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I wonder to what extent UK 🇬🇧 political parties will consider such research in formulating welfare policies that are fit for purpose in the C21st ahead of the next General Election.🗳️
Certainly, a 10 year plan should …
New DeepMind Institute essay: "What is work for? Human wellbeing and the value of work in the AGI era."
The empirical evidence shows that many people value their jobs beyond earning a salary, and the importance of agency, status, and meaning. At the same time, we investigate alternate sources of wellbeing, and the possibility that societal norms around work may change over time.
with @JulianDJacobs @locross
Read it here: bit.ly/wellbeing-work-agi
Recovery of funds already disbursed / committed by the U.K. would amount to something in the order of £35bn. Quite the boost to HMT’s ‘headroom’ ahead of an election. 🧐
Read the article in The Times here:
thetimes.com/article/e50eaa2…
Sound. For too long, western governments have confined themselves to ‘cutting, borrowing or taxing’ - time it was for the entrepreneurial state to ‘invest’.
Canada’s sovereignty depends on our ability to build, adopt, and govern AI on our own terms.
That’s why Canada is taking an equity stake in Cohere — one of the world’s leading builders of secure AI.
Sovereign AI. Built here at home.
Read more: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
ALT Prime Minister Carney makes an announcement in Montréal, Québec.
Where the #PHP and #python vulnerability issues end eventually - fully automated cybersecurity (AI-enabled prevention)? Just imagine the approach is applied to new public service design and delivery…
Of course, it could simply result in mass migration from on-prem servers to hyperscalers … with whom large AI companies have increasingly ‘close’ relationships. 🧐
Interesting - given today’s Budget:
Technically, the Government is devolving 20% of business rate revenues that it just reduced by ~0.5% (when offsets for gambling / vape shops are taken into account). It retained the (potentially) big win - VAT on online marketplace traders - for the Centre. 🧐
The forecast VAT during the first full year of implementation is x10 the traditional biz rate take.
Does this set or entrench a precedent for revenues from digital and online businesses being retained/disbursed by the Centre over time?
@Peston @faisalislam
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Residents who help elderly or disabled neighbours put their rubbish out in this Japanese trial will earn the city's digital local currency (about ¥100 of it) per help.
A new model of public service? Or transactionalising neighbourliness?
(Link is in Japanese to warn you/ takes a bit of work to translate)
mainichi.jp/articles/2026091…
The Woodhead Pass, Derbyshire.
Not the best weather today - I blame the SatNav for the “scenic route” - but still every bit as stunning 🤩
This is the AI upskilling that’s urgently required @cipd if the aim is a ‘smooth transition’ without permanent scarring akin to the rapid deindustrialisation witnessed during the 1980’s #TAI
"Just 4% of CIOs reported plans in place to revamp roles with a human-agent workforce in mind, according to the report." ciodive.com/news/gartner-sur… < that seems ... not great. A lot of companies are going to find themselves woefully behind the curve.
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Just published @ScienceMagazine
Higher medical accuracy at lower cost
A 3-agent AI for sequential diagnosis nearly doubled accuracy compared with physicians for >300 @NEJM CPC cases and >300 ER cases AND substantially lowered cost, also exceeded performance of many AI models, physicians plus AI @HarshaNori
@erichorvitz @Dominic1King @mustafasuleyman
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Just published @Nature
A 3-agent AI personal health agent exceeded performance of a large language model/chatbot and serves as a foundation to build on for integrating sensor data, medical knowledge and coaching
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
More:-
comment.press/lawless
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ICEYE and @Nokia announced today a partnership with The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communications. ICEYE has supported Ukraine since 2022 and delivers sovereign space capability at speed. This builds on that.
Read more: hubs.li/Q04C3bj-0
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Barclays plans to axe 5,000 jobs this year, with developers bearing the brunt of the cuts as the UK bank adopts AI across its operations. The cuts equate to about 5% of the workforce, the bank said on Thursday, and are part of a broader cost-cutting drive ft.trib.al/Goyxjzw
ALT Image description: The Barclays Plc headquarters in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district in London, UK, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Overlaid text reads: Barclays plans 5,000 job cuts as bank steps up AI adoption. Credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg.
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NEW: This week’s Covid Inquiry report laid bare the fragility of social care going into the pandemic.
@NatashaCurry123 says that if a similar crisis hit tomorrow, the fault lines brutally highlighted during Covid would be exposed again.
nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
what type of vacancies? where are they concentrated? Armed with that info, we could better support NEETs (and incentivise mobility). But, would still need to acknowledge there are insufficient vacancies to move the dial on unemployment decisively. Help people start businesses.
Job vacancies fall below 700,000 for first time in over five years bit.ly/4hWPc45
