Failed Rap DJ. Former partner at Prehype London.
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Tom Le Bree retweeted
Pleased to announce we've acquired the luma.com/londonhackathons Luma page from @natal1e_c 🤌
A beauty of a URL slug that matches londonhackathons.com, and is very well looked after.
Pleasure doing business with you, Natalie. 🤝
The SAAS-pocalypse is back on.
Hold on to your ETFs fellas.
This is why I've been freaking out - kieran made professional software we actually use internally (I do all my video recording and meetings with this now instead of descript loom and zoom). My favorite feature is is multimodal jev-based scene detection.
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Interesting concept.
I have been thinking of similar things in other industries - a couple of hours of expert time to verify my output.
Shape. Correct. And harden.
Now writing is solved the new bottleneck I'm facing is getting people to tell me which of my ideas are worth publishing. The editors at @every do this but I already have a backlog with them so I'm considering paying people to read my stuff to decide what to submit to editors.
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Tom Le Bree retweeted
I did an interview with Amol Rajan on AI and the UK amongst other things. Has been a while since I did one of these longer form interviews so let me know if you find it useful!
I believe Ian Hogarth - @soundboy - deserves much wider and deeper credit and recognition for voluntarily forfeiting shares in Anthropic so that he could set up and run the AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst) - where he, and Britain, are generally acclaimed to be doing an outstanding job. (Something else he deserves greater credit for).
This noble decision was *very* expensive.
I also believe, and hope, that for our fast-growing audience this may be one of the most useful conversations they hear about Technology this year. We go deep on:
> What is AI?
> The real rate at which it is developing
> The race dynamic in global innovation
> Humanity’s fork in the road
> The significant chance of a huge market crash
> The exhilarating case Quantum Computing
> The exhilarating case for Fusion
> The exhilarating potential for Robotics
> Why outstanding British companies sometimes struggle to scale
> How Britain, and Europe, can lead
> The Future of jobs
> How Founders succeed
> His noble decision to do a public service role
> His fantasy for Battersea Power station
Ian is co-Founder and Partner at Plural, and co-Founder and Chair of the UK's AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst).
This was a great, immensely useful conversation and I'd be honoured if you lent an ear to The Amol Rajan Connection.
Out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.
Thanks for your time and attention to this matter.
Tom Le Bree retweeted
Our podcast show is one year old!
2M+ downloads so far and counting!
Most quit after the first few episodes but we are still here and going strong!!
A huge thank you to all our previous guests, partners and friends of the channel for all your support so far!
We have one mission: Help you learn from the most brilliant minds shaping AI!
Back to the microphone in 10 minutes!
The smartest moron in the US of A.
Shaun is extremely intelligent.
If he says something like this you can be assured he has an agenda.
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Tom Le Bree retweeted
*BREAKING: Sequoia shuts London office in shock European retreat*
Only one partner is confirmed as remaining for Sequoia in Europe so far.
Read more: pathfounders.com/p/breaking-…
Tom Le Bree retweeted
After more than a decade backing founders, I decided to make a bet of my own.
Today, Evertrue Capital is officially out of stealth with an oversubscribed $17M debut fund.
Backing founders before consensus forms.
More in @TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2026/11/03/yv…
Tom Le Bree retweeted
What is AGI?
Are we there yet?
If not, how far are we?
Is it even possible to create?
...and what does it mean if we get there?
These are some of the most important questions of our time.
So @_JessicaSirius and I started a new event series where we ask these questions, in person.
It's called AGI IRL.
We've assembled a crack team for our first one, on Thurs 26th Nov in east London.
The panel includes:
- a Deepmind research scientist (Andreas Kirsch)
- a philosophy professor who set up one of the world's first master's degrees in Philosophy and AI (Prof Brian Ball, Northeastern University London)
- a leader at the UK Gov's Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (Jordy Juritz)
Tell us your question when you sign up, and we'll use it to shape the panel.
RSVP: luma.com/ramen-5gl5 (at Ramen Space, east London)
Limited capacity. Unlimited conversations.
See you there.
Tom Le Bree retweeted
it is an insult to people's intelligence to produce AI slop copy for a marketing website and expect people to read it.
I don't think it's ever been easier for great copywriting to shine, because so much is so terrible now.
The first pair of trainers I owned.
I had to prove to my mum I could tie my laces to get them.
I then spent the following weeks convincing my class Dunlop was the 2nd best brand of trainers after Nike.
Using the art of persuasion and foot races. No bad for a fat lad. 😂
There is a Fred Perry clothing brand. But the shoes in which he won Wimbledon are no longer made. Dunlop Green Flash was the OG sports shoe for anyone born in the UK from 1960-1980.
Instead British people pay a fortune for shoes worn by elderly Americans who once played sports we don't understand.
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Love this.
Hit 250 visitors 1 week in. Our goal with LondonHackathons.com:
- Create the best single place to find and list upcoming London Hackathons
- Surface useful data to help you decide what to RSVP to faster
- Help organisers find the right venues, partners, attendees and more
- General #Londonmaxxing behaviour
I love this. A genuinely big idea. One that is platform-sized, future-facing, with a data moat.
Someone is going to be the Hugging Face of robotics. Probably the OpenRouter too. It won’t be a robot company. And almost nobody is building it yet.
Yesterday I stood in a London robot gym. Three arms, three makers: FANUC, ABB, Universal Robots.Three controllers. Three SDKs. Three ways of saying “pick up that gear.” That’s robotics in 2026: brilliant hardware, no shared language.
LLMs got their platform layer in about two years. Open weights on one hub. One API to route across every model. Switch providers in a line of code. Robotics has none of that. Most robot skills are still welded to the arm they were trained on.
Meanwhile, the money is flooding in: nearly $48bn into robotics this year, per PitchBook. Much of it goes to data: gyms, rigs, operators. Billions spent on data that can’t leave the building. That isn’t a market yet it's a stockpile. ft.com/content/e5fd2655-f95f…
The inflection point isn’t a better humanoid. It’s portability. When a skill learned on a FANUC runs on an ABB tomorrow, and on a robot that doesn’t exist yet the day after, the economics of the whole industry flip.
OEMs will read this as a threat. It’s their biggest upside. Today an arm does what it was programmed to do. Tomorrow it runs any skill from anyone. Same steel, 100x the jobs.The OEM that opens up first sells more arms than the rest combined.
What the hub needs:
→ a common format for robot data and skills
→ routing: the right model for this arm, this task, this cost
→ provenance: where every clip came from
→ payment: the person paid 94 cents to record a task gets paid again every time it’s reused
That last one is the edge. Hugging Face never had to pay for weights. A robotics hub will, because the data costs real hours from real people. Whoever solves micropayments for contributors wins the supply side. That’s the machine economy. It is being built right now. Here in Europe. You doing your part? My DMs are open.
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