This nugget :

“The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence start-up said on Monday it had agreed to purchase processors with a total power consumption of 6 gigawatts, roughly equivalent to Singapore’s average demand.”

I mean - where the heck are all these gigawatts coming from ?

Also on the front page of the FT is an article about yet another circle jerk investment hit on the heels of the $100bn merry go round between OpenAI and Nvidia a week or two ago.

Gift article - on.ft.com/3KAvoVS OpenAI targets 10% AMD stake via multibillion-dollar chip deal

Here is a non paywalled link

archive.ph/WuJBb

What on earth is the point of this if signing up is voluntary ?

Sadly I think we are headed the same way… a Labour Party who can’t seem to get much right … )or what they do get right doesn’t get much coverage) , country goes sideways for 4 years and reform get in with a majority …

Biographies read by the author are pretty good. See Bob Mortimer.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d13...

Just get rid of it , massive vote winner (even though it hardly affects anyone) and add something onto the higher rate of income tax to offset the loss.

2/2

Keep at ‘em. Looking at this stuff from the UK is pretty dystopian.

Means after a few years - loads more eyes on the roads with the ability to report infractions. Incentivise people to upload footage.
Vastly safer driving will be the result at zero cost to the country

I always think this word looks like it should be said with a Gallic shrug .

I prefer a Mr Burns style “ahoy hoy”

How long until they start snatching the people videoing them …?

Seems pretty worrying to me.

UK will either back down or we lose access to iCloud etc.