James Titcomb

@Telegraph Technology Editor

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

I feel like every single AI demo I watch is about how it's now really easy to make infographics. How much of the economy is making infographics?

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Alphabet, Google Ventures and CapitalG all investing in the same round

[Isomorphic Labs @IsomorphicLabs]

Today marks a pivotal moment for Isomorphic Labs. We have secured $2.1 Billion in our second external funding round, led by Thrive Capital. They are joined at the table by Alphabet, GV and new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.

This milestone accelerates our ability to build the pioneering novel AI models that power our AI drug design engine (IsoDDE) and deploy them at scale: delivering scientific breakthroughs with a precision previously thought impossible, accelerating and expanding our pipeline of therapeutic programs toward the clinic. All with the ultimate goal of delivering life-changing new medicines to patients.
Moving forward, we will scale our drug candidate pipelines across multiple therapeutic areas, expand our global footprint, and push the boundaries of frontier AI research to power our drug design engine.
Deeply grateful to everyone sharing our vision to solve all disease with AI. Let’s build the future of medicine.

Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/TtXk3xqA84

[Financial Times @FT]

Here's what a day without US tech services could look like: https://t.co/3mBJINpbZY

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Even Elon Musk tries to pay people in exposure

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Supermarkets are one thing Europeans are objectively better than the Americans at so it makes a lot of sense to put them in charge of tech sovereignty

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

South Africa withdraws its AI policy after the AI used to draft it hallucinated a bunch of citations

[Dept of Communications & Digital Technologies @CommsZA]

📌📌📌Statement by Minister @SollyMalatsi on the Integrity of the Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy.

[Ben Horwitz @horwitzben]

I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI.

https://t.co/R6kdTpoc0W

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Calling a Tube strike in late April seems incredibly self defeating. Oh no I’m going to have to e-bike along the river through this magnificent city in the spring sunshine

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Tim Cook is still going to be the guy who calls Trump

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Internet expert: "You see, social media resembles the wild wild west"

Me: "Interesting"

My brain: "Jim West, desperado, rough rider, no you don't want nada"

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

All those years spent correcting people who called Arm a 'chipmaker' wasted :(

[Bloomberg @business]

Arm, which made its name licensing technology to semiconductor makers, will begin selling its own chips for the first time https://t.co/A9TcCm0WaM

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Ice cream company CEO: “If your $500,000 engineer is not buying $250,000 of ice cream, something is wrong”

[sunny madra @sundeep]

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

3 days without rain and suddenly it's all 'Londonmaxxing this, sovereign AI that'

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Every time new Twitter actually executes on something that old Twitter spent countless years failing to execute on is a little reminder of what could have been

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS https://t.co/pevH5OJO3N

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Links to check this morning:

obr​.uk/docs/springstatement.pdf
obr​.uk/docs/springstatement1.pdf
obr​.uk/docs/springstatementnew.pdf
obr​.uk/docs/springstatementfinal.pdf
obr​.uk/docs/sprintstatementfinalUSETHISONE.pdf

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies https://t.co/bENvVMpIzj

[Meghan Bobrowsky @MeghanBobrowsky]

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban

https://t.co/8WXoY7BtKY

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

AI is just like us: when it stops doing real work it launches a Substack

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed.

For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: https://t.co/HlvAKLp9M4

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Incredible

[James Titcomb @jamestitcomb]

Someone at Meta actually wrote this down

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”

https://t.co/im8p5EXS0J