Chris Cook
@chriscook.news
ft senior reporter. south london nationalist. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
This is wrong.
a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning.
b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning.
b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is wrong.
a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning.
b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning.
b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
I was trying to find a form of words to preserve their anonymity while meeting this obligation in our editorial code.
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I was trying to find a form of words to preserve their anonymity while meeting this obligation in our editorial code.
The two types of reader: those who like the story and those who think we are providing material assistance to the enemy on.ft.com/46OwOFn
August 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The two types of reader: those who like the story and those who think we are providing material assistance to the enemy on.ft.com/46OwOFn
the way they fire off fireworks and silver foil around trophy winners makes me think the FA is worried about protecting the team from guided missiles
August 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
the way they fire off fireworks and silver foil around trophy winners makes me think the FA is worried about protecting the team from guided missiles
I feel like these messages are
going to make for some confusing messaging
going to make for some confusing messaging
May 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I feel like these messages are
going to make for some confusing messaging
going to make for some confusing messaging
Conversely, we estimate the account called “SUN” may be sitting on a $66mn loss at current prices. (This account is widely speculated to be Justin Sun, but he won’t confirm or deny.)
May 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Conversely, we estimate the account called “SUN” may be sitting on a $66mn loss at current prices. (This account is widely speculated to be Justin Sun, but he won’t confirm or deny.)
by @joemillerjr.ft.com and me: what has Doge actually done?
May 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
by @joemillerjr.ft.com and me: what has Doge actually done?
I hadn’t really noticed how much our diagram of $MELANIA ended up looking like Trump.
May 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I hadn’t really noticed how much our diagram of $MELANIA ended up looking like Trump.
I think Croydon is not disputed anymore: it’s definitely not Surrey these days, they don’t want us, the people who remember the before-times are quite elderly and the local micro-nationalist project (Crystal Palace FC) is v clear about where things lie
March 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I think Croydon is not disputed anymore: it’s definitely not Surrey these days, they don’t want us, the people who remember the before-times are quite elderly and the local micro-nationalist project (Crystal Palace FC) is v clear about where things lie
(this is potentially good for journalism.)
March 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
(this is potentially good for journalism.)
DOGE is coming for the PowerPoints.
March 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
DOGE is coming for the PowerPoints.
out of interest, do you know what Tucker’s father did…?
![Voice of America
In the summer of 1986, President Reagan announced his intention to nominate
Carlson as an associate director of the United States Information Agency to succeed Ernest Eugene Pell.
Carlson became director of Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded, state-owned multimedia agency which serves as the United States federal
government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting. [15] |t broadcasts 24 hours a day in nearly 50 languages to more than 130 million people around the world, with a full-time staff of 3,000 and a part-time staff of 1,200.
Carlson was the longest-serving director in VOA's 50-year history.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bgmujpqmzqtx4p3wafhq4t6c/bafkreigprf4lpmcxi5kjjhqblvy4v2ac6gzrr66sge56gwoczzqookmu4y@jpeg)
March 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
out of interest, do you know what Tucker’s father did…?
By a dream team of colleagues: how a Bangladeshi minister close to Sheikh Hasina became a buy-to-let oligarch in the UK and Dubai after taking office.
February 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
By a dream team of colleagues: how a Bangladeshi minister close to Sheikh Hasina became a buy-to-let oligarch in the UK and Dubai after taking office.
I always feel like the northern catholic numbers are the most interesting, esp as this is before anyone campaigns on Our NHS
February 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I always feel like the northern catholic numbers are the most interesting, esp as this is before anyone campaigns on Our NHS
has Musk considered this PR approach.
January 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
has Musk considered this PR approach.
seriously: there is a GIF.
December 31, 2024 at 3:33 PM
seriously: there is a GIF.
The documents also include another intriguing thing: we all know Russia probes the air defences of neighbouring states by sending bombers to breach/skirt their airspace. We got a report from one of them, showing what data they collect.
on.ft.com/3W2Zi7V
on.ft.com/3W2Zi7V
December 31, 2024 at 8:41 AM
The documents also include another intriguing thing: we all know Russia probes the air defences of neighbouring states by sending bombers to breach/skirt their airspace. We got a report from one of them, showing what data they collect.
on.ft.com/3W2Zi7V
on.ft.com/3W2Zi7V
I mean, these are proper “demand worry” numbers, but… uh they’re in the other direction.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
December 26, 2024 at 12:31 PM
I mean, these are proper “demand worry” numbers, but… uh they’re in the other direction.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
3,000 kids, you say? It is hard to overstate how meh that is. But: from 2016.
December 26, 2024 at 12:19 PM
3,000 kids, you say? It is hard to overstate how meh that is. But: from 2016.
I wondered what he did next.
December 25, 2024 at 9:42 AM
I wondered what he did next.
Hollywood’s most ambitious reboot of a film series yet.
December 21, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Hollywood’s most ambitious reboot of a film series yet.
We got new imagery yesterday from 📸 BlackSky, who spotted that build-up at Hmeimim, but also an Il-76 loading up on the right-hand apron, as well as 4 S-400 TELs sitting there parked up nearby.
December 17, 2024 at 5:58 PM
We got new imagery yesterday from 📸 BlackSky, who spotted that build-up at Hmeimim, but also an Il-76 loading up on the right-hand apron, as well as 4 S-400 TELs sitting there parked up nearby.