Ed The Serial CEO

Give a businessman the tools to manipulate markets and he’ll be happy as Larry, Ed confides to his diary, and everybody is now trying to read those signals coming out of the White House which precede a market moving statement.. Inadvertently or not, the US administration is providing one of the greatest opportunities to make money out of volatility. A ...

The great thing about being a Cabinet Minister is being ahead of the game, so the government’s announcement of a couple of billion quid for quantum computing came as no surprise to me, Ed confides to his diary. In fact I have been pushing for this ever since the government came to power nearly a couple of years ago. A ...

I am putting  it about that the NBT in computing is not quantum but biocomputing -.computers made using human brain cells or rather artificial brain cells grown in laboratories, Ed confides to his diary. The largest cluster of artificial human neurons ever built is 800k whereas human brains are thought to contain about 90 billion.  My pitch is that the ...

Market volatility is the upside of war and as a cabinet minister in a country involved in a war, I am well placed to benefit from inside info to take advantage of it, Ed confides to his diary. I wisely resisted a Polymarket bet at the beginning of hostilities that there was a 38% chance of regime change by March ...

Only the PM could make such a dog’s breakfast of the Chagos thing because he can’t see any issue in terms of popular appeal, or political fallout or even common sense because as a lawyer, his job is simply there make the best case for either side of an argument, Ed confides to his diary. So he’s given in to ...

We’re training up an AI to be a humanised version of the PM, Ed confides to  his diary, jokes, empathy, common sense are all being fed into the model. The PM will have storage ICs for the model embedded in his backside which will relay the humanised PM AI content to a chip implanted behind his ear. “No difference then ...

I am quietly liquidating my AI-related investments, Ed confides to his diary, I hear that companies involved in AI infrastructure-related activities and semiconductor-adjacent areas are seeing less interest. Very likely the AI expansion will benefit a few companies but will not be a generally stimulative influence on the tech industry. The big tech companies have the cash and the revenues ...

I’m engaged in the Black Arts, Ed confides to his diary, there’s a narrative doing the rounds that the techies have an endgame in which they accumulate so much of the world’s wealth they will gain the power to eliminate everyone else. The accumulation of humungeous wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer people and the growing ...

A thorny Q was raised at last week’s Cabinet: What happens to the welfare budget if the big job losses expected from AI occur under a Labour government which is pledged to support working people? Of course, the techno-illiterates around the cabinet table have virtually nothing of any use to say on the subject which gives me the chance to ...

China’s grip on the rare earth minerals market is a likely and welcome casualty of President Trump’s Greenland deal whatever the nature of that deal turns out to be, Ed confides to his diary. The ‘big chunk of ice’’ as POTUS called it, may become a hotbed of activity with miners, datacentre builders, military infrastructure constructors, suppliers of Arctic monitoring ...