Tracking down my viral protester
Plus the TBI launches AI tools for politicians.
Happy Monday,
Today's main piece is from journalist Eleanor Warnock who had the novel experience of hosting an AI panel which was interrupted by a protester last week. A clip of it went viral, and Eleanor decided to find the woman, interviewing her this weekend at another demo.
We've also got a scoop on the Tony Blair Institute launching a host of AI tools for governments as it undergoes a major overhaul.
The UK's most valuable AI workloads — HMRC transaction data, NHS patient records, MoD intelligence systems — sit in infrastructure that many AI models can't reach.
Regulatory constraints mean agencies can't send sensitive data to the cloud, while leading models can’t run locally. The result is roughly half the world's data is being locked out of the AI revolution.
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Happening Today 📆
Tech tax: The Lib Dems will call for a new Online Crime Agency funded by a levy on Big Tech companies at the party's conference in Brighton today. It would take on the most serious online crimes and be backed by £250m a year, the party's Home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson will say.
Welcome to New York: The UN General Assembly starts in New York tomorrow and it's a big week of tech diplomacy. Andy Burnham will meet Donald Trump for the first time on Tuesday evening, while on Thursday, Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House. Trump said this weekend he would form an "AI Force", while treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the US and China had formed an AI dialogue.
In today's edition:
🕵️♀️ Tracking down my viral protester
🧰 Scoop: The Tony Blair Institute is moving from advising governments to building AI tools for them
