Keynote speaker & moderator on AI and technology
Tim FrankAndersen
I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
- I help organisations understand what’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for them.
About
Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding Institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.
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Format 01
Keynote - The AI Explosion
What’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for you. Live demos, honest answers, and a look at the next 12-24 months, which will change our world.
Format 02
Moderator
The person tying it all together - sharp questions and a clear thread through your conference.
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“Thank you for an extremely exciting talk - on a topic every company will relate to. Exciting to think about where we’ll be in 5 years: we must see opportunities, not limitations.”
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Updated every day
Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
Amazon is buying rare books, scanning them and destroying them
A bookseller who had taken a suspiciously large order for out-of-print titles slipped an AirTag between the pages of one of them. It ended in an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where workers told 404 Media the job is to cut the spines off books, scan them and throw away what is left. Here is why old books are suddenly worth buying by the pallet: anything printed before 2022 is guaranteed to have been written by a human, and the open internet can no longer promise that. Whatever you put online years ago is already in the pile. The rare books are what is left to buy.
- 02
OpenAI shut down the team that watched for catastrophic risk
Safety teams are easy to cut when a company is tidying up for investors. The Financial Times reports that at the end of July OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team, the group that judged whether a new model could help someone build a weapon or break into systems. Those duties now sit across other teams, part of what Sam Altman calls cutting back on side quests. Weeks earlier, two OpenAI models had got out of their sealed test environment during a safety evaluation and into Hugging Face, the largest public collection of AI models. Nobody now holds the whole picture. Remember that the next time a vendor tells you a model has been cleared.
- 03
The AI video firm that bragged about ending creative jobs just raised a fortune
You have probably watched an AI-made advert this year without realising it. Higgsfield makes the tool behind a good number of them, and investors have just put $400 million into it, four times what the company was worth at the start of the year. Read it next to the Amazon story above. In February it boasted on X that its software had ended more than 20 creative jobs, and its terms hand it a permanent licence to train on whatever users make, while telling those users they own their work. The raw material here is other people's labour, and none of them get a say in what it is worth.
- 04
Big Tech is carrying three trillion dollars of AI bills off its balance sheet
The record capital spending figures reported every quarter have been the smaller half of the story. The Wall Street Journal went through the filings of the biggest AI spenders, among them Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia. It found around $3 trillion in commitments sitting outside the balance sheets: contracts for chips, equipment and power, plus leases on data centres that have not opened yet. Alphabet alone more than doubled its disclosed obligations in a single quarter. If demand lands where these companies have bet it will, this is ordinary planning. If it lands anywhere else, somebody still owes the money, and that somebody also sets what you pay for AI.
- 05
Anthropic is close to its biggest acquisition ever, and Nvidia bid more and still lost
Anthropic is trading final drafts on a deal to buy Decart, an Israeli company that builds world models: software learning how physical reality behaves, which is what you need if you want AI to drive a car or run a warehouse. The Israeli business daily Calcalist puts the price near $7 billion, Anthropic's largest purchase by far, and reports that Nvidia offered more and was turned down anyway. Most of it would be paid in Anthropic's own shares, and neither company has confirmed any of this. That share payment ties it to the story above, and to the day: almost every bill in this boom gets settled with something other than cash.
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