Paul Dempsey
@pmdempsey.com
Tech journalist. DC-based again after a decade in Asia. Occasionally cranky. Too much #AI, #semiconductors, #EDA, socmed, climate and way too much Sino-US rivalry. Dogs, horses and #MUFC.
Did some footy finance thing many moons ago.
Did some footy finance thing many moons ago.
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A fifth of new energy projects supporting the AI data center boom risk delay, according to the World Energy Outlook 2025 from the International Energy Agency, suggesting that capital costs could rise by 20-30%
It is the benchmark used by governments and NGOs in economic projections.
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A fifth of new energy projects supporting the AI data center boom risk delay, according to the World Energy Outlook 2025 from the International Energy Agency, suggesting that capital costs could rise by 20-30%
It is the benchmark used by governments and NGOs in economic projections.
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The Valley's use of full-on intensity as a default means that you can only up the ante with crazy stuff like 'Code Red' and 'Defcon Pigshit Scuttle'.
Pretty much everyone gets leapfrogged at some point. 'Double down' should be good enough.
Pretty much everyone gets leapfrogged at some point. 'Double down' should be good enough.
From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - OpenAI's panic button risks sounding false alarm reut.rs/3KCztZV
Breakingviews - OpenAI's panic button risks sounding false alarm
Boss Sam Altman declared a 'code red,' marshaling resources to help ChatGPT fend off Google. Rampant distractions include teaming up with Accenture and NORAD's Santa tracker. Past alerts from Microsoft and Winston Churchill make clear it takes more than a memo to imbue focus.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Valley's use of full-on intensity as a default means that you can only up the ante with crazy stuff like 'Code Red' and 'Defcon Pigshit Scuttle'.
Pretty much everyone gets leapfrogged at some point. 'Double down' should be good enough.
Pretty much everyone gets leapfrogged at some point. 'Double down' should be good enough.
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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It looks like the Pope has solved the reclining-seat problem. One glimpse of him holding a bat, and suddenly everyone’s sitting at 90 degrees like angels.
I hate that my first instinct was to wonder whether this picture of the Pope holding a baseball bat on a plane was generated by AI. #newnornal #sensemaking
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It looks like the Pope has solved the reclining-seat problem. One glimpse of him holding a bat, and suddenly everyone’s sitting at 90 degrees like angels.
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By all means cover the attack lines and rebuttals in the report that follows. But the actual headline here should be not be shaped by either side's partisan briefings.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
By all means cover the attack lines and rebuttals in the report that follows. But the actual headline here should be not be shaped by either side's partisan briefings.
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
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“It’s all a microcosm of a media industry that allowed Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza to flourish in the first place,” I say. Without a word, my dad stands up from the table, picks up the turkey, and casually dumps it in the trash. Mom pours the gravy into the punch bowl
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“It’s all a microcosm of a media industry that allowed Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza to flourish in the first place,” I say. Without a word, my dad stands up from the table, picks up the turkey, and casually dumps it in the trash. Mom pours the gravy into the punch bowl
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Every country needs to do this.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Every country needs to do this.
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Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
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MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
It is amazingly horrifying in how little Labour leaders have zero, even negative faith in the values that their party's supposed to stand for. I have the deepest sympathies for the party ground floor workers and supporters who're disgusted by this grotesque betrayal of their values. It's despairing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
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November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
Remember the truism: If a headline contains a question mark, the answer is 'No.'
Or in this case, 'FUCK NO.'
Or in this case, 'FUCK NO.'
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Remember the truism: If a headline contains a question mark, the answer is 'No.'
Or in this case, 'FUCK NO.'
Or in this case, 'FUCK NO.'
@privateeyenews.bsky.social Sorry, chaps, the 'spoons' gag has officially been superceded.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@privateeyenews.bsky.social Sorry, chaps, the 'spoons' gag has officially been superceded.
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
Irony is cruel. They abolish DOGE just as they launch Mission Genesis in #AI, starting with the kind of complex data prep that a Musk-led team like that at DOGE would have been perfect for, given a key objective is, erm, government efficiency.
As things stand, Mission Nemesis is a better fit.
As things stand, Mission Nemesis is a better fit.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Irony is cruel. They abolish DOGE just as they launch Mission Genesis in #AI, starting with the kind of complex data prep that a Musk-led team like that at DOGE would have been perfect for, given a key objective is, erm, government efficiency.
As things stand, Mission Nemesis is a better fit.
As things stand, Mission Nemesis is a better fit.
I can see the point behind creating a more common #AI leverageable platform in Trump's Genesis Mission but even if you can get all these federal fields to cooperate (no easy task), putting the data in an ML usable state is going to be a horrific slog.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I can see the point behind creating a more common #AI leverageable platform in Trump's Genesis Mission but even if you can get all these federal fields to cooperate (no easy task), putting the data in an ML usable state is going to be a horrific slog.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I want, just once, to see RA doing his nut on the touchline. Sticking with three CBs was a bit mental but most of that was on the players - only Mount put in something approaching a shift; the rest were careless, absent minded and slothful. RA needs to deliver some big in-game bollockings.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I want, just once, to see RA doing his nut on the touchline. Sticking with three CBs was a bit mental but most of that was on the players - only Mount put in something approaching a shift; the rest were careless, absent minded and slothful. RA needs to deliver some big in-game bollockings.
United need to get Mainoo and Mount on.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
United need to get Mainoo and Mount on.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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Richard Feynman once wrote about "Cargo Cult Science" - "they follow all the apparent precepts and forms, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land." I wonder if we currently have a Cargo Cult model of messaging and media management in British politics
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fascinating 🧵
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
In Cade Metz's NYT piece today, we have this from Open AI's spokesman. Is he aware all three of the sectors he cites had major investment bubbles?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In Cade Metz's NYT piece today, we have this from Open AI's spokesman. Is he aware all three of the sectors he cites had major investment bubbles?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...