"a legal directive [will] shortly allow long-standing clinical studies to include secure access to GP records for.. participants in UK Biobank, Our Future Health and Genomics England who have already consented to share their data for research" www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/linking...

Linking GP data for consenting research participants is a ‘game-changer’

Professor Andrew Morris, Director of Health Data Research UK, responds to the Government’s announcement that GP health data for participants who have given consent can be shared with large-scale resea...

hdruk.ac.uk

Smart Data (regulated data portability for UK consumers and businesses) looks like it might get quite expensive to deliver... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/697b89...

"Any organization building state-of-the-art LLMs needs to be a data curation and generation lab first, obsessively identifying and filling the gaps" huggingface.co/spaces/lvwer...

The Jagged AI Frontier is a Data Frontier - a Hugging Face Space by lvwerra

Why AI capabilities are shaped by data availability

huggingface.co

"Of course, we’re also hoping to eventually offset risk by diversifying into galoots, simpletons, and outright morons. But the important thing now is to get many, many more idiots confused enough to believe they have any chance in hell of making money off this grift”

The Onion@theonion.com · 10mo ago

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

just watched a brilliant talk by Paul Keller @openfuture.bsky.social. it includes a case for *conditional openness*, building on OF's longstanding argument that the open movement must better account for concentrations of power www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROig...

a job posting for 'Public Sector Data Markets Lead' for the National Data Library. responsible for "interventions to test the potential commercial market for public sector data. They will identify promising opportunities for data commercialisation" www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

"Today, OpenAI is co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, alongside Anthropic and Block, and with the support of Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare" openai.com/index/agenti...

OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation

AAIF aims to advance open-source agentic AI with the donation of standards including OpenAI’s AGENTS.md

openai.com

I've written up some thoughts on large AI models’ evolving relationship with data (with my new @openmined.bsky.social hat on): openmined.org/blog/ai-hasn...

No, AI Hasn't Run Out of Data... Here's What's Really Happening

Elon Musk says AI exhausted all human data. He's wrong. 99.99% of the world's data is private and untapped. Here's how AI's relationship with data is really evolving—and what's at stake.

openmined.org

"Data spaces as meta-organisations" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data spaces as meta-organisations

Sharing and reusing data across organisations is central to the European data strategy and its transformation towards creating a data-driven economy. Currently, data sharing, when it occurs, is typ...

tandfonline.com

“This commoditization will start to bifurcate the market into a spectrum with extremes at either end: a smaller premium market at one end, and a larger commodity market at the other. A classic barbell effect where the middle disappears" radicallyinformed.substack.com/p/beyond-the...

Beyond the Artifact: The Brutal Economics of Liquid Content

Value is migrating away from content, and creating surprising new opportunities

radicallyinformed.substack.com

"Conditional openness means that datasets are freely accessible for non-commercial, public-interest uses, while commercial access may be subject to additional conditions— such as registration, purpose declaration, and payment where appropriate" openfuture.eu/wp-content/u...

I've written up a briefing note for @creativecommons.bsky.social on pay-to-crawl: new systems being used by websites to automate compensation for when their content is accessed by AI bots and other machines

Creative Commons@creativecommons.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Pay-to-crawl systems have emerged as a possible way to help sustain the creation of content online in the wake of AI. However, overbroad use of pay-to-crawl could represent a shift towards a more tightly controlled and monetised content ecosystem. Read the full brief for more! buff.ly/h0wdhXS

'The Most Boring Dataset in the World' foresight.org/resource/gre...

Wikimedia's paid-for APIs now generating £8m+ revenues, presumably fuelled by AI users diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/24/w...

Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report: Fiscal Year 2024 – 2025

Summary This is the fourth annual financial report for Wikimedia Enterprise – for the fiscal year 2024-25. We are pleased to share that not only does this report show the first complete year of pro…

diff.wikimedia.org

"It’s incoherent to claim that data is extremely valuable and that it should somehow also be free. This doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to subsidize data access to make it available at no cost, but it means we need to acknowledge the costs" radiant.earth/blog/2025/11...

Great Data Products

The language we use to talk about data is keeping us from realizing its full potential.

radiant.earth

"The question isn’t whether we can add integrity to AI but whether the architecture permits integrity at all. Today’s AI agents observe the Internet, orient via statistics, decide probabilistically, and act without verification" (via @peterkwells.com) www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

'How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time' www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

technologyreview.com

the Smart Data Group has published a proposal for what the 'Future Entity' for Open Banking + all Smart Data Schemes should look like. Special Purpose Vehicles for each Scheme.. www.linkedin.com/posts/smart-...

'Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era' www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era

The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, th...

mozillafoundation.org

"The open movement must likewise evolve from the libertarian ethos of the early internet toward a civic ethos fit for the age of AI. We must design infrastructures.. that preserve the spirit of accessibility while protecting against its weaponisation" sverhulst.medium.com/the-weaponis...

The Weaponisation of Openness? Toward a New Social Contract for Data in the AI Era

By Stefaan G. Verhulst

sverhulst.medium.com

new UK Gov study on the value of public sector data. apparently the public sector invests £30bn in data assets per year, which have an 'expected potential value' to the economy of £15bn-200bn www.gov.uk/government/p...

Value of Public Sector Data Estimate

gov.uk

"Requiring copyright licenses for training data would.. (1) create new barriers to market entry and competition in new technologies.. while (2) entrenching large copyright holders and (3) not significantly benefiting creators." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...

"AI companies are locked in an arms race for quality human content - and that pressure has fueled an industrial-scale 'data laundering' economy" www.reuters.com/world/reddit...

"It’s already clear that the Internet’s discovery system for the next 15 years will be something different: Answer Engines.. Whether you like it or not, the future will increasingly be answers not searches" blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2...

Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've als...

blog.cloudflare.com

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Duncan Hothersall@dhothersall.bsky.social · 12mo ago

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

404media.co

"Humanity AI, a $500 million five-year initiative.. will drive new investments toward establishing a people-driven future where AI delivers for humanity, strengthens communities, and enhances human creativity" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

macfound.org

I see this in the same family of data sharing as financial reporting, Smart Data, researcher access to platform data, retailers sharing their plastic bag sales, etc etc: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Vets could be made to cap prescription prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose, CMA says, as it proposes shake-up including publishing treatment costs

theguardian.com

'Cooperative data utilities' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8Z...

"For the same reason that a dog can go to church but a dog cannot be Catholic, an LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation" mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...