Becky Horsbrugh
@beckyrlh.bsky.social
Channel 4 News programme and online journalist. Former AP. Swimmer, runner, cyclist. Swam the Bangla Channel. London Fields
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🗣️ "In the US, Wall Street investors are worrying about an AI bubble - maybe they have pumped too much money into the big Silicon Valley companies.
"Across the western world, people are fretting about AI’s potential to act autonomously and take control of our lives."
"Across the western world, people are fretting about AI’s potential to act autonomously and take control of our lives."
China’s own ‘Silicon Valley’ - where everyone is developing an AI app
The superpower hopes that the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence will inspire an increasingly disillusioned Gen Z, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum en route to Beijing.
channel4news.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🗣️ "In the US, Wall Street investors are worrying about an AI bubble - maybe they have pumped too much money into the big Silicon Valley companies.
"Across the western world, people are fretting about AI’s potential to act autonomously and take control of our lives."
"Across the western world, people are fretting about AI’s potential to act autonomously and take control of our lives."
In Luxor at a fish restaurant and this beauty decided to adopt us
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In Luxor at a fish restaurant and this beauty decided to adopt us
@jim.londoncentric.media as you know…. E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say surgeons www.bbc.com/news/article...
E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say Royal London Hospital surgeons
Frida, six, is one of the many patients treated at the Royal London Hospital for an e-bike injury.
www.bbc.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
@jim.londoncentric.media as you know…. E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say surgeons www.bbc.com/news/article...
@thecatreviewer.bsky.social exceptionally friendly cat in Nohedes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France. He even has a street named after him! 10/10 for local hospitality
September 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
@thecatreviewer.bsky.social exceptionally friendly cat in Nohedes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France. He even has a street named after him! 10/10 for local hospitality
Everything is too much for Monte
August 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Everything is too much for Monte
Our report last night. Such a harrowing case - and incredibly sad one - to be in court at, for the hearing.
Two teenage boys handed life sentences for stabbing of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa
www.channel4.com/news/two-tee...
www.channel4.com/news/two-tee...
Two teenage boys handed life sentences for stabbing of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa
Two teenage boys have been handed life sentences for stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death with machetes on a London bus.
www.channel4.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our report last night. Such a harrowing case - and incredibly sad one - to be in court at, for the hearing.
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Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Aeneas program, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians
In addition to sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a freshwater system and public health, the Romans also produced a lot of inscriptions.
Making sense of the ancient texts can be a slog for scholars, but a new artificial intelligence tool from Google DeepMind aims to ease the process. Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
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Final aside on big tech, btw: the data centre energy use to supply streaming for TikTok, youTube, Netflix, iPlayer, your smart TV , etc, *vastly* outweighs what LLMs use. As does the 'normal' AI power needs to sort search results, scoial media algorithms, online shopping, etc (for now).
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Final aside on big tech, btw: the data centre energy use to supply streaming for TikTok, youTube, Netflix, iPlayer, your smart TV , etc, *vastly* outweighs what LLMs use. As does the 'normal' AI power needs to sort search results, scoial media algorithms, online shopping, etc (for now).
This is incredible
July 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is incredible
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Assuming the 10 billion figure is correct, that makes data centre usage is 27 million litres a day.
Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.
Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.
This stuff is so maddening. The top part says 10b litres *a year* and then later there is a 5bn/a day shortfall. Ie data centers are irrelevant. 10b litres a year is trivial! A single reservoir will be 100-150bn litres! Later it says we don’t even know if the data center one is solid!
July 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Assuming the 10 billion figure is correct, that makes data centre usage is 27 million litres a day.
Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.
Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.
Feline fans:
A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?
A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Feline fans:
A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?
A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?
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Manchester United’s open-top bus parade in Kuala Lumpur after finishing 15th in the league followed by their defeat by an assembly of random locals is absolutely the ending this season merited.
May 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Manchester United’s open-top bus parade in Kuala Lumpur after finishing 15th in the league followed by their defeat by an assembly of random locals is absolutely the ending this season merited.
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The idea that people think these accounts are legitimately from Gazans is crazy to me. We live in an era of extremely low social trust—*except for complete and total strangers on the internet spamming threads asking for money*
a man wearing a suit and tie is looking at something
ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is looking at something
media.tenor.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The idea that people think these accounts are legitimately from Gazans is crazy to me. We live in an era of extremely low social trust—*except for complete and total strangers on the internet spamming threads asking for money*
Come to Ecuador. See a black cat
May 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Come to Ecuador. See a black cat
At Madrid airport yesterday on a flight bound for Quito - a priest got on the plane, and as he walked down the aisle the cabin burst into spontaneous applause.
May 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
At Madrid airport yesterday on a flight bound for Quito - a priest got on the plane, and as he walked down the aisle the cabin burst into spontaneous applause.
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Britain's puffin population has received a huge boost - thanks to Brexit.
Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
How Brexit is boosting Britain’s Puffin population
We look into the Great Puffin Brexit Bonanza, as the critical count for this vulnerable seabird gets underway on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
www.channel4.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Britain's puffin population has received a huge boost - thanks to Brexit.
Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
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This is a great use case for generative AI - do give it a read. Also worth noting that it's being used to triage, not do the actual fact-checking. The humans do the proper knowledge work, as should always be the case (via @alic.bsky.social)
Big thanks to @clarespencer.bsky.social for taking the time to chat to folks at @fullfact.org towers about our latest work with GenAI.
How Full Fact Uses Generative AI to Find Harmful Health Advice
From multimodal misinformation detection to harm rating and ranking
generative-ai-newsroom.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is a great use case for generative AI - do give it a read. Also worth noting that it's being used to triage, not do the actual fact-checking. The humans do the proper knowledge work, as should always be the case (via @alic.bsky.social)
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What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers a #QTWTAI Very Small Compared With Most Of The Other Stuff You Do www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?
Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers a #QTWTAI Very Small Compared With Most Of The Other Stuff You Do www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
Monte in his bow tie to celebrate our wedding
May 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Monte in his bow tie to celebrate our wedding
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An exclusive poll for the Channel 4 News Special 'Election 2025: The Debate' reveals 'none of the above' as the most popular leader choice with voters.
Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.
Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.
Exclusive poll: ‘None of the above’ most popular leader choice with voters
The poll also shows Labour with 18% are behind Reform (26%) and the Conservatives (25%) when it comes to voting intention in the areas where elections are taking place.
www.channel4.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
An exclusive poll for the Channel 4 News Special 'Election 2025: The Debate' reveals 'none of the above' as the most popular leader choice with voters.
Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.
Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.
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Make streets safer for cycling, you get more cycling. Astonishing stats from the City of London:
🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline
🚴♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago)
🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic
🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline
🚴♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago)
🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Make streets safer for cycling, you get more cycling. Astonishing stats from the City of London:
🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline
🚴♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago)
🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic
🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline
🚴♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago)
🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic
Monte contemplating the plants
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Monte contemplating the plants