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Innovation editor and tech columnist @FinancialTimes. Founder of @Siftedeu. Ex-deputy editor, Moscow correspondent etc

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1 year
Delighted that Tech Tonic from the ⁦@FinancialTimes⁩ won the Publisher Podcast Award this week for best technology podcast. A fitting tribute to the much-missed scientist Karen Bakker who inspired the series on how AI can help us understand animal communication
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‘As Abraham Lincoln noted about problem-solving, if he had 8 hours to chop down a tree he would spend 6 sharpening his axe. AI’s ‘axe’ lies in the precision of the prompt’. Letter: The story of Lincoln and his axe and why it has lessons for AI via @ft.
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RT @soundboy: 1/ In less than 2 years since it was founded, @proximafusion has raised a $150M Series A - the largest private investment int….
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RT @ChristopherJM: 🎧 Listen to @FT’s new season of the Tech Tonic podcast. Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones .w/ @johnthornhillft @E….
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RT @paulg: There are a lot of people attributing crazy beliefs to Elon lately, but to me the clearest sign that he's not entirely rational….
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Slush is very on brand this year
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RT @FT: The 14 best environment, science and technology books of 2024, according to @pilitaclark Clark, @clivecookson and @johnthornhillft:….
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Martin Wolf’s take on the UK budget: it only works if the economy becomes more dynamic
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“The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential campaign is a terrible mistake. It represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love,” write 16 ���@washingtonpost⁩ columnists
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RT @jburnmurdoch: The recent political polarisation of Silicon Valley is really striking. 25 years ago most big tech and VC execs were mod….
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Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer via @FT.
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10 months
“Make sure your robots are solving a real problem” 💯 Wisdom from the Impact Stage at ⁦@Siftedeu⁩ summit #SiftedSummit
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Big Day: Sifted Summit 🎉 ⁦@Siftedeu
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RT @mer__edith: I loved talking to @madhumita29 for Lunch with the FT! We spoke on my personal journey through the enchanted forest of 200….
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Big deal: 51,302 start-ups were founded in China in 2018. That figure had collapsed to 1,202 in 2023 and is on track to be even lower this year. How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector via @ft.
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RT @EFF: After Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's detention for failing to cooperate with French authorities, EFF’s @evacide joined @FinancialTimes….
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RT @rmilneNordic: Northvolt to cut jobs and sell or seek partners for its energy storage and materials businesses as Europe's great battery….
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11 months
News interest in AI looks like it's peaked (unless something crazy happens again at OpenAI). h/t @johnauthers
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11 months
Beats the Nasdaq. h/t the daily newsletter from @Siftedeu @_tommatsuda
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My latest @FinancialTimes column riffing on Jason Roberts's wonderful book on Linnaeus vs Buffon. "Sometimes we think we are inventing the future when we are retrofitting the past," he says.
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RT @EdwardGLuce: In Sept 2016, I spent time in Hazleton, Pennsylvania and could sense Trump's victory was likely. L….
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