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Lords call for UK AI “kill switch” powers Startups Magazine · 20

From Downing Street to Anthropic: Entrepreneur First co-founder Matt Clifford joins Claude maker Tech Funding News · 1 day ago · 2 Cloover turns profitable at $350M revenue run rate and secures $100M financing facility Tech.eu · 3 days ago · 26 At 14, Sasha Bagrov is building a safer marketplace for teenage odd jobs Tech.eu · 2 weeks ago · 5

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? BBC News · 2 weeks ago · 31

September 2026

◆ UK peers propose adding government 'AI kill switch' powers to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, including the ability to deactivate AI systems and shut down data centres in national security threats Policy change

• 3 Sep Lords call for UK AI “kill switch” powers
• 2 Sep From Downing Street to Anthropic: Entrepreneur First co-founder Matt Clifford joins Claude maker
• 1 Sep Cloover turns profitable at $350M revenue run rate and secures $100M financing facility

August 2026

◆ Investigations report that Amazon is buying rare secondhand books and destroying them to scan their text for AI model training Incident

• 21 Aug At 14, Sasha Bagrov is building a safer marketplace for teenage odd jobs
• 15 Aug Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?