Colin Hayhurst

@sethbannon Universal Quantum. Can intro you to CEO & Chairman if needed.

We're bringing 50 brilliant scientists and engineers on a startup tour of UK deep tech startups. Who should we visit?

@elonmusk @Andercot Physics funders decide and wait. Many physicists build. Too many speculate. Too few solve.

@Andercot For a long time, physics has consisted of waiting around for a new collider or telescope

Physicists: "The greatest issue of our time is that physics is fundamentally incomplete, that we have no firm footing from which to explain our best theories" Also Physicists: "That's completely impossible, the laws of physics forbid it."

Science advances through imagination that respects evidence. Speculation without constraint is not genuine progress.

There’s no such thing as “vibe understanding.”

Big Tech is BigTeching again. Google has announced a new policy for Android devs, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (like on their own website or on alternative app stores). (1/3)

@JeffreyPeel Surveillance is safety.

The three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:

Bullies are at heart cowards

Language shapes intuition, and if the language imports the wrong picture, it will mislead us.

@declassifiedUK @markcurtis30 Imperial College! What and/or who is there?

👉NEW -- ‘We deserve to know the truth’: 11 questions about US bases in Britain by @markcurtis30 From where they are exactly to the laws governing them, here’s what we need to know to hold the UK government accountable for the US use of British bases declassifieduk.org/we-deserve-to-…

@paulg I once made the same mistake. He was a presenter of Top Gear. I shouldn’t have done it; but I learned something. Some celebrities are total a**eholes

I think that was the only time I did that. It probably made me more uncomfortable than it did him. But I recognized him and noticed he was alone and I thought "He's a powerful guy; I should talk to him."

I once tried to "network" with someone powerful against their will — I glommed onto Hans Blix, then head of the IAEA, as he was walking down the street — and I still feel guilty about it.

Altman made six arguments. All six have structural problems. "We rushed to stabilize the situation." You rushed to capture a contract that opened up because your competitor was being punished. Supporting Anthropic publicly while closing the deal privately isn't stabilization — it's displacement. "Elected governments should decide, not tech executives." The government's right to make defense policy doesn't create an obligation for any private company to provide its tools. Anthropic isn't overruling the Pentagon. It's declining to participate. That right is foundational to American law. "Our redlines are flexible and can evolve." A redline that evolves is not a redline. OpenAI's prior red line was no military use at all. Then no warfare. Now three flexible guidelines. The trajectory is one-directional. "Anthropic walked away because they wanted too much control." Operational control means the ability to verify your redlines are being honored and pull the technology if they aren't. Without it, redlines are aspirational. Anthropic wanted enforceable commitments. OpenAI accepted unenforceable ones and is framing that as maturity. "You can't warn about AI dangers and then refuse to help." The warning and the refusal are the same position: this technology is too dangerous to deploy without adequate safeguards. Anthropic didn't abandon the building. It refused to hand the fire department a flamethrower. "Cyber defense and biosecurity are crucial." Neither was at issue. Anthropic was already serving defense customers. The standoff was specifically about autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Altman is blurring the line between defending the electrical grid and building population-scale targeting systems. The silence that matters most: Altman's entire argument assumes the current government is acting in good faith. This is the same administration that called Anthropic "left-wing," applied Huawei-level trade instruments to an American company, and gave a classified contract to a $25M PAC donor within hours of banning its competitor. Deferring ethical judgment to a good-faith government is reasonable. Deferring it to this one, with classification authority preventing any public accountability, is a different proposition entirely. Altman never addresses this.

@evan_mcgl Agreed. Sadly although I worked at University of Sussex for several years I never managed to meet him. I’ll be checking out your talk with him.

@ColinHayhurst Anil is a complete legend. I’ve spoken with him, hope to speak to him many more times!

Dream Giant's Shoulder Guest List 2026 (Please Help If You Can) Donald Hoffman Andrew Huberman Demis Hassabis Elon Musk Veritasium Vsauce Jim Al-Khalili Lisa Feldman Barrett Daniel Amen Mayim Bialik Denis Noble Brian Cox Neil Dr Grasse Tyson Carlo Rovelli Michio Kaku Hamilton Morris Sam Harris Rory Sutherland Dr. Mike Israetel Bryan Johnson Michael Pollen David Eaglemen Sean Carroll Ben Lamm Karl Deisseroth Federico Faggin Max Hodak Bernardo Kastrup Matthew Walker Curt Jaimungal Robert Sapolsky Richard Dawkins Lex Fridman Roger Penrose Stanislas Dehaene Edward Witten Sabine Hossenfelder Brian Greene Hank Green Joscha Bach Alex O'Connor Doris Tsao Paul Stamets György Buzsáki Peter Attia Michael Pollen Terrence Tao My goal is to speak to half of the people on this by the end of 2026. Please like and share to help!

@JeffreyPeel a contract worth £80m to QinetiQ sounds like small beer. Ever since QinetiQ was spin out they must have been getting contracts every year way above that

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to 'break' the link between Nigel Farage and the dollar stablecoin, Tether. I didn't have all my pegs in order when I appeared on the @SoniaPoulton show (over a year ago). But things are becoming much clearer now - with the release of the Epstein files - about the relationship between Farage's friends in Team Trump and America's de facto central bank digital currency. I've followed up, more recently, with an article detailing Christopher Harborne's involvement in Tether. He's the Reform Party's main backer. Links in comments.

Andy not Mandy?

Three types of people

Putting us in the same league as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Such an insane policy, let alone his whiplash U-turn on this issue, shows Starmer has absolutely no understanding of the issues - clearly no one in government does. Terrifying, when UK democracy is at stake.

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@JeffreyPeel a16z pay Larry (Summers one presumes) $1m pa !

Well the spelling's a bit dodgy but here's Epstein effectively introducing Palantir, Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel to Ehud Barak.

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I sense that the 'file release' is more about clearing out the old cast of actors to be replaced by the new crew. I'm losing interest. It still feels like we're being manipulated by the same people who brought us 'Covid'. I think it may be time for the spectators to leave the auditorium. The show is shit.