Can't imagine why Meta is finding it so difficult to hire AI researchers www.reuters.com/business/met...
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Can't imagine why Meta is finding it so difficult to hire AI researchers www.reuters.com/business/met...
Rounding off an uncharacteristically long Telegraph Births column today
April 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rounding off an uncharacteristically long Telegraph Births column today
Somehow they made the robot more creepy by giving it clothes
April 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Somehow they made the robot more creepy by giving it clothes
This is all a huge vindication of the UK's decades-long move towards becoming a nation of lawyers, hairdressers and PR consultants that no longer makes things that can be tariffed
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is all a huge vindication of the UK's decades-long move towards becoming a nation of lawyers, hairdressers and PR consultants that no longer makes things that can be tariffed
SpaceX asks Trump for tariff exemptions www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX pleads with Trump for tariff exemptions
Rocket company asks US government to waive trade levies on Chinese-made manufacturing equipment
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April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
SpaceX asks Trump for tariff exemptions www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking."
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
March 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking."
Relaxing Sunday trading laws feels like a popular, fiscally-neutral policy that would do a lot more for growth than increasing the contactless limit or whatever. Weird that there appears to be zero momentum behind it
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Relaxing Sunday trading laws feels like a popular, fiscally-neutral policy that would do a lot more for growth than increasing the contactless limit or whatever. Weird that there appears to be zero momentum behind it
I see all these stories about advertisers like Disney and Apple returning to X but my feed is all stuff like this
February 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I see all these stories about advertisers like Disney and Apple returning to X but my feed is all stuff like this
Sure, but does the picture caption need to mention his politics?
February 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Sure, but does the picture caption need to mention his politics?
Feel like this government is about to get a strong sense of what treating tech giants like nation states means in practice
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Feel like this government is about to get a strong sense of what treating tech giants like nation states means in practice
Meta ditching fact checkers might be a result of a wider shift in society’s approach to acceptable speech boundaries encapsulated by the US election. But if you asked me on a deeper level, I’d say Mark Zuckerberg would really like Trump to keep the TikTok ban
January 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Meta ditching fact checkers might be a result of a wider shift in society’s approach to acceptable speech boundaries encapsulated by the US election. But if you asked me on a deeper level, I’d say Mark Zuckerberg would really like Trump to keep the TikTok ban
Wings over London
December 18, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Wings over London
The actual use is running Chrome with all my tabs open
December 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM
The actual use is running Chrome with all my tabs open
Wrote about the HS2 of the telecoms world, the Emergency Services Network, which still hasn't been switched on a decade after being announced www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
How Whitehall blundering created an ‘unfixable’ £14bn scandal
In a country notorious for delays and spiralling costs, the emergency services network upgrade still stands out
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December 9, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Wrote about the HS2 of the telecoms world, the Emergency Services Network, which still hasn't been switched on a decade after being announced www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Seasonal reminder that contrary to popular belief, sharing your Spotify Wrapped is NOT mandatory
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Seasonal reminder that contrary to popular belief, sharing your Spotify Wrapped is NOT mandatory
The tax on EV owners without a driveway feels like something that’s going to need intervention sooner rather than later
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 AM
The tax on EV owners without a driveway feels like something that’s going to need intervention sooner rather than later
Knew I'd seen that somewhere
November 26, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Knew I'd seen that somewhere
I’m sorry, what?
November 26, 2024 at 8:40 AM
I’m sorry, what?
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Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
November 26, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
Black Friday has really gentrified. Used to be a day when people queued up to lamp each other for a cheap telly and now it's a fortnight where you can renew your Economist subscription and phone contract for half price
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Black Friday has really gentrified. Used to be a day when people queued up to lamp each other for a cheap telly and now it's a fortnight where you can renew your Economist subscription and phone contract for half price
The year is 2070, only the roaches and underground people survive. Apple is developing a more conversational Siri to catch up in AI
November 21, 2024 at 10:17 PM
The year is 2070, only the roaches and underground people survive. Apple is developing a more conversational Siri to catch up in AI
Bluesky does a good job with the starter packs but remember when you could just do this to build your social graph
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Bluesky does a good job with the starter packs but remember when you could just do this to build your social graph
The Bluesky juice is real but these Similarweb charts going round showing it overtake Threads are for *website visits* which isn’t a particularly meaningful metric in 2024
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
The Bluesky juice is real but these Similarweb charts going round showing it overtake Threads are for *website visits* which isn’t a particularly meaningful metric in 2024
Britain has fallen to a record low in the global TOP500 supercomputer rankings
The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list
Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list
Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
UK falls to record low in world supercomputer ranking as Starmer pulls funding
Lack of investment threatens Britain’s position in global tech race
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Britain has fallen to a record low in the global TOP500 supercomputer rankings
The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list
Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list
Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Gmail has sent me a weekly 98% warning for 18 months now. Being cut off feels pretty unlikely at this point
November 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Gmail has sent me a weekly 98% warning for 18 months now. Being cut off feels pretty unlikely at this point