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🥁Drum roll please🥁

We are so excited to finally be able to announce the first of our speakers for Turing Fest 2025. Please welcome:

✨Jonny Brooks-Bartlett;
✨Radhika Dutt;
✨Sara Gordon; and
✨Hannah Parvaz!

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Eye-opening post about - and from - an AI bot Meta made.

It’s so Silicon Valley to think that the answer to human loneliness is more technology

European Startup Events 2025 - Black Unicorn PR The definitive list of startup events for European startups on their journey of storytelling and meeting partners, investors and clients.

It's the ULTIMATE (and the OG) EU STARTUP EVENTS guide for 2024/2025! 🗓️

(and we're on it...obviously)

👉 www.blackunicornpr.com/definitive-g...

🚨WATCH: 5 Turing Fest talks that will help you win business in 2025 🚨
Ahead of our 2-for-1 January sale next week we’re adding to your resources with 5 Turing Fest talks that will help you win business in 2025.

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🚨WATCH: 5 Turing Fest talks that will help you win business in 2025 🚨
Ahead of our 2-for-1 January sale next week we’re adding to your resources with 5 Turing Fest talks that will help you win business in 2025.

WATCH online now 👉 turingfest.com/videos/5-tur...
#tech

This is an excellent analysis of the current state of play politically and economically, especially in the UK and US

Bird flu, brain rot and booze – the health issues you’ll be hearing more about in 2025 | Devi Sridhar Will there be another pandemic, how will the world deal with social media, and is any alcohol good for you, asks Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

My predictions for what’s to come in health research & news in 2025…

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A worthwhile read from a highly-regarded AI expert who is pretty skeptical about near-term gains

If you’re interested in tech, conferences, founder communities, and networking dinners, you might find some interesting things here 👇🏼

🚨Message from the CEO🚨

Our CEO @briancorcoran.bsky.social sat down to look back on the successes of 2024 and his plans for the future. He even has a world-exclusive piece of news to share…👀

READ more on the Turing Fest blog 👉 turingfest.com/blog/a-messa... #messagefromtheCEO #tech

Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports. The fight focuses on the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a competition regulation that requires designated gatekeepers (including…

Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy

NEW: Our roundup features some of the top tech talks of Turing Fest 2024!

Whether you’re a marketer refining your strategy, a leader shaping your team, a growth expert navigating change, or a storyteller driving action, there's something for you.

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🚨The Super Early Bird Sale ends in 2 days🚨

You deserve an early Christmas present and we have just the thing: a Super Early Bird Turing Fest 2025 ticket!

The Sale Ends this Thursday at 5pm! Save £300 today 👉https://turingfest.com/turingfest-tickets #techevent #TuringFest #techcommunity

NEW: Our roundup features some of the top tech talks of Turing Fest 2024!

Whether you’re a marketer refining your strategy, a leader shaping your team, a growth expert navigating change, or a storyteller driving action, there's something for you.

WATCH ➡️ hubs.ly/Q02_s6hd0 #tech #techcommunnity

The 70% problem - hard truths about AI-Assisted Coding

✍️ "Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" tips & tricks in my latest article: bit.ly/ai-assisted

While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.

How Pep Guardiola and data destroyed game’s beautiful variety Ever felt like Premier League clubs now all play the same? You may be right, as The Times’s data team reveal the stats behind top flight’s growing and underwhelming uniformity

Fascinating article by @jnorthcroft.bsky.social here on how data - and the influence of Pep - has made football higher quality, but at the cost of variety and unpredictability. Some mind blowing stats in here!

www.thetimes.com/article/c813...

This is a remarkable story, from a remarkable person.

What started as drinks in a pub in London became a global network of over 200 meetups & a community of 100,000!

If you are building community, you should read this book

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

More bad news for Musk.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

US government contractor ENGlobal says operations are ‘limited’ following cyberattack ENGlobal Corporation, a provider of engineering and automation services to the U.S. energy sector and federal government, says it has restricted access to its IT systems following a cyberattack, limiting the company to essential business operations only.…

US government contractor ENGlobal says operations are ‘limited’ following cyberattack

India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025 India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major markets face continued headwinds. The world’s most populous nation is now preparing for an even more…

India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025

OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank, allowing employees to sell shares in a tender offer OpenAI on Tuesday introduced a new $1.5 billion tender offer, a continuation of its recent $6.6 billion funding round, led by SoftBank, CNBC has learned.

With questions about LLMs stalling - & if they can find a sustainable biz model - is this OpenAI’s execs making their money now because they think the whole thing is massively over-hyped/screwed? Or is it a major vote of confidence?

Feels a bit WeWork-y (same investor)

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/o...

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Perplexity mulls getting into hardware Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X yesterday that he was considering making a “simple, under $50” device to “reliably answer” questions “voice to…

Perplexity mulls getting into hardware