Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: www.scmp.com/tech/tech-wa...

Whenever someone who works at X or xAI posts on that cursed app, the first and only appropriate reply to anything they say is the Pedobear meme.

OpenAI: 10x engineers, 10x taste Google DeepMind: 10x engineers, 1x taste Anthropic: 10x engineers, 100x taste xAI: 10x engineers, 0x taste Meta Superintelligence Labs: 1x engineers, 0x taste

For the last few years we’ve lived in a weird split-screen reality: while AI labs have made wild breakthroughs in foundation models, productivity stats and corporate workflows have looked… basically the same. Here's why that will change in 2026 👇 www.computerspeak.co/p/ai-predict...

Will OpenAI be the first company to build an AI consumer superapp? Fidji Simo tried to build Facebook into a "traditional" superapp (e-commerce, dating, gaming, etc.) but it didn't work out. Very interesting to see her try again, this time with better tech.

New: Grok is generating far more graphic sexual content than on X. Grok’s image generator, Imagine, has been used to create explicit sexual videos of celebrities and violent sexual videos, a review of public posts shows. 70 Imagine URLs appearing to depict minors were sent to regulators today

We've just launched a landing page where everyone can create videos with our AI Santa for free: www.synthesia.io/santa With a little help from our new AI video models, he’s now more realistic than ever, and ready to deliver personalized holiday cheer like never before!

With the AI Act, Brussels made a giant gamble: can you design comprehensive AI regulation before the technology settles down, and still stay competitive? The answer is turning into a bitter lesson in what happens when process gets ahead of practice. www.computerspeak.co/p/europes-bi...

Many of us have experienced that moment when we're creating a video, and just need the right image to illustrate a process or show something that supports our script. Now you can create that cinematic visuals instantly in @synthesia.io with FLUX.2 - the new model from Black Forest Labs!

Atomico’s annual State of European Tech report is out, and Anna Heim from @techcrunch.com noticed an uptick in scaleups playing a more active role in political debates: techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/e... A 🧵 on why this is happening

Sifted's @daphneleprince.bsky.social and @freyapratty.bsky.social have an article out this morning summarizing the reaction from European AI startups on the proposed delays of the AI Act: sifted.eu/articles/eur... A 🧵with my views on this matter

This week, Accel published their Globalscape report which paints a rosy future for European AI. One possible explanation is that European companies aren’t paying the ASI hype tax. Here's what that means 👇 www.computerspeak.co/p/european-t...

Today, @synthesia.io is releasing a new family of customizable avatars that don't just talk, but also take action: www.synthesia.io/post/synthes...

Michael Burry is betting $1bn against Palantir because he sees them as a proxy for the AI bubble. What he fails to understand is that the next leg of the AI cycle will be decided in the boiler rooms of the enterprise: www.computerspeak.co/p/palantir-i...

My conversation with Bernard Marr and Sasha Rubel from AWS about AI adoption and innovation is now live on YouTube: youtu.be/HbaEH2bU800

In an article for Transformer, I argue (based on lessons learned at @synthesia.io) that drafting lengthy applied AI strategies and coming up with new pilots/sandboxes is not the way forward if we're serious about AI adoption: transformernews.ai/p/audits-not...

Are you a company looking to adopt AI but unsure how to navigate Europe's complex AI regulations? 🇪🇺 Join me for @synthesia.io's webinar on November 5th as I talk to experts who are making great-tasting lemonade out of the lemon that has been the EU AI Act: synthesia-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I had an amazing chat with @bernardmarr.bsky.social and Sasha Rubel from @awscloud.bsky.social about how organizations can speed up AI adoption, how we can scale infrastructure and build regulatory regimes that favor responsible innovation, and deploy AI agents across multiple industries. #AWS

New data from @nathanbenaich.bsky.social's State of AI Report released this week shows how AI adoption is doing something unfashionable for a bubble: it’s compounding. www.computerspeak.co/p/the-2025-s...

This week, it’s become painfully obvious that OpenAI, YouTube, TikTok and Meta are all gunning for the same prize: the default feed for AI native video. Here's why: www.computerspeak.co/p/ai-video-c...

Synthesia 3.0 is our new AI video platform reimagined for the future of video. Victor Riparbelli went on Bloomberg Technology to chat with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde about @synthesia.io's new products and the benefits they will bring to businesses: youtu.be/t319kg2yT5A

It's very clear that Meta's Vibes launch was rushed to pre-empt the Sora 2 release. The strategy backfired because it attracted a wave of people predictably dumping on Vibes and AI video as a social experience, clearing the way for Sora to get a more neutral reception.

More than 10,000 people have signed up for our LinkedIn event on October 1 to learn how @synthesiaIO will change video as a format, and what's coming next for conversational agents that are built to work in the real world and deliver business value: lnkd.in/esjikxvp

Congratulations to Germany's Minister of State for @bundeskultur.bsky.social Wolfram Weimer for launching Weimatar – the first AI avatar of a German government member created with @synthesia.io More information here about the project: kulturstaatsminister.de/erster-virtu...

I answered a few questions for the Friday Q&A section in @politico.eu's Morning Tech UK newsletter.

AI grifters such as Eliezer Yudkowsky or Ed Newton-Rex, once dressed in TED-stage gravitas and penning op-eds for The Guardian, are now pivoting to the more niche corners of the MAGA mediasphere: www.computerspeak.co/p/the-ai-gri...

For me, generative AI’s best trick isn’t replacing people, it’s compressing the cost of quality. In other words, there’s a meaningful line between influencers creating with AI and influencers who are AI: www.computerspeak.co/p/you-cant-y...

In an in-depth feature for MIT Technology Review, @rhiannonwilliams.bsky.social writes about (and becomes one of!) @synthesia.io's new Express-2 avatars: technologyreview.com/2025/09/04/1... 📰 @technologyreview.com | tip @techmeme.com

Spoke with @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social at the @financialtimes.com about the rise of AI influencers: ft.com/content/cb85... I believe gen AI is going to be a great equalizer across many industries, particularly in the creative industry where 𝒘𝒉𝒐 you know can be just as important as 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 you know.

NEW: I spoke to three of the winners of the International Olympiad in AI, an annual competition for high schoolers that took part earlier this month: www.computerspeak.co/p/inside-202...

Just out on @bloomberg.com: @synthesia.io CEO Victor Riparbelli sits down with Tom Mackenzie to discuss how AI is reshaping the workplace, including through products such as AI dubbing or AI avatars designed to make video more engaging, personal, and effective at scale: youtu.be/nxgpCr9oULY

This week, the UK government suggested that deleting old emails can help address water shortages. Instead of wasting hours on performative actions, spend five minutes reading about how AI is affecting water consumption: www.computerspeak.co/p/is-ai-real... 🌊💻

Sam Altman described "a model that continuously learns as it's deployed from the new things it finds" something that to him "feels like AGI." In this week's Computerspeak, I attempt a more detailed spec for what AGI (or superintelligence) could mean: www.computerspeak.co/p/a-definiti...

Introducing AI Dubbing in @synthesia.io 🎉 Now you can dub your existing videos into 30+ languages while keep the original speaker’s voice, with perfect lip-sync — all done in minutes. And for full and safe control over machine translations, we've built a Secure Editing feature.

In this week's newsletter, I'm an old man yelling at the clouds about AI products designed by the socially disengaged, policed by the epistemically fragile, and deployed to users who mostly just want a powerful assistant and not an anime AI girlfriend: www.computerspeak.co/p/are-we-bui...

I spoke with two researchers from @mbzuai.bsky.social about their #ICML2025 paper showing that with $10 of cloud computing and an open weights model, watermarking can be easily tampered with: mbzuai.ac.ae/news/challen...

In this week's newsletter, I compare Grok 4 to a vehicle with Level 2 autonomy (it's a good reasoning model), which of course is incredibly impressive compared to cruise control (GPT-2), but should not be confused with a Level 5 self-driving car (AGI): www.computerspeak.co/p/elon-musk-...

Today, any child in Europe could have the opportunity to access better education in the form of a conversational AI model that is truly helpful. Except the AI Act limits the use of this technology in education. We should #StopTheClock on the AI Act: computerspeak.substack.com/p/on-ai-euro...

As of today, there are 1,111 people who have subscribed to 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 — a newsletter I started as a hobby a year and a half ago: www.computerspeak.co I never thought I'd reach so many subscribers so thanks to everyone following along, I appreciate you joining me on this journey.

Next week, I'm going to be speaking at the Westminster Media Forum policy conference on AI and copyright, which prompted some personal reflections on what has happened in the past week with court rulings affecting Anthropic, Meta and Stability AI: www.computerspeak.co/p/three-cour...

Interactivity in @synthesia.io is finally here! Starting today, our customers can turn their videos into ✨ interactive experiences ✨ by adding CTAs and branching scenarios. Check out the video below to see Interactivity in action 👇

Acquihiring used to be a tried and tested strategy for Big Tech to digest “traditional” startups without the pains of a classic M&A. But AGI startups are more like religions, so there's a high risk of food poisoning: computerspeak.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

With a little help from @karenhao.bsky.social, I wrote about how Nvidia's Jensen Huang effectively pointed out the flaws in the AI doomer argument: www.computerspeak.co/p/jensen-hua...

Same energy.

Today, @synthesia.io is kickstarting London Tech Week in style, as we're announcing that we're the first company in the world to train a large video model using NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs on Google Cloud: www.synthesia.io/post/bigger-...

Can anyone confirm if everything is still computer?

Language is not just tokens used to train AI models, it also encodes culture. We should train AI models to understand culture, otherwise we'll end up with a world where smaller cultures and languages will be steamrolled by scale: www.computerspeak.co/p/culture-sh...

I spoke to @spgmarketintel.bsky.social about Europe's ambitious plan to invest €200 billion in AI gigafactories: www.spglobal.com/market-intel...

I'm looking for a corporate affairs manager to help @synthesia.io tell our stories in creative and inspiring ways: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... The role needs someone who is passionate about AI, can engage with policy makers, the media, and can support our executives on external engagements

World models are essential testing grounds for AI agents. Researchers from @MBZUAI are working on PAN, a world model that can simulate infinitely diverse realities, from simple physical interactions to complex multi-agent systems: www.computerspeak.co/p/world-mode...