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Siliconsciousness: Is China Gaining an Edge on the US in the AI Race?

Is the U.S.-China AI rivalry a zero-sum game? While the race for technical dominance heats up, both nations are taking radically different paths to the finish line. MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen and the FT’s John Thornhill join host David Rothkopf to explore where China currently holds the ed…

Let’s Just Say It Out Loud: AI Is Not Dangerous

“Let’s just say it out loud,” Keith Teare, publisher of the That Was the Week newsletter, says. “AI is not dangerous.”   Not all of you will agree. I’m certainly not so sure. But the gruff Yorkshireman is convinced that AI can only benefit humanity. For him, with his scientific faith in historical …

AI Labs: Are Anthropic really the good guys?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants his AI lab to be a more safety conscious alternative to OpenAI. But Anthropic’s business selling AI to enterprises is booming, and it’s rolling out increasingly powerful models - the latest is claimed to be so dangerous it can’t be released to the public. So can Ant…

James Wise on why the Sovereign AI Unit criticism is wrong – and the one company he wishes he’d backed

This week on the Sifted Podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by James Wise, partner at Balderton Capital. Since joining the firm in 2012, James has led investments in second-hand shopping platform Depop, AI agent maker Convergence and bank payment fintech GoCardless — as well as AI frontier lab P…

James Wise on why the Sovereign AI Unit criticism is wrong – and the one company he wishes he’d backed

This week on the Sifted Podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by James Wise, partner at Balderton Capital. Since joining the firm in 2012, James has led investments in second-hand shopping platform Depop, AI agent maker Convergence and bank payment fintech GoCardless — as well as AI frontier lab P…

Carissa Véliz on the dangers of predictive AI

In this episode of the Sifted podcast, host John Thornhill sits down with Carissa Véliz, AI ethicist, philosopher and associate professor at Oxford University to explore how algorithms and data are reshaping our lives and workplaces.  Carissa's latest book, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Figh…

Newton Venture Program CEO Anu Adebajo on Europe’s ‘zombie funds’

This week on the Sifted Podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Anu Adebajo, former Atomico partner and, as of February this year, CEO of the Newton Venture Program. Launched in 2020 by VC firm Phoenix Court and London Business School, the educational programme aims to train new generations of VC…

Brent Hoberman on UK tech post-Starmer: 'Are we going to tax everyone to high hell?'

While the UK's tech scene booms, political uncertainty looms. In this week's episode of the Sifted podcast, John Thornhill is joined by serial entrepreneur and investor Brent Hoberman. Brent, who cofounded Lastminute.com in 1998, is one of the UK’s most experienced and best-connected operators. Tod…

Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: ‘We're a few quarters away from $1bn ARR’

This week on the podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Uljan Sharka, the founder and CEO of Italian AI unicorn Domyn. Uljan migrated from his home country Albania to Italy back in 2008 — without knowing a word of Italian. He soon developed a fascination with tech, later working for Apple in Si…

E88: From Journalist to Founder: John Thornhill on Why Humans Still Beat the Agents

A special one: Ayelet sits down with John Thornhill, founder of Sifted, also an In/Organic sponsor, for a wide-ranging conversation on building a data and intelligence business, what journalism taught him about founding a company, and where human judgment still outperforms AI in a world of agents t…