Someone needs to @ the CMA gov.uk/cma-cases/amaz…

"For the owners and managers, a profit margin of 3.5 percent for the Volkswagen brand is not sufficient; instead, they want 6.5 percent for the brand and 10 percent for the company — that is to say a good 30 billion euros in profit."

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🚗 The UK has already passed legislation to make provisions for the possible future rollout of autonomous vehicles ❓What should a new regulatory framework look like and what lessons can we learn from the US? 👉 Read our article from Dr Sam Hind here: ow.ly/nxHe50UbCB2

UK regulator to probe Apple and Google over mobile platforms on.ft.com/40Heomu

CMA interested in the wrong kind of growth, it seems

A reminder about our Digital Methods Summer School in Manchester between 30 June & 4 July 2025: - text mining - creative AI methods - sensing methods - geospatial methods - visual methods - data visualisation (+ ethics and open science) For more, see: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5oUk…

1/ 🚦 Excited to share my new solo paper in @UrbanStudiesJnl! "Waze seating in the control room" investigates how Santiago's traffic control analysts integrate Waze data, reshaping urban governance through everyday 'data bricolage'. OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

A government department, and minister, doing free PR for a company and technology that could cost 100s of 000s of jobs and see billions in value transferred across the Atlantic, entrenching technological dependence on Silicon Valley. This is just British politics now.

Big Tech’s AI spend is still a shot in the dark on.ft.com/45ey8iq | opinion