Your regular reminder that The Labour Party spent months falsely claiming that UK law is ‘uncertain’ regarding AI & copyright, as justification for proposing the law be changed (a change that would benefit AI companies). The law is not uncertain. AI companies just don’t like it.

More good news on AI & copyright: OpenAI reportedly on track to lose in German copyright case over song lyrics. aifray.com/breaking-opena…

If that’s the most interesting thing to you then wow… not to mention, he’s granting “permission to use his likeness” while he and his company may well commit the largest IP theft in the history of copyright by failing to comply with existing law.

Heseltine thinks we should throw Brexit in the bin. I agree, do you?

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Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world, intelligence is not the bottleneck

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’ Lord #Heseltine: one of the last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us the strength to stand our ground

Andrew Bailey, "For the foreseeable future, the impact of Brexit on economic growth in the UK is negative" "Making an economy less open, restricts growth"

Actor Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: “He has no empathy. He’s an alien. And he wants to hurt this country. It’s something deeply psychological in him. He wants to hurt people, he wants to hurt this country. I don’t understand the people in his cabinet. How they can live with

Gosh. What times. An extract from my High Court judgment has just been rediscovered & is going viral.

Eric Schmidt’s ex-mistress, 31, sues former Google CEO, 70, over alleged stalking, abuse and ‘digital surveillance’ trib.al/NSFtcFQ

"Google has a number of ongoing antitrust lawsuits at the moment, and Yelp's is one of them. Yelp has just seen a breakthrough in the case, too, as Judge van Keulen just ruled that all claims in Yelp’s amended complaint can move forward." Rooting for my friends at Yelp 💪

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. This shows what creatives organising en masse against

Massive! Court (SDNY) grants summary judgment in private adtech suits against Google using Judge Brinkema’s (EDVA) ruling for DOJ - holding Google is liable for monopolizing ad servers & exchanges and unlawfully tying DFP to AdX! These facts are now binding in private suits! /1

$MSFT CEO Satya just made one of the most revealing comments of the entire AI cycle when he said Microsoft has $NVDA GPUs sitting in racks that cannot be turned on because there is not enough energy to feed them. The real constraint is not compute but power & data center space.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

The BBC's appalling distortion of expert opinion grossly perverted the debate about Brexit. Brexit was not an exercise in democracy. It was an exercise in the abuse of democracy.

NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the ex-Ukip/Reform politician and close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over ten years for taking multiple bribes via a handler from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story..🧵⬇️