As a former BBC journalist it gives me no pleasure to say that BBC Arabic is a stain on BBC News. It’s beyond shameful that scandals like this keep happening. Are BBC News عربي managers asleep at the wheel?

The Trump Slump

Classic Arendt, taking all the fun out of laughing

In the future soon, we will be able to communicate with many intelligent animal species - can't wait to better understand what my dog🐶is saying! Congrats to the DolphinGemma team building on our Gemma models - the most powerful single GPU/TPU open source models out there!

The last two years have changed the calculus for any young Jewish liberal Zionist wanting to go into public service. Violence, disturbances at your home, harassment of your family - these are the potential cost.

Doubles as a David Cameron for swing voters

Waiting to intercept the Deliveroo guy so he doesn’t knock and wake up the baby

Can’t wait to hear people’s incredibly well-developed views about the theological merits of various obscure Cardinals they googled for the first time this morning

When I die, I hope it is said of me that I was a “good man” who “worked hard” next to a person dressed in a life-sized bunny costume looking downwards in respect

quite big ‘parents’ evening in the main hall’ vibes

Publication day. My book, HOW TO THINK ABOUT AI: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED (Oxford Academic), is out today in the US. You can order now (£13.99, hardback) on amazon.com at tinyurl.com/h6t98kby

If the Conservative Party is the party of Disraeli and Thatcher, it is also the party of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. It is very hard to see why it deserves to survive.

The BBC are airing an omnibus of ‘You Do Not Have To Say Anything’ on Saturday at 9pm. Better than any party or rave. Stay in. Join us in looking at the real criminal justice system. The people. The wigs. The heartache. The humour. The stories. ❤️

This is the future. We need more more more

I wish these skeptical AI articles would actually grapple with the growing body of research that AI can really do original research & perform key unstructured tasks across the spectrum of high-end white collar employment. AI criticism is important, but it should be clear-eyed.

Seminal. Inspirational. The best hour of TV of all time? Defined an era of political optimism.

.Ali Susskind is such a magnet for exceptional up and coming talent…

Al Jazeera was regarded, for a time, as a proper news organisation