Mike Butcher

I get it but I bet none of them have a clue about new AI systems.

I think I need a “Small Business Doola”. Does such a person exist?

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Honestly, Jeff Bezos. I ask you. He may have TRT but he’s an absolute fucking weakling. #WashPo

“AI Decoded” show on BBC News just now was an absolute pile of rubbish. Where do they get these people?

These articles are produced by a PR company, not a real publication. It just looks like one.

2150 closes €210m Fund II, says cities are the answer to de-carbonisation The VC now has €500m AUM, and plans to double-down on its existing thesis

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BREAKING: 2150 closes €210m Fund II, says cities are the answer to de-carbonisation: Watch the exclusive interview for our first Pathfounders podcast episode, on YouTube, Spotify or at Pathfounders.com

*Exclusive: Aisy emerges from stealth to simplify cybersecurity’s endless ticket storm using AI*
Three cybersecurity VCs are backing a self-taught hacker with a Seed round
by @AmeliaKIsaacs / @ameliakisaacs.bsky.social
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TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok US deal finalized | TechCrunch Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to creat...

And another one techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...

Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok's US takeover | TechCrunch UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas. It blends familiar features from Instagram and X, letting users share photos, videos, and text posts, discover new...

The irony!

The app was founded last year by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian technologist techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/s...

⁦Mike Butcher⁩ ⁦(@mikebutcher)⁩ / ⁦UpScrolled⁩ 1,2,1,2… Is this thing on?

Time to check out UpScrolled I guess

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YouTube video by TechCrunch Cruising Hardware Alley with Mike Butcher

Just me in 2016: "Cruising Hardware Alley with Mike Butcher" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoM6... #nostalgia

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdfunding ever

Safe to say this is a joke. But quite a funny joke. denmarkification.com

Well the first excuse was a “Google Search” inexplicably - which OUGHT to have been more accurate, one hopes!? Hell’s bells…

West Midlands police chief apologises after AI error used to justify Maccabi Tel Aviv ban Craig Guildford says he gave incorrect evidence to MPs and mistake arose from ‘use of Microsoft Copilot’

As far as I can tell, although "the inclusion of a fictitious match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham in police intelligence 'arose as a result of a use of Microsoft Copilot'" the real fault lies in the fact they they clearly performed scant genuine research. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

As Iranian regime shuts down internet, even Starlink seemingly being jammed Receivers for satellite service face connectivity challenges, with an expert reporting that the Islamic Republic seems to be 'doing something beyond GPS jamming'

It looks like Starlink is being blocked in Iran. Starlink receivers use GPS to position. Since Thursday there's been a 30-80% loss in packets being sent by Starlink devices. Mobile jammers may also be to blame. www.timesofisrael.com/iran-appears...

Move government accounts to BS. Encourage population to create accounts and use Sky Follower Bridge to find and follow people you were following on X. Just an idea.

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.

Has anyone thought of blocking X, while doing a deal with BlueSky?

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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

ALL the songs on Spotify were scraped, and released for free as a 300TB torrent. Artists won't get paid, obviously, so this is hardly true 'activism'. Meanwhile, OpenAI lawyers might well be muttering "sounds legit"... www.billboard.com/business/str...

Freeda raises €3.4m to catch design errors before they hit the construction site

The Paris startup is using AI to scan complex construction plans for costly mistakes. The round was led by Frst VC.

By Amelia Isaacs
@AmeliaKIsaacs

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This VC fund raised $75m and runs on AI agents — no analysts needed The husband-and-wife team behind Davidovs Venture Collective is rethinking venture capital and giving a network of limited partners from top tech companies the chance to invest like megafunds do.

This VC fund raised $75m and runs on AI agents — no analysts needed pathfounders.com/p/dvc-davido... by @ameliakisaacs.bsky.social

Super delighted and excited to see the (soft) launch of @mikebutcher.bsky.social pwrd @pathfounders.bsky.social !
Everybody follow, great things are definitely on the way!

Welcome to Pathfounders It's high time we had a new tech media brand.

Today, I am soft-launching @pathfounders.bsky.social, a new tech media brand to offer informed reporting, analysis, and opinion on the top tech startups and VC firms across Europe, Silicon Valley, and globally.
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Plenty of investors wanting to jump on the AI bandwagon, that’s who! 🤣

Geez, there are SO MANY Michael Jackson Sora / AI deepfake videos now. I should think his estate must be planning a several billion-dollar law suit.

The wind is in their sails…

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

While ya’ll get excited about Meta’s new Glasses: “One mother said her Instagram account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible.”

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Today’s defection to Reform is Danny Kruger, that former Tory MP who is a bastion of anti-establishmentarianism!

“Education: University of Oxford (2000), University of Oxford, The University of Edinburgh, Eton College”

Inside Anthropic’s ‘Red Team’—ensuring Claude is safe, and that Anthropic is heard in the corridors of power | Fortune Unique among AI labs, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reports to its policy chief and has a mandate to publicize the dangers it finds.

Anthropic are doing something very smart: Employing their own team to test how their technology might be misused.

This is in a huge contrast to many large tech companies that simply hope they can get away with never being regulated - and so don't bother with ...

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