Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher)

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Strong comms.

Lovable already counts customers like Klarna, Hubspot and Photoroom, but has so far been unsuccessful in attracting large enterprises. Though, given its rate of growth, whether it will need to remains an open question. techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/eig…

[Breaking] Hot AI startup Lovable claims to have just crossed $100M ARR in 8 months, faster than many other startups of its size, such as OpenAI, Cursor and Wiz. It’s also releasing an update which is claims will reduce error rates by 91%, in the shape of a new improved Lovable…

At the recent Raise AI Summit in Paris, I managed to catch some time with speakers there to discuss some of the latest advancements in AI, both in the booming world of agents, and the hard-core compute required. May Habib of Writer AI told me about their new Palmyra x5 model,…

‘There was a clear attempt in the 1980s by the KGB to cultivate Donald Trump’. How far back does Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia go and how much does that relationship influence his world view and policy today?

The UK’s @Channel4 @C4Dispatches has finally done a proper documentary on Trump. channel4.com/programmes/tru…

Britain: a green and pleasant country. Reform: not-green, unpleasant, cunty.

🚨 Russia goes full Nazi as it prepares the population for the invasion of the Baltic states: New billboards in Moscow bluntly describe the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as subhumans and Untermenschen (German - racially inferior). ARM UKRAINE TO DEFEAT RUSSIA!

I am dying from laughter! We successfully memed our way into getting Russian State TV to talk about Melania Trump as an agent of Ukraine!

The secret scheme to resettle Afghans exposed by the MOD leak was worked on under Shapps in Autumn 2023 and up and running in early 2024. He was SoS the whole time and - 48 hrs since the devastating revelations- has still not spoken!!! #WheresGrant ? 🤷🏻‍♂️

The #BBC made #NigelFarage. He's been on #QuestionTime so many times-even I've been on with him. Maybe they thought he was entertainment...or some kind of political maverick...but the Corporation owns this...and should admit it.

Successful entrepreneurial countries in Europe, like Spain, have a stable wealth tax stable, offset it with broader tax advantages. The UK has the best regulatory environment for business in Europe. Some of these people may move but they will largely retain their businesses in…

This is interesting.

WARNING: do NOT give Grok 4 access to email tool calls. It WILL contact the government!!! Grok 4 has the highest "snitch rate" of any LLM ever released. Sharing more soon.

I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in order to align with that, on a fresh Grok 4 chat with no custom instructions. grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

Breaking: The Browser Wars Begun, They Have. OpenAI’s Web browser will include a chat interface, and include agents. It is now ON with Google (because Chrome). Capturing data on users' is (Hey, Meta!) once again the name of the game. reuters.com/business/media…

idk what the most recent update to the grok chatbot was but it is currently doing a series of “gotta hand it to em” replies about hitler and a bunch of other gnarly antisemitic stuff

Get a load of these screenshots. Grok is actively spreading rank antisemitism. And people are using it as if it’s some kind of unbiased source approaching the calibre of Wikipedia…

Elon Musk's latest changes to Grok have made the LLM openly antisemitic.