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Kendall's next speech, plus the week ahead
Happy Monday and welcome back. I hope you all had excellent weekends. I was back in Cromer, watching my wife run very far but with none of these robots around.
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 on 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 This Week 📆
Double bill: The Crime and Policing Bill and the Children's Wellbeing Bill are both back in Parliament today as the government seeks to get them through before this parliamentary session ends next week. MPs again rejected a social media ban in the Children's Wellbeing Bill last week, and the government will be asking peers to do the same this evening.
On Tuesday reps from TikTok, Meta, SnapChat and Roblox will talk to MPs on the Education Committee about the impact of social media and screentime on children. The Good Growth Foundation hosts a 'National Growth Debate' in Westminster, with speeches from Rachel Reeves, Darren Jones and Mel Stride, but Westminster's eyes will be on the Foreign Affairs Committee at 10:30am where Olly Robbins — the senior civil servant Keir Starmer has blamed for the latest Peter Mandelson scandal — gives evidence. Tech secretary Liz Kendall had the thankless task of defending her boss on yesterday's broadcast round.
The AWS Summit starts on Wednesday, while the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold a pre-appointment hearing with the government’s preferred candidate for UKRI chair, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. In the evening, the Lib Dems will launch a 'Liberal Vision for AI'. On Thursday evening there's the first 'Londonmaxxing Meetup'.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
🌍 The UK wants AI to be a global play, expect more from Kendall next week.
🌱 An 'AI for Growth' Alliance launches
😬 Claude Mythos is coming to the UK this week