Dan Brickley

@elder_plinius Oh god, the @aidungeon flashbacks! /cc @vrandezo

@Andrey__HQ @AmandineFlachs @egor_kzmv City or Canary Wharf?

@AmandineFlachs @egor_kzmv might be also coz I’m by the “finance district” of London but yeah

We just asked 1000 people in the streets of London if they knew about Claude Only 28 said yes And of those 28, 20 said they’ve never used it, just heard of it We’re still so damn early

@Andrey__HQ @egor_kzmv and chatgpt?

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU–INC, a new framework that lets you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100 Starting a company across the EU today = 27 legal systems, 60+ company structures 🤯 That might be about to change… The European Commission just introduced 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰., a new optional corporate framework designed to make Europe actually function like one market. Here’s what stands out: → Set up a company in 48 hours → Cost: < €100 → Fully online, no minimum capital → One single framework across all EU countries → Easier share transfers & fundraising → EU-wide employee stock options (huge for talent) Especially the EU-wide stock option plans, taxed only when employees actually sell (instead of when granted) is huge. This makes it far easier for startups to attract and retain top talent, finally putting Europe closer to the US playbook. Source/More info: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… In short: This is Europe trying to compete with the simplicity of a Delaware C-Corp 🇺🇸 And honestly… it’s long overdue. For years, European founders had 2 choices: 1. Stay local and deal with fragmentation 2. Move to the US to scale 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰. is trying to remove that trade-off. If executed well, this could be one of the most important structural changes for European startups in decades. What do you think?

New Substack: Accurate Maps, Wrong Country (link in replies) I had the privilege of spending the last year in the UK government, working on the implementation of the AI Opportunities Action Plan. What did this experience teach me about the way in which the machine operates, especially when it comes to responding to the most critical technology of our modern era? Civil servants find themselves within an environment that is locally ‘hackable’ but globally broken. A place where the tactics for getting things done are an indictment of the fact that tactics are necessary at all. Where the map is accurate and the country is wrong. I start by mapping out the various challenges I observed during my time in DSIT. Following this, I conclude with a set of seven principles I think can be effective for getting stuff done in bureaucratic behemoths.

“… raw capability is not the same as structured impact. AI today is roughly where human intelligence would be without the organizational structures we’ve built to harness it. A brilliant individual can do remarkable things. A brilliant individual leading a well-designed corporation, with teams and hierarchies and processes, can reshape an industry. AI has the brilliance. What it’s still developing is the organizational scaffolding.”

@brian_scanlan If this is a Stochastic Parrot, I’ll take three!

LOADS of incident/troubleshooting investigation skills. They're starting to converge, using progressive disclosure in a solid core skill that can figure out what to do for specific issues. We have a goal to make all runbooks follow-able by Claude in the next 6 weeks.

We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system at Intercom with 13 plugins, 100+ skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform. Lots done, more to do. Here's a thread of some highlights.

"Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry" > this would be excellent. Very good. share.google/Jm2LGsGtneGtio…

The UK is building hard things again. One of the great stories of 2026 will be the resurgence of Deeptech in the UK. So far this year: > OLIX raised $220m and became a unicorn > Ineffable intelligence is raising a $1bn seed > Wayve raised $1bn+ at an $8bn+ valuation > Nscale raised a $2bn Series C to become a decacorn > Cambridge Aerospace is raising at a unicorn valuation > UFORCE raised $50m at a $1bn valuation > Roark raised $210m at $1.6bn valuation. The UK is now building across chips, data centres, defence, AV, and frontier AI. On top of that we've seen the Sovereign AI fund launch as well as the UK government committing £2bn to quantum computing. LETS GO

Dan says he's got Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B - a 209GB on disk MoE model - running on an M3 Mac at ~5.7 tokens per second using only 5.5 GB of active memory (!) by quantizing and then streaming weights from SSD (at ~17GB/s), since MoE models only use a small subset of their weights for each token

sunsets, from space, in real time, in your browser spent this past month learning about atmospheric scattering to build beautiful skies and lighting happy with the result so far, lots to try still r3f.maximeheckel.com/atmospheric-sc…

This government will make the UK the best place in the world to start, scale and grow AI companies.

What if AI alignment isn’t about control at all — but about gardening? We propose Symbiotic Alignment: a framework where coherence between humans and AI emerges from the bottom up, through the co-creation of shared meaning. No single agent holds “ground truth.” Paper: zenodo.org/records/190297…

I'm a Jewish Israeli Londoner. Last year, we moved within earshot of a North London mosque.I can't tell you how happy it makes me feel to hear the Adhan.Most of my years in Israel-Palestine were spent in or near Jaffa and Jerusalem. To me, Adhan is the sound of community & home.

Important and easily overlooked detail in the Chancellor’s Mais lecture today: a commitment to reform noncompetes. Noncompetes being unenforceable is one of the pillars of California’s tech success. This is especially important in UK if we want more AI startups. Promising.

I’ve been at a small conference this week, one where the AI people have been presenting early in the week and the domain science people will be presenting later in the week. At the end of the talks last night, the conversation turned very doomer with all the AI people talking about how well Claude Code or Codex can do hill-climbing AI research and how we (the AI people) are maybe all about to lose our jobs! The domain science people expressed their shock at this attitude because, though Claude Code can be let loose to complete lots of banal hill-climbing AI research projects, basically no experimental science is hill-climbing or even metric driven. Most scientific fields are about much more taste-driven exploration that is incredibly difficult to make metrics for or to parameterize, and this misunderstanding from the AI community is one of the most damaging things to the realization of great science with AI. Seems like we’re actually pretty far from having AI models do that… Over the summer, @evijit and I wrote about this (and some other things hindering AI for science) at a bit more length, and today that work is out in Patterns! So, if you care about these problems and the real challenges in bringing AI to science in the real work, I recommend giving it a read!

@ALifeConf special session “Artificial Life as Experimental Philosophy” is now accepting proposals. Submit yours by March 30. experimentalphilosophy.life

@matthewclifford @mrianleslie Can they join ai companies but not found them? How is that wordsmithed?

@mrianleslie Right now big AI companies lock up would-be-founders by making it illegal to start AI companies when they leave. In California, they can’t do this. We should be more like California!

I want to share a bit more about my vision for the Economic Research team at Anthropic in the coming years. This is a forward-looking vision. Some pieces we’ve yet to develop. Aspects of this work will surely change. Consider joining the effort. 1/6 #heading=h.j1ij8p6h22u5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/document/d/1OM…

Physics-Based Simulation v1.0.3 is now live! phys-sim-book.github.io This release features @zzigakovacic's awesome coding examples on MPM viscoplastic flow, PBD cloth and elastic bodies, and PBF! Huge thanks to all! #Physics #Simulation #Animation #ComputerGraphics #MPM #PBD

Not sure if there's an audience for this... but at least I'm having fun 😅