Marc Sparrow

Revolut thinking they have a chance of expanding into China is the height of delusion…

SAP CEO Says Europe Needs More Applied AI, Not Another Stargate Christian Klein, the chief executive officer of Europe’s most valuable company, said that Europe doesn’t require a flurry of more data centers to compete in artificial intelligence, rejecting a narrat...

Nice bit of moat protection. As if his European business is not touting its credentials in European data (+ AI) sovereignty to businesses in the region behind closed doors. You’d think that SAP must be winding down Joule… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Orders Employees to Relocate to Seattle and Other Hubs Amazon.com Inc. is ordering some corporate employees to move closer to their managers and teams, roiling a workforce already worried about job cuts and warnings from the top that artificial intelligen...

Uproot your family and move across the country… And then hope your role survives the next round of AI-inspired job cuts. Amazon as ever doing some solid work on its employer brand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why the views of the anti-renewables crowd should be ridiculed for the idiocy they are. Any country unable to keep pace will be poorer and dependent on unreliable suppliers with unpredictable pricing that always has the ability to tank the economy. Better to tackle remaining challenges than carp.

Solo VC Effort Offers Individual Touch to Early Startup Founders Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow talks with Josh Browder, founder a...

Oof! @bloomberg.com tech newsletter referring to Japanese company, Samsung. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Accidentally click on the Gemini button in Gmail. It can’t even work out that I’d respond in British rather than American English, let alone providing anything useful.

China’s new bridge-forming barges offer new options for Taiwan invasion The ships can be linked up one behind the other to form a long, relocatable pier that extends from deeper waters nearly a kilometer out at sea onto a beach.

More good news for the world. China unveils barge bridges to facilitate amphibious military landing. I wonder what it is that so bothers them about a prosperous, technologically advanced, Mandarin speaking nation of 24m people able to choose their own leaders? www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04...

The Economist nails it (doesn't happen often these days).

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Courtesy of @artefr.bsky.social I watched the Cure in Hyde Park and Black Sabbath's previous final gig. Tonight it's Abba. Perfect.

Some of us have headphones on. Just making sure. I'd shrug and wait.

Banks and fintechs join ‘stablecoin gold rush’ Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies

No use cases for blockchain-powered finance apparently - apart from being faster, cheaper, simpler than current international finance infrastructure. www.ft.com/content/d033...

Can a slump build momentum? Doesn't it just get slumpier?

Ouch! Unlucky Celtic.

Musk’s Clout Complicates Choice for Digital Advertisers Weighing X Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at why advertiser...

“You’re buying insurance, you’re not buying advertising”. Non-free speech across multiple dimensions. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A welcome blast of spring.

Real Madrid in the Champions League. Always fun.

Google talking about agentic AI and yet my own Gmail can’t even work out that an email sent by me from Google Calendar to meeting participants is not spam… Not sure I fancy letting agents loose in my business just yet.

No Microsoft, I do not want to download your Teams app. Whenever I download Microsoft anything it tries to take over default settings (search, links from emails, calls, etc) even though I do nothing to authorise this and actively seek to prevent it.

YouTube video by zararity Kate Bush - Christmas Special 1979 (Private Remaster)

Served this wonder by the algorithm after watching some other artists. youtu.be/pn0IRI5wdzI?...

Just seen the Champions League draw. Villa are gonna win it again. Manageable run to the semis. Wolves meanwhile... #wwfc #wolves #avfc

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...

Violation of intellectual property goes meta. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WPP becomes latest global employer to tighten working from home rules Advertising group says its 110,000 staff must be in office at least four days a week

WPP offers most talented staff to smaller, more modern rivals - while slashing disposable income and free time for those who remain. www.ft.com/content/72e7...

Worth it in the end.

Drunkenly cooking tartiflette. Can't wait but the odour resembles the kit bag when it's your turn to wash.

Trump’s Return Gives China a Shot at Being the Next Weather Superpower The conservative Project 2025 roadmap calls for slashing NOAA funding at a time when China is investing heavily in climate research.

The soft power of weather science… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Bloomberg so good at fresh, interesting takes on global power moves.

China’s Biggest ‘Belt and Road’ Still Leads to US and Friends I’m Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we’re looking at the durability of China’s trade reliance on the rich world. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net or get in touch ...

“In 2023, about half of exported Chinese manufacturing value-added ended up in advanced economies, nearly unchanged from a decade ago,” the two wrote. The largest market? The US, at 21%. Europe slots in just behind at 19%.” Some serious leverage there. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Hubris exemplified.

2024. More great new music to listen to than there was time. Fantastic albums from the Smile (2 in fact), the Cure, Kendrick (+ killer non-album singles), Idles, MONO, Karkara, Bodega, Taylor. Then the pop bangers from Charlie xcx & Sabrina. 1989 all over again.

Matheus Cunha is leading light of Wolves’ Brazilian strategy – and new contract is in sight A new generation of samba stars at Molineux has provided hope of a brighter future for the club

@ellie73.bsky.social It's just like watching Brazil... www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...