Australia's head of national security (?!) is using Copilot to write his speeches for him, an FOI in Australia following up my one in the UK has revealed. God help us www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/12/a...

So in the end and despite Apple's threats, European consumers only had to wait a few extra months for the new feature, while (thanks to the DMA) businesses will get access to an API enabling them to build on, and hopefully compete against, Apple's product. Seems like a good trade-off to me 🤷

Important work by @skynewsrss.bsky.social proving - as many of us have experienced - that X’s algorithm is systematically boosting far-right and extreme content in the UK, confirming similar findings elsewhere. Governments must act before it’s too late. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The salary for NYC mayor is $258,750. Musk was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package. Who is the true swindler? 🤑

“In many ways the experience of being sucked into these delusions is a lot like being drawn into a personalized cult tailored to your particular interests.”

You’ve heard from all the people who think the AI boom is like the dotcom bubble. Now meet the guy who argues the AI boom is actually crazier. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy

There's going to be so many tedious UK takes on yesterday's US Election... So here are my tedious takes: 1. Messengers matter as much as messages 2. There's no inevitable victory for right populism That's about it.

How Google won friends and influenced people - while slowly gobbling up a quarter of all ad revenue on the internet. Here's my look at two decades of Google’s ruthless tactics to secure its dominance. www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

"Much like how Saudi Arabia is a petrostate, the U.S. is a burgeoning AI state—and, in particular, an Nvidia-state...but every good earnings report further entrenches Nvidia as a precariously placed, load-bearing piece of the global economy." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Overall social media use is declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

Down 11.5% today, honestly respect to Mark Zuckerberg, late to the party, spending way too much, pissing off everybody, doing nothing but waste money, and then seeing his stock wilt as he has no way to prove it's worth it. I hope he is the first to pull capex lol

New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking: 📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years 💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs 🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

‘The four “hyperscalers” alone are expected to spend nearly $400 billion on capital investments next year, more than the cost of the Apollo space program in today’s dollars.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

CBS News is just the latest legacy news outlet to cast its lot with Trump. It settled a bogus case to please Trump, it canceled Colbert to please Trump, it hired Bari Weiss to please Trump. The number of media outlets really willing to stand up to Trump is dwindling. Support them with your loyalty.

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Ahem. Airbnb CEO says "he didn’t integrate his company’s online travel app with OpenAI’s ChatGPT because the startup’s connective tools aren’t 'quite ready' yet."

The 18th-century shift from militaries raised privately by nobles to standing armies financed by taxes is one of the central moves in the creation of the modern state. Trump is dialing it back to feudalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

“Spagat and a group of researchers undertook a 2,000-household survey in Gaza that suggested that the official figures were likely to be undercounting the number of people killed in the war by roughly 39 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

“Mr. Bannon… asserted that there was “a plan” to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice,”… He also suggested that he was part of a team developing that plan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

[politics and economics] "don’t go undiscussed, of course, but the amount of oxygen they receive compared to tech talk is out of line. As a rule of thumb, be sceptical of any “futurologist” who doesn’t major overwhelmingly on politics." on.ft.com/4oec9A8 Bang on as ever

New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Good to see enforcement of the DSA continuing despite Trump's threats. While the US government claims that the DSA allows "censorship", in the real world Meta is preventing users from exercising their legal rights to challenge its opaque content moderation decisions. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Cool to see @financialtimes.com getting into explainers! Chatted with @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the AWS blackout and the risks of banking our futures on cloud monopoly. Also feat. the redoubtable @maxvonthun.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/ad45...

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today's Amazon outage should be a wakeup call. We've put too many internet eggs into a single basket.

As we warned in an @openmarkets.bsky.social report earlier this year, our dependence on a handful of US tech giants for essential cloud infrastructure isn’t just a competition problem, it’s a serious threat to national security & societal stability. How many more outages before we get the message?

“The choice before Europeans, then, is not between values and competitiveness. It is whether they dare to recognize that European values are themselves a form of competitiveness—one built on legitimacy, stability, and social cohesion.” @aschwab.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/are-europes-...

European leaders might want to consider how all their ostentatious praise of Donald Trump would look like to European voters if ICE or other Trump-backed paramilitaries open fire on civilians and local law enforcement in cities like Chicago

Platform Power, Free Speech, and Political Interference: Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty, a new policy brief by me and my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @maxvonthun.bsky.social is out today www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

How can policy and regulation protect online expression? Great discussion on the digital rulebook, the need for bold and brave enforcement and not backing down in face of intimidation. @alemanno.bsky.social @maxvonthun.bsky.social @corneliawoll.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social & Thomas Hughes

brb while I add “legionnaire of the Antichrist” to my CV

OpenAI following in the venerable tradition of aspiring monopolists complaining about today's monopolies to regulators – just as Google supported antitrust action against Microsoft in the early 2000s. They aren't wrong though – competition enforcers are asleep at the wheel when it comes to AI.

Read of the day: Can Japan satisfy the world’s thirst for matcha? just a great story from Harry Dempsey and @urbandirt.bsky.social reporting from Shizuoka and Uji www.ft.com/content/be14...

"Surging valuations of artificial intelligence companies are intensifying the risk of a -sudden correction' in global financial markets after equity prices reached levels comparable with the dotcom bubble, the Bank of England has warned." on.ft.com/4mSeT4Q

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

This is the rhythm of life in Gaza City, writes Mohammed al-Sawwaf: displacement after displacement, death after death, with no time for mourning—only desperate attempts to save whoever is left.

dumb dogshit as ever

While the Trump administration complains about “censorship” by European regulators, Google and Apple are quietly removing apps the government doesn’t like. The hypocrisy isn’t an accident - it’s the whole point.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics. This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important. Source: @pewresearch.org

A historic failure of US government/congressional oversight has given us a dystopian world in which the biggest social media platforms are owned by Zuckerberg, Musk and this guy. Europe is right to chart a different path.

There's another option – enforce your rules and stop pretending that the US is still Europe's ally.

This is not un-related to the "rural people are inherently moral, kind, and pure, unlike those mean spiritually corrupt city folk" noble savage bullshit.

Boomer radicalisation is such a ln overlooked problem

What a totally original idea!