Google says UK risks being ‘left behind’ in AI race without more data centres

Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materialsGoogle has said that Britain risks being left behind in the global artificial intelligence race unless the government moves quickly to build more datacentres and let tech companies use copyrighted work in their AI models.The company pointed to research showing that the UK is ranked seventh on a global AI readiness index for data and infrastructure, and called for a number