Chris Stokel-Walker

How AI Ate The World, is out on 9th May! "Comprehensive and compelling" - @MattNavarra "A wild, brilliant ride" - @ciaranmartinoxf "Entertaining... clear, direct" - @sharongoldman "I highly recommend it" - @SashaMTL 🇬🇧 amazon.co.uk/How-Ate-World-… 🇺🇸 amazon.com/How-Ate-World-…

Trains are marking their 200th anniversary! For @IMechE I wrote about what the future holds for this form of transport imeche.org/news/news-arti…

What are the risks of AI agents running wild autonomously over our files? @Independent asked me to explore it independent.co.uk/news/ai-agents…

The US navy is rolling out a new AI-enabled submarine manufacturing facility in response to a talent shortage on productin lines... but what about when the stuff needs repairing? My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91516798/the-n…

Crocs bought a company that makes tiny plastic charms for $10 million a decade ago. Today that company's product - Jibbitz - makes them $250 million annually. My latest for @sherwood_news on tiny tchotchkes sherwood.news/business/crocs…

The arrival of data centres in a community can cause surrounding areas to heat up - in some cases, by 9 degrees Celsius. My latest for @newscientist looks at research that estimates some 340 million people have already been affected newscientist.com/article/252125…

@RupertMyers It's not a bad thing to use it! But just strip out the UTM tracking (and then make sure all the links work so it becomes less obvious)

@stokel Hahahahaha

Great, great story but when you're writing about AI companies not covering their tracks well at least strip out the UTM tracking from your links showing you're looking for past reporting on your own site using ChatGPT fortune.com/2026/03/26/ant…

This is a devastating ruling for the government, finding Anthropic likely to prevail on essentially all of its theories for why the government’s actions were unlawful and unconstitutional. One of the things she mentions is the huge range of amici briefs supporting Anthropic (by the way, 0 supported USG)—so thanks to everyone here who signed on to FAI’s brief, or to one of the many many others. These things do matter. More importantly, you were on the right side of history. On a personal note: some friends and allies of mine on the right have been angry at me for my own words and actions in all this. Anyone who thinks I spoke out for personal gain or trivial reasons against an administration I served in is crazy. It was a hugely costly decision for me. But Judge Lin’s ruling shows why I did it: this is a staggeringly illegal act by the government. That is why I am particularly honored to have been (implicitly) quoted in the ruling for calling this what it was when Secretary Hegseth initially made his announcement: an attempted act of corporate murder. The case continues, but Anthropic has scored a very large win here. The real victors, however, are all red-blooded Americans who are, as the founders would have said, “jealous of their liberties.”

@thobbsjourno ugh - I need to pitch you then

Elon Musk planning to offer 30% of SpaceX IPO to retail investors (as Reuters is flashing right now) is bonkers in all kinds of ways

Sex sells, which helps explain the rush by AI companies to integrate it into their products - even if OpenAI just hit pause on their plans. My latest for @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@rowlsmanthorpe @alexhuds need to cross-check against Barnsley

If you want to know how corporate uptake of AI is going in the UK, M&S just sent out a press release boasting about their purchase of 11,000 licences for... Copilot

What are the consequences of the blockbuster social media trial that reached a verdict today? I played out the future for @FastCompany and what it means for social media (spoiler alert: nothing good) fastcompany.com/91516105/meta-…

@RobertFreundLaw thanks! Just replied to you

@RobertFreundLaw Hi Rob, could I get a quick DM when you see this? Tysm

@vidushi_law Hello! You've got a DM