Kathryn Corrick
@kcorrick.bsky.social
Human centred strategy, data & innovation services
Loves teaching and making things happen
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer in digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Based in France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Loves teaching and making things happen
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer in digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Based in France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)
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November 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)
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New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
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This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Really good to see @icebreakerone.bsky.social 's Research Guide for large LLMs published. Building on the fabulous work of the @mysociety.org team, we wrote it originally to guide our internal research, which Paul Johnston has expanded on.
ib1.org/2025/11/13/i...
ib1.org/2025/11/13/i...
IB1 Research Guidance: Using Large Language Models – Icebreaker One
ib1.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Really good to see @icebreakerone.bsky.social 's Research Guide for large LLMs published. Building on the fabulous work of the @mysociety.org team, we wrote it originally to guide our internal research, which Paul Johnston has expanded on.
ib1.org/2025/11/13/i...
ib1.org/2025/11/13/i...
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
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New York's new chatbot legislation goes further than others. The state's users must be protected against suicide ideation and the bot must start every 3 hours it's a program not a person.
New York's new chatbot legislation goes further than others. The state's users must be protected against suicide ideation and the bot must start every 3 hours it's a program not a person.
🚨 BREAKING: New York enacted a law requiring AI companies to improve the SAFETY of AI companions. 🎉 An important step in AI chatbot regulation! Hopefully, other states and countries will follow… | Lui...
🚨 BREAKING: New York enacted a law requiring AI companies to improve the SAFETY of AI companions. 🎉 An important step in AI chatbot regulation! Hopefully, other states and countries will follow suit. ...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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New York's new chatbot legislation goes further than others. The state's users must be protected against suicide ideation and the bot must start every 3 hours it's a program not a person.
New York's new chatbot legislation goes further than others. The state's users must be protected against suicide ideation and the bot must start every 3 hours it's a program not a person.
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I’ve shared many maps showing river basins but none like this! We are seeing the population living in each basin. Many big “countries” emerge that way but also many new micro states. Great fun. Source: buff.ly/628eSWm
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’ve shared many maps showing river basins but none like this! We are seeing the population living in each basin. Many big “countries” emerge that way but also many new micro states. Great fun. Source: buff.ly/628eSWm
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@gilesyb.bsky.social we are so close to chinas emissions declining. Two exponential processes of solar roll out and gdp growth perfectly balanced for an instant before one dominates the other.
China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months, starting in March 2024.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@gilesyb.bsky.social we are so close to chinas emissions declining. Two exponential processes of solar roll out and gdp growth perfectly balanced for an instant before one dominates the other.
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This is a very bad idea on so many levels.
The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill allowing "authorized testers" to proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM (BBC)
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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is a very bad idea on so many levels.
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"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
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Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
March 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
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ICE “is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
ICE “is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.”
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The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place - on.ft.com/47Rn3Fb Bookmark for any time anyone wants to portray environmental concerns as unthinking nimbyism. Free link
The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place
Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups
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November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place - on.ft.com/47Rn3Fb Bookmark for any time anyone wants to portray environmental concerns as unthinking nimbyism. Free link
“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
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"They can only maintain this stance if they are able to convince enough people that irrational moves towards more climate chaos are in fact pragmatic, and that climate campaigners’ demands are unrealistic [...] grow a spine"
“Just because other crises are competing for attention, it does not follow that voters want climate targets abandoned,” writes Luisa Neubauer, a German climate activist, in a guest essay
The greenlash is built on lazy thinking, writes a climate activist
Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"They can only maintain this stance if they are able to convince enough people that irrational moves towards more climate chaos are in fact pragmatic, and that climate campaigners’ demands are unrealistic [...] grow a spine"
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Homes from straw, beer and bread from grains, clothes from beer brewing... That's a good amount of solution capacity from one crop.
Researchers extracted proteins from spent beer-brewing yeast and spun them into strong textile fibers that avoid the environmental impact of petroleum-based polymers, and the ethical as well as land- and water-use concerns of cotton and wool. cen.acs.org/materials/Br... #chemsky 🧪
Brewing waste: The solution to sustainable fashion?
Biodegradable fibers spun from yeast protein avoid the resource use and pollution of cotton, wool, and polyester
cen.acs.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Homes from straw, beer and bread from grains, clothes from beer brewing... That's a good amount of solution capacity from one crop.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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This is completely fascinating, and I do think the UK govt are likely to come a cropper on this in a similar way soon. Someone said to me the other day that more than 600 data centres are going through planning at the moment
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is completely fascinating, and I do think the UK govt are likely to come a cropper on this in a similar way soon. Someone said to me the other day that more than 600 data centres are going through planning at the moment
I'm still scratching my head on Tesla's market cap and *that* pay deal (which isn't quite what it seems, makes no business sense and will probably go to court), but in doing so I've found this incredibly detailed reporting of all the stats you might ever need www.honestjohn.co.uk/the-latest-t...
The Latest Tesla Statistics - Updated October 2025
Stay up-to-date with the latest Tesla statistics. From production to revenue, gain insights into the company leading the EV revolution.
www.honestjohn.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm still scratching my head on Tesla's market cap and *that* pay deal (which isn't quite what it seems, makes no business sense and will probably go to court), but in doing so I've found this incredibly detailed reporting of all the stats you might ever need www.honestjohn.co.uk/the-latest-t...
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This is #actuallyexistingsolarpunk: the realisation that the tools we already have to hand are far more transformative, and more ecologically beneficial in every sense, than all the speculation around novel digital technologies: bsky.app/profile/jame...
"Actually existing AI" is a phrase I use a lot, to separate reality from hype. "Actually existing solarpunk" is one I might start using. Because I genuinely believe that a general energy transition is *more possible* than general artificial intelligence, and more exciting and more equitable.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is #actuallyexistingsolarpunk: the realisation that the tools we already have to hand are far more transformative, and more ecologically beneficial in every sense, than all the speculation around novel digital technologies: bsky.app/profile/jame...
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This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info