What does AI say about you? I've compared ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude and Grok. Can you guess the best and worst? sbpr.cc/Go0df

Rachel Reeves tells a story about a schoolgirl asking her what job she'd do if she could do anything in the world. Reeves quips: "Given the events of the last few weeks, I suspect many of you would sympathise if I had said, 'anything but chancellor'". trib.al/YKanzN3

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls

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The UK’s military support for Ukraine this year is more than ever before. John Healey confirmed at today's Ukraine Defence Contact Group that the 🇬🇧 has delivered 50,000 drones to 🇺🇦 in the last six months and £150m worth of air defence and artillery in the last two months.

When your select committee evidence session is interrupted- by a mouse!

Not sure why, but Rhinos are my favourite animal.

Today's Northern Agenda highlights how ridiculous aspects of data protection laws are. It's awful destruction is even part of regulations. Most data are valuable historic records. Keep it secure, but destroy nothing. sbpr.cc/pVjdB

Sustainability has become the most frequent criticism I hear about AI. There is a lack of reliable data. This data indicates it's much less of a problem than many believe. The only certainty is it is improving and a solveable problem.

My Ninja Woodfire XL birthday present. Dinner is salt and chilli belly pork for me, salmon for Karen, caramelised onion vegetarian sausages for Esme. With Jersey new potato salad with a homemade wholegrain mustard and Yorkshire honey dressing with mint from the garden.

Good Night, New York Times for Kids. A sad day but probably one long coming (and I wonder how many newspapers still have their kids sections). It is a reflection, in a way, on the death of print but I have to think that its ending says a lot about media literacy.

Well played.

If you understand the centrality of “face” (面子 or miànzi) in Chinese culture - an obsession with honor and dignity in matters of social standing - you will see this and rightly glean: China simply does not respect the EU This is a highly symbolic, honor culture. Nothing

Great to see such an enthusiastic, energised, accomplished General Secretary.

A year or so ago, the joke about AI images was that they would have 6 fingers. AI images (and videos like this one) lack obvious tells now. Ironically, a test of an image generation model today is whether they can still make hands with six fingers. Most can’t do it anymore.

New research by Hays shows UK boards are half (29%) as likely to recommend staff use AI as US boards (59%). The UK also lags behind France (38%) and Ireland (36%). Just 37% of UK firms provide AI training. compared to 50% in the US. sbpr.cc/XVH6B

PR isn’t just about press releases anymore. 🚀

The AI future will be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution is one of the quotes from this in-depth interview with Demis Hassabis, head of DeepMind, the UK company Google acquired to become its AI arm. sbpr.cc/Jkyd1