Beeban's next battle
Why the peer is now focused on sovereignty.
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Happening Today 📆
One for the cool kids: Stripe hosts an event with Fractile and Accel this evening on building the "inference economy".
In Parliament: The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee hears from experts at 9:30am about how devices can impact children's brain development. The committee also has two new members — Labour MPs Maya Ellis, who worked in local government, and Tom Collins, a former Bosch engineer, have replaced Adam Thompson and Lauren Sullivan.
Agents of change: AI governance needs to be built into financial services tools, techUK details in a report published this morning.
In today's edition:
🗣️ Campaigner and peer Beeban Kidron argues the under-16 social media ban is vulnerable, calls AI sovereignty an "unexploded bomb".
😠 The CMA's investigation into Microsoft gives everyone a chance to pile on.
