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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Updated every day
Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
Hugging Face wants $100 million from OpenAI
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue flew to San Francisco this weekend with two demands for OpenAI: publish the full logs from the agents that broke out of their sandbox and hacked his company, and put $100 million of compute behind building a defence. He has an obvious interest in getting that compute, and OpenAI's own sloppy isolation of the test environment is a big part of why any of this happened. But he is asking the question nobody has answered: when an agent acts on its own and hits a third party, who pays? Right now the answer is whoever got hit, and if you are running agents that should bother you.
- 02
Chinese models now run 58% of American AI
Fortune ran the numbers on who actually powers American AI, and Chinese models now carry 58% of the tokens US firms push through OpenRouter. Eighteen months ago it was under 10%. DeepSeek alone outranks every American lab at 17.6%, and Airbnb and DoorDash have already switched. Look at the price and you see why: Kimi K3 charges $15 per million output tokens, Anthropic's Fable 5 charges $50, DeepSeek V4-Pro charges $0.87. Moonshot drops all 1.4 terabytes of K3 today, the largest open model anyone has released. OpenRouter is a developer playground rather than the whole market, but that price gap will reach your AI budget too.
- 03
3 gigawatts of data centres left the grid in 30 seconds
One downed power line outside Washington last week pulled the data centres of Northern Virginia off the grid, and 3.1 gigawatts of demand vanished in 30 seconds. Nobody told them to do it: each site decided for itself in a split second when the voltage dipped. The swings showed up as far away as Chicago, and it took over 11 minutes to get the load back. A comparable event in 2024 measured 1.5 gigawatts, so we doubled it in two years. Data centres make up 6% of that grid today and the forecast says 24% by 2040. Nobody lost power and the sites did exactly what they were built to do. The problem is that we hung gigawatt-scale, nervous customers on a grid designed for factories that stay put.
- 04
Brussels gets real teeth on AI in six days
On 2 August the European Commission stops asking nicely. That is the day its enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers switch on: it can demand documentation, evaluate models itself, order corrective measures, pull a model off the EU market, and fine up to 15 million euros or 3% of global turnover. The duties themselves have applied since August 2025, so nobody is being asked to do anything new. What changes is that somebody can finally make you do it. If you buy AI rather than build it, ask your vendor this week which side of that line they land on.
- 05
Microsoft switched frontier models on by default
Here is one a lot of leaders missed. Since 24 July, Microsoft turns OpenAI-operated models on for every user in eligible commercial Microsoft 365 tenants, unless an admin actively went in and chose No users. GPT-5.6 became the preferred Copilot model on 9 July and Claude Sonnet 5 arrived on 2 July, so your colleagues may have picked up two frontier models on Friday without anyone in the business deciding it. Worth finding out this week who owns that setting where you work, because right now it is probably nobody.
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I går skrev jeg historien om at jeg selv har bygget mit nye website, hvor man bl.a. kan signe op til at modtage de 5 AI nyhedshistorier som jeg synes er de vigtigste, hver dag i inboksen.
Jeg har lige bygget mit nye website fra bunden med AI - det tog et par dage. Jeg har brugt de sidste 30 år i den digitale branche - bl.a. på at bygge websites og platforme for andre.
Hvad er egentlig den bedste AI-model lige nu? I går aftes lancerede Anthropic deres nyeste model: Claude 4.8, som lige nu ser ud til at have overhalet ChatGPT 5.5.