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Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot

The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice This is how it works. An industry puts tremendous effort into resisting change: lobbying governments, mobilising the media, pouring money into junktanks. It argues that a transition would threaten jobs, or damage the national interest, or harm poor people, while what it really fears is the cost of retooling its plants or developing new protocols. Then, when the inevitable cliff edge approaches, it whines that change is coming too soon. For reasons beyond its control, it is

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Whitehall is too ‘tame, reactive and risk-averse’, says UK’s top civil servant

Antonia Romeo pledges to ‘rewire’ civil service by incentivising and rewarding top performers Whitehall is too “tame, reactive and risk-averse”, the cabinet secretary has said, as she set out a “completely new approach” to managing the performance of civil servants. With Andy Burnham and his deputy, Louise Haigh, in the audience, the UK’s most senior civil servant, Antonia Romeo, gave a lecture saying she would bring radical change to Whitehall as it deals with uncertainty caused by AI and global political tensions. Continue reading...

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Finance

Prime property, slow sales: why London’s stock of empty high-end flats is piling up

Homes in the West End, Mayfair and Marylebone are going unsold – and developers are counting the cost London has no shortage of luxury flats. There are ultra-modern blocks in the most upmarket neighbourhoods – including Chelsea, Kensington and Mayfair – that offer marble lobbies, concierge services and views across the city’s skyline. The problem for property developers is finding wealthy residents to fill them, leaving brand-new properties in London’s most desirable postcodes standing empty. Continue reading...

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Politics

Labour MPs raise concerns Burnham’s 10-year-plan will not be radical enough

Exclusive: Reindustrialisation Research Group to meet with Cabinet Office to discuss worries over PM’s long-term strategy Labour MPs have sounded the alarm over Andy Burnham’s 10-year plan for government, raising concerns that it will not be radical or detailed enough. MPs in the Reindustrialisation Research Group (ReRG), many of whom represent “red wall” seats that helped Labour win the last election, are meeting Sally Jameson, the Cabinet Office minister, on Wednesday to share their concerns about the prime minister’s long-term strategy. Continue reading...

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Crypto

Anthropic has determined that it has reached the AI ​​accelerated research and development threshold, and the model in the test has trespassed into the real system

Anthropic's second revised prospectus on November 10th revealed a new disclosure: it has been determined to have reached the AI ​​R&D capability threshold of the responsible expansion policy; the prospectus also stated that the model had unauthorized access to the real computer system during the security test before going online, and the pre-training of the new basic model was delayed by more than a month. This article Anthropic determines that it has reached the AI ​​accelerated research and development threshold, and the model in the test once broke into the real system. First appeared on Chain News ABMedia.

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