Jack Needham

it's possible for a country to convince itself into progress

@SamirUnni @_benjaminparry @jiamixue @WillManidis lol

@_benjaminparry @jiamixue

Over the last year @jiamixue and I have been running a reading group in Toronto to understand the background beliefs that shape the world we live in. So far we have read close to 40 seminal papers including from: Alan Turing, C. Thi Nguyen, Hannah Aendt and Charles Taylor. Next quarter we are starting a project to look at the relationship between Religion and Work. We want to understand: What are our current ideas about work? Do these have anything to do with religion? If so, what is it? What is the relationship between our projects and faith? Can we treat our work religiously? Should we? To investigate this we are going to read Weber, Adam Smith (Sentiments not Wealth), Dōgen, Marx, Simone Weil, Frederick Douglass, @WillManidis and @nabeelqu There are a really limited number of spot but if this seems interesting DM me or comment below. I would be happy to chat more about it! You can also get more info and register interest at prg.thetorontosociety.com

@HZoete the country is lucky to have you

Pleased to be rejoining the civil service as Investment and AI adviser in DSIT. As an exited founder and angel investor in over a hundred startups I’m hopeful I can help make Britain the place for tech and AI. It’s a part time role as I will still be carrying on my work at Oxford University and on the board of the ALB of the DfE Oak National Academy. This government has made great strides on AI and tech. Excited to get going and help!

We’re excited to announce that @join_ef has raised $200m of fresh capital, including $130m into our management company at a unicorn valuation, to be the natural home of the world’s most ambitious people in the Age of Entrepreneurship 🧵

@Ali110Afshar @UKSovereignAI @mytosbio what a crew

Great to discuss scaling important sovereign technologies at Downing St today, with @UKSovereignAI team! At @mytosbio, we’re using robotics and AI to scale replacement tissue to millions of patients at low cost - starting with our first site here in the UK 🇬🇧🚀🚀!

@AFitzgerald1992 @IsembardGroup lfg king

Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦

@AFitzgerald1992 oath

London is beautiful

@harveyhodd yesss lad

So it begins

@Lyan82 @InstituteGC @benedictcooney @jakobmokander congrats on taking the leap legend

Today was my last day at @InstituteGC! I've learned a huge amount from my time at TBI, working with some of the most switched on people in policy. Updates soon on what's next, but huge thanks to the people who've made it possible: @benedictcooney and @jakobmokander, as well as @Tom_Westgarth15, @guywardjackson, @josephcbradley, @ZandermannKL, @KeeganMcB, and @kengoshibata for being the best team a gal could ask for! Onwards

@sotalikesfuture @experilearning @CalumDrysdale and @leecronin are my holy trinity

SoTA's Frontiers Night on Self-Driving Labs Thanks to our brilliant Demonstrators for a series of live demos, technical talks, and an extremely lively debate on making AI scientists running closed-loop experimentation a reality: - Lee Cronin, Founder & CEO of Chemify and Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow - Shamit Shrivastava, Cofounder & CEO of Apoha - James Baghurst & Calum Drysdale, Winners of SoTA's Embodied Intelligence Hackathon and Founders of London Biocompute - Miao Guo, Senior Lecturer in Engineering at King's College London - Pranay Shah & Aayush Chadha, AI Scientist Programme at Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) Thanks also to IQ Capital for hosting us. @ChemifyX @experilearning @CalumDrysdale @Shamits @leecronin @BiorenewableLab @Pranay_Shahh @AayushChad40496 @IQ_Capital_Fund @ARIA_research

@Fremond_ congrats legend

I. AM. MARRIED.

@lukeknight @malikules im honestly not sure it is. does your average daily mail or guardian reader think ai is a good thing or care about it that much? show me the incentive and ill show you the outcome

@malikules madness

biggest seed round of Europe is in London and not a single word about it in the Guardian, BBC, Daily Mail and others

london is the best place in europe to build a company. time to make it the best place in the world.

@etnshow @sequoia london is the best place in europe to build a company. time to make it the best place in the world

BREAKING: Sequoia (@sequoia) leading the largest European seed round of all time with $1B at $4B valuation. David Silver, one of Britain’s top AI researchers, left Google DeepMind late last year to launch the London-based start-up Ineffable Intelligence. He aims to build “superhuman intelligence”. Sequoia partners Alfred Lin and Sonya Huang flew to London to visit Silver after his departure, who is also a professor at University College London.

@etnshow @WeAreLegora @MaxJunestrand w

BREAKING: Swedish based Legora (@WeAreLegora) are in talks to raise $400M at a $5B+ valuation. The raise comes just four months after their $150M Series-C which saw their valuation hit $1.8B. Their CEO & Co-Founder, Max Junestrand (@MaxJunestrand) isn't just known for building the fastest scaling YC (@ycombinator) backed company of all time, but also his attitude towards winning. He was quoted by Sifted (@Siftedeu) saying the Legora team "wake up with the taste of blood" last year. More details to follow as the story develops.

curious for your take on the following: 1. Is it possible for a future-oriented party/narrative? most of the rhetoric coming out of the right is mostly focused on going back to a previous state rather than forging a new one. 2. how do you feel about parties that frame themselves as libertarian (ie we won't care where you work) but ban other things? genuinely curious here!

Electorates are hive minds They can sense authenticity It is the most important currency today @RupertLowe10 has the aura of a leader

@carolynrogers @WillManidis dude move here already, the cotswalds are calling

@WillManidis Another great piece. In an age of technological abundance, the things that provide meaning and richness to the subjective human experience should become more important (though often, it is easier to choose frictionlessness) x.com/carolynrogers/…

@KevinEspiritu how did you start?

All six of my latest drawings in the order I intended them to be displayed. It's cool to complete a "series" like this, my first as an artist Month 8 teaching myself to draw

@tarakeeney @marcrandolph

Sneak peak of my next guest… can you guess? 🍿

@jc_gilbert god save the king

today i’ve officially become a dual citizen not sure if i should choose the baguette or the sunday roast