Matt Field

Senior Technology Reporter for @TelegraphTech, ex @cityjournalism. DM or get in touch discretely on Signal @matthfield.62

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Exclusive from my colleague @jamestitcomb: Reform mega-donor Christopher Harborne has taken a major stake in a British start-up developing "Iron Man" jet-pack suits

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@Turn_Trout @GarrisonLovely @JeffDean @demishassabis @Turn_Trout dms open and signal in bio if you can say any more.

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NCSC officials have been working alongside the National Protective Security Authority, part of MI5, to alert Britain's critical industry about the threat, security sources said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Experts at MI5 have been briefing Britain's critical national infrastructure organisations over the looming risks of AI cyber tools such as Mythos as businesses scramble to shore up their defences

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

SCOOP Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases last month.

IRGC has contract with China’s Emposat that allows it to control a satellite launched by China’s Earth Eye.

#ChinaIranScoop https://t.co/D97EKRPUsq

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Apple you sly devils, what is exactly is wrong with my driver's licence... @tim_cook. I need to verify it for SFW research purposes!

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Faith in the public restored

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Amazon's Kiro coding bot literally did the finale of Silicon Valley on AWS by deleting a chunk of its code, cracking scoop from the FT's @rafeuddin_

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

On two separate occasions Amazon’s Kiro AI assistant caused an AWS outage, one that was 13 hours long. Amazon blames this on “user error not AI error,” which is one of the most embarrassing things you could ever say as a human being

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Full story in the @Telegraph @GlobalAffairs @Techmeme

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Scoop from @jamestitcomb: Elon Musk's X has launched a landmark legal challenge against a €120m European Union fine and the bloc's Digital Services Act.

The legal claim is set to provide a key test of whether the Digital Services Act conflicts with free speech laws in Europe.

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The insane AI advancements we are all missing being evidenced by... a viral AI slop blog?

[Jim VandeHei @JimVandeHei]

🚨🚨In 30 years of journalism, I’ve never witnessed a bigger gap between the most consequential story - insane AI advancements and investment - and Washington and mainstream media attention. @DKThomp @kevinroose nailed it: shocking # of people think AI is clunky AI of mid-2025.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

@DKThomp Let it guide every professional, personal, and financial decision you make from morning till night for 365 days. Every breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. If it says get a divorce, get a divorce. If it says quit your job and wear a tinfoil hat, do that.

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Full story

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One of Britain's only rocket businesses, Orbex, is on the brink of collapse and has filed a notice of its intent to appoint administrators.

I understand sale talks with The Exploration Company are "dead".

[Iain Martin @_IainMartin]

A secretive British fixer acted as Jeffrey Epstein’s connection to Westminster and Silicon Valley elites, visiting his island and working to disguise his paedophile history.
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@Ronanchamberss @IvanLevingston News orgs exist to report on new, interesting info that their readers care about - not to flag wave, do PR for VCs, or pump the interests of 'FT Ventures'. That's what company blogs are for. And as already stated, they literally scooped the news.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The Telegraph has uncovered yet more about the UK government's 'AI skills hub' that suggests the entire thing was a rushed, vibe-coded hack job (which cost £4.1 million of taxpayers' money).

Their investigation reveals it includes:

- courses that seem to be AI-generated scams
- courses that are more than 20 years old
- 'degrees' that cost thousands of pounds yet offer no meaningful qualifications
- courses that don't exist at all

And so much more. This bit killed me: "One course on 'digital agriculture fundamentals' is provided by a Canadian education company and requires applicants to live in the rural provinces of Alberta, Manitoba or Saskatchewan."

Yet the government is digging in, saying the hub is meant to provide "deep and specialist expertise in AI", and that it intentionally includes "some hybrid international options".

To be clear, if one of the AI companies the government so admires had released this product, the person responsible would have been fired within a day.

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How it's going

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How it started

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