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The week Britain embraced AI safety (opens the original)
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As I arrived on the lawn outside the MoD to check out the PauseAI protest on Wednesday, the speeches were just wrapping up.“Recent weeks have shown more than ever that a person can make a difference,” a man in a navy suit told the crowd of 70 or so people, most of whom were wearing bright orange T-shirts. “The tide is turning and together we can all do more to seek to ensure a better future for ourselves, our loved ones, and for the future of humanity.”These activists have made speeches just lik
A Blank Street theory of automation (opens the original)
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It’s the same in Washington D.C. as it is in London; as it is in Manhattan and Manchester. Every branch of Blank Street Coffee one passes has a small crowd outside of it. Sometimes queuing, sometimes enjoying their two-tone drinks in the sun, the clientele are largely female and on the younger side.These coffee shops are part of a chain created by two venture capitalists. And the thing that makes the business model work is a background level of automation.Instead of employing a dedicated barista
Tech’s café culture moment (opens the original)
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In baseball caps and white T-shirts we arrived, fumbling to produce our phones and show the coveted QR code.The guy ahead of me was told his ‘Pending’ status wasn’t enough. You had to have been approved, because hundreds of people had registered to be let into the tiny, bright orange coffee shop on its opening night.Corgi Cafe, a venue run by a San Francisco insurance startup, came to London last week. Corgi, which was founded in 2024 and went through Y Combinator’s summer batch that year, alrea
Saint Demis of London (opens the original)
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Demis Hassabis stepped aside this week, giving up the title of CEO at Google DeepMind – a title that dissolves without him. His successor, Koray Kavukcuoglu, will instead be Senior Vice President.Hassabis will stay on as chairman, become chief scientist of Alphabet, and will turn more of his attention to Isomorphic Labs, the AI for science spinout that houses DeepMind’s breakthrough AlphaFold technology.When news like this rocks the timeline and Alphabet’s share price, commentators ar
Brain-computer interfaces, but make it couture (opens the original)
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The launch video is becoming a prerequisite for buzzy, venture-backed startups. So much so that it can be hard to stand out amid the flow of fast cuts and carefully selected fonts.So it was notable when a short film came across my feed earlier this month that looked less like a demo day or a documentary, and more like Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. “The Maison is opening”, read the intriguing caption.<div class="yout
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