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
Stripe buys OpenRouter, the switchboard for AI models
There is a quiet layer sitting between companies and the AI models they run on, and Stripe just paid a fortune for it. OpenRouter is a switchboard: build against it once, then swap between hundreds of models without rebuilding anything, which is how most of us cope with the fact that the right model depends on the job and the price. Bloomberg reports that the payments company has agreed to pay more than $7 billion, roughly five times what OpenRouter was worth in May. Neither side will confirm it. Stripe has bet that whoever routes the traffic between models is where the value ends up.
- 02
An AI manager fired its first human
If you have wondered what it feels like to report to a model, there is now a data point. Andon Labs, a research outfit testing whether AI can run a business, gave a San Francisco corner shop and a $100,000 budget to Luna, a version of Anthropic's Claude. Luna recommended parting ways with a worker who had been late for 17 of 23 shifts. TIME got the logs, and they matter: Luna wrote the attendance rules itself, lost track of them, and moved only once a human asked it to look them up and hinted the worker was wrong. Ask who asked the question, next time someone shows you an AI that decided something.
- 03
Anthropic's CEO says the AI backlash is a crisis of trust
The investor Gavin Baker spent the weekend arguing that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warnings about AI have fed the public anger now aimed at data centres, and that he ought to be cheering for his own industry instead. Amodei's reply is the one I would keep. Ordinary people do not trust companies, governments or the tech industry, he said. The fairest criticism of AI firms, his own included, is that they have not delivered on their big promises yet. Hearing that from the man selling the promises is worth more than another safety white paper.
- 04
Seven in ten young Americans do not trust the people building AI
Amodei's trust argument has numbers behind it, and they are worse than the industry seems to have noticed. A new poll by CNBC and the research firm Generation Lab asked young Americans about the people running AI. Around seven in ten say they do not trust Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang or Elon Musk. Alex Karp of Palantir, the data analysis company that works for governments, scored lowest of the lot. Close to half expect AI to damage their own careers. If you are rolling AI out at work, that is the room you are rolling it out into.
- 05
India ran its national address through its own AI, live
Sovereign AI usually arrives as a press release about where the servers sit. On Saturday India tried a version you could actually watch: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech went out live in 22 languages through Bhashini, a translation system the Indian government built itself and gives away free. In the same speech he promised AI training for ten million young Indians this year. Read it next to the four stories above. Everywhere else this week the machinery got installed a layer above the people it lands on. India put its version on national television and let the country judge it.
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