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Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Dr Andrea Lagna, @andrealagna.bsky.social, an expert in Information Systems and Political Economy, believes we can create a future where AI-driven business success goes hand-in-hand with the responsible management of our resources. 🧵(2/6)

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A special welcome to the inaugural cohort of MSc Digital Transformation students at Alliance Manchester Business School! 🎉 As Program Director, it’s a privilege to open this new chapter with talented students and colleagues. 🤗📚 #AMBS #OriginalThinkingApplied #DigitalTransformation #Sustainability

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 13/06/2025

But we’ve now decided to start a new series of Q&A style interviews that we’ll run weekly on FTAV. The first one up is with Gappy Paleologo, Balyasny’s head of quant research. Hope you enjoy it! on.ft.com/4kFDw4H

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FTAV Q&A: Gappy Paleologo

Balyasny Asset Management’s head of quantitative research talks algos, hedge funds, correlations and cats

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Very proud to present a new paper out in Environment and Planning A. I look at how real estate actors re-framed Lisbon as a viable investment destination in the post-crisis era, which today means the city has some of the highest housing costs in Europe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market - Rafaella Lima, 2025

This paper examines how Lisbon transformed from a city widely seen as a crisis-ridden ‘no-go’ zone into an ideal real estate investment destination. This redesi...

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Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published! You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

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James O'Donnell @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

@caseycrownhart.bsky.social and I spent months reporting together and found the common understanding of AI's energy appetite to be full of holes. As Big Tech aims to restructure our energy grids around the needs of AI, we dive as deep as one can go. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Great to present my paper “Theorizing the Sustainability Paradox of AI” with Sun Hye Lee at the Theorizing Data & AI workshop, VU Amsterdam. We study how firms strategize for sustainable AI. Join the convo and fantastic community: www.linkedin.com/groups/93605... #AI #Sustainability #DigitalStrategy

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Looking forward to chairing a fantastic panel on “Fintech Policy for Productivity and Growth” at Innovate Finance UK Fintech Academic Network (UKFAN) Conference! Fintech policymaking plays a key role in unlocking innovation and supporting sustainable growth☀️ www.innovatefinance.com/events/uk-fi...

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UK FinTech Academic Network (UKFAN) Annual Conference 2025 - Innovate Finance – The Voice of Global FinTech

Registrations are now closed. The UKFAN welcomes you to the 3rd Annual Conference taking place during the UK FinTech Week on Thursday, 1st May 2025. We

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The financialization of the state continues

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Start-ups developing AI-powered apps have attracted $8.2bn of funding in 2024. Competition heats up in the app layer of the Generative AI stack.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Bond sell-off as a tool of financialized statecraft could be more effective than retaliation tariffs.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

...and what about RenTech's Medallion Fund?!

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I tried out an AI-generated podcast based on my paper Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence, recently published open access in @ripejournal.bsky.social ...It turned out pretty cool—give it a listen 🎧 lagna.io/notebook/inv...

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Podcast | Investment giants in the AI age — Andrea Lagna.

Imagine a world where your financial future is increasingly made by AI…

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Academics and practitioners often forget that digital transformation is not an exogenous external force. We should ask how it is socially constructed; who benefits and who loses in the digital age.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This quote shows the centrality of data and AI strategy for investment giants rendering private markets legible: Preqin [...] will enable BlackRock to bring “clearer, more timely data” to the industry, making it “possible to index private markets just like we do now with the S&P 500”.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is cool stuff. Acopia, from Melbourne 🌙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XRu...

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Be Enough

YouTube video by Acopia - Topic

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Been working for some time on fintech policymaking with fantastic colleagues at AMBS and Telfer. Look forward to presenting at the Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS) workshop on Creating Policy Impact through Information Systems (IS) Research. #fintech #AI #blockchain #IS #policy

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Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excited to share that The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, is on its way! Expected publication date is May 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My article Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of AI now has a home in Review of IPE—with volume and issue numbers! 🤓 If you're interested in exploring AI-driven market power and ways to democratize the age of AI, check it out and let’s connect! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The philosopher Carl Mitcham distinguishes between engineering and humanities approaches to tech philosophy. The first sees tech as an efficiency tool. The second asks whether a given tech is desirable and just. I'm leaving it there. Use it as you please to interpret AI, current affairs, etc.

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a man in a suit and tie is crying and saying we have the technology .

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tired of the World Surf League CT and QS model. I'd like to see 5-10 top surfers on the most beautiful waves: Pipe, Teahupo'o, Cloudbreak, JBay

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A 3-hour, 31-minute, and 23-second-long deep dive into LLMs by Andrej Karpathy. Just, WOW! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Developing classes for a new course titled Organizing and Managing Change in the Digital Age. It's nice to go back to Orlikowski's duality of tech. A truly foundational statement.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"The most damaging consequence of the contemporary financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises, but a widening social divide between the haves and have-nots." Such an amazing book by Lin and Neely. Check it out. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Going back to the good old financialization debate, do you like this definition I always had in mind but never used? "Financialization is the increasing role of market-based, risk-oriented finance in human activities and the environment." Feel free to suggest edits 😊

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The battle for AI compute is being fought on chips suitable for the inference phase (e.g., when chatgpt gives you an answer). But, there's a catch not explained in the article: models like chatgpt need constant fine-tuning, so the line between training and inference is blurry.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

CoreWeave: founded in 2017 as a crypto farm, pivoted to AI-focused neocloud service in 2019, borrows lots of money from investment giants secured against a Nvidia GPUs, benefits from preferential access to Nvidia's GPUs and the latter's diversification strategy away from big tech cloud systems.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Although the material properties of tech are common to everyone, tech affordances are not. We should qualify that few organizations have enough power to get exclusive tech deals (e.g., on datasets)

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Humans and AI both have the power to act, but their intentions couldn’t be more different phenomenologically. Leonardi (2011: 151) explores this in the Flex Routines/Tech paper, and it feels more relevant than ever in our AI-driven world. How do you see this playing out in today’s tech landscape?

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Working on a paper about affordance actualization—fascinating literature. What are your favorite papers or key debates in this space? Let’s exchange ideas.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hated. Adored. Never ignored. Glory Man Utd! 🇾🇪Beware the impact of badly done #LBO. Might soon be the future of Liverpool too. on.ft.com/43pGwMq

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The hidden cost of AI and Big Tech’s data center boom? A staggering $5.4bn hit to US public health. As data infrastructure grows, so does pollution—and the burden falls on communities. Time for firms and policymakers to focus squarely on #sustainableAI. [screenshot from FT article]

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New MSc programme in Digital Transformation at Alliance Manchester Business School! 🚀 Check out this article from The Guardian reviewing what makes it unique. I had the privilege of leading its development. I'd love to hear your thoughts. www.theguardian.com/next-generat...

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From AI to quantum computing: a postgrad degree for the next generation of digital leaders

Alliance Manchester Business School is launching an MSc in Digital Transformation, to meet the growing demand from employers for these skills

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Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nella mia intervista per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social parlo di #EuroStack, il piano per l’indipendenza tecnologica europea: terre rare, chip e Intelligenza Artificiale. L’Europa ha bisogno di una infrastruttura digitale comune, alternativa ai monopoli dei tecno oligarchi. www.euro-stack.info

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Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In 2014, I wrote an essay on the rise of "algorithmic regulation" / "lean start-up" imaginary in government circles. In it, I argued that Silicon Valley's recipe for government efficiency would - at best - yield the "Singaporization" of liberal democracy. But there were much worse options.🧵 below

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Why the internet of things could destroy the welfare state

Tech pioneers in the US are advocating a new data-based approach to governance – 'algorithmic regulation'. But where does this leave governments, asks Evgeny Morozov

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Blackstone is ready to invest more in data center infrastructure as alternative asset, although AI compute may decrease following DeepSeek's innovation. on.ft.com/4gqNeVj

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Let's be clear: DeepSeek like Meta's Llama do not meet the definition of open source AI. Sharing the model weights/architecture is different than sharing the training data, which are the true source of competitive advantage—hence, hardly ever shared. theodi.org/news-and-eve...

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If DeepSeek wants to be a real disruptor, it should go much further on data transparency

Learn more about the transparency of the data behind DeepSeek.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Amen www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Predominantly young men with broadly libertarian, right-leaning views are now in control of some of the most mainstream media platforms, with basically no internal or external oversight" on.ft.com/40MrNJV

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Good way to map the generative AI stack. Particularly interesting the focus on 'agentic orchestration layer' with software frameworks like LangChain and crewAI. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Good point: Generative AI must achieve around $600B in revenue to justify the huge investments in GPUs and data centers. This creates challenges for investing at the foundation model level (e.g. GPT) due to high costs and unclear profitability. www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-...

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AI’s $600B Question

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Manchester United has a big leadership problem. The team needs a modern-day Cantona who moulds "youngsters into footballers rather than social media influencers." onefootball.com/editorial/40...

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Man United in Turmoil: What Does the Future Hold?

Read this news on OneFootball.

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Important editorial by Pan et al. in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems addressing the big question of AI strategy. This is quite a set of research questions regarding how and when data and AI create business value. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Andrea Lagna @andrealagna.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

'Had the early AI community paid any attention to John Dewey and his work on “embodied intelligence,” many false leads might have been avoided.' Fantastic piece by Evgeny Morozov on the AI we deserve. See also responses by Brian Eno, Terry Winograd, and others. www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

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The AI We Deserve - Boston Review

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

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