UK and US sign AI safety agreement

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      The UK has signed a landmark agreement with the US on artificial intelligence, the Financial Times reports. The agreement – signed on Monday in Washington by UK science minister Michelle Donelan and US commerce secretary Gina Raimond – will see the allies formally cooperate on how to test and assess risks from…

Closing Europe’s productivity gap

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  “Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything,” Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman once quipped. It’s a phrase that’s been doing the rounds in Europe recently as new figures show that the continent’s productivity gap with the US is widening. It’s a point of concern because “real wage growth…