Ahhh this writing. @stephenkb.bsky.social is so good!

The FT's live Ask an Expert finally getting onto the good stuff... www.ft.com/content/c330...

What a drive-by from @chrisgiles.ft.com! "In his first term, Trump thought the then 47-year-old former Fed governor was too youthful and good looking to command respect. Eight years on, that has all changed." www.ft.com/content/167c...

🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 Why are so many graduates struggling to find a job? @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @stish.bsky.social join me to discuss why young people leaving university are having a tough time in the labour market. Listen here: insideyoured.com

‘Our analysis of job postings data from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands shows no clear evidence that AI is behind the slowdown in early-career employment across much of the west’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/7fbc...

Once upon a time, a President of the United States saying "fuck you" and raising his middle finger to an American factory worker would be front page news around the world. Now it's a "colour lede" on a business analysis. www.ft.com/content/36ab...

In which @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com discuss how social scientists have been using AI to write code for data analysis, and what this means for other professionals who do similar work … like data journalists: www.ft.com/content/9183...

I'm not really one for lengthy "what I read this year" lists, so here's a super short one. The best fiction book I read was Venomous Lumpsuckers by Ned Beauman. The best non-fiction book I read was Private Revolutions by @yuanfenyang.bsky.social. I recommend them both heartily!!

If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up? Our latest AI Shift newsletter... www.ft.com/content/1d85...

Isn't it funny how your brain just knows when you've left one gulp of tea in a cup, somewhere in the house. Like, somehow you just know you're one gulp short of having drunk a whole cup. Is this a uniquely British skill, I wonder?

Are "Made by Humans" labels going to be the new Fairtrade? On why transparency about how AI is used in creative endeavours is trickier than it sounds, but better than just giving up www.ft.com/content/bab5...

It's so important to read splashy findings about the impact of AI on jobs with a critical eye 🤔 @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and John Burn-Murdoch are spot on here - highlighting issues I see in these studies time and time again. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... #EconSky 3 of the big ones... [1/5]

Sure, we're the weak and decaying ones...

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

In 2016, godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton said: "People should stop training radiologists now." In this week's The AI Shift newsletter, we ask: why are there still so many radiologists?? www.ft.com/content/f2e0...

This week's FT AI shift newsletter is so far up my street, it's practically parked on my drive - On how, despite AI leaders predictions of doom, there are now growing numbers of radiologists and how those professionals are working with AI @sarahoconnorft.ft.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

If you're lucky enough to be able to read the @financialtimes.com these evidence-based conversations between @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com are particularly fascinating. Here's the latest.

Out of interest, I just checked my Facebook feed. I had to scroll through 86 posts before I saw one from someone I know. (shout out to @groomb.bsky.social whose post it was!)

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

I was on hiring teams in 2012/13 where we would routinely go from applications closing to making offers within 3 weeks, sometimes 2! Because our team prioritised an efficient process. These days, as an employee, anything faster than 3 months is basically unheard of.

Another one for you, @dlknowles.bsky.social

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Via @sarahoconnorft.ft.com Am seeing similar in so many other settings. Eg planning applications: -> Firms now offering 'AI' solutions to opponents of big developments. So expect similar to emerge for those in favour, and even more for 'assessing' docs targeted at under-resourced #Localgov.

Depressing @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com newsletter today - general use of AI in crafting job applications now makes it impossible to identify the best candidates. So a probable return to "it's not what you know, it's who you know" recruitment? Top work everyone!

From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com: AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways

"If a country as rich as Norway can’t afford to stick to principles, who can?" Great edition of the Free Lunch newsletter today by @martinsandbu.ft.com on Norway suspending its $2.1 trillion oil fund's ethics rules. www.ft.com/content/f6b3...

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).

In news that will surprise no-one... www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

Does this description come from 2025, or 2006? Unnerving piece by @brookeamasters.ft.com www.ft.com/content/fddb...

Beautiful paragraph juxtaposition! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

'It’s worth raising an eyebrow when companies announcing lay-offs link them in vague terms to becoming “AI ready”, but without any corroborating detail. Let’s face it, it sounds a lot more dynamic than just saying the business isn’t doing very well.' 👏 @sarahoconnorft.ft.com

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Read the headlines and you’ll see wildly different conclusions about whether AI is taking jobs or not. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com break down what the data actually shows in their new newsletter The AI Shift. It's free to read here: on.ft.com/4niHdxo

Exciting day: one of my fave colleagues @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and I are teaming up on a weekly newsletter to track what's really happening with AI & the labour market. No hype, just spreadsheets & shoe-leather. You can sign up here to get the first edition at lunchtime today! ft.com/AIshift

This is going to be v v good

Have Your Say!

Why can’t I buy a small smartphone? on.ft.com/4nzyCqB Are phones too big? Tell us what you think in today's #FTEdit poll 👉 on.ft.com/47n8eKt

Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...

This piece is so funny and also so good

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

In which @sheilahayman.bsky.social enjoyably skewers Geoff Hinton's suggestion that we should engineer AI to be like a "mother" to us. sheila-hayman.medium.com/mummy-knows-...

In which @stephenkb.bsky.social absolutely nails the way the Tories are performing a "never-ending lobotomy" on themselves by requiring everyone to believe (or at least pretend) Brexit was a good idea. www.ft.com/content/a65f...

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

Great piece from @emmavj.bsky.social who is calling Peak Vibe www.ft.com/content/14ef...

Those tall stools on that tiny raised platform are making me nervous... do you really want to be adding pints into the mix?