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AI • Future Of Work • Tech Industry
Yesterday Jack Dorsey cut 4,100 people from Block, nearly half its entire workforce, and the stock surged 24%. The story investors want to hear.
AI • Perplexity • Multi-Model
'Computer' is an autonomous agent that routes tasks across Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and others, picking whichever model reportedly handles each subtask best.
AI • Ukraine • Defence
Four years ago, Russia expected Kyiv in three days. In the time since, Ukraine has built what may be the world's first AI-native military.
AI • Distillation • Anthropic
Three Chinese AI labs ran coordinated campaigns to extract Claude's capabilities using distillation. Anthropic, which trained Claude on the open internet without asking, is now outraged.
AI • Business Models • Open AI
OpenAI started showing ads inside ChatGPT. Anthropic ran a Super Bowl ad promising no ads. Perplexity killed its sponsored answers. Three companies, three bets on who pays for intelligence.
AI • Emotional Infrastructure • Society
People report trusting their AI assistant more than elected officials and more than the company that built it. Welcome to 'emotional infrastructure at scale.'
AI • Creativity • Future Of Work
Researchers call it a 'creativity scar'. Used as a vending machine, AI creates cognitive muscle atrophy. Used as human augmentation, it can lead to muscle growth.
AI • Future Of Work • Workload Creep
AI was supposed to give people time back. The early data says it gave them more to do. Welcome to the invisible workload.
AI • Pentagon • Anthropic
Anthropic's AI run through Palantir's military systems leads to a standoff over safeguards and 'all lawful purposes' contracts.
AI • Center For Tomorrow • Dex Hunter Torricke
Dex Hunter-Torricke launches a new nonprofit designed to bridge the gap between building the technology and building the society.
AI • Byte Dance • Video
ByteDance's Boximator signals a shift from 'slot machine' prompting to the 'steering wheel' interface for video AI.
AI • Europe • Talent Drain
Europe produces more AI professionals per head than America. But they keep leaving...
AI • Software Engineering • Technical Debt
The biggest risk to AI isn't model safety. It's the technical debt of the models it replaces.
AI • Jobs • IBM
Matt Shumer's viral essay told tens of millions AI is coming for their jobs. Days later, IBM tripled its junior hiring. Both are right. The routine work is going to machines. The first rung of the career ladder is being rebuilt around a different question: who carries the judgment when the AI is wrong?
AI • Byte Dance • Copyright
ByteDance's Seedance model launched and within hours feeds were flooded with AI-generated Tom Cruise, Spider-Man, and Titanic scenes. The MPA responded with infringement claims. Elon Musk said it's happening too fast. A Deadpool screenwriter said it's likely over.
AI • Sovereignty • Geopolitics
Dario Amodei's thought experiment reframed as a sovereignty race. Chile, France, UAE, Saudi, India, South Korea — none will beat GPT on benchmarks, but that's not the point.
AI • Semiconductors • Hardware
AI chips make up 0.2% of all chips sold, but they will generate half of all chip revenue this year. The value isn't in software; it's in the silicon underneath.
AI • Healthcare • Medical AI
Sweden is rolling out AI mammography after a trial showing 27% fewer missed cancers and 44% less radiologist workload. The most important AI applications never trend.
AI • Anthropic • Claude
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini pointed 16 AI agents at building a compiler from scratch. 2,000 sessions, 100,000 lines of code. The rate of improvement is the story.
AI • Espionage • Google
A former Google engineer convicted on 14 counts of espionage for stealing TPU chip designs — not models. The value in AI is shifting from software to infrastructure.
AI • Anthropic • Saa S
Claude Cowork rattled the software sector — Thomson Reuters, Legalzoom, Salesforce all hit. When AI agents reach into workflows directly, the thin-wrapper SaaS model breaks.
AI • Microsoft AI • Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman draws a line on emotional AI, but users keep demanding the companion back. The tension between utility and emotional resonance is the next major frontier.
AI • China • Deep Seek
DeepSeek's rise isn't about better chips — it's about more efficient code. The GPU moat may be a temporary barrier when you can achieve the same result with 10x less hardware.
AI • Space X • x AI
Musk merging SpaceX and xAI to move compute into orbit. Orbital compute solves the two hardest problems: energy (unblocked solar) and cooling (deep space at -270°C).
AI • China • Open Claw
OpenClaw integrating Chinese models isn't ideological — it's a balance sheet decision. Agents loop 50 calls per task. You need Toyotas, not Ferraris.
AI • Future Of Work • Jobs
UK companies cut 23% of mid-level execution roles. AI doesn't just eat entry roles — it eats the career ladder.
AI • Saa S • Agentic AI
SaaS was built on a gap between builders and buyers. Agents are compressing that gap. The constraint moves from engineering capacity to context.
AI • Agents • Software Engineering
Documentation is shifting from a learning resource for humans to a machine-facing surface for agents. The advantage goes to whoever notices first.
AI • Agents • Future Of Work
The immediate assumption is that we are seeing a jump in model intelligence. But the real breakthrough is friction collapse—the shift from 'AI as a Tool' to 'AI as Labour'.
Davos • Exponential Age • Energy
Azeem Azhar's post-Davos frame is essential reading. As energy becomes buildable and intelligence commoditised, our 'civilisational operating system' is being rewritten.
Energy • AI • Sustainability
Solar generated more electricity than coal on the Texas grid for the first time. Why does this matter for AI? Because AI turns electricity into strategy.
AI • Consulting • Business
Accenture's $1bn acquisition of UK AI unicorn Faculty signals a rewiring of the consulting pyramid.
Future Of Work • AI • Skills
New data from NBER shows 71% of workers in high-AI-exposure jobs score above average on adaptability. The risk isn't the technology; it's the refusal to adapt.
Future Of Work • AI • Artificial Intelligence
Graduate recruitment is shifting from closed-book horsepower to AI literacy and judgement.
Future Of Work • AI • Artificial Intelligence
Stack Overflow is becoming an archaeological layer. Public Q&A is thinning. Private synthesis is thickening.
AI • Consulting • Technology
The headline is $1bn. The signal is a job title.
AI • Technology • Innovation
For three years, AI got smarter by reading more.
Exponential Age • AI • Software Engineering
What if your next engineering hire doesn't need a desk, salary or manager?
Venture Capital • AI • Startups
The gatekeepers of capital used to block out two hours for a preliminary analysis of a pitch. Now they do it in 13 seconds.
Future Of Work • Exponential Age • AI
We tell pollsters we do not trust AI. We tell our browsers something very different.
Exponential Age • Geopolitics • Critical Minerals
There is an invisible war for the periodic table.
Infrastructure • AI • Data Centers
The cloud has a postcode. And right now, it looks a lot like Indiana farmland...
AI • Technology • Exponential Age
This tweet was the Big Bang of the modern #AI era.
Economics • Innovation • AI
Imagine if the price of oil dropped 300-fold in a single year. The global economy would turn upside down.
AI • Innovation • Management
A $6.2 billion seed round. For a company that hasn't launched a product.
Exponential Age • AI • Innovation
We just watched an AI turn a simulated $500 into a $5,478 business empire.
AI • Language • Digital Divide
AI spoke English. Billions didn't. Now that barrier may just have fallen
Cyber Security • AI • Geopolitics
Chinese state-backed hackers used an AI to run a cyber-espionage campaign at machine speed.
AI • Science • R
What took a lab six months now takes a machine 12 hours. Not assisted research- autonomous discovery.
AI • Geopolitics • China
China just made its move for global AI governance.
AI • Regulation • Policy
The UK is trialling a new idea: freeports for algorithms.
AI • Future Of Work • Skills
AI is making some workers more valuable, not obsolete (for now).
Robotics • Manufacturing • AI
Robots that programme themselves. Not in a lab. In a 100,000 square-foot factory that opened yesterday in California.
AI • Science • Research
The exponential age doesn't just accelerate science. It privatises how science gets done.
AI • Cybersecurity • AISafety
A handful of poisoned training documents can backdoor the world's largest AI models. Researchers just proved it.
Quantum Computing • Science • Innovation
Harvard University just ran a quantum computer for two hours straight.
AI • Innovation • Robotics
Figure AI's humanoid robots have been working BMW Group's production line for five months straight. Ten hours a day. Every single day of production.
Exponential Age • AI • Cloud
This is what $1 trillion in AI infrastructure looks like.
AI • Robotics • Innovation
China is switching off the lights. Not to save energy- because humans no longer work there.
AI • Innovation • UK
🇬🇧 Some Saturday viewing to remind us why the world's tech titans still bet on this sceptred isle. 🇬🇧
Exponential Age • AI • Technology
OpenAI is reportedly planning an energy expansion on the scale of a nation.
Exponential Age • AI • Infrastructure
The record for the largest cyberattack just doubled. In three weeks.
AI • Exponential Age • Technology
We built #AI to be confident. Turns out confidence and accuracy parted ways.
AI • Technology • HRTech
The new meta: not what you know, or who you know, but which #AI knows which AI.
Machine Learning • AI • Exponential Age
The robots arrive, and human drivers take a 6.9% pay cut.
Exponential Age • Technology • Innovation
Just back from the Balkans - a few signals that our innovation map is upside down:
AI • Blockchain • Technology
When AI speaks your language, you control the conversation. Bulgaria gets it.
Exponential Age • Technology • AI
Code scales without limit. But trust doesn’t - it needs eye contact and a handshake. Business is still human to human.
AI • Exponential Age • Technology
The old order- poured in concrete. The new one - written in code.
Exponential Age • Technology • Innovation
Four capitals in four nights.
AI • Future Of Work • Graduates
The career advice industry hasn't caught up to #AI disruption. Universities often teach yesterday's playbooks. And parents can't guide what they don't
AI • HRTech • Future Of Work
Would you choose a cordial but unyielding algorithm or a human handshake for your next job interview?
AI • Technology • Digital Transformation
Shadow AI: The Invisible Workforce
AI • Technology • Strategy
Most AI gives you answers. The interesting work happens when you push for consequences.
AI • LLM • Technology
Fascinating development: leaked #AI System Instructions from major players are circulating on GitHub.
AI • Agentic • Technology
Been testing #AI browsers this week: got early access to Perplexity's Comet and also testing Dia from The Browser Company.
AI • Technology • Io T
The quantified life is coming for every living thing.
AI • Technology • Innovation
Twice as many Chinese citizens trust #AI as Americans do.
AI • Blockchain • Cybersecurity
It's part media, part fintech, part regtech - and completely reimagining itself through technology.
Innovation • AI • Digital Transformation
It looks like we're on the verge of flipping software *inside out*.
AI • Cyber Security • Digital Transformation
Some revolutions are televised. Others are pushed to a hidden GitHub repo.
AI • AIAgents • Defence Tech
AI just took control of a fighter jet in Swedish airspace. Not in a simulator. In actual flight.
3 • 1 • 2
From the first wheel to the latest microchip, technology has always been the great disruptor.
Megatrends • Transformation • Innovation
Not just evolutionary, but revolutionary.
Digital Transformation • Innovation • Tallinn
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