No.2 in UK charts - moving to the sun - started as an AI song, then with (human) production. It’s really hard to have a (nearly No 1) hit and AI joins a long line of innovations that people (initially) hated: electric guitars, synthesisers, samplers, drum machines….
open.spotify.com/track/25Dgj…
A close friend has stage 4 Pancreatic cancer (PDAC, 5yr survival 3%). But mRNA + gene-editing + AI-driven therapies mean research-to-therapy could now be 2 yrs. My friend needs to hang around for a bit, as this looks really promising. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
Leadership, sometimes, is striking the bully back.
news.sky.com/story/donald-tr…
AI at UCL is taking over the world. I am pretty sure that no other university in the world - Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Tsinghua - are anywhere close to producing the number of AI unicorns. And, of course, UCL spin-off DeepMind, arguably, kick-started the entire 'recent' AI revolution. People think, wrongly, AI is a San Francisco (and US, China) - its a London thing.
ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/apr/ucl-…
£500m for UK AI startups is great. In the industrial revolution, UK pioneered electricity, sewage systems and trains. Now, the most expensive electricity, water has sewage and the slowest trains. Let’s learn from Germany, France, Japan with state-owned utilities – markets don’t always work.
20-something tech-bros out, 50/60-something PhDs in. This quarter SEED: Yann LeCun (65) $1B for AMI Labs, Fei-Fei Li (50) $1B for World Labs and David Silver (50) $1B for Ineffable Intelligence.
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I’m hearing they are dumping UST to try and move rates to shift narrative and make our upcoming Treasury auctions more expensive.
May make sense to delay auctions to next week. China can’t sell indefinitely.
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Stable video: Great tool and huge value, about 60 second on A100 for SVDXT (did use runway for 2/3 scenes). Gonna be awesome with a little more control. Thanks Stability team again @EMostaque . Made in a couple of hours, prompting the next scene while the previous one was generated. (stable audio for the music ofc)