Mark Filippino
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1,851 appearances
41 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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We are doing something a little different today because our staff is off for the July 4th holiday here in the States.
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So as you know, the 4th of July celebrates America's independence from the British 250 years ago.
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And today, the UK is working on its own independence movement to free itself from America's big tech companies.
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We're going to dedicate the whole show today to exploring how that's going.
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I'm Mark Filippino, and here's the news you need to start your day.
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The tech industry is having a bit of a renaissance in London.
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It's home to the main foreign outposts for giants like Google and Meta, not to mention their very well-funded AI challengers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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The thing is, all the companies I just mentioned are American.
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Britain's big AI success story, DeepMind, was acquired by Google in 2014.
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Now, though, there's a push to launch a homegrown competitor so the UK can have more sovereignty over its tech.
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Here to tell us more is the FT's global tech correspondent, Tim Bradshaw.
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Hi, Tim.
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Hi, Mark.
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So before we get into the London tech renaissance I mentioned, let's go back to the sale of DeepMind, which a lot of people consider the original sin.
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Walk us through what happened there.
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So the criticism is that DeepMind could have been a huge boon for the London tech sector, but the fact that it's owned by Google means that the UK government has less control over the technology.
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This sale happened more than a decade ago.
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Why is this debate bubbling up again?
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Yeah, and we should mention that the ban has now been lifted.
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But the lack of agency is certainly troubling for a lot of countries that want to have more control.
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