Chris Stokel-Walker
@stokel
Tech journalist and lecturer. I write books (How AI Ate The World, out May 2024), do radio and TV, and present podcasts too
How AI Ate The World, is out on 9th May! "Comprehensive and compelling" - @MattNavarra "A wild, brilliant ride" - @ciaranmartinoxf "Entertaining... clear, direct" - @sharongoldman "I highly recommend it" - @SashaMTL 🇬🇧 amazon.co.uk/How-Ate-World-… 🇺🇸 amazon.com/How-Ate-World-…
The real existential risk I'm worried about isn't a superintelligent AI rising up to enslave me, it's an AI being used to make my loaf of bread and pint of milk more expensive based on my data. My latest for @FastCompany on Delta's AI pricing news fastcompany.com/91371885/delta…
China's space development is progressing "breathtakingly fast" - but what does it mean for US supremacy in space, given Donald Trump's cuts to NASA? My latest for @theLDNstandard standard.co.uk/brave-new-worl…
The Microsoft SharePoint breach is absolutely massive... but the response has been minimal. What's going on, and why should you care? My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91373183/micro…
With England through to the Euros final, the risk the Lionesses get embroiled in a penalty shootout rises. Weirdly, AI can do a better job at guessing where penalties go - my latest for @newscientist newscientist.com/article/248926…
Absolute sickos: North Koreans infiltrating western workplaces love Minions wsj.com/lifestyle/nort…
“They feel familiar yet a bit mysterious. But the danger is that those types of names can feel smart, though they’re not always as clever as they think they are.” Per @stokel for @FastCompany #brandedenvironments #endtoendservices #digitalsolutions #AI hubs.ly/Q03y3wM30
Main takeaway from this is Sam Altman doesn't know the difference between the UK and Britain (and the UK government - *not* the British government - didn't think it had the power to suggest OpenAI change it) gov.uk/government/new…
The government and @OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership. This will improve collaboration in AI security research and explore investment in the UK’s AI infrastructure.
Your regular reminder that YouTube isn't a distribution platform but a competitor and you have to be veeeeery careful not to cannibalise your own audience and business in doing so. Ofcom would be minded to reflect on that thecurrent.com/streaming-dist…
UK's communications watchdog appears to have woken up to the power of YouTube... Says govt should look at forcing it to give prominence to the Public Service Broadcasters - BBC, ITV, C4, 5. YouTube's clout now means regulators taking a bigger interest: theguardian.com/media/2025/jul…
I definitely had a frisson when I first heard about a far-seeing capability called Palantír. The nerd light is always lit.
From AI models named Grok to data centres dubbed Prometheus and companies called Palantir and Anduril, we're plagued with nerd-itis when it comes to branding. My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91370914/big-t…
From AI models named Grok to data centres dubbed Prometheus and companies called Palantir and Anduril, we're plagued with nerd-itis when it comes to branding. My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91370914/big-t…
I'm on @guardian's Today in Focus podcast being quizzed on what the hell happened with Grok to turn it into MechaHitler earlier this month - take a listen here theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
The chief marketing officer of a publicly traded company (Ryanair) making factually incorrect public statements about whether they charge commission for a revenue driver for that publicly traded company is a bigger deal than the Coldplay thing, btw thetimes.com/article/dfdbeb…
AI chatbots lean slightly leftwards - despite what Grok has been doing lately. My latest for @TheEconomist Espresso
Between the Online Safety Act in the UK and porn laws in the US, it feels like a rift is going on. For @FastCompany, I wrote how the internet is entering its hall pass era fastcompany.com/91370158/inter…
A change buried in Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could help reverse the hiring slump in big tech. My story for @TheLeadDev on Section 174 leaddev.com/hiring/end-sec…
A lot of social media chatter on a wow-worthy METR study this week suggesting that software developers perception of how AI helped them, and what it actually did, was way off. So I did what journalists do: speak to the authors. My latest for @TheLeadDev leaddev.com/velocity/ai-do…
The world watches YouTube Shorts for 1% of all our waking hours. So its algorithm matters. But a new study I wrote up for @FastCompany suggests the algo is queasy about anything political fastcompany.com/91369323/youtu…
Right about now many of us will be seeing the option of a new feature in Gmail: 'Manage Subscriptions'. But what impact will that have on email marketing? My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91368269/gmail…
