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Ian Browne retweeted
Product of some recent weekend tinkering: I built an entire stripped back, opinionated, cross-platform text editor for people who still want to produce aesthetically pleasing docs.
Basically simple Markdown UX with embedded styles and images.
Link in comments!
Anyone in N.Ireland building something fun? We need you founderlabs.network/
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1/ Today we’re launching an open letter calling on the government to end unfair restrictions that stop Britain’s best switching jobs or starting companies.
UK AI companies that have raised $5bn agree: our best should be free to start and scale. 🧵
@downingstreet @biztradegovuk
Ian Browne retweeted
1/ Today we’re launching an open letter calling on the government to end unfair restrictions that stop Britain’s best switching jobs or starting companies.
UK AI companies that have raised $5bn agree: our best should be free to start and scale. 🧵
@downingstreet @biztradegovuk
Ian Browne retweeted
Two Michaels. One startup.
Meet the team building Physical AI data collection for robotic companies at CastleDAO. 🏰
@superteamIE
NI published its draft AI strategy. Good. Taking it seriously matters.
The consultation runs 8 weeks.
The last 8 weeks in the market: OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6. Anthropic shipped an entire model generation. Google shipped three Gemini models. Moonshot 2.8 trillion parameters
And let NI's own AI companies do the work. Paid, scoped pilots with a real public-sector customer. A government that wants an AI economy should be its first customer.
Their own survey: 10% of citizens trust government with AI. Charters will not fix that. Receipts will.
Ian Browne retweeted
Kings ruled here.
Rockstars played here.
Now @Solana builders will launch here.
@SuperteamIE’s Builder Residency awaits.
It’s your turn to leave your mark on the internet.
Register now.
Ian Browne retweeted
This is our last operating day in Blanchardstown. If you live in the area please do put an order in and show them your support. Deliveries are free today. Thank you all so much for your support throughout the years.
Ian Browne retweeted
Breaking: Manna to cease drone delivery flights in Ireland, blaming planners and regulatory haze.
Will focus abroad (incl US, UK, Europe) instead, it says.
Jobs likely lost but R&D centre will stay in Dublin
independent.ie/business/mann…
London Tech Week starts on Monday. There are a lot of folk travelling from Ireland (North and South), including the awesome Founder Labs cohort. So we decided to organise a casual meetup. We are taking the Jack Charlton approach to selection.
Ian Browne retweeted
One year ago @StephenFarryUU and I argued that NI needs a cross-cutting AI strategy so that AI be harnessed to drive productivity and proactively up/re-skill our workforce. We can’t afford to be passive on this. @UlsterUniSPU
@UlsterUni
ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/p…
Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt.
Read more here: ft.trib.al/v65DI4O
Anecdotally this reads true in current workplace comms. In the middle of the bell curve it’s hard to tell the difference not just because AI is sounding human, but both are beginning to sound like each other.
Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1
Ian Browne retweeted
💫 Who can build the best AI Agents in 2 hours - founders or VCs?
Join the SVV team at @ormeau_labs on 4 March for Founders vs VCs: a fast, slightly chaotic build sprint.
Teams of two. 120 minutes. Ship something real.
🎟️ luma.com/varqnd4d
