Google DeepMind to build its first robotic science laboratory in the UK – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsGoogle’s plans may intensify concerns that the UK is too close to Big Tech firms, as it tries to hold a seat on the AI bandwagon.Imogen Parker, associate director at the research body Ada Lovelace Institute, says (via the FT):“We need to ask who is setting the agenda for the UK’s future with AI.”“In the absence of independent regulation or scrutiny, we’re at the mercy of technology companies’ comm