Tech: where immigrants are industry leaders, workers are multi-millionaires, companies respond to employee concerns on social issues, and everyone competes to be the greenest.

It's the most progressive industry in the world.

The real heroes

This is why it is so important to have a good sense of what this election was "really" about. Voters were clear that the top issues were cost of living and Trump's corruption.

If Democrats don't come out of the gate addressing those two issues, we will have missed the mark.

A note to Democrats, based on mistakes we’ve seen here in the U.K.: assume these votes have been lent to you, not given. Now govern in such a way that you earn them. Then, perhaps, they will stay with you.

Whether this is a temporary wave or a permanent change? On you.

I need everyone to pause and acknowledge Zelensky in all of this.

Ukraine has been chipping away at bot farms...and they timed it perfectly so Trump and Elon and co wouldn't have time to "fix" the damage done to their false social media support

The drop-off in bots was immediate and exposed things exactly when it was most important

A hero in every sense, that guy.

Is that an admission?

Let's see more of this 🌊

Neobrandeisians get everything wrong.

We can do two things at once.

We've seen this play over and over again

The article by @theophane_h btw is good, I just don't like the framing of the headline rapporteur.com/news/exclusive…

But Europe’s Anti–Big Tech Reflex Is Hurting Its Simplification Agenda.

We won't be competitive and sovereign if we can't get over this default catering to the most anti-tech and anti-progress voices in the debate progresschamber.org/insights/europ…

Hey @CMAgovUK , they've got to refund me the nonsense ticketing fees as well, right?

🌇🇺🇸🗽It's incredible waking up this morning to scenes of celebration across the US. People honking their horns in the streets of Texas, fireworks going off in Kansas as voters elect their first Democratic senator in 94 years, jubilant crowds in Charleston as South Carolina flips a Senate seat for the first time since 1998, and cheers erupting in Atlanta as Georgia elects the first Black woman governor in American history. And then there are the frantic, celebratory group chats, as friends, family, and colleagues share in real time the extraordinary feeling of witnessing the dawn of a new era.

The last time Trump lost an election didn't quite feel this way. We were still in the midst of a global pandemic with an unknown future, and had elected a Democratic President when there weren't any other good options. It felt like a shaky return to stability, Biden's leadership had a lot of issues, and the way he handled his reelection was fairly criticised. It led to a dramatic defeat in 2024 leaving many Democrats confused as to how America could elect Trump again, and questioning democracy itself.

Last night should help restore some of the faith we had lost. And this time we have a new crop of leaders on the left in the US who have a generational chance to deliver for the American people, constrain the executive, prosecute crimes and corruption, uphold international law, and help restore alliances.

I'm proud to be working at Chamber of Progress where we are trying our best to help Democrats do the right things, to keep winning elections, and to make our lives better. 🌌

Big AG Opinion today in Google v Like today on copyright applicability to training from the web, and particularly publisher content. If the Court follows, there's still a chance for Europe to win the race for frontier models.

Two important points 👇

But this does give hope to AI companies in Europe that want to build models and train here, there are signs from the AG that the broad and wide claims from publishers can be limited. If they are, Europe will still have a chance to win the race for frontier models. Let's hope.

Btw ...

Glad to read that the Advocate General's much-anticipated advisory opinion in Like v Google, a case that @KayJebelli and wrote in June could kill EU AI development with © law, is quite positive. (See progresschamber.org/insights/like-…).
His post today sums it up nicely:👇👀

Great pleasure presenting our new research on European attitudes to the DMA, interoperability & AI assistants in Brussels at today’s @PubAffairsEU lunch.

Consumers value choice & new features — but not at the expense of privacy & security, which they value far more than often asserted.

Tfor the lively discussion, and @ProgressChamber & @KayJebelli for commissioning the research.

For those of you wondering what happened at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal this weekend, Laurent Pech, Maciej Kisilowski and I explain the legal basis for the suspension of the president and vice present. And no, it's not a coup. verfassungsblog.de/whose-coup-pol…