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The article offers information about the United Kingdom government's target for council pension funds to invest percentage of their assets in projects in the United Kingdom could be counter productive.

The article reports on a project called ASCEND (Aerospace and Automotive Supply Chain Enabled Development), launched in 2021, led by GKN Aerospace and McLaren Automotive, that aims to develop materials and technologies for producing higher-rate, composites-intensive components for both the automotive and aerospace sectors.It mentions that the project aims to enable production of composites-intensive aircraft and for the urban air mobility (UAM) market, that rate could be much higher.

Four years after it started life as a white paper, the UK government's controversial Online Safety Bill has finally passed through Parliament and is set to become law in the coming weeks. If companies do not comply with the bill's rules, UK regulator Ofcom could fine them up to £18 million (US$22 million) or 10% of their global annual revenue, whichever is biggest. [Extracted from the article]

The article informs that the Local Government Association has agreed to give a back seat to directly lobbying for devolution after Great Britain government changed its policy priorities. It mentions that white paper suggests an opportunity to review the board's work and how it might most effectively influence this new agenda.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an initial review into the market for artificial intelligence systems, looking at the underlying foundational large language models that power chatbots such as ChatGPT alongside the opportunities and risks that AI could present. The CMA added that the review is in line with the UK government's aim to support "open, competitive markets", as outlined in a white paper published in March. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

"As a result, the absence of an AI framework hasthe likely potential to create a more unequal and unjustsociety, enhancing the market and power asymmetries betweenthose who dominate digital tools and those who are impactedby AI technology." News In its white paper outlining its policy on AIregulation, the UK government has called for "responsibleuse" while avoiding the introduction of what it callsinnovation-stifling "heavy-handed legislation.". [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the Computer Library industry as of June 2022. Topics discussed include Springer Nature is set to secure a transitional OA agreement for Nature, Nature research journals, and Palgrave journals; Elsevier has entered into an agreement to acquire Interfolio, which provides advanced faculty information solutions for higher education; and Aries Systems Corp. and Figshare have entered a partnership to promote and facilitate sharing the open data from academic papers.

The article explores how to utilize nuclear to support Great Britain net zero strategy, and leadership team at the University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute has released a position paper outlining key actions for net zero by 2050. Topics include how nuclear could support the net zero target in the context of overall energy usage; and Climate Change Committee (CCC) explores the possibilities of nuclear contributing to net zero.