Excited to be named as a Thiel Fellow!

you've heard about @turinginst (~£30m/yr), but do you know the issues with the @BritishBBank (£25b), the closest thing we have to a sovereign wealth fund? or how VC incentives costing £1b a year don't help scale or sovereignty? to fix this chart, we need to fix *them*:

Matt is one of the most brilliant people I’ve met, and exactly the type of person we need to drive forward a new chapter for Britain 🇬🇧

Britain is a great country, but unless we reignite growth, we can’t pay for any of our other goals. Was great to talk about this at @lfg_uk Make or Break this week👇

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on calls for a “ban on AI Superintelligence” “We’re in an arms race. We’re either going to have AI and determine the rules, or our adversaries will.” “If you put impediments… we’ll be buying everything from them, including ideas on how to run our gov’t.”

The biggest infrastructure supercycle in history is here. We are building the foundation of intelligence itself, with tools, models, silicon and light. This is our moonshot. Excited to present Runtime 2025 from @a16z AI x Infra.

1/ Very excited to share that @pluralplatform is leading a $60 million Series A in @CoMind_, the startup building breakthrough optical sensing technology to revolutionise brain monitoring and treatment.

The founder of @CoMind_ (@jamesdacombe) was 17 when he founded the company. It's now raised over $100m. The company has developed brand new un-intrusive ways of monitoring brain health. It's just announced a huge funding round meaning it's now raised over $100m. Plural

We're excited to announce that CoMind has secured $102.5 million in funding to help us redefine how we monitor and treat the brain. For decades, doctors treating critically ill patients have been forced to compromise when monitoring the brain: use risky, expensive, highly

Really enjoyed speaking to @tim and Clive Cookson about CoMind, how we're working to redefine clinical monitoring of the brain, and the funding we've raised to help us achieve this. https://t.co/I7BWnRNRfp

The UK creates generational companies but can’t keep them. ARM, DeepMind, Revolut… are all foreign owned, employ more staff outside the UK than in it, and pay little to no corporation tax in the UK. If growth has and will continue to come from tech companies, how will the UK

A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom.

"100 million words context window is already possible, which is roughly what a human hears in a lifetime. Inference support is the only bottleneck to achieve it. And AI Models actually do learn during the context window, without changing the weights." ~ Anthropic CEO Dario

Lots of good stuff in here - worth your time if you want to see the UK grow again

When will the UK government and LSE wake up and realise that if you drive away companies and entrepreneurs it’s bad for tax receipts. AstraZeneca’s US listing to leave £200mn UK stamp duty hole. This won’t be the last, many more will follow.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe

I have no words. I don't understand how to live in a world where someone would take a father away from his young children for having a different opinion.

free speech. but we’ll shoot you. something is deeply broken in the west. if we don’t fix it, eventually everyone could be ushered at gunpoint to sign the proclamations of the Truth Ministers.

It is extraordinary that Britain has achieved this despite: Cripplingly high energy costs Strangling regulation Flat productivity Highest tax burden in 70 years Imagine what the Britain of 2050 could be doing if we start being run competently. Stay optimistic!

The general view of the UK economy is that it's been stagnating for decades now. But on some of the most important metrics it's actually going backwards...

There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country.