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[Socialist Societies @SocialistSocs]

Join us tomorrow! 📣

We’re hosting a joint campaign day for @AndyBurnhamGM with our friends from @labourunionsuk and @YoungLabourUK.

🗓️ Saturday 13 June
⏰ Gathering at 11:30am
📍 Hindley Green Community Social Club

See you there!

https://t.co/vetME0GRUe

[UK Space Agency @spacegovuk]

We're supporting British companies developing next-generation space technologies. 🛰️

Space Minister Liz Lloyd announced £19 million funding at @LDNTechWeek today, for Cardiff-based @Space_Forge and the @UKI2S fund for early-stage UK space companies. 🚀📈

@SciTechgovuk

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

This week, @Keir_Starmer, @RachelReevesMP, @leicesterliz and I have announced a major next step for the UK’s AI trajectory 🇬🇧🚀

*𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬*

A bumper £1bn+ UK AI Hardware Plan
✅ £750m for a national AI supercomputer, buying British AI chips
✅ A major AMD commitment to UK AI compute startup research (thank you, @LisaSu)
✅ £45m in AI chip skills funding, inc a ramp up of over 500+ brand new AI chip PhDs 
✅ @BritishBBank backing a brand new early-stage UK hardware fund with £150m, @Playground_VC, led by ex-Intel CEO @PGelsinger
✅ Expanded Scaling Inference Lab, so UK compute startups can get rapid validation

*𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬*

👉🏽 𝑃𝑟𝑜-𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝐼 𝐴𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒: Nobel winner @baselinescene will chair a prize that rewards examples of pro-worker adoption
👉🏽 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒: @RIBA and @SciTechgovuk will collaborate to reward beautiful and well-designed datacentres
👉🏽 𝐴𝐼 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ: Nobel winner @baselinescene to chair brand new institute, so British workers are first to be supported robustly through AI’s economic impact, with data from 20 large companies
👉🏽 𝐴𝐼 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑢𝑚: @SciTechgovuk and @bcs will develop robust guidance to grow the UK AI assurance sector
👉🏽 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑡: OS builder fund, to give 160k+ GPU hours to winners of OS hackathon; OS mentoring scheme to plug OS talent into govt builders; OS Dev Board, bringing 10 young OS developers into Govt AI strategy process

*𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬*

🤝 Skills Boost update: 1.7m courses delivered
🤝 Tech First Update: 100k+ young people backed already, 900 scholarss, 2k people on track for sustained AI roles
🤝 AI Early Careers Jobs Alliance: employers + trade unions + young people + govt fundamentally redesigning paths into jobs
🤝 North East Jobs Pilot: AI Growth Zone will support young people not in education, employment, training to get agentic AI jobs, backed by @Accenture, @Microsoft, @sageuk
🤝 Tech First North West Pilot: 5 areas to pilot support for young people at risk of leaving school after GCSEs, getting them onto free AI bootcamps

*𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐋𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲*

⛰️ AI Sector Champion Plans: Major plans to drive adoption, with £200m to back first set of ideas
⛰️ AI Growth Lab: an advisory lab launched to give adopters clear, practical info on regulation
⛰️ Major robotics adoption regulatory innovation initiative
⛰️ Spärck update: expanded £1m scholarship, 50 more PhDs put into AI placements to drive adoption

*𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲; 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐨𝐨*

➡️ £2bn from @AMD in UK AI infra
➡️ @nebiusai investing £1.7bn with three major @nvidia deployments
➡️ Major new MoU with @Cisco to support Barnsley use AI in aid of local public servants and to help local NHS
➡️ Major new MoU with @ElevenLabs to support access for those with visual impairments and to secure AI
➡️ Major new MoU with @synthesiaIO to ramp up AI skills and spread opportunity
➡️ @OQC_Tech raising £260m, backed by largest @BritishBBank investment to date
➡️ @reflection_a expanding into UK, hiring 100+ employees within 12 months, and 1,000 within 3 years (welcome @MishaLaskin)
➡️ @Replit announcing UK office opening
➡️ @amazon announcing £1bn investment in Midlands, creating 2,800 jobs
➡️ @Arkdatacentres investing £807m to expand existing campus
➡️ @n8n_io investing in further 200 AI jobs over next 3 years, thanks @JanOberhauser
➡️ @ErosUniverse_, leading Bollywood distributor, investing £265m and backing 3,000 jobs in AI and creative sectors
➡️ @ARLQ_AI investing £45m for UK R&D
➡️ @CocoRobotics announcing UK debut with major Deliveroo partnership
➡️ Midlands Mindforge go live to invest in Midlands firms

[Martin McCluskey MP @martinmccluskey]

Every wind turbine we build, every solar panel we deploy and every nuclear reactor we bring online is helping to strengthen our energy security and bring down bills.

[UK Space Agency @spacegovuk]

The UK government has signed an agreement with @vast that could send UK astronaut John McFall to Haven-1 space station as early as July 2027. 🚀🧑‍🚀

📽️Hear from John and Vast's Tom Shelley.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/xla023md6q

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

The UK and Germany are joining forces to accelerate quantum innovation 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

From discovering new medicines with quantum computers to using quantum sensors in medical scanners, we’re investing £14 million together to bring life-changing tech to markets ⚛️

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

The climate emergency and nature loss is a growing threat to our national security, including the risk of spiralling food prices.

We are running out of time to secure global action that protects a liveable planet for the future.

Important discussions at @CommonsEAC last week.

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

The real AI revolution isn't about tech bro hype or Silicon Valley gimmicks, it’s about technology that improves everyday public services. Giving our NHS more time to care.

Delighted to be working with my wonderful @DHSCgovuk colleagues to roll out our new AI Growth Lab initiative.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

In honor of #AdaLovelaceDay, learn about the woman who many view as the world's first programmer: https://t.co/1zNmPg9Rhq

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

58 years ago, Larry Roberts presented his idea for an "ARPANet" for connecting multiple computers together across the United States.

Full paper: https://t.co/drgMRJ5aLV

[Socialist Societies @SocialistSocs]

It was great to see everyone at our annual Labour Conference Socialist Societies reception!

Thank you to our brilliant speakers @mrs_creynolds, @LiamConlon2 and our SocSoc representatives.

Join a Labour affiliated Society today: https://t.co/65jZjKAJDn

[Equity @EquityUK]

Equity believes that the creative process is a human prerogative, and generative AI must remain a tool that is used to empower human creators, not replace them.

Read our statement responding to the launch of synthetic actor Tilly Norwood, generated by AI
https://t.co/nw1txTZiwM

[LabourList @LabourList]

Miliband will warn that Reform’s opposition to net zero is an attack on Britain’s workers and future.
https://t.co/DeqZAIH1l9

[Scientists for Labour @Scientists4Lab]

🌹 A great day at the fantastic Labour fringe run by @campaignlab_, lots of good conversations.

If you want to get involved, sign up with the link below or reply to this! 👇

https://t.co/L68yk1Byl1

[Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley @alexsobel]

Is this a parody account?

If you go to the University of Oxford page the risks of ill effect are 1 in a million - https://t.co/MyMWVW3epE

If we stopped taking everything with 1 in a million risk there isn’t much left

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Access to our colleges and universities shouldn’t just be for a wealthy few.

That’s why I’m bringing back maintenance grants for those who need them most.

Labour is ambitious for all our young people, no matter their background. I’m putting our values into action.

[Scientists for Labour @Scientists4Lab]

Scientists for Labour can announce that after a ballot of members, @LucyMPowell has been chosen as our nominee for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, with 67.1% of the vote.

We look forward to working with both her and @bphillipsonMP in future.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery https://t.co/Q0E7ofe2g4

[Environmental Audit Committee @CommonsEAC]

Tomorrow at 9.15am we're questioning @MikeKaneMP, Minister for Aviation, Maritime and Security at @transportgovuk on the economic and environmental impacts of airport expansion plans. We'll also be speaking to Local Authority and planning sector representatives.👇

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

We welcome new Government amendments to the Planning Bill that:
✅ Deliver more rigorous scientific safeguards
✅ Guarantee nature benefits will outweigh any harm caused
✅ Requires back-up measures if compensation delivery falls short

Now we hold Gov’s feet to the fire over implementation...

Read more 👇
https://t.co/ygSwBT1Hfs