New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine.

Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot.

This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare.

👉 ft.com/kill-zone

Four years after Russia's invasion, Ukraine has become a proving ground for new technologies of death as relentless drone surveillance extends the battlefield ever further beyond the front.

Explore the full visual investigation into Ukraine’s growing "kill zone" in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/PXZ4cQJ

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com
newsletter (1/2)

How technology reshapes our minds, with a specific look at the attention economy and its impact on our ability to focus:
as.ft.com/r/3a187ac4-6...

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

Ще повярвам, че Крум Зарков е тръгнал да прави Модерна лява, когато:
- БСП се покае за престъпленията на БКП
- Подкрепи ясно Украйна и заклейми руската агресия
- Подкрепи махането на всички комунистически паметници (или поне не пречи)
- Декларира ясна подкрепа за ЕС и еврото.
Това е.

What if this wave of AI tools enables us to regain control over our data and replicate the majority of SaaS services we pay for today. We've already solved the distribution problem and the open source community has the ability democratize the tech stack.

That would be one hell of a power shift.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Благодаря! Имаха АМА в реддит вчера и говориха малко по същата интересна тема.

David Greybeard, a wild chimpanzee, gets a handout of bananas from author Goodall, who studies the apes under a National Geographic Society grant. This scene near her camp represents a triumph for Miss Goodall; at first the animals fled if she came within 500 yards. Knapsack holds camera and notebook. She carries a whistle in her pocket to summon searchers in case of accident in the rugged Tanganyika hills.

Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...

EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race

A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.

‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇

A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.

It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

An update on this: I've confirmed that "gpt-realtime has a mix of data specific enough to itself that its not really 4o or 5" - see quote from OpenAI at bottom of simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/i...

I was interviewed in the Financial Times about "the perils of vibe coding", and it made it into the print edition! simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...

Big news - Anthropic agrees to settle with authors in copyright lawsuit.

As tech bros like to say, ‘we’re only just getting started’.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by WIRE...

“It’s perfectly consistent to advocate for a policy of ‘No one is allowed to do x,’ but then if that policy fails and everyone else does X, to reluctantly do x ourselves.” 🤔

X=help dictators

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

A link to the Bulgarian model, in case somebody is interested - huggingface.co/HPLT/hplt_be...

That was my theory going into the piece, but it turned out to be not only false but seemingly the opposite: the biggest employment gains young male grads have made in the past year have been in software and engineering jobs

Hah, missed this that other say

Elon: "It is surprisingly hard to avoid both woke libtard cuck and mechahitler!"

(Narrator: this was not surprising at all)

That's fun!

Advertising, with guardrails and healthy metrics, funds a healthy media ecosystem.

Hoping Bluesky shines, and the cesspool, X, sinks to the bottom - The Boston Globe Bluesky, a relatively new social media platform in the mold of what's now Elon Musk's site, is prioritizing sports content to grow.

Sunday media. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/12/s...

A very good, and rather sad, Big Read on children and reading from @emmavj.bsky.social

on.ft.com/4krOKZA How to get children reading again

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines

‼️Sentence Transformers v5.0 is out! The biggest update yet introduces Sparse Embedding models, encode methods improvements, Router module for asymmetric models & much more. Sparse + Dense = 🔥 hybrid search performance!

Details in 🧵

Wild.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

Honestly, copyright never seemed like the right approach to this to me, so I'm not surprised.

Copyright law was designed in the era of books, and only slightly updated for the internet. It was meant to stop people literally *copying* a work. It has no appropriate tools to deal with generative AI.

Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.