Technology UK
![UK economy grew robustly in Q2 — but that’s as good as it gets, for now](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/15/GettyImages-84421445-scaled.jpg)
UK economy grew robustly in Q2 — but that’s as good as it gets, for now
GDP per capita is still below its pre-pandemic peak, meaning that the average Briton is still worse off than five years ago.
![UK inflation rose in July but underlying picture improves](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/14/GettyImages-2164143478-scaled.jpg)
UK inflation rose in July but underlying picture improves
![Trump lauds ‘honorable’ Zelenskyy, slaps ‘bad’ EU in Musk interview](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/13/GettyImages-2165589833-scaled.jpg)
Trump lauds ‘honorable’ Zelenskyy, slaps ‘bad’ EU in Musk interview
![Trump’s X interview livestream goes down, Musk blames ‘massive’ cyberattack](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=230,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/13/GettyImages-1245631304-scaled.jpg)
Trump’s X interview livestream goes down, Musk blames ‘massive’ cyberattack
![EU’s Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/12/GettyImages-2151277359-scaled.jpg)
EU’s Breton warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response
![UK rows back on review of online rules despite far-right riots](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=319,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/12/GettyImages-2164682468-scaled.jpg)
UK rows back on review of online rules despite far-right riots
![The sonic boom is back for passenger aviation … maybe](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=302,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/07/GettyImages-1241991798-scaled.jpg)
The sonic boom is back for passenger aviation … maybe
Brexit Britain creeps back into Brussels’ orbit under Labour
A bill which paves the way for closer regulatory alignment with the European Union almost slipped under the radar.
Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram
Far-right agitators have long enjoyed an unparalleled level of impunity on Telegram.
Elon Musk to pause X’s AI training on some EU data, Ireland says
X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users’ posts, according to Europe’s chief privacy watchdog. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) today …
Elon Musk shares fake news claiming UK rioters will be sent to ‘detainment camps’
The X owner pushed a made-up headline from a far-right British party on his platform, before deleting it.
It’s Elon Musk’s X and governments are having to live with it
Officials from London to Washington say Musk is accountable to no one.
Elon Musk is ‘accountable to no one,’ says UK tech minister as riots rage
Dealing with X is like handling diplomacy with a major state, Peter Kyle says.
Labour donor bags plum UK Treasury job
Banker Ian Corfield is appointed to a top role in the civil service just months after donating thousands of pounds to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK.
Britain’s £1 billion chip investment at risk as Reeves tightens the belt
Labour declined to back the headline target pledged by its predecessors.
UK government brands Elon Musk ‘deplorable’ amid race riots
Musk has waded into Britain’s riots with a series of posts on his X platform — and faces criticism over the handling of online disinformation.
US Justice Department, states win Google search antitrust case
“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Mehta wrote.
Race riots put Britain on collision course with Elon Musk
Britain’s government has social platforms in its sights as incitement spreads — and the X owner is squaring up for a fight.
UK PM slams Elon Musk for saying far-right riots ‘inevitable’
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said there’s ‘no justification’ for tech billionaire’s comments about a ‘civil war.’
UK probes whether ‘state actors’ stoked far-right riots
False claims about the identity of a murder suspect have spread far and wide online.
Labour plots radical shake-up at heart of British government
Cabinet Office faces being stripped back to core functions with 80 percent of staff moving out of the department, under plans for reform.
Starmer slams social media (but not Farage) as far right roils UK
Starmer said ‘violent disorder was clearly whipped up online’ after days of riots over the killing of three children.
Bank of England cuts key interest rate to 5 percent, saying inflation threat has eased
First decrease since 2020 eases pressure on businesses a month after Keir Starmer became prime minister.
BoE set for knife-edge decision on first rate cut
Relief is in sight — but it’s still not a done deal.
French fiber optic cables hit by ‘major sabotage’ in second Olympics attack
The attack comes a few days after a coordinated arson assault on the French rail network.
Trump bashes Harris over crypto, vows to boost bitcoin
Trump vows to establish a U.S. bitcoin stockpile, set up a crypto advisory council.
Former Greek spy boss denies using illegal malware
Panagiotis Kontoleon, the former head of Greece’s EYP intelligence service, was one of a handful of top officials who resigned in the wake of the scandal.
Elon Musk’s X under fire over harvesting users’ data to train AI chatbot
The platform’s lead EU regulator is looking into the matter, which may infringe upon the bloc’s privacy rules.
Germany wants a Brexit mega deal
Berlin wants to expand the British prime minister’s proposed security pact into a broader EU-UK “reset.”
The time Kamala Harris upset the Brits
The probable Democratic presidential candidate ruffled feathers when she visited Britain back in November.