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John Thornhill
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Founder of Sifted, the FT-backed startup covering European tech. Tech columnist Financial Times and host of Tech Tonic podcast https://www.ft.com/john-thornhill
Extraordinary story on Ukrainian drone pilots. Outstanding reporting from @christopherjm.ft.com as.ft.com/r/03ef8e3b-6...
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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Interesting @financialtimes.com interview with Republican senator Josh Hawley Without legislation, “I think it [AI] will evolve in a way that benefits the billionaires who control it, and will be severely detrimental potentially to just about everybody else.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Top Republican pushes party to shun $300mn AI lobby
Senator Josh Hawley warns of ‘political cost’ if Washington fails to rein in Big Tech and artificial intelligence
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Impressive trolling: Google Docs autocorrects Apple's new boss John Ternus into... John Tetanus 👀
This was fun and timely. Dario Amodei talks about Mythos (and much else besides) as.ft.com/r/e33cbc23-6... Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’
The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich
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My review of The Infinity Machine, Sebastian Mallaby's fascinating biography of Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis. The book explores the tensions between scientific discovery and commercial competition. A lot rests on how that one plays out @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The Infinity Machine — a deep dive into the mind of Demis Hassabis
Sebastian Mallaby’s compelling biography of the DeepMind co-founder traces his life’s mission to create artificial general intelligence
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Is the U.S.-China AI rivalry a zero-sum game? @caiwei.bsky.social @johnthornhill.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social explore where China currently holds the edge—and why "us versus them" fails to capture the complexity of the AI landscape. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/s7I9rE2192c
Can’t wait for this amazing evening of conversation on 11 Feb at @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, on AI Narratives & Counternarratives with @abeba.bsky.social @amoorelouise.bsky.social, FT’s @johnthornhill.bsky.social & our own Alex Taylor. Join online or in Edinburgh - register to hold your space!
Centre for Technomoral Futures@technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat's the story with AI? Find out at the next event in our Technomoral Conversations series, exploring AI narratives and counter-narratives! 🗓️ Wednesday 11 February 18.00-19.30 GMT 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ edin.ac/3MZEm0a
Nick Clegg takes on venture capital role alongside Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun-Clegg told the FT conference that Europe had a “very, very profound dilemma, which is that we’re not only completely dependent on… www.ft.com/content/98cf... @melissahei.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Nick Clegg takes on venture capital role alongside Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun
Former lobbyist and UK deputy prime minister joins London-based Hiro Capital
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Interesting take from @kaifulee.bsky.social The US closed AI ecosystem = Apple iOS The Chinese open system = Google Android Both can win in different ways as.ft.com/r/079d7dc7-3...
"America has become one big bet on AI," writes Ruchir Sharma. Better not go wrong.... on.ft.com/3KUg7z8
Terrific piece on @alphaville.ft.com by Sinead O'Sullivan: "Winners emerge from redundancy, not efficiency." on.ft.com/4gTUz1M
In space, nobody can hear you budget
SpaceX and Blue Origin are no more efficient at building spacecraft than NASA. But that’s not the point of them
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Is AI revolutionising the workplace? Maybe not (yet). “When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful... But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news @claradoodle.bsky.social on.ft.com/4pBm97R
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
[FREE TO READ] FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
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Investment in European defence tech is surging on.ft.com/4mOJ5yz More here from the @financialtimes.com Tech Tonic podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Kicking off the Tech Tent with Sarah Wynn-Williams interviewed by Murad Ahmed at FT weekend festival
Punchy interview with LocalGlobe's Saul Klein on the meh-ness of unicorns, the importance of ARR and the need for UK institutional investors to get serious about tech (see below) sifted.eu/articles/sau... @amyrlewin.bsky.social @sifted.eu
The most read column in the @financialtimes.com over the past month was my piece on the coming AI crash channeling the thoughts of @carlotaperez.bsky.social As always, there are some great - and varied - comments from FT readers 👀 😵💫 on.ft.com/45SXanu
Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI
[FREE TO READ] History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction
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Interesting Nick Clegg comments on the conformity of Silicon Valley www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
And the best Google killer in AI search is… Google (according to this @washingtonpost.com study) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Janet Yellen: "The independence of the Federal Reserve is not some technocratic nicety. It is the bedrock of US economic stability and global leadership. Trump’s effort to tear it down for personal gain is reckless, corrosive, and profoundly un-American." www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility
History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks
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Interesting reading from @dealroom.bsky.social on the top performing VCs in Europe dealroom.co/power-law-in...
Shocking. Someone bet big on Taylor Swift's big news. h/t @johnauthers.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Who has the better model - China's engineering state or America's lawyerly society? Both have their strengths and weaknesses as Dan Wang explores in his provocative new book Breakneck. My @financialtimes.com review below on.ft.com/45p1Q5w
Breakneck — why China’s engineers beat America’s lawyers
[FREE TO READ] Dan Wang’s compelling and provocative book explores both the merits and the madness of China’s engineering state
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Victor Riparbelli CEO of @synthesia.io speaks for many European founders: “I love Europe and I want Europe to succeed. I could have moved my company to the US. We’ve kept it here, and we want to keep it here but man, they’re not making it easy.” @martincoulter.bsky.social sifted.eu/articles/syn...
Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli: ‘I'm very good at slapping stuff together’
The boss of one of Britain’s hottest AI startups on hype cycles, EU red tape and his passion for electronic music.
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The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since. Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social on.ft.com/40NNZmt
