Commercial terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the south bank of the River Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK’s most deprived regions has turned into a half-a-billion-pounds-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen.
Reminder:
"Overall, rates of incarceration and criminal convictions are broadly similar for foreign and British nationals. When controlling for age and sex, the share of non-citizens who are incarcerated is lower than among Brits."
All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- History of Art/History of Music
- Law
- Life Science
- Theoretical Computer Science
These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026
www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
A reverse take on ‘Immigrants, we get the job done’
A healthy antidote to some of the X-driven poison circulating at present
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
“What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
The widespread use of LLMs diminishes creative ideas.
An analysis of over 2000 college essays finds that human-written essays contributed more new ideas than GPT-4 written essays www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Parameter- or prompt-modifications does not mitigate the creativity gap.
This.
Meanwhile, it's London Tech Week and the ministerial teams are at London events announcing AI investment and adoption plans. There needs to be social policy that runs alongside all this, not just economic policy.