Stuart Lauchlan

journalist, co-founder, diginomica/founder, digital-writes ltd. Quietly despairing. Glamorous, but knackered. In no mood for...take your pick.

[Gary Flood @garfage]

Excellent discussion here from @WhoStu 'Tony Blair's egotistical intervention in the AI debate is undermined by his roots showing 'https://t.co/Y2nkdh2XRO @diginomica

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

SOOOOO over this PR routine of 'I have an exciting story that my client wants you to write about but before I tell you anything about it, you must tell me you agree to my self-determined embargo!'. It's an ego trip 99% of the time. Won't play. Client won't get coverage. Win/win.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Happy birthday to @diginomica!

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Oh she's back! I knew there was something missing from the high level of political debate and discourse in recent times. Now we can be reminded once more about how wronged she's been and how everyone is against her and it's JUST NOT FAIR, BWAAAAAH!!!!!! @trussliz

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

I hope the media is beginning to get it. The British system is dysfunctional. The bureaucrats are in charge and withhold information all the time.

I have no sympathy for Starmer - he is an inveterate liar and he and his mates Blair and Brown created the unaccountable albatross we have today.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

@RoyalMail package supposedly delivered. Photo offered as proof is not my name. Card left saying wasn’t in - was! ‘How was delivery?’ on app - gets you a blank screen. Can you be any more incompetent?

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

I have reached my giddy limit with this embargo bollocks - say I'll look at a report PR wants me to write about, but unless I jump thru hoop and parrot the words 'I agree to the very very important embargo’, I don't get to give them free publicity it seems. Sod ‘em!!! Your loss.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

@MetroBank_Help Complaints do absolutely no good - read the article!

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Another day, another horrific customer ‘service’ experience with @MetroBank_Help. I stand by every word of this! https://t.co/SM2w0xzgCV

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

To my best estimate the appalling Evri now has three packages being held hostage in its system, two next day delivery that are now into day 4 and 5! Utterly utterly useless firm and totally indifferent to complaints.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Why do retailers still use Evri and risk the reputational damage to their brands. My ‘next day’ delivery is now into day 4 and no sign of it. Four updates from Evri yesterday - coming around 7pm, then 5 mins later, coming at 2.30ish, then 4pm, before ‘not coming today’! Pathetic

[diginomica @diginomica]

A strong Q4 and full year for @Workday was still not enough to keep the Wall Street short termists happy. But, as @WhoStu explains, a new chapter is about to begin with CEO Aneel Bhursi: https://t.co/0kEQCuNkRt

[diginomica @diginomica]

Salesforce CEO @benioff introduces “Agentic Work Units” (AWUs) to measure AI’s real enterprise value - not just tokens - as @Salesforce posts strong results and swats away “SaaSpocalypse” talk. Get the analysis from @whostu.
https://t.co/uR8ivHzvYz

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

The state of this :-( why not just cut to the chase and hand it all over to Palantir? You will anyway

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Today, at Microsoft, I unveiled a bold vision for the modernisation of our criminal justice system.

And who better to witness this future than those shaping it? The front row was filled with visionary content creators, the very leaders of our digital era.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

If you ever needed any proof what a rotten and anti-British idea this is, along comes failed politician, treacherous Truss to confirm it

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Love it.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Women and girls, you're lucky to have Sir Keir on your side. Lads - looks like you're on your own, guys

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

Tech companies will have to remove intimate images shared without consent within 48 hours under new law.

Companies that don't act could be blocked in the UK.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

David Lammy is a cartoon politician. In other news...No, no, that's it - David Lammy is a cartoon politician.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

New Delhi calling! 🇮🇳

Heading to the Global AI Summit in India to promote the UK’s leading role in the industry.

Asking for a friend…do AI characters count as hand luggage?

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

and Britain's handing over its NHS data to this man...?

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

Fair

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

Ms Truss sadly blocked me when I expressed scepticism about her economic record but I think it reasonable to call her a deluded conspiracy theorist who is essentially anti-British.

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

"We must move quicker" - if I'm get my stipend from Microsoft and Anthropic!

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

“Action this day” would be a good motto for this Prime Minister when it comes to AI.

There’ll never be a quiet week when he can turn to it, so he must just get on with it.

We must move quicker if our country is to flourish.

https://t.co/c2kpxh1euT

[Stuart Lauchlan @WhoStu]

THIS!!! But the trouble is, no-one in power is really going to do anything in case it gets in the way of getting their own bung from an AI firm on the make...

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph.
I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them.
The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race - a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry.
And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children.
But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.