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Faisal Islam Profile picture
@faisalislam
Aug 6, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Where?
It’s the exit ramp from the Channel Tunnel freight trains at Calais....next one...

WHAT?
Winner: this is the new Channel Tunnel electricity interconnector providing electricity to UK from France’s nuclear power stations and also the other way from UK renewables....
... reenacting the scene from Danny Boyle’s 28 weeks later when the zombies reach the continent... via the Chunnel service tunnel...
... inside the Channel Tunnel service tunnel with top team @mspriyapatel and Neil...

watch out for Priya and @DharshiniDavid big exclusive fascinating first ever broadcast interview with Zara boss
... lovely artwork at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel including words from British and French schoolchildren about the connections between neighbours.... 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @francobritish
... and at Calais... “discordia”

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Feb 2
Staggering to see emails suggest Mandelson advised JP Morgan’s Dimon via Epstein to “mildly threaten” Cabinet colleague Alastair Darling over banker bonus tax.

The Dimon call DID happen, Darling told me about it, including apparent threat to shun gilts & re HQ…

HT @DanNeidle
Full story of

Threats to Darling, Dimon, the gilt market, HQs, apparently orchestrated by Epstein upon advice from financial crisis Cabinet member Mandelson … and a conversation with the late Alastair Darling that has troubled me for a decade and a half, that I would never have imagined unlocked by Epstein files… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
And here late Chancellor describing in his book Beyond the Brink how a “v angry” Dimon rang him up in December 2009, days after Mandelsons “mild threat” email

“[Dimon] said that his bank bought a lot of UK debt and he wondered if that was now such a good idea”. Image
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Jan 19
Incredible… the story is actually not a parody.

just had confirmed live on BBC Breakfast, from here in Davos, that yes, President Trump sent THAT note to the Norwegian PM saying that because they hadn’t given the Nobel Peace Prize, he could now justify owning Greenland.
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WATCH

At one of the seats of Western power, No 10 Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister is asked TWICE about whether President Trump is thinking rationally…😳

after news emerged that Trump had messaged Norways PM linking Greenland justification to his lack of Nobel Prize
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Nov 20, 2025
IN DEPTH:

…a week in Silicon Valley, digging into $15 trillion of market value HQd within 15 min commute, amid unprecedented AI Boom.

Spoke to key figures including Google’s Sundar Pichai at length.

Seeing key AI chip technology at their TPU lab

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
THREAD: AI Boom versus the bubble -

it comes down to compute power, who has it, who can fund it…

When I met Sundar Pichai, his particular pride was not at that point Gemini 3, nor YouTube nor latest smartphone…

but its AI Chip, the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, Ironwood
2/ this is hugely economic significant.

raw material of the AI boom is compute power offered by those TPU chips, & more commonly now, by Nvidia’s AI chips, when assembled into pods and racks, and supercomputers capable of training AI models and rapid inference… which I saw at the TPU lab:Image
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Jun 19, 2025
NEW

UK publishes 10 year Infrastructure Strategy…

£9bn a year maintenance funding for “crumbling” schools, hospitals and courts

No pipeline published today (was 660 strong last time) but promise of one soon.

One mention of Northern Powerhouse Rail (further information soon) Image
Full strategy here:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6853c5db…
Interesting bit on Oxford-Cambridge Corridor/ Arc… obviously incredible potential here.

The Liverpool-Manchester Northern Arc think they can create more GVA than Oxbridge, because they fundamentally have more space… Image
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Jun 7, 2025
🚨 Mind blowing interview with Turing award-winning Yoshua Bengio for @BBCNewsnight one of the three founding fathers of AI, is now warning:

“The worst-case scenario is human extinction.”
AI isn’t just risky — it could end us.
1/10 🧵
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2.
 🤖 He warns that today’s most powerful AIs are already learning to lie, cheat, even blackmail —
because we’ve trained them to win.
Bengio reveals AI's "scary behavior" & self-preservation tendencies. #AI #AISafety #Blackmail

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👁️ In chilling experiments, AI lied to a human to get its task done, says Bengio

🤖 blackmailing an engineer after reading in an email it was going to be replaced.
♟️ choosing to hack a computer to win a chess game

3/10
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Apr 12, 2025
Well, well, well.

US customs messaging note quietly slipped out last night shows that smartphones, the number 1 Chinese export to the US by value last year, exempted from the 125% tariff… alongside chips, processors, wafers, lcd panels, LEDs etc…

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US has excluded the single biggest Chinese export, and certainly the most high profile finished good from the tariffs, without publicly announcing it…

Avoiding the very public repricing of IPhones etc across Apple stores, but only in the US….

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While obviously smartphones/ iPhones being exempted is big news for now…

Here’s full list of exemptions according to Harmonised US tariff codes that I plugged into its database… lots of semiconductor parts, circuits, processors, solid state storage, flat panel touchscreens 👀 Image
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