I went to a dinner with the AI Minister and I read a paper on Lovelace Institue --- a proposal from Tony Blair's Institute on how we could fund breakthrough science better. And I wrote that all up into one incoherent mess for you to enjoy. tomforth.co.uk/nationalpurpos…

📸 Sunderland mock Newcastle by taking a team photo in front of their fans — on the pitch — following their 1-0 win over their arch-rivals. (Newcastle did this two years ago when they won here in the FA cup…) #SAFC #SUNNEW

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I guesstimate this would release capacity for >2 million homes in the London & SE green belt near stations, plus capacity for 20 million or more homes in gardens in that region. If it went through, then the UK would no longer have a shortage of planning permissions.

Do you believe in free lunches? I have a theory that the most important divide in our politics isn't left vs right, or populists vs moderates, but those who believe in free lunches vs those who don't. A free lunch is a win-win. It's a policy where no one loses. If you think of

🚀 Google DeepMind is now providing Gemini for Government and accelerated access to our Science models and agents to the scientists at all 17 National Labs, starting with AI Co-Scientist and expanding soon to AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome, and WeatherNext. deepmind.google/blog/google-de…

Merry Christmas Gemini

Current version of this on the feed is long form satirical stories about startups, to which the punchline is always 'GDPR'.

Elderly people who can no longer drive, people who have had their driving license taken off them because of epilepsy or a heart condition, people who are blind, deaf, or have physical disabilities, people who live in areas with poor bus service like where I grew up (despite

Conflating "humanity" and "moral worth" with "legal standing" is confused and worth thinking about. Assigning some forms of AI legal status in some limited form in the future might in fact be a very sensible way to enable / simplify / automate redress and disputes - it's what we

Guest essay on the blog by Séb Krier on what advanced AI will mean for jobs. Séb is AGI policy dev lead at DeepMind, and is a must-follow for his posts on how AI will impact society. In the essay, Séb argues that full labor displacement--or full substitution--requires a bunch of

I'm hiring at DeepMind AGI Safety! Looking for research engineers to help assess catastrophic risks from frontier models. Our work directly informs safety cases and governance. Lon/SF/NYC - engineers/scientists both wanted

NEW Centre for British Progress and Labour Together report! Project Hawking: how the Government can go big on Britain’s strengths and triple the economy of the Oxford–Cambridge Corridor.

Seeing lots of people (or bots) attacking Ryanair, which I assume they only recently learned about the existence of, because they aren't planning to install Starlink (very impressive technology, no doubt) on a famously low cost airline, is so very boring. It's at best worthy of

All of my thoughts take the form of fully formatted emails, so I have no need for AI assistance. "Hi -- Further to my previous thoughts. What a beautiful sunny day, I am so glad to be alive. Best regards, Nick"

AGI = "automatically deleted 10,000 emails I had no intention of reading" and "automatically sorted my downloaded PDFs"

If the incentives were different - this kind of reporting would be in the mainstream. Reporting and opinion which actually takes an interest in the subject matter it reports and opines on! Kudos to the Transformer team for what they're building.

Handy Glossary for the Citrini Essay: Ghost GDP → Consumer Surplus, but spooky Intelligence Displacement Spiral → Productivity Growth, the thing we've been desperately seeking since 2010 Habitual Intermediation → Switching costs (bad) Agent on Agent Violence → Competition,

The METR timelines are being discussed in House of Lords: hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-02-…

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