Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more
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The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations
We've all seen how our public services & businesses can be crippled by cyber attacks, costing £15b a year. — This bill aims to help protect our key services like the NHS, transport & energy from att...
The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute, in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic's Claude in public services
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that …
Malaysia plans to roll out Google AI tools to 445,000 civil servants to help modernize public services and improve efficiency across government agencies
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The UK National Audit Office says the government was operating at least 228 “legacy” computer systems as of March 2024, increasing the risk of a disruptive hack
Depends what you mean by ‘legacy’, though - Windows 2000 was, well, 25 years ago. [embedded post] Mark O'Neill / @radiobeartime.com : The words “at least” are doing a hell of a lot of work there. [e...
The UK opens a consultation on AI and copyright, aiming to offer an “opt out” exception to copyright law, forcing companies to open models to scrutiny, and more
Campaign for Protection of Rights Fights Back Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : Top AI labs aren't doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest Find out how algorithmic tools are use...
FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners
OGRS & OASIS. Compared to many others systems they've been pretty well governed, and mostly in-house (two likely linked things!). This is not so much about magic prediction as a hollowing out of the...
Albania shuts down access to online public services and government websites due to a cyberattack, just a few months after launching an online services portal
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A look at the regulations that New York, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and other cities are adopting as they increasingly use AI to provide public services
and countries—may want to copy” @WSJ reporting on Barcelona's AI policy https://www.wsj.com/...
Q&A with vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov on Ukraine's digital public services, corporate sanctions against Russia, Clearview AI facial recognition, crypto, and more
our contribution to the Ukrainian victory. Discussed it all with top world's tech media @techcrunch with a help of @romaindillet. https://twitter.com/...