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 blacklisted Chinese server giant changed its sign and kept buying Nvidia
Export controls sound like a wall until you watch someone walk around one. Washington put Chinese server maker Inspur on its export blacklist in 2023 over its work for China's military, and two months later its American arm quietly renamed itself Aivres. The subsidiary itself was never listed, so it kept trading. The New York Times found Aivres has moved over $3bn of computers carrying Nvidia's newest chips through middlemen in Southeast Asia and on into data centres serving Alibaba and TikTok owner ByteDance. The whole thing ran on a name change and a Silicon Valley address, which tells you what your own supplier screening is worth when it screens names.
- 02
OpenAI's chief scientist says the industry should slow down
OpenAI's chief scientist has looked at the race his company is winning and asked everyone to ease off. In an essay published Sunday, Jakub Pachocki writes that nobody building these systems has worked out how to keep them on track well enough to keep scaling at full speed much longer, and says he hopes companies start slowing down voluntarily until there are safety standards an outside body can enforce. The detail that stayed with me is the timing. OpenAI put this out on the same day it published figures showing its own research getting faster, so the warning and the evidence against it landed together.
- 03
UBS makes proving you can use AI a condition of getting hired
If you have wondered when AI skills stop being a nice line on a CV, a Swiss bank has answered it. From 2027, graduates and interns joining UBS's biggest division have to show they can actually use AI before they are hired. The Financial Times reports that this makes UBS the first major bank to treat AI literacy as an entry requirement, and inside the building AI capability now feeds performance reviews and pay. Hold that against what several finance firms are quietly saying, that AI-native graduates are quick with the tools and thin on the analysis. The bar worth setting is using AI and still catching it when it is wrong.
- 04
Anthropic has committed half a trillion dollars to computing power
Half a trillion dollars is an unusual thing to promise before you have even gone public. Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has spent eleven months signing deals for computing power, and the tech news site The Information has now added them up at roughly $517bn stretching over the next decade. None of it sits on the balance sheet, because these are reservations of future capacity rather than purchases, and the stock market listing that will force it into public view is still ahead. That is the thread running through today: what is written down keeps lagging behind what is already happening.
- 05
OpenAI says its automated research intern is now real
An automated research intern was the target OpenAI set itself last autumn, and this weekend it said it has got there: a system that takes on well-defined research jobs that would otherwise cost a person days. By mid-August its research organisation was logging just over three agent-workdays for every human workday. Before you read that as the machines running the lab, OpenAI's own figures show more than half of the successful long jobs still needed a human to step in at least once. That is the honest picture of what these systems do today, and it is the number the essay above is arguing with.
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