Ben McOwen Wilson

Google just announced a "developer mode" coming to Android. It continues to enable installing unsigned software, a key use case in hobby development and in human rights tools. And it has serious safeguards against the most potent malware attacks like AI impersonation.

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This is the week of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Since lots of game makers are talking about the Epic v Google settlement, here is the (partially redacted) term sheet from the public court filing: cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v--google…

🤯 still my favourite AI tool by a long, long way - thank you @NotebookLM !

Fortnite is back on Android. And huge news with Google slashing platform fees and allowing payment choice on Google Play Store. gamesbeat.com/fortnite-will-…

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Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we continue to be at the forefront of how developers distribute their apps and games on billions of devices globally. Today we are announcing big changes: – Leading the way in store choice: A registered app store program that makes installation of participating app stores easier with a streamlined flow – A new business model for Google Play with lower prices for developers: The ability to use your own billing alongside Google Play Billing, and lower service fees. These changes will make for a stronger Android ecosystem with more choice for users and even more successful developers who can further invest in higher quality experiences on mobile and beyond. The above will be rolling out in phases, subject to local laws and processes. We are also excited to announce that we’ve resolved all our disputes with Epic Games globally! Details on all of this can be found at our blog post. android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-…

Brilliant but serious conditions on #Helvellyn Great traction in #crampons but potential for long & violent slides with runouts into boulders if any slip is not quickly arrested with an #iceaxe Mountaineering skills, experience & equipment currently required above 700m Zac

He hasn’t won a title as a clear underdog He hasn’t rebuild a 2nd or 3rd great side He hasn’t won the UCL twice in England He hasn’t won the UCL back to back He hasn’t won the UCL 3 times in England He hasn’t showed that with a team in transition or not at its best, that he can win the League or a trophy He hasn’t rebuild a fallen giant He hasn’t been outspent by a billionaire that changed the landscape of English football & found a way to beat it, let alone do it 3 times. He hasn’t seen his team or club suffer devastating tragedy and rebuild them through it. There are so many things Pep hasn’t achieved in England.

I’m from Donbas. Cold apartments don’t scare me. What scares me Is when people get used to our suffering. So I keep writing. So you don’t forget We’re still alive.

I’m so dang lucky to have toured all over the the World, and I get EXTRA excited to play somewhere for the first time ever…I’ll be seeing you in Zagreb CROATIA for my first gig there at the @INmusicfestival!! 🇭🇷 Tickets: inmusicfestival.com/en

Our AI tools like DeepVariant and DeepPolisher are helping researchers sequence genomes for endangered species, compressing what once took years into just days. Genomes of 13 species are free and available for use by conservation researchers. Now @Googleorg is helping partners scale to 150+ more species, building a vital resource for global conservation and biology.

An assortment of photos from my friend Pablo Durana who was part of the crew for @netflix. He managed to get some epic photos of the sky line the night before - the neighboring building had lights supporting me; I’ve never seen anything like it!   One pic shows Brett Lowell floating on the line out in space with a cable cam behind him. The whole film and rigging crews were totally next level on this project - seriously all the best folks I’ve worked with on projects over the years. Which was really one of the main pleasures of this project: working with all of my friends and seeing them excel at the things that they’re best at. Nothing like seeing your friends send!!

It’s awesome how the ledge you start on is completely forgotten and replaced in under 30 seconds. Great “gameplay”

I love listening to the radio... it has been a wonderful soundtrack to my life and football. It still is and always will be. The BBC said goodbye to a true legend and national treasure when Pat Murphy departed on Saturday mirror.co.uk/sport/football…

My column in today’s FT: the vision since 2016 has been that the lever British governments pull to fight poverty is to increase the minimum wage. Time for government to start pulling its weight again too: ft.com/content/1e52ef…

John Fingleton’s review for the government of how to reduce unnecessary barriers and costs for nuclear power development is a tour de force, a compelling road map for how to accelerate important infrastructure investment in the UK - which is the sine qua non of improving growth and living standards (read John’s nutshell below). For the last eight weeks he was assured that the prime minister and chancellor would accept and implement the recommendations in full. He even tweaked an important clause at the government’s request, to give them a bit more flexibility over the means to implementation. I understand he has now been told that at the budget tomorrow the welcome will be conditional, subject to further work and review - because the Chancellor has been nobbled by a legal and planning adviser, who claims the Fingleton recommendations somehow breach the UK’s environmental, trade and human rights obligations. He and his colleagues believe this is nonsense. They examined the legal considerations in their assessment. But they fear that yet again the dead hand of official caution has squashed - potentially for months and years - important growth-enhancing investment.

THE GREAT DEFECTION HAS BEGUN OpenAI is now running ChatGPT on Google TPUs. Read that again. The company that made Nvidia a $5 trillion empire just started paying its greatest rival to power inference. This is not a rumor. This is June 2025. This is happening. Why would OpenAI betray its own supply chain? Because inference costs are 15x training costs. OpenAI’s projected inference bill for 2024: $2.3 billion. Their entire GPT-4 training cost: $150 million. The math is merciless. Google TPUs deliver 4x better performance-per-dollar on inference workloads. Midjourney switched and cut costs 65%. Anthropic just committed to one million TPUs. Meta is in advanced talks for a multibillion-dollar deployment. The world’s most sophisticated AI operators are all moving in the same direction. Away from Nvidia. Toward Google. Here is what no one is pricing: Inference will consume 75% of all AI compute by 2030. Training is a bounded cost. Inference is perpetual. Every query, every token, every second of every day. Nvidia built an empire on training. But training is the past. Inference is the future. And on inference, Nvidia’s architectural advantage disappears. The institutional money already knows. Soros Fund increased its Alphabet stake by 2,300% in Q3 2025. Berkshire Hathaway took a $4.3 billion position. While retail chases Nvidia at 60x earnings, the smart money is accumulating Google at 27x. This is not a pivot. This is a phase transition. The AI hardware stack is fragmenting at the precise layer where 75% of future demand will concentrate. Google built the weapon. The defections have started. The arbitrage window is open. Nvidia still dominates training. But training is not where the money will be made.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read the full deep dive article here - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans… Subscribe!

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@krishk @BBCNews Thanks Krish. Where does the rest of the money go? Your list doesn't add up to £100.

Ever wondered where your tax money actually goes? 💷 @BBCNews broke it down by imagining we each handed the Government £100. Here’s how that £100 was spent in 2023–24: £22 → NHS £6 → Defence £10 → Education £10 → Debt interest £11.40 → State pensions £4.15 → Working-age welfare (PIP, Universal Credit, health support) £0.50 → Asylum system £0.70 → Overseas aid What strikes me most is this: immigration dominates headlines and public debate, consistently ranking as one of the nation’s top concerns — yet the asylum system accounts for just 0.5% of public spending. A reminder that sometimes the loudest issues aren’t the largest ones. #Budget2026

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@krishk @BBCNews The maths doesn't add up. What happens to the other £33 out of the hundred?