Memo: the BBC plans to merge TV and audio commissioning teams across comedy and other genres amid plans to close around 100 roles in BBC's content unit (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-merge-tv-audio-teams-cut-100-content-rol…
Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df70bf20-e809-48d0-8485-f8f514a7fbc4
Michelangelo starb also in dem Jahr in dem Galilei und Shakespeare geboren wurden. Pastpuzzle rückt mal wieder meine Zeitleiste zurecht.
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From the archive
https://slab.org/2018/02/27/datalove/
This bit made some people surprisingly angry:
"I suppose the more radical positioning of live coding in general, more common in the early days, is now being lost. This is the idea that live coding is about experience, not end-pro…
Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning,
there is still nobody in Washington who will take responsibility,
while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
https://…
This is a pretty unhinged interview conducted by #MorePerfectUnion. I am not an economist but I can see a lot of wrong stuff this interviewee is spouting. Sadly, too many people subscribe to his wrong ideas.
https://youtu.be/IGb2210QyJw
Ich hab’s schon so oft erlebt und immer noch nicht gelernt:
Ein Umfeld, dass dich und deinen Input nicht wertschätzt, hat dich nicht verdient!
#Job
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb564eb1-79d4-4694-aa24-1155202a9abc
Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner proposed joining a bid for TikTok's European business over lunch with Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/171220b9-8d8e-4d82-a866-f9aaf258e0fb
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructions (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agents-banks-unauthorized-accounts-access