Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer: ‘The talent is what’s going to drive the difference’ on.ft.com/3ySfG2p

Q&A with Index Ventures' Dan Rimer on generative AI favoring the incumbents, concentration of returns, M&A in a challenging regulatory environment, and more (John Thornhill / Financial Times)

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US antitrust enforcer says ‘urgent’ scrutiny needed over Big Tech’s control of AI ft.com/content/97b457… via @ft

Excited to discover that my C19th namesake John Thornhill was a first-class cricketer. Not much of an average though 🏏 🤣

The R&D spending of the Magnificent Seven companies - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla - amounted to more than $200bn last year, around half of Europe’s private and public sector total

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Great definition of culture as being know-why (as opposed to know-how) by ⁦Martin Puchner⁩ in conversation with ⁦Lilah Raptopoulos⁩ at #FTWeekendFestival

Looking forward to interviewing you today Blaise at the Financial Times Live festival in D.C.

Robert Falck, founder of Sweden's Einride, tells Freya Pratty that the Gulf has a sense of ambition Europe lacks

'I love the ambition here, they understand that the future needs ambition. The economies of scale will be happening here first.” Sifted

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A European NASDAQ? Yes please

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The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal via Financial Times
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“The best way of getting long-term economic growth is through improving education. And the best way of doing that is by finding great teachers.” Quite right Lucy Kellaway

Fund Now Teach!

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How TikTok’s Chinese owner tightened its grip on the app ft.com/content/0e040c… via @ft

Zoom dysmorphia

#21stcenturyproblems

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Terrific - and unnerving - interview. Here’s Dennett on LLMs:

This is the most dangerous advance of technology in the last thousand years. It’s more dangerous than gunpowder and nuclear war because it may destroy trust. If we lose trust, we’re toast.

Sad to hear of Daniel Dennett's death.

I was lucky enough to interview him for Lunch with the Financial Times in 2017 in which he dazzled in talking about Rene Descartes, Alan Turing, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Donald Trump and human robots

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“I understand why there would be a correlation between neurodiversity and founding companies: if you don't feel you fit in a current structure, the most obvious thing is to build a new one.'

I'm sure Elon Musk agrees

Great feature from Sadia

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Next year? Some say AGI is already here:

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“For a very long time, I felt trapped. There was no stopping or taking a break.” Sadia talks to founders about the mental toll of running a startup

In a Sifted survey of 156 founders 49% said they were considering quitting this year

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