Starmer supplied a stodgy speech on investment to the International Investment Summit. Lobby hacks have enthusiastically written up his plegdge to “rip up” regulation and cut bureaucracy – while Labour’s new legislation does largely the opposite…
After the speech Starmer sat in for a 30-minute Q&A with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose first comment was: “I was shocked when Labour said it was in favour of growth.” Starmer sulkily replied that “wealth creation is the number one mission of a Labour government”…
The Q&A was watched live on LinkedIn, where it was hosted, by a pitiful average of 440 people. Hilariously about 20 minutes of the entire chat was taken up by AI as business leaders constantly rediverted to the topic. Starmer just repeatedly said it’s a “real game-changer.” Maybe there was a good reason Sunak bothered to invite Elon Musk to chat about the new technology – especially as Musk has just invented AI-powered robots…
Labour has finally found a line on Elon Musk’s non-invitation to Starmer and Reeves’ investment summit: ‘He doesn’t have anything to invest.’ Eh?
Ministers have spent the weekend refusing to comment on whether he was even invited. Now Peter Kyle has been asked in every interview on the morning round why the “most successful businessman in the world” didn’t cop an invite to the summit. His response is that “Elon Musk doesn’t have a global investment programme that’s underway at the moment.” Just the odd invention or two…
That’s different from Labour’s previous line, which also went on about tech investment, on the summit’s purpose:
“The summit is an opportunity to meaningfully engage with the world’s leading businesses and investors, and to continue to build long-term relationships that will drive investment into the UK in the months and years ahead.”
So Labour doesn’t feel the need to meaningfully engage with Musk. Is it because he said mean things about Keir on Twitter?
While left-wing pundits have been busy constantly complaining about Twitter under Musk, the billionaire inventor has designed the future of automation. Creators gonna create…
Over at Warner Bros Studios near L.A. Musk got to the stage in a new Tesla “Cybercab,” the world’s first fully automated taxi with no steering wheel and no-plug charging – all for less than $30,000. The Tesla owner says it’ll be ready to ship in 2026. The BBC’s coverage has naturally poured cold water on the innovation by immediately citing regulator and health and safety concerns…
Musk also introduced the “Robovan” to carry 20 people (or cargo) to travel at 5 cents per mile. Tesla says the vehicles can be 10 times safer than humans and drive five to 10 times longer. A revolution…
Optimus just poured a drink and didn’t ask for a 25% tip on an iPad.
Just put $10M more into Tesla stock
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) October 11, 2024
Attendees were served drinks by Telsa’s new “Optimus” robots. Billed as an “autonomous assistant, humanoid friend,” they can “do anything you want” for around $20,000 each. Musk says it will be “the biggest product ever, of any kind.” Four million people watched the unveiling on Twitter alone…
Parliamentary staffers are looking worried. One MP asks Guido: “Can the robot do casework?”
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”