London Falling
Campaign to counter AI lies about London.
Happy Wednesday and welcome back to your morning shot of the freshest AI news.
What do you get when British innovation meets Nvidia’s top open source models? Meet Jupiter — a UK LLM, developed by London startup Locai Labs. It's built by post-training Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 models to give it British language, knowledge and humour. There is even a Welsh version. All its training data is public and there is no Chinese open source in sight. Jupiter gives UK organisations a new sovereign reasoning model with frontier performance that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud — and it’s trained for maximum performance on agentic tasks.
Happening Today 📆
One to watch: The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is in the Commons this afternoon for MPs to vote on Lords amendments, which include a ban on social media for under 16s and smartphones in schools. The government has put forward its own rival amendments which would mean it can enact the outcome of its social media consultation later this year.
Hurry up: Small Modular Reactors are the great hope for powering data centres. Rolls-Royce and X-energy reps talk to MPs on the Energy Security Committee at 9:15am about how soon they're coming and their cost.
Friday morning chat: Join us for an online Q&A with a panel of experts about UK AI sovereignty on Friday at 10am. We'll be talking through the Sov/AI Unit's launch the night before and where it goes next. We'll have Will Bushby, ventures lead at the Sov/AI Unit, Tom Westgarth, a former government AI adviser and now head of growth at AI hardware startup Fractile, Pia Hüsch, a national security and tech expert at RUSI, and Paul Drayson, chair of our sponsor Locai Labs, and a member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. Register here.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
🤥 Ministers plan campaign against AI disinfo on London
🏷️ Labelling AI content is back on the agenda
✒️ MPs vote to pass government AI chatbot rules, but reject others, setting up a showdown in the Lords.