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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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  • Trump dines with the AI boss he mocked
  • Beijing signals it will let Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia chips
  • Ukraine's drone pioneer promises a robot soldier within six months
  • AI bots are now competing for restaurant tables
  • Scammers wait behind the example links in AI add-ons

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 · 28 Sept 2026
  1. 01

    Trump dines with the AI boss he mocked

    Earlier this month Trump mocked Dario Amodei, who runs Claude's maker Anthropic, as a man pretending to be a "perfect little angel". On Sunday evening he had him to a private dinner at the White House. Amodei has a lot riding on the thaw: on Friday a court upheld the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic working for the military, and a stock market listing is coming. Neither side has said what, if anything, was agreed. My guess is that the price of peace is a quieter Amodei on safety, just when he has become the industry's best-known voice of caution. How he talks about AI rules this week will show what the dinner cost.

  2. 02

    Beijing signals it will let Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia chips

    China's industry ministry has asked Alibaba and ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, how many of Nvidia's newest chips they want. According to the tech news site The Information, it has also signalled it will say yes. A year ago Beijing told both to cancel their Nvidia orders and buy Chinese. The new chip is a slimmed-down model, and it appears weak enough to escape America's export ban. To me this looks like Beijing handing out rations: in January it approved hundreds of thousands of Nvidia's stronger chips, and almost none were delivered. I think China's own chips, like the one Alibaba unveiled last week, remain the plan.

  3. 03

    Ukraine's drone pioneer promises a robot soldier within six months

    The man who built Ukraine's drone army now wants robots on the front line. Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as defence minister in July, launched a private venture called Army of Robots in Lviv on Saturday. His first goal is a humanoid robot that kills a Russian soldier within six months. Every robot in his launch video was AI-generated imagery, and the first real jobs are reloading guns and swapping batteries. I still take him seriously, because his drone plan once sounded just as bold. Anthropic was shut out of US military work after insisting on a human in charge of weapons. On Ukraine's front line, the push goes the other way.

  4. 04

    AI bots are now competing for restaurant tables

    If you have ever failed to book a table at a hot restaurant, your competition is now a bot. Spot, an invite-only New York app, sends AI agents, software that acts on its own, to watch for cancellations and grab tables at the city's hardest-to-book restaurants for around a thousand paying members. Resy, the booking system behind many of those restaurants, bans bots it has not approved, and users of rival agents have been locked out. Some restaurant owners fear the best tables going to whoever runs the best bot. Resy has already decided which bots it lets in, and any business that takes bookings will have to make the same call.

  5. 05

    Scammers wait behind the example links in AI add-ons

    Software manuals are full of dummy web addresses, placeholders such as yoursite dot com, meant to be swapped for a real one. The security firm Manifold found that anyone can buy two of the most common ones. Together they appear in 349 skills, the add-ons that teach AI agents new tasks. Opened on a Mac, one of these links can land on a fake virus warning selling a bogus McAfee renewal. That happened in two of Manifold's 24 test visits. What worries me is how rarely anyone checks where an agent's links lead once it is installed. Vet an agent's add-ons the way you would vet any new software supplier.

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