Excellent scoop on AI surveillance at a mainstream UK grocery store from my colleague Rob Booth:
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@aishadown.bsky.social@aishadown.bsky.socialThe issue seemed to be around a panel suggesting that the US was a disinformation actor - the first time the conference has aired this possibility.
@aishadown.bsky.socialSCOOP - The State Department pressured multiple governments out of supporting a leading EU disinfo conference.
Proud to have worked on this one with the stars: Joseph Gedeon and @jenniferrankin.bsky.social
@aishadown.bsky.socialThis would be an amusing tale of corporate hype were it not for the fact that the UK's economic future - and most of the stock market - is staked on the success of similar projects.
@aishadown.bsky.socialNow, as my colleague Dan Milmo has reported, there appears to have been a quiet acknowledgement of the facts - namely, that there's a years-long queue for a grid connection in the UK, and there's not going to be a supercomputer in Loughton anytime soon.
@aishadown.bsky.socialWhen, six months ago, we reported that the UK's 'largest AI supercomputer' was, in fact, a scaffolding yard in Essex, I distinctly remember the government brushing us off and an Nscale spokesperson assuring us we'd be invited to the ribbon-cutting...
@aishadown.bsky.socialExcellent to see Bloomberg following up on @edzitron.com and my scoop from August - but raises unsettling questions about where, exactly, all the money has gone - and where are the Nvidia GPUs?
@edzitron.comReposted by @aishadown.bsky.socialHoly shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@aishadown.bsky.social@horadam.bsky.social - hoping to be in touch with you.
@aishadown.bsky.social@jennycohn.bsky.social - hoping I might reach you?
@aishadown.bsky.social@breelanc.bsky.social - I'm the Guardian reporter working on the Peter Thiel piece and would be interested in speaking with you.