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This is what sovereignty looks like in 2026.
Canada and the EU are building an “Alliance for the Future” linking payment systems, digital trade, critical minerals, investment, space technology, subsea cables, energy, education and emergency aircraft.
Why? Because Trump has made dependence on American controlled systems a strategic risk.
Canada offers Europe minerals, energy, aerospace and resources. Europe offers Canada capital, scale, technology, research and resilience. Together they become stronger and less vulnerable to economic coercion.
Meanwhile, Brexit Britain remains outside Europe’s emerging financial and industrial architecture, even as Canada, thousands of miles away, connects itself to it.
Mark Carney understands that modern sovereignty does not mean isolation. It means reliable allies, alternative systems and the collective strength to withstand shocks.
Britain is separated from Europe by just 21 miles. We could move faster and integrate more deeply than Canada.
The EU ambassador says Brussels is ready to engage. Britain needs to be freed from bad Brexit red lines and get back to Europe.
The #CanadaEU Summit will take place in Montreal on 29-30 October. For media wanting to cover the visit, find out more about the accreditation process here: canada.ca/en/global-affairs/…
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Bam! For those who have tried to falsely suggest courts have determined AI training is covered by fair use, not only do we have Judge Chhabria disagreeing in a motion to dismiss, we now have Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence upheld by the third circuit. reuters.com/business/media-t…
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Always read Dayen
OpenAI’s unlawful incidents are piling up. I’m not talking about the models, but what its executives are accused of doing to steal data to create the models.
AI is following its creators down a road of deceit, without accountability for those responsible.
prospect.org/2026/09/29/arti…
Tim Cowen retweeted
Oh look the ‘agents went rogue’ narrative is utter horseshit. It’s just typical executives acting like greedy shortsighted crooks.
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A favorable antitrust ruling as a judge says banks can sue Apple over excluding competing tap-to-pay wallets on the iPhone. appleinsider.com/articles/26…
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Re-upping this.
It doesn't matter who runs these companies, or what their political affiliations are.
This much media consolidation is bad in any hands, regardless of party or creed
Unfortunate that weak craven officials made the settlement about other things
Tim Cowen retweeted
Martin Wolf: The wheels are coming off the US world order ft.trib.al/2hsVhFd
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Foreign companies have a choice, if they don’t like the legal regime, they don’t have to trade here. They can shut down their UK operations, allowing British startups companies to fill the gap.
I suspect this would be very popular, so we can’t have that.
Also: preventing a sovereign country from enacting its own laws is possibly most imperialist gesture there is, short of invading it.
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BILL GATES to NYT: "In private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and how much better it’s getting, they’re very worried. But few tech executives are willing to publicly admit that. They’re now saying to each other: ‘Hey, man, don’t say that. It’s bad for us — the next trillion dollars we’re trying to raise.'"
> Gates said he was motivated to speak now because recent improvements in AI had far surpassed his expectations and because the industry had ignored technology milestones — like AI's escaping the control of its creators or making recipes for bioweapons — that it once said would warrant more caution.
GATES: "They’re just full speed ahead and hoping that the good outweighs the bad"
> Mr. Gates said he was in a "state of shock" as to why there was not more urgency on these issues.
Tim Cowen retweeted
Trump: “WE DON’T NEED ANYTHING FROM CANADA.”
Trump (hours later): “Selfishly, we need aluminum in this country. We don’t have it. We get it all from Canada for the most part, and we need it badly.”
Holy fuck, it’s as if Trump has the mental capacity of a concussed goldfish.
Tim Cowen retweeted
Trying to wipe out a decade of harm to the nation’s youth with one month’s cash flow is an insult.
Corporations like Meta will never learn a lesson if they don’t incur real costs for breaking the law.
Today marks a historic agreement between Meta and 52 Attorneys General that provides sweeping new protections empowering parents and setting the standard for the industry. about.fb.com/news/2026/08/ag…
Tim Cowen retweeted
Here is a link to an uploaded version of the Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. This is what this trial is about. Meta supposedly pumped the near $1.3T in potential claims. Ultimately, an injunction banning behavior may be more problematic. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
Tim Cowen retweeted
If you use Gmail, don’t skip this.
Google’s AI is now combing through your inbox and attachments bank statements, tax documents, medical notes, everything. It’s enabled by default, and it’s already sparked a class-action lawsuit over the rollout.
Here are five steps to turn it off the controls are buried in two different spots:
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✍️ Britain has the biggest video game sector in Europe, worth £12bn, and it would be even bigger if capital and actually supported it better.
But we're not immune to the catastrophic decisions taken in the US during and after Covid, which have resulted in cancellations and mass layoffs.
Now other countries are catching up with tax relief, and there's only a paltry £10m pot for development. No wonder we're seeing the worst startup rate for 15 years.
Today's @Telegraph column:
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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The Economist:
"A rough calculation finds that covering AI capex through identifiable AI income requires revenue on the order of $2.5 trillion per year, more than tech’s entire combined revenue today (and far higher than what would have been needed a year or so ago, when capex plans were more modest)."
"A survey by Jon Hartley of the University of Texas at Austin and others has found that about 33% of people now use ai at work, down from a peak of 46% in mid-2025. If, say, a third of firms across the OECD club of mostly rich countries adopt AI, then to generate $2.5 trillion of AI revenues the firms would have to spend about $100,000 a year on average."
The Economist estimates that total annual AI revenues today is just $150 billion.
Yikes.
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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'Norfolk is home to some of the finest chalk streams in the world and we have a special responsibility to protect and enhance them'
lynnnews.co.uk/news/new-parl…
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Mark Zuckerberg exclusive interview in NYT and op-ed in WSJ techsplaining what is good for the world precisely three weeks prior to the start of the biggest trial brought by a majority of State AGs for his services harming our children is… really weird.
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If you want to understand the correct strategic choice, just look at what Lina Khan said two years and that's what the panicked billionaires are saying today. ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov…
Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem. Together with others across our industry, we are outlining a path for open-weight models to strengthen American competitiveness and expand economic opportunity, while protecting national security. microsoft.com/en-us/corporat…
