Conrad Quilty-Harper

Reporter at @TheBanker and freelance for various other places

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[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

I got a (much more helpful) phone call this morning instead of an email, because Microsoft is down. Nature is healing.

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

I don’t see how this is contained to just NVDA today. Panic feels inevitable to me

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Yes, NVIDIA really is the lynchpin for the whole AI trade... if you're worried about circular financing

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

It's still interesting to me how the market seems to be treating the $NVDA turmoil as an $NVDA problem that won't spill out more broadly to other publicly traded companies.

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

How media law works in the UK

[Charlie Moloney @CharlieMoloney]

@HoraceSpellman9 @totalcrime Two options:
(1) give up and go American

(2) start cracking down on social media.

Currently the powers that be are indulging in option (3), which is:

Enforce contempt laws in the mainstream media and pretend social media isn't happening.

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Shocking story and absolutely scandalous that there was such a delay in this reporting coming out https://t.co/87OC8zOUDh

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

@RichardJSpencer Isn’t the problem more that the administration didn’t do anything about it

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Guess I have to file an FOI to find out why this is happening! GAH

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Hey @TfL is your status indicator broken for the Elizabeth line? Trains delayed and cancelled and your app says everything is fine, again

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

I wonder if the Huang story would have happened if Valleywag was still around

[Sam Altman @sama]

it's easy to dismiss pando as valleywag-level snark, but there's a macro point about journalists and commenters loving to tear founders down

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Hey @TfL is your status indicator broken for the Elizabeth line? Trains delayed and cancelled and your app says everything is fine, again

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

REVERSE FERRET!

[Ari K @arikuschnir]

🌊💙 WE WERE ALWAYS BLUE

[jeremy warner @JeremyWarnerUK]

It’s all unravelling. Nevermind the blue wave, this story - Revolut cuts its AI costs 90pc by swapping to Chinese open source models - says it all about the end of of the AI spending boom https://t.co/upXPgcO72f

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Investors appear to be worried that tech companies are both: a) spending too much on data centres, and, b), won’t be able to spend enough on data centres

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

@MacRumors Sorry but that looks like an absolutely awful way to interact with a laptop

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

@oliviasolon I'm finding the reaction to this latest crash incredibly ghoulish too, with the level of detail and analysis. Many of it tactless AI slop. May be just my algorithm...

[Jude Webber @jude_webber]

Why rich Ireland still feels poor https://t.co/5DBcvISpHz via @ft

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

@ClickHole "the stage is set for something somewhat uneventful–but still not good–to happen here"

I say this all the time.

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Why did Anthropic fire its UK accountant Grant Thornton in October 2025?

Feels like a touchy little tidbit from the $ant IPO prospectus

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

I think this is close to the British national spirit, a bit like the German love of saving.

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

What if Britain’s central economic problem is that cost saving and not investment is at the heart of decision making? This is the question posed by Ed Conway in his @NewStatesman cover essay which I just caught up with.

I cover the state and, broadly, I’d say this mentality is why we…

- don’t yet have spades in the ground building new towns
- why we haven’t built social housing and instead have a spiralling homelessness support and housing benefit bill
- and why we’ve focussed on unemloyment support as opposed to employment schemes for young adults and now have a growing benefits bill.
-allowed factories to close and jobs to disappear, leaving behind hollowed out and directionless communities

Conway also links this problem to defence and compares our desire to always do things in the cheapest way possible with Germany and China, where there is laser focus on certain manufacturing industries and exports, for instance.
https://t.co/H3HFpld40V

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

Hi @tfl your app says everything is fine on the Elizabeth line. It is not!

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @Coneee]

@chafkin @AustinCarr also, nearly spilt my coffee this morning with that story about the interns' fact checking email