• UK government tries to placate opponents of AI copyright bill

    UK government tries to placate opponents of AI copyright bill
    Economic impact assessment is one concession aiming to head off opposition from MPs, peers and creatives such as Paul McCartney and Tom StoppardThe UK government is trying to placate peer and Labour backbencher concerns about copyright proposals by pledging to assess the economic impact of its plans.Creative professionals including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Tom Stoppard and Kate Bush have strongly criticised ministers’ proposals to let artificial intelligence companies train their models on
  • Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death

    Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death
    Tate Britain, LondonUsing CGI-avatars, racks of opera costumes and a film starring Toby Jones, the artist explores the proximity of his own mortality – and oursFilled with laughter and pain, and bodies that cry and moan, suffer and sing, Ed Atkins’ exhibition at Tate Britain is populated by the unreal and the simulated, the present and the absent, the living and the dead. We go from light to dark and back again, from room to room, and constant shifts in tempo and register, swerving f
  • UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns

    UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns
    Tony Blair Institute says enforcing stricter licensing rules for copyright-protected material will threaten national security interestsTony Blair’s thinktank has urged the UK to relax copyright laws in order to let artificial intelligence firms build new products, as it warned a tougher approach could strain the transatlantic relationship.The Tony Blair Institute said enforcing firm copyright measures would strain ties with the US, which is poised to announce tariffs on UK goods on Wednesd