The AI Summit London continues at Tobacco Dock, while a TBI and ARIA event at One Triton Square explores how to capture more of the fruits of the tech revolution.
In Parliament: At 10am MPs on the Public Accounts Committee quiz top DSIT civil servants Emran Mian and Alexandra Jones, as well as UKRI boss Ian Chapman and Michele Dougherty, who chairs UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council. They'll be asking about investment in supercomputers and wider research infrastructure. A tender for the National Supercomputer in Edinburgh is expected shortly.
The Department of Health announced a £30m investment in AI tools this morning to speed up lung cancer diagnosis. The Home Office has launched PoliceAI, a national centre to pilot and scale the technology, backed by £75 million of funding over three years.
In today's edition:
💅 The AI minister wants data centres to look more beautiful, but a developer is blaming his department for delays
🤖 Cambridge gets a new supercomputer
🔥 The Belfast unrest exposes more online safety gaps
