A day after the Burnham speech, I’m wondering what the difference is between “No 10 of the North” and The Northern Powerhouse. Anyone?
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"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ | TechCrunch
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"
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New movement in the US: "To organize progressive technologists into politics and action." techfordemocracy.org www.linkedin.com/company/tech...
Tech for Democracy
A first gathering of progressives in tech. June 11, 7pm ET.
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I commend to you this podcast from @tbpn where they interview @ericries, the Godfather of the Lean Startup idea, where he schools them on worker cooperatives and high-minded “Ethos and Integrity” being baked into companies. pca.st/episode/7303...
The Lean Startup Author on What Ruins Good Companies
This is our full conversation with Eric Ries, recorded live on TBPN.We discuss why successful companies drift away from the principles that made them great, how short-term incentives and quarterly…
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Tower Beach was an urban beachadjacent to the Tower of London, open to the public from 1934 to 1971. Re-opened 2014-2016. It's time... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_B...
Here’s #londonmaxxing from 15 years ago, when I co-founded the first ever coworking space dedicated to tech startups in London, at 76 City Road l next door to “Silicon Roundabout”. It was June, boiling hot, and @brenthoberman was the guest speaker. youtu.be/NdPljnoikNk?...
Techhub London Inaugural Speech!
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Sources say it was a majority cash deal.
Pathfounders@pathfounders.bsky.social · 3mo agoBREAKING: SAP acquires Germany's Prior Labs for €1 billion* Prior Labs is one of the leading startups in tabular foundation models by @MikeButcher pathfounders.com/p/sap-acquir... P.S. JOIN OUR IN-PERSON RECEPTION IN LONDON THIS WEEK - TICKETS GOING FAST! luma.com/xtqyrulk
Our recent investigation traced how Kremlin-linked money moved through shell companies to fund political influence, including payments to a Trump campaign operative hired by a right-wing party in Albania. 🔗 Full story (read it for free on our app): www.ftm.eu/articles/alb...
Wow, I just tried to use the @monnett.social app and good grief it’s bad. It insisted I put a post into a “category” and literally accepted nothing. This is definitely not the future of social media.
The EU has just agreed on a new set of shared rules for what happens when companies go bust. Right now, every country treats bankruptcy differently. The new rules will make the EU more attractive to investors, reduce legal complexity. Dodgy last-minute deals before bankruptcy can be challenged...
Mistral just announced it's raised $830m in debt. This would make it the first major debt financing to fund European AI infrastructure build-out . It's pushing “sovereign AI” for Europe (see also US–Europe tensions, right?!)
With more old 'standard' features on X being shut off to normal subscribers, BlueSky is starting to look a lot more feature-rich and useful, especially as it leans into AI techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/b...
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
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Small businesses may have to provide the amount, date, name, address and the NI number for *every single transaction* that goes it. Please comment via the link in this thread.
*Exclusive: OPUS launches Day Zero venture platform to back early stage startups* Can you leverage community into an early start startup funding platform? That’s the bet that UK-based OPUS plans to make. pathfounders.com/p/opus-launc...
I'm a co-founder of (and now on the board) of TechVets.co (assisting military veterans into the tech/cyber industry). Which companies out there would like to a) sponsor their programmes, b) be able to offer free AI training programmes (Claude Code), etc.
I think I need a “Small Business Doola”. Does such a person exist?
Honestly, Jeff Bezos. I ask you. He may have TRT but he’s an absolute fucking weakling. #WashPo
“AI Decoded” show on BBC News just now was an absolute pile of rubbish. Where do they get these people?
These articles are produced by a PR company, not a real publication. It just looks like one.
Deep Tech News Europe@deeptechnewseurope.bsky.social · 6mo agoMeet Latvia’s top 10 deep tech startups, according to the Latvians: deeptechnews.eu/2026/01/28/m... #deeptech #europe #news #inthespotlight #latvia
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2150 closes €210m Fund II, says cities are the answer to de-carbonisation
The VC now has €500m AUM, and plans to double-down on its existing thesis
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