Unclear to me why this is meant to be funny. It's a legitimate question. How much have my opinions been swayed by Russian intelligence? I have no idea.
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Congratulations @itsalfredw and @ListenLabs!
Listen Labs is joining @salesforce!
A year and a half ago we launched Listen, an AI platform for understanding customers, and it’s been a crazy ride ever since.
Today, we work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Microsoft, Anthropic, and Sweetgreen.
What iewer is now a full platform for understanding customers. Listen finds the right people, interviews them, analyzes what they say, and even simulates how they'll behave.
Listen’s growth quickly accelerated and while we were raising our next round, we met @Benioff.
Marc is a hero of mine. I've taken countless ideas from Behind the Cloud and watched him framemog every AI CEO on the planet. We're honored to get framemogged next.
With Salesforce, we can bring Listen to every company in the world, much faster.
To our customers, our mission remains the same.I stay CEO, @Florian stays CTO and the same team will keep building the product you rely on, now inside Salesforce AI Labs. Thank you for believing in us early.
To our team, families, and everyone who believed in us before there was much to believe in, thank you.
These years have been the most fun years of my life, and it’s still only just the beginning for Listen.
Now back to work. 🚀
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A great list of (mostly) unpopular things. All necessary.
Every year @BritishProgress asks Britain's top economists and policy researchers what the UK should do to increase growth.
🚨 As covered exclusively for @thetimes this morning, the 2026 growth survey results are now in! 🚨
This was our biggest survey yet with over 100 ews: Britain's public finances, with inflation hit by external shocks, are in a bad state.
📈 The good news: the UK is not without options. There is much that can be done on the supply side reforms, & smarter fiscal policy can raise revenue while supporting growth.
Here are the 12 most interesting results 👇
*1. Where should the government prioritise spending political capital?*
We asked "In what areas should the Government invest more (or less) political capital to achieve growth?"
NB this was explicitly not a question about spending – that's the next one.
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Mike Hudack retweeted
@UKArmamentsr@SercoGrouplear missile detection radar at RAF Fylingdales.
Genuine question: at what point did we decide that tracking incoming nuclear warheads was a job for an outsourcing company?
This is a facility within the US Missile Defence network. It detects ballistic missile launches. It provides early warning of nuclear attack. It operates 24/7/365. It is one of the most sensitive military installations on British soil.
And it's run by the company that couldn't staff the Olympics and charged the taxpayer for tagging dead people.
What happens when the contract expires in five years? Serco renegotiates. From a position of strength. Because by then THEY have the institutional knowledge.
THEY have the trained staff. THEY understand the system. The MoD has nobody who can replace them because the capability was outsourced five years ago.
That's the outsourcing trap. Year one: competitive tender. Year five: sole supplier. Year ten: permanent dependency.
The contractor becomes irreplaceable because the client gave away the capability to replace them.
Missile defence should be:
Operated by RAF personnel. Trained in-house. Knowledge retained in the military. No contractor dependency. No five-year renegotiation cycle. No profit margin on nuclear early warning.
If the radar fails at 3am who's accountable? An RAF commanding officer in the chain of command?
Or a Serco shift manager reporting to a regional director reporting to a board in London reporting to shareholders?
When the thing that detects nuclear missiles is run by a company whose primary obligation is shareholder returns, the priorities are no longer aligned with national security. They're aligned with the contract.
builduk.club defence charter. Sovereign capability. In-house operation. No outsourcing of existential infrastructure.
Genuine question: at what point did we decide that tracking incoming nuclear warheads was a job for an outsourcing company?
This is a facility within the US Missile Defence network. It detects ballistic missile launches. It provides early warning of nuclear attack. It operates 24/7/365. It is one of the most sensitive military installations on British soil.
And it's run by the company that couldn't staff the Olympics and charged the taxpayer for tagging dead people.
What happens when the contract expires in five years? Serco renegotiates. From a position of strength. Because by then THEY have the institutional knowledge.
THEY have the trained staff. THEY understand the system. The MoD has nobody who can replace them because the capability was outsourced five years ago.
That's the outsourcing trap. Year one: competitive tender. Year five: sole supplier. Year ten: permanent dependency.
The contractor becomes irreplaceable because the client gave away the capability to replace them.
Missile defence should be:
Operated by RAF personnel. Trained in-house. Knowledge retained in the military. No contractor dependency. No five-year renegotiation cycle. No profit margin on nuclear early warning.
If the radar fails at 3am who's accountable? An RAF commanding officer in the chain of command?
Or a Serco shift manager reporting to a regional director reporting to a board in London reporting to shareholders?
When the thing that detects nuclear missiles is run by a company whose primary obligation is shareholder returns, the priorities are no longer aligned with national security. They're aligned with the contract.
builduk.club defence charter. Sovereign capability. In-house operation. No outsourcing of existential infrastructure.
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Privatized water, sewage and mail delivery not enough? Privatize air defense! The UK is so bizarre. Deeply socialist AND deeply corporatist, in exactly the wrong places. Air defense radars should be run by soldiers and airmen. Housing should be private. Insane.
Round-the-clock vigilance, 365 days a year.
@SercoGroup will operate and maintain the Solid State Phased Array Radar at RAF Fylingdales under a new five-year contract we've awarded.
Designed to track missiles, acting as a deterrent within the US Missile Defence network. 🚨
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What a gift.
I met the love of my life in the San Francisco Corgi Cafe. Additionally, I’m leaving OpenAI to join Anthropic! Reverse that. I’m leaving Anthropic to join OpenAI! Got rejected by YC. Just got accepted to YC. Taste is the moat. I’m working on RL environments. Actually I’m working on data. No, scratch that, I’m working on personalizable AI for science and enterprise. Taste is the moat. I spent 10 million dollars on Claude tokens last month. I built nothing. There’s nothing to build oh my God what do I build where’s my taste taste isn’t the moat wait taste is the moat taste is the moat taste is the moat taste
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Mike Hudack retweeted
The much-awaited Kickstarter project for an Apple-style split keyboard just decided they wouldn't ship the product to the EU, since the "right to repair" regulation would have made it 22% thicker.
Perfect illustration of 1/ why you don't let bureaucrats (much less European ion 2/ the European woe of overregulating while having a decreasingly relevant market internationally. Companies can just pick option B: "I guess we just won't sell to Europe, then."
Perfect illustration of 1/ why you don't let bureaucrats (much less European ion 2/ the European woe of overregulating while having a decreasingly relevant market internationally. Companies can just pick option B: "I guess we just won't sell to Europe, then."
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Build HS3.
Both HS2 and Hinkley Point C have now hit peak construction phase.
That means the workforce for each project will be declining in the coming years and months.
These are the only two megaprojects being built in Britain at the moment. Thousands of apprentices were trained for each job.
HS2 specifically had a tough time finding the skilled workers able to construct a high speed railway, and trained many itself.
Now that we have passed peak construction, there is no other project for many of these workers to go to. Some will go overseas, others will retrain in other specialisms, still more may end up out of work entirely.
This is the issue with our feast and famine approach to infrastructure. Without a steady conveyer belt of projects we have to train up new workforces from scratch when we decide to build something new.
Other countries have workforces that can move seamlessly from project to project, developing new skills and keeping costs low.
Starting from scratch every time is one of the many reasons why British megaprojects are so much more expensive than everyone else's.
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Your interest rate literally doubles if you earn an extra penny. This is an obviously very, very dumb policy.
Lots commenting on this saying 'a pay rise is a pay rise' even if higher tax bracket
True - exception of dumb £100k cliff with childcare benefit etc.
But they're unaware of this UTTERLY INSANE POLICY whereby we charge HIGHER INTEREST if you earn more
IT'S MENTAL
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You should watch Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. It's an important piece of art. The kind that makes you think about your present and our collective future. Thought provoking and valuable. Turns out not everything is fake right now. Some things are worth watching. GL, HF, DD.
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Mike Hudack retweeted
This isn’t how people work in the real world.
I do not have a single client that would think earning another £10,000 to keep only £2,600 of it would be worth their time.
I do not have a single client that would think earning another £10,000 to keep only £2,600 of it would be worth their time.
@GingaGill I am not defending the student loan system.
I am saying you're still always better off earning more.
In my case, of every extra £ I earn I pay 40p tax, 2p Nation Insurance, 13p pension, 2p levy to Labour, 9p student loan, 8p tithe - but that still leaves me 26p better off!Community noteMarginal interest rates on UK incomes exceed 100% in many cases, for example, for earners crossing £100k income and having childcare subsidy for 2 small children. This means it is not always better to earn more. taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/ass…
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I applaud @SamJRushworth for engaging with folks on twitter. I hope that people are able to convince him that the more the government takes of an incremental pound the less willing someone is to work to generate it. At some point, they just... don't bother.
This is really silly- it's 9% not 100% of your pay rise. Always worth earning more.
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Stock transfer taxes are just as stupid as real estate transfer taxes. Tailor made to stop economic growth.
The CEO of a London-listed bank who earlier served as the Treasury’s director of investment in 2024 has denounced stamp duty on shares as a significant barrier to growth.
“The biggest handbrake on this business is people having to pay tax when they’re buying a share,” said Ian cure Trust Bank
But spineless politicians have consistently refused to scrap this absurd tax which is destroying British capital markets.
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