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“Don’t treat software like a Drug”
The route from Science to Growth is radically different in software compared to Pharma / Chemistry.
We have known that since 1999
Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
(“One should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.”) said Roman writer Juvenal.
Walking your way back to Wellness works. Well done to the Economist for catching up with the pace. Distance or Cadence. Don’t worry. Walking is free, fast acting and free of side effects. There are 5000 academic papers on exercise as a treatment.
Anthropic CRASHES & Loses $500 BILLION In 1 Day | Ai Bubble Is COLLAPSING youtu.be/xYEInSQ0EiE?is=9AH5… via @YouTube
"Winner Takes All" is now in the headlines. Is OpenAI playing in a "Winner Takes All" market.
Here is what you need to know about "Winner Takes All"
stephenallott.medium.com/chr…
Rishi Sunak Former Prime Minister. In October 2025 he took advisory roles at Microsoft and Anthropic. George Osborne . In December 2025 he joined OpenAI as Managing Director
Liam Booth-Smith Sunak’s former chief of staff. took a role at Anthropic in 2025, . Nick Clegg joined Meta in 2018
The Nerve identified 32 senior UK government and public-sector figures who had worked for or advised Palantir
Laurence Lee — MoD second permanent secretary and the department’s senior official on AI joined Palantir in 2024 as senior adviser to CEO Alex Karp.
Indra Joshi — NHS England head/director of A joined as Palantir’s director of health, research and AI in 2022;
Paul Howells — head of NHS Wales’s national data programme; Palantir director of health and care (2021–2025).
Matthew Swindells — former deputy CEO of NHS England and later joint chair of four NHS trusts; advised via Global Counsel while still in NHS roles.
Stephen Childs — former NHS England commercial director; Palantir special adviser.
Harjeet Dhaliwal — former deputy director of data services, NHS England (also reported as joining).
Damian Parmenter — former MoD director general (Aukus); Palantir international defence and security adviser.
Polly Scully — former MoD strategy director; Palantir UK defence lead and senior counsellor on UK government.
Barnaby Kistruck — former MoD director of industrial strategy, prosperity and exports; Palantir senior counsellor (joined 2025).
Major-General James Robert Chiswell and Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb — former UK Special Forces directors; Palantir advisers.
Ben Mascall — former No. 10 head of strategic communications (Theresa May) and ran Rishi Sunak’s 2022 leadership campaign; Palantir corporate affairs lead.
Lord Tom Watson — former Labour deputy leader; sits on Palantir’s advisory board
Peter Mandelson’s firm Global Counsel represented Palantir;
Entrepreneur Last ... the First shall be Last
who are these "UK policy figures moving into AI industry roles" that they mention?
Yes it’s about attracting great people
The University of Cambridge can boast 126 Nobel Prizes. That’s more than any other university in the world except Harvard, and it does it on an endowment that is one twentieth the endowment of Harvard. In the Nobel ranking, Cambridge beats MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale (in that order). Cambridge, the university of Newton, Hawking, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Keynes, Crick, Sanger, Kendrew, Perutz, Rutherford, Chadwick, Turing, Maxwell, Brenner, the list goes on and on, Cambridge is beyond question one of the very greatest universities in the world. The list of immense distinction continues to the present day. It is tragic, and deeply unfair, that the reputation of this truly great university should suffer at the hands one unfortunate anomaly, the Department of Education.
