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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.

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Today in AI
  • OpenAI turns out to be smaller than you were told
  • Google's AI agent gets its own email address and a seat in the staff directory
  • China tore up Meta's purchase of Manus, and Manus is now worth twice as much
  • Anthropic puts Claude on guard at the power grid
  • Denmark moves to give you ownership of your own face and voice

About

Tim Frank Andersen

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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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.

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Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter

Curated by Tim, every morning.

Today · 09 Oct 2026
  1. 01

    OpenAI turns out to be smaller than you were told

    The most quoted number in AI just got smaller. OpenAI's revenue is running at about $50 billion a year, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, not the $70 billion that circulated last month. Oddly, both numbers can be defended. Anthropic counts what customers pay for its models through Amazon's and Google's clouds, while OpenAI leaves that out. So OpenAI's own investors redid the sum Anthropic's way, and that number reached the press. On the figures each lab publishes, Anthropic is the larger business, weeks before Anthropic's stock market listing. The scoreboard in this race is kept by the players. When a vendor tells you how big it is, ask how it counts.

  2. 02

    Google's AI agent gets its own email address and a seat in the staff directory

    Until now an AI assistant at work has run as you, with your login. Google has turned that around. Its new Gemini agent for companies gets its own email address, calendar, files and a seat in the staff directory, and it sees only what you share with it. You give it a goal, and it works for hours or days across Gmail, Microsoft 365 or Slack. A few companies are testing it, and there is no price yet. After a month of AI agents turning up in systems nobody invited them into, a separate identity is the right answer. The next org chart will have agents on it.

  3. 03

    China tore up Meta's purchase of Manus, and Manus is now worth twice as much

    Meta thought it had bought Manus, the Chinese-founded startup whose AI agent does whole tasks on its own, for about $2 billion last December. In April Beijing ordered the sale undone on national security grounds, after barring the founders from leaving the country while it decided. This week Chinese investors, including the internet giant Tencent, put more than $500 million into Manus, and earlier reports put the valuation at about twice Meta's price. Manus moving its headquarters to Singapore before the sale did not help. Beijing treats a company built in China as Chinese wherever the office is. Meta learned that lesson for you, if you buy or partner with a Chinese-founded AI firm.

  4. 04

    Anthropic puts Claude on guard at the power grid

    On Wednesday I wrote that JPMorgan's boss blamed Anthropic's bug-hunting AI for a surge in his cyber risk, since the holes it finds help attackers too. Now Anthropic switches to defence, sending Claude, its AI, and engineers into eleven security and consulting firms that protect power grids, water works and factories. Open-source projects, the free code much of the internet runs on, get free AI scans, with no human checking the reports first, which is bold. Anthropic admits attackers keep the upper hand for two more years, and on Tuesday a hacking contest showed why: one bug was enough to take over OpenAI's AI coding assistant. Defence needs a programme. Attack needs one bug.

  5. 05

    Denmark moves to give you ownership of your own face and voice

    A few clicks make a video of you saying anything. Yesterday Denmark's culture minister, Zenia Stampe, presented a bill that bans sharing AI copies of a person's face or voice without consent, and makes platforms take illegal copies down fast. Satire stays legal. Parliament agreed the idea in June last year, and sixteen months on she hopes it is law by January. Artists are covered too, but the business case is stronger: a fake video of your finance director approving a payment is a fraud tool, and this gives you a right to have it removed. Agents got a login, startups got a nationality, and faces got an owner. Each is now someone's responsibility.

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