Yes to reporting rules, no to AISI powers
What we learned at MPs' big session.
Happy Wednesday,
I'm off to get covered in crayons for a "stay and play" at my daughter's nursery.
How does the UK build sovereignty through public spending?
Procurement has never been so topical or urgent, with Labour promising to back startups through a "Buy British" approach, but...
- How does it achieve that?
- What are some of the barriers to startups selling to government?
- How does government avoid lock-in?
- What role can open source play?
These are some of the questions our expert panel, sponsored by Elastic, will be answering on Thursday October 15th at 10am.
Happening Today 📆
In Dublin: Tech leaders gather for an international AI Summit organised by the Irish Government. Speakers include the EU's Tech Sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen, OpenAI's Sarah Friar, Microsoft's Brad Smith and Google's Demis Hassabis. Reporter Joe Fay is also on the ground in Dublin for The Morning Intelligence and we'll have a full report in tomorrow's briefing.
To work: Multiverse holds a conference in London called Workforce 2030 about how to get AI working for businesses. The event is sold out, but we hope at least one audience member asks speaker Hannah Fry about The Traitors. Other speakers are Martha Lane Fox, George Osborne, Euan Blair and Jeremy Hunt.
Thinking face: IBM hosts its "Think" event at Magazine London. The company's leaders will be covering agentic enterprise and the future of computing.
Going live: The National Education Union's "Big Tech’s Little Victims" campaign is launching a live tracker today to measure the hours of childhood lost to social media before curbs take effect in March 2027.
In today's edition:
🦺 Frontier companies support the government placing reporting requirements on them, but not AISI powers
🇬🇧 UK startups announce partnerships with Nvidia
🌏 Foreign-born founders are behind more than half of Britain’s fastest-growing companies
