Matt Rogerson
@mattrogerson.bsky.social
Work at the FT as director of global public policy and platform strategy. Before that I was at the Guardian doing public policy for over a decade. I'm from Yorkshire, via Hull, London, and now in the middle of England (Lichfield)
Is this dotcom bust 2.0? - on.ft.com/4bBPd8s via @financialtimes.com
“Some things change, but human beings, bless them, do not. All the signs of a classic bubble are upon us,” says Jim Grant, a financial journalist and perma-bear who predicted both the dotcom crash and the subprime mortgage mess"
“Some things change, but human beings, bless them, do not. All the signs of a classic bubble are upon us,” says Jim Grant, a financial journalist and perma-bear who predicted both the dotcom crash and the subprime mortgage mess"
Is this dotcom bust 2.0?
History shows how difficult it is to spot the exact moment that markets turn
on.ft.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Is this dotcom bust 2.0? - on.ft.com/4bBPd8s via @financialtimes.com
“Some things change, but human beings, bless them, do not. All the signs of a classic bubble are upon us,” says Jim Grant, a financial journalist and perma-bear who predicted both the dotcom crash and the subprime mortgage mess"
“Some things change, but human beings, bless them, do not. All the signs of a classic bubble are upon us,” says Jim Grant, a financial journalist and perma-bear who predicted both the dotcom crash and the subprime mortgage mess"
Reposted by Matt Rogerson
Preserving copyright protections for news publishers against theft by artificial intelligence companies is “a question of right and wrong”, the policy chief at the Financial Times @mattrogerson.bsky.social has told MPs
pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
FT policy chief warns MPs watered-down copyright regime for AI is 'huge mistake'
Preserving copyright protections for news publishers against theft by AI companies is “a question of right and wrong”, the FT has told MPs.
pressgazette.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Preserving copyright protections for news publishers against theft by artificial intelligence companies is “a question of right and wrong”, the policy chief at the Financial Times @mattrogerson.bsky.social has told MPs
pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
Google implements OPT-IN for YouTube 3rd party AI training
techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/y...
"the default setting for all creators will NOT ALLOW 3rd parties to train on their videos, whch makes it more explicit to companies that have already done so that they did this against the creators’ wishes."
techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/y...
"the default setting for all creators will NOT ALLOW 3rd parties to train on their videos, whch makes it more explicit to companies that have already done so that they did this against the creators’ wishes."
December 19, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Google implements OPT-IN for YouTube 3rd party AI training
techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/y...
"the default setting for all creators will NOT ALLOW 3rd parties to train on their videos, whch makes it more explicit to companies that have already done so that they did this against the creators’ wishes."
techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/y...
"the default setting for all creators will NOT ALLOW 3rd parties to train on their videos, whch makes it more explicit to companies that have already done so that they did this against the creators’ wishes."
Some fun facts I didn't know before I plugged the books3 jsonl into chatgpt:
- The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk
- Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books
- Lord Roberts is second with 10 books
- The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..
- The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk
- Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books
- Lord Roberts is second with 10 books
- The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..
December 17, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Some fun facts I didn't know before I plugged the books3 jsonl into chatgpt:
- The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk
- Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books
- Lord Roberts is second with 10 books
- The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..
- The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk
- Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books
- Lord Roberts is second with 10 books
- The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..
Reposted by Matt Rogerson
Not very surprising, but good to have an estimate: "shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour
Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Not very surprising, but good to have an estimate: "shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rana Foroohar in @financialtimes.com on the tech as a nation states thing...
www.ft.com/content/648c...
After I'd stopped 😪, I thought about relying on a nation state to help run the civil service (i.e. CoPilot). & hope there is a big red button? & interoperability/switching built in from day 1?
www.ft.com/content/648c...
After I'd stopped 😪, I thought about relying on a nation state to help run the civil service (i.e. CoPilot). & hope there is a big red button? & interoperability/switching built in from day 1?
Should tech giants be treated like nation states?
[FREE TO READ] A UK minister said governments should show a ‘sense of humility’ when dealing with Big Tech
www.ft.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Rana Foroohar in @financialtimes.com on the tech as a nation states thing...
www.ft.com/content/648c...
After I'd stopped 😪, I thought about relying on a nation state to help run the civil service (i.e. CoPilot). & hope there is a big red button? & interoperability/switching built in from day 1?
www.ft.com/content/648c...
After I'd stopped 😪, I thought about relying on a nation state to help run the civil service (i.e. CoPilot). & hope there is a big red button? & interoperability/switching built in from day 1?