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The lock that opened the door
Last week we wrote about the day America switched off its most powerful AI to keep it out of the wrong hands. Here is what happened next, and it is stranger than the switch-off itself. Within 24 hours, China gave away models almost as good, for free, that nobody can ever turn off. The lock meant to protect America's lead may have handed the advantage to its biggest rival. A simple look at the strangest own goal in technology this year, and the one lesson worth keeping.
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The day the tool got switched off
One letter from the US government, and it was gone - for British companies, European hospitals, and even the American firm's own foreign staff. Here is what really happened.
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How to start a company with AI
The cost of starting a serious software business has dropped 95 percent. Here are the three case studies worth studying, the five business shapes you can build this weekend with Claude AI.
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Five things the working world is talking about
I have read about three hundred of these posts so I do not have to make you read three hundred. Below is the shortlist.
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The salon that ate the spreadsheet
the European company every founder should be studying this week, and the three things they got right that nobody else is talking about.
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The generation that has to choose without knowing the menu
The 14-to-18-year-olds in Europe right now are the first generation in history that has to pick a university degree before anyone knows what the destination jobs will look like

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