New from me on Bloomberg: the EU and X will hold talks tomorrow in the wake of the Grok-MechaHitler fiasco bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Major news for Monumental Labs dropped in Fast Company today. 1/ We raised some money! Over $8m, most recently in a $7m seed round led by Alexis Ohanian 🗽's 776 (details below). 2/ We’ve secured our new HQ! Almost 40k sq ft in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that will become the largest

We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated. One was that if you ask it "What is your surname?" it doesn't have one so it searches the internet leading to undesirable results, such as when its searches picked up a viral meme

Everyone missed the real China story. While we debated TikTok, Chinese scientists quietly built 1,250 novel drug candidates—up from 160 in 2015. That's not a typo. They added 1,090 innovative medicines in 9 years. The entire EU added 200. Here's how they broke pharma's

Fascinating work suggesting that turtles can get cancer but at very low rates. It also fits the longevity bottleneck hypothesis that mammals evolved under unique evolutionary pressures during the dinosaurs, leading to more pronounced ageing and greater cancer incidence.

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her 2 sisters lost a fight against a European Parliament order for their late father Jean-Marie to give back more than €300,000 in misused funds bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Samuel Stolton Gaspard Sebag

Palmer Luckey as a robot 🤖🦾 on stage w/ Ashlee Vance at the REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT

Joel Kaplan says Meta won't sign EU's AI code of practice, calling its guidelines overreach that will throttle development and deployment of AI models in Europe (@gmvolpi / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250718/p7#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

In the AI Action Plan, I called for a compute roadmap to give long-term clarity to the academic and startup communities. Today, the Government has published it - have a read below…

we have signed a deal for an additional 4.5 gigawatts of capacity with oracle as part of stargate. easy to throw around numbers, but this is a _gigantic_ infrastructure project. some progress photos from abilene:

Telegram's Durov weighing in on France v X

More pushback against the EU's Digital Services Act from Washington

AI copy on the page is the new lorem ipsum. It's lorem aipsum.

Today was my last day at No 10 as the Prime Minister’s Adviser on AI. It’s been a privilege to serve over the last year and - I hope - to make a small contribution to putting the UK on the path to being an AI winner

The meeting between Rep. Jordan and the EU's digital chief Henna Virkkunen, on Monday at midday, will be one for the annals

NEW: Trump lashes Starmer on North Sea Oil this morning: