Kir Nuthi

I do think we sometimes forget:
1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy
2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go

And

3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)

Civility matters, but the elite desire to raise it to the highest virtue is sublimated classism and status quo bias.

Governing AI starts with user control

To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog:

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New business secretary should put deregulation top of his agenda Peter Kyle becomes the tenth business secretary in as many years - he should go where his predecessors didn't and genuinely cut red tape

The Government has talked the talk on regulatory reform, now it's time to walk the walk. With a new Business Secretary, I'm in City AM today arguing that Peter Kyle should boost growth by taking a fresh look at the Government's plans to cut red tape.

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Bluesky adds private bookmarks | TechCrunch Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.

Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.

Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.

So exciting, congrats dude!

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Article on BBC news. Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Some absolutely f***ing disgraceful behaviour from this administration...

I threw the sandwich
But I didn't throw the condiments
I say, I threw the sandwich
And they say it is a Capital offense

Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments

Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models

www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...

How to pave the streets with gold On pedestrianising Soho

It’s time to pedestrianise Soho.

New post from me for the Greater London Project, and in @cityam.bsky.social this morning. The Mayor should reconsider bringing Soho in scope of the Oxford Street pedestrianisation.

www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...

When Proton AI? Right meow. 🐾

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arresting a sandwich thrower in Washington, DC, 380 miles from the nearest international border crossing. Excellent use of resources.

Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9

Is it bad that I read this as Reddit data to now solely feed into Reddit Answers and not other AI models

So yeah, I wrote a book about the incentives that turn influencers into reflexive contrarians and Gurus….wellness is particularly prone to this.

Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.

The NDL was a critical component of what Government took forward from Matt Clifford’s AI Action Plan. If successful, it could be one of the most critical components in unlocking more critical data to the UK's AI developers.

A special shout out to our lovely friends at the AI Fringe!

Startup Coalition is thrilled to have spent the morning hosting a roundtable of founders, policy folks, and DSIT to talk through the UK National Data Library. It was chock full of lively discussion around issues around data sharing, opportunities around democratising data, and so much more.

The future of online porn is at stake today A Texas law requiring people to provide proof of age before viewing online porn comes before the U.S. Supreme Court today. With similar laws already at

The future of online porn — and online anonymity and privacy more broadly, really — depends on a case that's before the U.S. Supreme Court today reason.com/2025/01/15/t...

The plan recommends that this UK Sovereign AI Unit directly invests in AI startups, delivers compute sites and partnerships, and packages the most valuable data sets.

Screenshotting the Govt's response here:

The final section of the paper focuses on one single recommendation, which is by far the one with the most potential for impact.

The goal? To create a new unit within Govt that acts as foundational support for AI companies

The vaguest rec and the most ambitious - drive AI adoption across the UK (Rec 49)

We're all the way at Rec 47 now — which focuses on the barriers to adoption facing the private sector.

The plan recs leveraging the Industrial Strategy and appointing AI sector champions that work with industry and gov't to create targeted solutions.

Delivery for AI Sector Champions - Summer '25

Re. procurement what excites me most is how the recs if delivered successfully will support startups through streamlined and multi-staged procurement schemes which compensate them the rounds they make it through and move faster for smaller-scale funding opportunities

The public sector approach to AI will be scan > pilot > scale — focusing on horizon scanning, 2-way partnerships, pilot testing, and improving AI procurement and scaling across Gov't

The Government update on how this will be delivered is planned for Autumn '25