Thursday newspaper round-up: ULEZ, Arm, British Steel

(Sharecast News) - A legal challenge to the expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone will be heard in the high court later this year, after a judgment permitted councils to proceed. The city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, vowed to press on regardless with plans to extend the Ulez, which he has argued is needed to tackle toxic air that is responsible for thousands of premature deaths a year. - Guardian The music industry is urging streaming platforms not to let artificial intelligence use copyrighted songs for training, in the latest of a run of arguments over intellectual property that threaten to derail the generative AI sector's explosive growth. In a letter to streamers including Spotify and Apple Music, the record label Universal Music Group expressed fears that AI labs would scrape millions of tracks to use as training data for their models and copycat versions of pop stars. - Guardian

Matt Hancock is being investigated over claims that he put undue pressure on Parliament's standards watchdog. The former health secretary was told he was being investigated over allegations that he broke the MPs' code of conduct by "lobbying the commissioner in a manner calculated or intended to influence his consideration" of whether a separate breach had been committed. - Telegraph

Intel will work with Arm, the UK-based chip designer, to make sure mobile phone chips that use Arm technology can be made in Intel factories, the US company has announced. Intel was once the leading global manufacturer of the top-end microchips known as central processing units (CPUs), but in recent years the company has faced fierce competition from rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which produces chips for Apple products. - The Times

A legal challenge to the financial watchdog's launch of a redress scheme for former members of a British Steel pension scheme has been dropped. The British Steel Action Group claimed that recent rises in interest rates had created a fundamental change of circumstances since the scheme closed, and that further consultation was required. - The Times