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That may be true for the frontier labs. If you are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta, perhaps the only game in town is to keep scaling. More GPUs, more data, more power, more infrastructure. The logic is clear enough: if intelligence becomes the next platform layer, the companies that own the compute get to own the market.
The problem is that UK and European policymaker...
His latest AI deck is long, dense and intentionally wide-ranging. It is not a neat argument so much as a set of lenses. The framing is simple enough: capital, deployment and change. How much money is being poured into AI? How is it actually being used? And what happens when machines can do more of the cognitive work that used to belong to humans?
That last question is t...
For too long, Britain has been living off a handful of inherited strengths while allowing large parts of the country to drift. London has carried too much of the weight. Financial services, law, media, consulting, advertising, universities and parts of the technology sector have masked a much deeper problem: outside a relatively small number of high-performing places, there a...
The designer says, “I’m not sure a new user will understand this.”
The engineer says, “But it’s obvious.”
The founder says, “But this is how the market works.”
The product manager says, “But users asked for this.”
And often, everybody is right from inside their own model of the world. The engineer understands the system. The founder understands the str...
I believe that in the future, products begin to observe, diagnose, repair, optimise and eventually reshape themselves around users and contexts. The shift is not simply from human-made software to AI-made software. It is from software as a fixed artefact to software as a living system.
The automotive industry has a useful way of talking about autonomy, from basic driver...