Jack Hardinges

OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT searchable OpenAI's chief information security officer said it was rolling back allowing conversations with ChatGPT to be discoverable by search engines.

"OpenAI is removing a feature that lets users put ChatGPT activity on search engines... The opt-in feature was a 'short-lived experiment'" www.businessinsider.com/openai-remov...

anyone know what this means for the CPRD?

OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service Data Provision Notice - NHS England Digital This Data Provision Notice to require GP practices to provide the service with access to pseudonymised GP patient data to enable clinical audit, service evaluation, health surveillance, research and&n...

"This Data Provision Notice requires GP practices to provide [OpenSAFELY] with access to pseudonymised GP patient data" digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-di...

AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

"Just as we pool taxes to fund streetlights, law enforcement, and basic research, the production of creative content in the era of generative AI should be publicly supported, and its outputs kept in the public domain" www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...

"shoulders hunched like a predator ready to pounce on the next piece of information, breath shallow and rapid as if oxygen itself were scarce, eyes darting frantically across screens like a rat in a maze searching for the cheese of instant gratification"

"US fintech startups that had banked on free, regulated access via the rule now face strategic uncertainty.. [the] sudden reversal leaves them with no guarantee of third-party access frameworks, fee protections, or industry-standard APIs" greatnorthventures.com/who-really-o...

UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage “If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.

Several Reddit communities dedicated to sharing news and media from conflicts around the world now require users in the UK to submit a photo ID or selfie in order to prove they are old enough to view “mature” content. Includes r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage.

www.404media.co/uk-users-nee...

Our view on digital sovereignty A thought leadership article by Mike Bracken MBE on Public Digital's view on digital sovereignty

"Sovereignty, if defined as owning every layer of a technological stack, can quickly become counterproductive... The goal, instead, is intelligent dependence. This means making better decisions about what to depend on, under which conditions, and for how long" public.digital/pd-insights/...

JPMorgan spooks fintechs with plans to charge for access to customer data Start-ups say having to pay for consumer’s financial information would run them out of business

open banking reversing? www.ft.com/content/85cc...

AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.

Update:

DeepMind will make a one-time gift to support CASP temporarily, for around 12 months.

ah, some more can-kicking

I can't comprehend the lack of critical thinking required to see (literally) prompting an LLM as a replacement for scientific method

Can you get a car banned under the DSA?

Markets, Bureaucracy, Democracy, ... AI? What large models share with the systems that make society run

"First, we may treat AI as a technology of governance, asking how AI's capacities to classify information at scale affect markets, bureaucracy, and democracy. Second, we might treat AI as an emerging form of governance in its own right" www.programmablemutter.com/p/markets-bu...

OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.

"I hypothesize a kind of subprime AI crisis is brewing."

the code has been scrambled?

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

"a new type of marketplace in which publishers could distribute their content to AI companies and be compensated for it.. called Pay per Crawl" techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c...

Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.

Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of #AI Scrapers By Default

"Last July, @Cloudflare.social introduced an optional setting to allow website publishers to block A.I. scrapers if they wanted. That led to the default setting on Tuesday."

www.nytimes.com/2025...

#GenerativeAI

Scene from the Thick of It, originally "MARY FROM THE FOCUS GROUP, SHE'S AN ACTRESS", actress has been changed to AI

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

UK to become world leader in drug discovery as Technology Secretary heads for London Tech Week New project to make the UK a leader in AI-drug discovery, as Imperial College also partners with the World Economic Forum on AI-Driven Innovation Centre.

£8m from the Sovereign AI Unit at DSIT to "generate the world’s largest collection of data on how drugs interact with proteins.. to support the training of new AI models that can identify promising new drugs" www.gov.uk/government/n...

Internet Power A talk given at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs arguing that 21st century institutions need to understand how to accrue and wield their own power on the Internet.

"'Planetary-Scale Data Institutions'... the purpose of the course is to imagine what kind of institutions could reliably produce and distribute data about our planet" radiant.earth/blog/2025/06...

I've thrown another log on the National Data Library fire: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I've written a paper on this with the nice folks at Creative Commons, as well as a draft spec for a new protocol for creators/publishers to express their preferences around AI use. builds on the new IETF WG stuff. will share when it's published later in June - would welcome your take!

"The country’s current data protection law classifies data as a personal, inalienable right... [the bill] classifies data as personal property"

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S.-based initiatives.

"Brazil is testing a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data... [the] federal bill, when passed, would turn data into commercial assets for citizens" restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

Data Commons Can Save Open AI Recent progress in open datasets shows promise for building fully open AI models without legal constraints.

"Open sharing falls short of preventing data exploitation.. We need various data sharing and governance models to balance openness with control" thenewstack.io/data-commons...

Taste is all you need Discernment in the age of the machine

"the future I see is a sloppier one, but it’s also one with more good art than there has ever been before" www.learningfromexamples.com/p/taste-is-a...

World’s largest cohort study now open to researchers Our Future Health, the world’s largest consented cohort study of its kind, is now open to researchers, as published in Nature Medicine

Our Future Health now has 2.3m consented participants, of which 1.3m have now completed their detailed health questionnaire and given blood. the largest exercise in data donation ever? ourfuturehealth.org.uk/news/worlds-...

Data Empowerment Fund | Jack Hardinges 👋 Wrapping up the Data Empowerment Fund I’ve been wrapping up the Data Empowerment Fund over the past month, and thought I’d publish a final update for those who’ve followed its work. Back in 2023,...

I've been wrapping up the Data Empowerment Fund, which I helped set up in 2023

disappointed not to have secured £££ to continue, but very pleased with (+ proud of) the initiatives we've helped to reimagine data as a resource for people + communities

more here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...