Structure sorted, substance missing
Burnham's AI moves, a week in.
Good morning,
I'm typing from a wet holiday cottage in the Lake District. Still, nice to experience rain again.
News In Brief 🩳
Working on it: Cosine co-founder Yang Li has unveiled the timeline for the UK's first frontier AI model, with commercial launch planned for the start of next year. Li said in an interview with this newsletter earlier in July that the Lumen Sovereign model was being built by re-designing the training process.
Interested: Pension providers are looking to back the British Business Bank's new £1bn Scale-up fund. The fund, first reported by The Morning Intelligence ahead of London Tech Week, will connect institutional capital with founders and VCs.
Russian poisoning: Foreign information warfare is entering a new phase as hostile actors (aka Russia) try to manipulate chatbots through 'LLM poisoning', according to research from Demos.
Got your back: Nvidia has launched a coalition to back open source with companies including Microsoft and Palantir, amid a heightened debate over model safety.
In today's edition:
🤔 A week in, Andy Burnham has restructured Whitehall around AI and pushed tech as a re-industrialisation strategy, but key details are missing.
💼 The latest job moves and vacancies
