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Nvidia chief says UK lacks digital infrastructure as Keir Starmer pledges £1bn for AI Jensen Huang seeks ‘sovereign’ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giant’s business away from Big Tech groups

Personal view: The UK is too small a country to compete with the US and China on its own. 100k AI chips by 2030 is uncompetitive. We need to work with our EU friends if we really want to be "AI makers and not AI takers". #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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In celebration of the TACO (Trump Always Chicken Out) trade 🌮.

📍Chilango, London, UK

That's a wrap for day #4 @aamasconf.bsky.social . I did not present anything today but I am honored that we received the best paper award!

Thanks to everyone who made it happen! 👇 1/2

Terrorism is stupid but this one is extra. The event the couple attended was an inter-faith effort to send humanitarian aid to innocent Palestinians. Now Netanyahu will use this as a cover to hit Gaza harder.😢

Two Israeli embassy staff killed after Washington DC shooting
www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s

I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.)

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Poll: 61% of Israelis fear for democracy, 66% say internal rift is greatest threat Large majority continues to favor ending Gaza war to secure hostages' release, 54% think politics are reason for continued fighting, Channel 12 survey finds

I am saddened by protesters against Israel's entry for #Eurovision.

Israel is not Russia. Israel didn't start the war. More importantly, most Israelis (68%) wants a hostage deal that will end the war.

If we want peace, protest against Netanyahu, not Israel.

www.timesofisrael.com/poll-61-of-i...

Quick recap on this week's elections:

🇨🇦 Right wing populist defeated.
🇦🇺 Right wing populist defeated.
🇬🇧 Right wing populist screwed up our economy with Brexit, why don't we give them another go?🤔

Breaking: US economy...

US economy contracts at 0.3% rate as Trump tariffs prompt import surge Annualised first-quarter figure comes below expectations and contrasts with previous growth

Getting ready for MAGA to reheat all the Brexit arguments that:

a) it's short term pain for long term gain,
b) long term = next month -> next year -> next election -> your children -> your grandchildren -> [repeat] -> heat death of the universe.

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🇨🇦 Congratulations, Canada! I don't know if you could have delivered a stronger rejection to Trump than this. Wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

#CanadaStrong

Or you can get him as your president... or king but not the hands off kind... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

🇨🇦 Canadian friends. No matter what Pierre Poilievre said, Trump will interpret every vote for the Conservatives as a vote for Canada to become the 51st state.

If you value your independence, voting Liberal is the only way.

Good luck,
Your friends in Europe
#CanadaStrong

🍻Congratulations Liverpool on the historic win.

BTW that's a Google Pixel 9 Pro!😁

Prior to Trump and what he did to Ukraine, I was planning a family holiday in the US. Now I am not...

This is Brexit but worse. I didn't think it was possible but Trump did it.

If China asks for all tariffs including for other countries to be dropped, they will be the new world leader.

Heading to Singapore for ICLR 🇸🇬

Looking forward to catch up with friends and meet new people. Ping me if you want to chat about watermarking, model merging, Google DeepMind or AI science in general.

I’d be very happy to meet! 🤓

♠️♥️Just watched a gripping play about business, addiction, and parenting.

Congratulations to the cast and production for Dealer's Choice at the Donmar's Warehouse in London.

👉 Go catch it if you get the chance: www.donmarwarehouse.com/whats-on/194...

⚡ Introducing Ironwood, Google's 7th generation TPU!

Each chip boasts 4,614 FP8 TFLOPS, and the new pod features 9,216 highly connected chips (up from 8,960). Pilot plans are in place, and we can't wait to bring it online this year. Thank you TPU team!

Find out more: blog.google/products/goo...

I am not sure the checks and balances work any more, e.g. signalgate and ignoring court orders for deportation. This is the time of King Trump.

They put this in a stock filing but not on the ballot paper? Why America? Why?

This is how I felt when the UK chose Brexit and then again when we elected Boris Johnson...

Trump to impose higher-than-expected tariffs, markets drop: Live updates Trump unveils new tariffs at 4 p.m. ET Rose Garden event dubbed "Make America Wealthy Again." Today's White House "liberation day" sparks inflation concerns.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy Liberation Day!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Stock market: 👊🇺🇸🔥
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/t...

Worked til too late and then couldn't sleep... On the plus side, this is my morning run.

Good morning, London! 😎

📍 Primrose Hill, London

Turns out there are "WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE" (all caps intended) just not where Trump / Elon said.

Watch Breeders | Netflix Already overwhelmed by life with busy careers and two young kids, Paul and Ally face new, unexpected changes and challenges of adulthood and parenting.

For those parents who are traumatised by Adolescence. You should watch Breeders next to balance it out.😅 www.netflix.com/gb/title/812...

A lot of DeepSeek's models are running on other people's infrastructure so I won't judge them purely on app store rankings.

BUT we will see if hardware matters as the new Google Trillium TPUs, Nvidia GB200/300, and Amazon Trainium2 are deployed *at scale* in 2H 2025 / 1H 2026.

Do not take the bait Eric. Waiting for Godot has been the only play where I wished, I really wished an asteroid would come crashing down in the theatre and finished me off... I love Keanu Reeves but do not take the bait.

Remember when America was the good guy saving the world? 🇺🇸 #TopGun

🥂 A little champagne this afternoon at the Google DeepMind London office to toast the Gemini 2.5 launch*.

👉 You can join the buzz and try our state of the art thinking model here: aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/...

* Our other offices are also celebrating but probably not with Champagne at 8am 😁