Martin SFP Bryant

OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon (@openai)

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That was yesterday.

Today;
*wakes up and happily looks at phone*

Oh FFS

Trump to cut Anthropic from government contracts in six months US president delays move against leading AI start-up in feud over military use of the technology

Is this going to be another TikTok-style standoff for years, where the threat is the important bit?

“Donald Trump has given Anthropic six months until it will be cut from US government contracts”

This post is glorious given your username.

The psychology of bus lanes is fascinating. I’ve just saved a few minutes driving in heavy traffic by using a bus lane outside its hours of operation while everyone else sat in a queue like they can’t read road signs.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

*wakes up and checks phone nervously*

Oh that is GLORIOUS and I can enjoy my Friday now 🙌

Solving a massive headache in logistics Shipio wants to help specialist logistics companies team up with faster pricing

From moving fine art to aircraft parts, specialist logistics is an artform in itself.

I looked at how Shipio wants to help specialist logistics companies team up with faster pricing, which can be really complex to figure out right now...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Advanced AI models are willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival.

Just assembled an Ikea three-seater sofa single-handedly and feeling like the king of the world.

Nick Watt called you something like “a highly respected pollster who lives in a neighbouring constituency and has said the by-election is currently a three-way tie”

Candidate list for the Gorton & Denton by-election. The first on the list is Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Sir Oink A-Lot

But seriously, why aren’t we spending more time on Sir Oink A-Lot’s policies?

I was just reading this as Newsnight mentioned your name. Coincidences like that freak me out.

Probably necessary in the market now, but I’d prefer it if they just made the iPad a slightly more complete computer.

How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives

An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

Payments Processor Stripe Expresses Interest in PayPal Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Wow. Stripe is considering buying part or all of PayPal

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle

Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p1n0...

Police lead Lord Mandelson out of London home The peer is under investigation over allegations of misconduct in public office

Last week: Andrew
Today: Mandelson

Police lead Lord Mandelson out of London home

Writing Crystalized Thinking At Amazon. Is AI Muddying It? Amazon’s famously writing-centric culture is being aided by generative AI. What does that say about the company’s culture, priorities, and future?

This piece is fascinating. Amazon is encouraging the use of AI to draft its famous "six-pagers" - which undermines the whole purpose of writing the document in the first place. Writing is thinking; pressing an AI button is not. www.bigtechnology.com/p/writing-cr...

This magazine plays Tetris — here’s how A gaming magazine you can play.

This is impressive:

And then to use $ without clarifying it's US dollars

Reddit push notification: Breaking News Trump imposes 15% tariffs on the world

[Removed by moderator ] Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/worldnews

I got a “breaking news” alert from Reddit overnight?! It wasn’t quite breaking news, but either way I’ve never had anything like that.

…and the post had been deleted by a mod when I opened the app 🙃

My nine-year-old daughter: Can you print me out a picture of a preppy smile?

Me: A what?

<she shows me>

Me: Oh, the acid house smile!

“He took six frames in all - two showed police, two were blank, one was out of focus. But one captured the unprecedented nature of the moment: for the first time in modern history, a senior royal was being treated as a common criminal.”

Month 18: FTSE 500 company replaces workforce with AI agents

Month 19: FTSE 500 company rendered insolvent after AI agent goes rogue

It's wild so many of arguments from AIs' actual boosters is "It's going to ruin everything. Really, it's going to fuck stuff up so bad. It's incredible"

What a picture…

oh to be the person behind the counter at the cop shop who gets to say 'can you confirm your date of birth? oh it's today. happy birthday'

what a treat

The former Prince Andrew, now officially known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor-who-has-repeatedly-denied-any-wrongdoing