I've been investigating data centre water use in the UK. Heard this is a great place to chat about it! youtu.be/fbka90zw_Lg?...

How much water do data centres really use in the UK?

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When I was studying integrated circuit design in university, our professor told us one day that we're all human GPUs processing tokens. We all thought that was a very weird thing to say. Seeing the wave of layoffs coming this year, I'm starting to understand what he meant.

Synthesia's CTO was interviewed for a @forbes.com piece about the future of software engineering in the age of AI coding tools: www.forbes.com/sites/timkea... @synthesia.io

Is Software Engineering ‘Cooked’? The Future Of Development Post AI

As AI automates code production many are concerned that software engineering could be "cooked" and made obsolete by automation.

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I spoke to Vogue on how AI is reshaping the luxury market and, more specifically, how different regulatory approaches in the US, China and Europe are influencing who builds what and where: www.vogue.com/article/how-...

How the AI Race Will Impact the Global Luxury Market

AI is evolving at different speeds across regions, creating fragmented systems that are reshaping consumer expectations — and forcing luxury brands to think carefully about how they use the tech in ea...

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As AI video becomes more powerful and more interactive, the standards for security and privacy have to keep up with the speed of our product updates. That is exactly what we at @synthesia.io are announcing today, as covered by Morning Intelligence: www.themorningintelligence.uk/ai-video-syn...

Synthesia achieves triple ISO certification

Plus Ofcom's new chair + latest job moves

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A perk of working at @synthesia.io is that you get to be around very smart people who use generative AI to build amazing experiences that weren't possible before. Case in point: our general counsel used our Video Agents to create an AI commercial lawyer: www.businessinsider.com/synthesia-ge...

A startup lawyer vibe-coded an AI version of himself

Gabe Stern, Synthesia's general counsel, says he's developing a lawyer avatar built to negotiate his company's contracts.

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TIL there are more than 1,300 people working at xAI. My assumption based on the maturity of their models was 500. Source: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... via @parmy.bsky.social

The UK government is currently consulting on policy recommendations for digital replicas as part of its wider work on AI and copyright. There are some risks if we rush through policy by importing wholesale measures from elsewhere: www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-f...

When faces becomes software: policy choices for the UK on digital replicas

The UK government is currently consulting the technology and creative industries on policy recommendations for digital replicas as part of its wider work on AI and copyright. The UK is already home to...

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What Europe is trying to do with AI regulation is, in principle, the right instinct. But a lot of the rules on AI are written by smart academics, under the influence of lobbying groups trapped in a policy bubble that is heavily detached from the real world. www.tiktok.com/@alexcvoica/...

What Europe is trying to do with AI regulation is, in principle, the right instinct. But there’s the disconnect: a lot of the AI rules are written by very smart academics, under the influence of lobby...

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Just got back from the Amazon Expo in Brussels which focused on realizing Europe’s ambitions in AI and other technologies. On my panel, I tackled two questions that come up in almost every conversation about companies trying to “do AI" in Europe. 🧵👇

One of my favorite parts from the chat between @melissahei.bsky.social from the @financialtimes.com and @synthesia.io CEO Victor Riparbelli was this exchange about the future of AI video as a new format for learning and discovery: www.ft.com/content/2659...

From this day forward, please address me as "Head of corporate harmony at Synthesia."

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: www.scmp.com/tech/tech-wa...

Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

Zhipu claims GLM-Image achieved industry-leading scores among open-source models for text rendering and Chinese character generation.

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Whenever someone who works at X or xAI posts on that cursed app, the first and only appropriate reply to anything they say is the Pedobear meme.

OpenAI: 10x engineers, 10x taste Google DeepMind: 10x engineers, 1x taste Anthropic: 10x engineers, 100x taste xAI: 10x engineers, 0x taste Meta Superintelligence Labs: 1x engineers, 0x taste

For the last few years we’ve lived in a weird split-screen reality: while AI labs have made wild breakthroughs in foundation models, productivity stats and corporate workflows have looked… basically the same. Here's why that will change in 2026 👇 www.computerspeak.co/p/ai-predict...

AI predictions for 2026; Startup Coalition publishes the UK's AI Index; Microsoft reshuffles GitHub team; OpenAI says AI will do more housework; how Google got its AI groove back

AI chip startups see a brighter future; some AI startups are reimagining the web browser; AI models are starting to learn by asking themselves questions; Grok generates abusive images at scale

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Will OpenAI be the first company to build an AI consumer superapp? Fidji Simo tried to build Facebook into a "traditional" superapp (e-commerce, dating, gaming, etc.) but it didn't work out. Very interesting to see her try again, this time with better tech.

New: Grok is generating far more graphic sexual content than on X. Grok’s image generator, Imagine, has been used to create explicit sexual videos of celebrities and violent sexual videos, a review of public posts shows. 70 Imagine URLs appearing to depict minors were sent to regulators today

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

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We've just launched a landing page where everyone can create videos with our AI Santa for free: www.synthesia.io/santa With a little help from our new AI video models, he’s now more realistic than ever, and ready to deliver personalized holiday cheer like never before!

Santa Video: Create a FREE Personalized Santa Message

Send personalized Santa video messages. In minutes. Simply type in text. Completely free. Send Christmas videos to your friends and family in minutes.

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With the AI Act, Brussels made a giant gamble: can you design comprehensive AI regulation before the technology settles down, and still stay competitive? The answer is turning into a bitter lesson in what happens when process gets ahead of practice. www.computerspeak.co/p/europes-bi...

Europe's bitter pill; AI can replace 12% of US workers; AI video startup goes for growth; this Thanksgiving, AI slop is on the menu; Google is now fully awake; teens are saying goodbye to Character.AI

Amazon's AI capacity crunch pushes customers to Google; Super PACs enter the AI arena; David Sacks's failed gambit on AI regulation; China dominates in open models; 200m people to use ChatGPT by 2030

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Many of us have experienced that moment when we're creating a video, and just need the right image to illustrate a process or show something that supports our script. Now you can create that cinematic visuals instantly in @synthesia.io with FLUX.2 - the new model from Black Forest Labs!

Atomico’s annual State of European Tech report is out, and Anna Heim from @techcrunch.com noticed an uptick in scaleups playing a more active role in political debates: techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/e... A 🧵 on why this is happening

European tech gets political | TechCrunch

Taking a page from Big Tech, legacy industries, and their U.S. peers, European tech companies are increasingly learning to lobby for themselves.

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Sifted's @daphneleprince.bsky.social and @freyapratty.bsky.social have an article out this morning summarizing the reaction from European AI startups on the proposed delays of the AI Act: sifted.eu/articles/eur... A 🧵with my views on this matter

European startups welcome expected AI Act delay

Startups have welcomed reports that the European Union is set to delay a key part of its AI Act.

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This week, Accel published their Globalscape report which paints a rosy future for European AI. One possible explanation is that European companies aren’t paying the ASI hype tax. Here's what that means 👇 www.computerspeak.co/p/european-t...

European tech is making a comeback, according to Accel; workplace influencers drive AI adoption; inside Microsoft's mega data center; AI is upending jobs; AI relationships are on the rise

AI companies want to change ticket sales; data centers are becoming a political issue on the left; EU plans to streamline rules on AI and data; OpenAI moving into consumer healthcare;

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Today, @synthesia.io is releasing a new family of customizable avatars that don't just talk, but also take action: www.synthesia.io/post/synthes...

Michael Burry is betting $1bn against Palantir because he sees them as a proxy for the AI bubble. What he fails to understand is that the next leg of the AI cycle will be decided in the boiler rooms of the enterprise: www.computerspeak.co/p/palantir-i...

Palantir is the world's must successful forward-deployed engineering company

The future of ads is AI personalization; Apple Watches use AI to detect heart damage; free from OpenAI, Microsoft charts their own AI destiny; AI data centers are warping the US economy

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My conversation with Bernard Marr and Sasha Rubel from AWS about AI adoption and innovation is now live on YouTube: youtu.be/HbaEH2bU800

Mind the Gap - Navigating The AI Innovation Frontier

YouTube video by Bernard Marr

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In an article for Transformer, I argue (based on lessons learned at @synthesia.io) that drafting lengthy applied AI strategies and coming up with new pilots/sandboxes is not the way forward if we're serious about AI adoption: transformernews.ai/p/audits-not...

Audits, not essays: How to win trust for enterprise AI

Opinion: Alexandru Voica argues that application-layer AI companies are best off opening themselves up to rigorous testing rather than opining on AI safety

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Are you a company looking to adopt AI but unsure how to navigate Europe's complex AI regulations? 🇪🇺 Join me for @synthesia.io's webinar on November 5th as I talk to experts who are making great-tasting lemonade out of the lemon that has been the EU AI Act: synthesia-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I had an amazing chat with @bernardmarr.bsky.social and Sasha Rubel from @awscloud.bsky.social about how organizations can speed up AI adoption, how we can scale infrastructure and build regulatory regimes that favor responsible innovation, and deploy AI agents across multiple industries. #AWS