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DeepMind will move out of mum and dad’s place (Google’s office) next year, taking a large office space around the corner in Kings Cross, reports Greg Williams for WIRED. The large 11-storey office has been planned by DeepMind’s founders for nearly five years and represents Google sticking to its promise of keeping DeepMind’s HQ in London.

As Laura Citron, chief executive at London & Partners notes, DeepMind has “stuck closely and passionately to its London roots.” While many have retained disappointment that Britain’s biggest tech success stories aren’t able to retain independence, it is heartening that DeepMind will continue to grow in London and a shot in the arm in the UK’s global competitiveness in the AI arms race.

News in Brief:

• Artificial intelligence has a gender problem. Meet the pioneering women on a mission to fix it (Telegraph) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/03/08/artificial-intelligence-has-gender-problem-meet-pioneering-women/
• Uber won’t be charged with fatal self-driving crash, says prosecutor (The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18252423/uber-wont-be-charged-with-fatal-self-driving-crash-says-prosecutor
• Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/06/facial-recognition-software-emotional-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
• Why ignoring workers is a sure-fire way to create an AI divide (New Statesman Tech) https://tech.newstatesman.com/business/workers-ai-divide
• MIT students show off creative AI applications (MIT News) http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-showcases-students-combining-ai-with-passions-0307
• Business leaders love AI, that doesn’t mean they use it (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/business-leaders-love-artificial-intelligence-in-theory-anyway

Around Whitehall:

Darktrace among stars joining DIT trade mission to New York

AI for cyber defence Darktrace will be joining 13 UK fintech companies on a DIT trip to New York’s Empire Fintech event.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/leading-uk-fintech-companies-announced-for-trade-mission-to-usa

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