Susan Hall has joined an anti-ULEZ Facebook group full of wishes of harm to Sadiq Khan and islamophobic abuse. This is despite her being aware of the disgusting contents of the group after Observer exposé

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Amazon has plastered a warehouse in Coventry with posters that have a QR code that that lets employees cancel their union membership in seconds

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Non-students who are extremely interested in specific campus protests are weirdos.

Cannot believe the NYT casting aspersions on Cally Road.

There was - rightly - a hue and cry over who could be allowed to own the Telegraph. I can’t remember a precedent for the true ownership of a paper being kept secret. That’s what’s happened with the Jewish Chronicle prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco trib.al/BeF5oL1

UK-based cybersecurity firm Darktrace agrees to sell itself to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for about $5.32 billion trib.al/N27NGDm

The UK will finally impose checks on EU fresh food next week.

I've tracked the journey bacon takes from Denmark to the UK, to illustrate the new reality of Brexit - that while trade doesn't stop, it's about to become harder and that bit more expensive
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🚨new news about Musk/OpenAI from me and Sabrina Willmer🚨
Elon Musk has stepped up his court fight with OpenAI by demanding documents from ex board member Helen Toner, who was a key player in the short-lived ousting of Sam Altman last year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…… via
Bloomberg Technology

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ Marissa Newman & Ben Bartenstein

New Businessweek story is on the most influential, interesting AI company you probably haven't heard of (or don't know much about): Abu Dhabi's G42.

Seems valid. 'Lt Col Matt Woodward...said the horses bolted after 'building materials were dropped from height right next to them'.' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

This entire essay on Marc Andreessen is eye-opening but was this….Clive Sinclair? There weren’t that many computing knights knocking around in 2017 prospect.org/power/2024-04-…

A remarkable story from Rick Perlstein about a night he shared with Marc Andreessen, who said of rural small-town Americans who didn't leave their communities, 'I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet'
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Some news: the 🇬🇧 CMA is digging deeper into Amazon's very big investment in Anthropic, Microsoft's small investment in Mistral and Microsoft's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with Inflection

What if you, a 40+ year old, didn’t care with such creepy intensity about what students are doing.

You may expect a Monaco financier who dabbles in crypto to move in different circles to local councillors in the north of England

Yet a hard-charging trader based 1,000 miles away has become enmeshed in Warrington council’s finances

✍🏻 w/ Jennifer Williams
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Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income (Ashley Carman / Bloomberg)

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