Ian Betteridge

Hey, I actually wrote some things this week! The first was about politics, riffing off Amazon's plan to...

We like to imagine that there’s a clean border between technology and nature. Out there are trees, rivers, fungi,...

Every industrial revolution has created winners and losers, but this time the scale of displacement — and the indifference of those...

1. The problem with cloud services is who owns them Ahh, the cloud. Or, as we used to call it,...

Well yes, I am indeed off – but not for long. I'm going on a trip to China for...

1. Vivaldi sets out its stall on AI Vivaldi has taken a bold stance against the growing trend of integrating...

First off, a quick apology — I’ve been under the weather. Most of last week was spent offline, recovering from...

1. Required reading of the week Let’s start with something a little doom-laden: how societies collapse. How “civilisations” meet...

1. Data sovereignty as a global issue You are probably already aware of the EU’s (slow) moves promoting data...

And I’m back! Thanks to a combination of busyness at work and personal time off, I had a bit...

1. Apple’s retort to the possibility of AI scaling is a dagger through the heart of the boosters I’...

1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This...

1. Future has been OpenAI's £5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's io startup represents more than...

1. Only Cook could go to China Two hundred and seventy five billion dollars. That’s how much Apple planned...

1. Hey Siri, what does “oligarchy” look like? It looks like this, my friends. It looks like this. If there...