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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Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews.
“I’ve heard plenty of talks about AI, and never found it more captivating or relevant than yours.”
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“He inspired us all. Not a generic set of examples, but real, recent insight - told with genuine care for the work we do.”
Marc Amin
“Thank you for an extremely exciting talk - on a topic every company will relate to. Exciting to think about where we’ll be in 5 years: we must see opportunities, not limitations.”
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Updated every day
Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
Anthropic asked the industry to slow down, then three reports showed how fast it is moving
Dario Amodei's call for caution was still being argued over when we learned how fast his own company is running. Anthropic, the maker of Claude, expects positive operating income for a second quarter in a row, the Financial Times reports, and according to Bloomberg it has picked Nasdaq for a listing as soon as October. The Information named it as the customer in a $13.7 billion computing deal with Rum Group, which owns Rumble, a video platform popular with Trump's supporters. Rum Group has yet to raise the money for the data centre. OpenAI pushed its own listing to 2027, citing safety. Anthropic can afford to preach caution and list anyway.
- 02
The White House rejects the slowdown, and the AI labs discuss a referee of their own
Yesterday I wrote that Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Amodei's call to slow down. Washington has now answered. "Whoever wins AI wins," Donald Trump told reporters in Ireland on Sunday. David Sacks, who co-chairs the President's science and technology advisers, accused Anthropic of using fear to get rules written in its favour. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been meeting since July about a shared body to test models before release, The Information reports, and Altman told staff the labs will need to build it themselves if government will not back one. The companies building the technology could end up checking their own homework. We would accept that in very few other industries.
- 03
China's Z.ai goes back to investors for billions, and its shares slide
Chinese AI models have won customers by being cheap. Somebody has to pay for that. Z.ai, formerly Zhipu and one of China's leading AI labs, is raising $5 billion in new shares and bonds. It is the company's second big raise in two months, and its stock fell more than 10% in Hong Kong on Monday. Revenue is growing, but first-half sales fell well short of analyst forecasts and the losses continue while a price war squeezes the whole market. Set that next to Anthropic's numbers above. If you choose an AI supplier on price, find out who is covering its costs, and for how long.
- 04
SoftBank borrows billions more for its OpenAI bet
Anthropic pays for its race with its own revenue and Z.ai with new shares. OpenAI's biggest backer is using borrowed money. SoftBank, the Japanese investment group and one of OpenAI's largest owners, has closed an $11.9 billion bank loan to support that investment, Bloomberg reports. That is more than the $10 billion it set out to raise, and it comes on top of an August loan secured against its OpenAI shares. Banks queuing up to lend is a vote of confidence. If OpenAI's valuation ever wobbles, though, you will feel it in places that never bought an AI product.
- 05
Obama tells Democrats to make AI a central campaign issue
AI is heading for the ballot box. Barack Obama told a Democratic fundraiser on Thursday that the party should make AI one of its central issues, with a clear plan for safety and for what AI does to jobs. The technology, he said, is moving very fast in private hands and can be dangerous if nobody gets on top of it. His remarks surfaced over the weekend, just as Trump brushed off calls to slow down. With the US midterms in November, how much room Washington gives the AI companies you buy from now depends partly on how Americans vote.
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