When the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames announced its intention to remove Lime from its ebike provision in March, residents raised a petition in disapproval which LBRuT called out as a response to “corporate bullying”. This did not go down well. As I expressed in a letter to the Times, the petition was very much resident-led from those in the north of the borough, who are disproportionately impacted as they regularly transit across boroughs, facing what comic Dara O

It’s a rare day now when we don’t see something in our news feeds about AI and, increasingly, the infrastructure required to power its development and deliver its benefits. The AI Opportunities Action Plan produced last year for the government set out targets to ensure the UK can lead in this frontier technology, and one year on many of these have or are being achieved . A central feature of this plan is the development of data centres across the country – and as I argu

Earlier this year I spent a few weeks in San Francisco, and was amazed at how in the two years since my previous visit, the city had become dominated by AI . Waymo, the driverless taxis owned by Alphabet, parent company of Google, is perhaps the most visible element of this change. The white, camera-laden electric jaguars are everywhere – and while my first ride was quite thrilling (see video below) subsequent rides became normative. My Waymo rides were safe, convenient a