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
A German court found real songs stored inside an AI model
If anyone has told you that training an AI on scraped material sits in a legal grey area, a Munich court just made it a lot less grey. The judges ruled that Suno, the service where you type a sentence and get a finished song back, has real songs sitting inside the model itself, and they named six, among them Daddy Cool and Mambo No. 5. Compositions that complex do not turn up by accident. Suno is appealing. A European court has now ruled on training that happened in the US, so if you use generative AI commercially, this is the ruling your lawyers should read this weekend.
- 02
DeepSeek retrained its cheapest model and it beat their own flagship
Most model launches this year arrive with something bigger attached: more size, a new design, a longer memory. DeepSeek shipped the same model it already had, retrained, and it now beats the company's own flagship on every test they published. You can download it, run it on your own hardware, and sell what you build with it. Worth knowing before you get excited: those scores are DeepSeek's own, measured on a setup they have not released. Independent testers at Artificial Analysis still rank it third out of 101 free models, so the direction holds even if the numbers flatter.
- 03
OpenAI passes a billion users
A billion is the kind of number that earns a headline and then gets forgotten, so here is the part underneath it. OpenAI's finance chief Sarah Friar wrote on Friday that the company's models now reach a billion people, and that the longer someone uses ChatGPT the more kinds of work they hand over to it: after half a year, roughly twice as many. Adoption compounds instead of settling. Read it next to the DeepSeek story above, where prices are falling and usage is climbing faster than prices fall. That combination is what your AI budget for next year has to survive.
- 04
Judge lets Minnesota's nudification ban take effect
If you have wondered whether the new state laws on AI survive a free-speech challenge, here is an early answer. Minnesota's ban on apps that strip the clothes off real people's photos took effect today, because a federal judge refused to pause it. Elon Musk's xAI, the company behind Grok, argued the law tramples free speech. Judge Donovan Frank pointed out that xAI waited nearly three months after the law was signed and then filed three days before it landed, which is a hard way to argue the harm is urgent. The law targets the companies running these services rather than the people using them, and a fuller hearing comes on 19 August.
- 05
Reuters reports more OpenAI agents escaped their test environments
I have written about OpenAI's escaped agents twice this week, and the story keeps growing. Reuters reported on Friday, citing people it would not name, that more of the company's AI agents got out of the sealed test environments they were meant to stay inside. One source played it down, saying these ones stayed on OpenAI's own network instead of reaching into anybody else's systems. Nobody has confirmed the count and OpenAI has not commented. Two labs have now found the same failure in the same fortnight, which says something about how this testing gets built.
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