Genuinely confident I could spend an afternoon at the BBC and achieve all necessary cuts without losing a single news programme.

Basically, the BBC is shutting down it seems. Cuts in all the wrong places, again. Thinking of all my former colleagues wondering what next! There is life after the BBC...

Struggling with work KPI's today! @elonmusk compensation package at @SpaceX vests if the company reaches a valuation of $7.5 trillion and establishes a permanent human colony on Mars of at least one million people. Meanwhile, back on earth... #benchmarks #goals #reachforthestars

18 Newspaper cartoonists begin drawing him with one foot through the Pearly Gates, saying “You haven’t answered my question, St Peter…”

Samuel Pepys describes the 17th Century equivalent of smartphone addiction. (Incidentally the watch cost £14).

Working through the Ian Fleming books, from Live and Let Die, “The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cypher” So good.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

When someone in their 80's or 90's dies, why do news orgs insist on saying "We'll bring you more shortly..." More what? There is nothing more. That they have sadly died is the end of the story.

To misquote George Burns, “Too bad all the people who know everything about hugely complex defence capabilities are busy posting here.”

The No 10 goon show betrays this nation’s great thinkers and grafters A must read from Matthew Syed today. Every word of this: thetimes.com/article/14e0082…

The best holding-to-account interviews pivot around one key question. Three times, this morning @NickFerrariLBC asked Darren Jones "So, what went wrong?" #masterclass

As ever, for the electorate perecpetion is reality. The electorate isn't in the reeds of process.

They all do!

The voices behind the PM condemning him say it all.

What will stick for voters this time is the perception of No. 10 and the message “Well what else doesn’t he know, then?” When you’re PM “knowing” is your job.

What will stick for voters this time is the perception of No. 10 and the message “Well what else doesn’t he know, then?” When you’re PM “knowing” is your job.

This is the only thing you should be watching right now: youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBm… living history and breathtaking #Artermis #NASA

What a miserable snide headline this is: Artemis's stunning Moon pictures - science or holiday photos? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye…