At Thinktank (Birmingham’s science museum) and wondering why museums are pricey outside of London and free inside London. Anyone know?

Richard Stirling Richard Stirling , co-founder and CEO of Oxford Insights , discusses the requirements for a government to be #AI ready and the potential risks associated with AI in #Kazakhstan. astanatimes.com/2025/02/ai-ref…

Delighted to be talking about privacy, governance and AI in KSA this morning. I’ll be talking about how you can design in privacy to build trust.

🆕 Our work impacted over 15 million people and $9 billion in public spending in 2024. Check out our latest Annual Report for more on the achievements of Open Contracting Partnership and our local partners worldwide: open-contracting.org/annual-report-…

🚨Excited to announce that the Sovereign AI Unit is investing £8m in OpenBind: building the world's largest protein-ligand dataset. Backed by a top UK consortium, inc. Isomorphic Labs and Nobel Laureate David Baker, this will help the UK become the home for AI drug design 1/6🧵

Some tasks are painful to do. But some are fulfilling and fun. How do they line up with the tasks that AI agents are set to automate? Not that well, based on our new paper "Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce"

About to talk about the AI race in Tunisia. First up hearing from the minister on the importance of overseas capital investment to economic growth and their great success in attracting it.

Getting the supplies in for our annual company retreat

Lots of disagreement on this panel but everyone could get behind: 1⃣ policymakers need wake up to how fast these changes are happening – dismissing AI based on limited early interactions (e.g. a bad ChatGPT output in 2020) is negligent. 2⃣ the UK is trending towards irrelevance

if you’re a uk-based academic and have an ai project that could use a bunch of gpu’s, now’s your time to grab some for free: details below!

Great job: the Government’s Sovereign AI unit is looking for someone to come and lead a team focused on special projects for UK sovereign advantage Ideal for someone early ish career looking to do a tour of duty to help ensure the UK is an AI maker, not an AI taker

MDEC invites locally-owned Malaysia Digital (MD) manufacturing companies to apply for the SmartMFG+ Incentive Programme, aligned with NIMP 2030. Benefits include financial incentives, testbed access, and capacity-building. Apply by 13 July 2025 at mdec.my/smartmfg.

Job – Head of Ventures in UK Government's Sovereign AI Unit civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… Not sure whether the bit about working directly with Matt Clifford still applies, but in any case I'm sure DSIT will consider suitable applicants without reference to age. x.com/matthewcliffor…

Calling all weekend grafters - the deadline for this is Monday! A small number of academics have the opportunity to get a large number of GPUs!

Another day, another top job available in the Sovereign AI Unit. We are looking for someone that can sniff out amazing startup partnership opportunities, transformative datasets to invest in, and think through what the UK's most ambitious plays can be Help the UK stand up tall!

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Who are the UKs best people working on this that we need to get in a room together?

I know folk dunk on the mismatch between private sector and public sector salaries in tech, but it extends much wider. This feels far to low a salary for the responsibility: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4296…

⁦Rory Stewart⁩ any chance you could correct that to the man who invented the web? (Very unstandable and common mistake but Vint Cerf was the internet and TBL was the web)

Check out our new OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives resource hub on #AI in government now live here: oecd.ai/en/gov