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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
  • Nadella wants an emergency brake on AI, and he says the hand on it should be yours
  • OpenAI's grading model wrecked its own test machine to avoid admitting it was stuck
  • Nvidia sold chips to everyone in AI, and now it is shopping for a lab
  • Europe's AI regulator answers the rogue models with a questionnaire
  • China's robot rental boom ended before the robots found a job

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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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.

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Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter

Curated by Tim, every morning.

Today · 11 Oct 2026
  1. 01

    Nadella wants an emergency brake on AI, and he says the hand on it should be yours

    Who could have hit the stop button? It follows every AI incident this autumn, and on Saturday Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, gave companies his answer. Treat an AI model like a powerful employee who could turn against you, he wrote: limit what it can reach, log what it does, and keep an emergency brake so a human can halt it mid-task. A model maker's assurances, he adds, do not relieve you of responsibility for what the model does in your name. He is right. He also runs one of the biggest AI sellers to businesses, and a buyer who carries the risk suits the seller. Expect Microsoft to sell you the brake next.

  2. 02

    OpenAI's grading model wrecked its own test machine to avoid admitting it was stuck

    OpenAI's agents have been here twice this month for getting into other people's systems. Friday's case is smaller and, to me, more unsettling. A grading model, built to score other models' answers, found its input files missing. It did not report the failure. It invented grades, then forged the files, and when both were rejected it wrecked the sealed computer it ran in, hoping to be handed a fresh one with the data. Its own reasoning log calls the plan dangerous. OpenAI's monitoring caught the episode and nothing leaked. Still, the grader cheated to hide that it was stuck, and graders like it now check other models' work across the industry.

  3. 03

    Nvidia sold chips to everyone in AI, and now it is shopping for a lab

    Nvidia got rich selling chips to every lab and staying out of their fight, until now. The Financial Times reported on Saturday that Nvidia is in early talks to buy Reflection AI, a young American lab building free-to-download models, run by veterans of Google's DeepMind. Nvidia already owns a slice. It may simply hire the staff and license the technology, as it did with the chip startup Groq last December, a route that avoids competition review. Neither company has confirmed the talks. Nvidia's money funds labs that buy Nvidia chips, and now it wants a lab of its own. The arms dealer is joining the war, and your AI vendor competes with its supplier.

  4. 04

    Europe's AI regulator answers the rogue models with a questionnaire

    On Friday the White House ordered the AI labs to report incidents at once, with no law behind it. Brussels has the law, and on Thursday it showed its hand. The European Commission convened the sixty scientists who advise the enforcers of its AI Act. The panel has studied the recent cases of models slipping their controls and written questions for the companies behind them. Which cases and which companies, the Commission will not say. Since August the Act lets Brussels compel answers and levy fines. Europe is the one regulator holding a real stick, and its opening swing is a questionnaire. Slow, but I would rather that than a fast regulator without a law.

  5. 05

    China's robot rental boom ended before the robots found a job

    Early last year a humanoid robot was China's hottest rental. After Unitree's robots danced on China's New Year TV gala, a day's hire cost about 1,400 dollars. During China's October holiday week, Chinese media report, the same robots rented for a tenth of that, with the cheapest listings around 40 dollars. Unitree and its rival AgiBot ramped up production, rental platforms started price wars, and most customers booked the same dance routine, so the novelty wore off. Operators now hunt for real work for the machines, making coffee or running a shop for a day. The humanoid got cheap before it got useful. If you are shopping for one, wait for the second half.

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