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Mark Bergen

@mhbergen.bsky.social
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Bloomberg hack, yank in London, NBA sicko author of "Like, Comment, Subscribe" bit.ly/3EUxVE5 hmu: mbergen10@bloomberg.net

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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
pardon?
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the glass houses of mountain view “A real human will read these. These humans get really tired of reading LLM answers, because they all sound very samey.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Google’s AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable
Alphabet Inc.’s Google pitches its artificial intelligence tools to corporate clients as a way to more quickly sift through a mountain of job applications to find the most promising candidates. Some o...
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
[remembers to exhale after an hour]
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
SaaSpocalypse --> Milan rapture www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Bending Spoons Will Buy Airtable After Steep Fall From $11.7 Billion Peak
App developer Bending Spoons SpA has agreed to buy software firm Airtable for an equity value of $2.25 billion, a sharp decline from the startup’s 2021 peak valuation.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
nothing says British Sovereign AI like a dude in a yankee cap www.ft.com/content/7a8c...
ft.com
James Dacombe, 25, triples AI chip start-up’s valuation to $3.3bn
British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Schadenfreudbrenner
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
made a mark version of our chart
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
pivot to metaphysical AI
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
DSIT split into DBT and DCMS. Unclear where ARIA, AISI and Sov AI go. But UK still very much fan of ACRONYMS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Burnham Picks Narayan as First UK AI Minister to Attend Cabinet
Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as minister for artificial intelligence, making the post a cabinet-level position for the first time.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"The funding round also saw participation from Ari Emanuel, Claudia Schiffer and Sir Matthew Vaughn, Danny Meyer, Jimmy Iovine, Maria Sharapova, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Thierry Henry, Tim Ferriss and will.i.am ...."
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
just Freudian slipped it in a draft as "Russia's full-scale invasion of Europe"
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
did a new fun email typo today Baloomberg News
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“The systems we have weren’t built for this moment. And pretending they still work serves no one.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Microsoft in Talks to Ax Key Energy Pledge Amid Data Center Boom
Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centers, according...
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"At heart, though, he remains a YouTuber, unafraid of looking stupid on camera in pursuit of views and clout." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
theguardian.com
Jake Paul’s artless spectacle robbed boxing of its democratic dream | Bryan Armen Graham
Netflix’s 300 million global subscribers got just what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutally
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“You often plan in 10, 20 years. You have the privilege, in a way, of a longer-term government.” in which the cfo of openai says the quiet part out loud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Saudi’s Oil Wealth Is Moving to AI. Now MBS Needs Trump’s Blessing
Tareq Amin has a sales pitch that’s opened virtually every door in Silicon Valley: If you’re looking for AI computing power, come to Saudi Arabia.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
new magazine feature. important subject. cool photos. please read. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The UAE Is Winning the Race to Sequence an Entire Country’s DNA
With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to some, concerning—approach to public health.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"an AI-lationships platform"
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"a London newspaper" is one of the coldest burns ever www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
semafor.com
How a London newspaper botched a New York political story
Welcome to New York.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
that tall french guy is FUN TO WATCH
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
it's me, a more load-bearing person
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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
nytimes.com
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
rest youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...
youtu.be
D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
two thousand nineteen. what a time! www.politico.com/news/2019/11...
politico.com
Tech’s woke CEO takes the stage
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff wants to break up Facebook, has pushed for higher taxes on his industry and says capitalism ‘as we know it’ is over. And Washington is listening.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
so: this feels a wee too good to be true, no?
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
of all the metaphors for AI enthusiasm, you'd think you want to steer clear of 'icebergs'? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
JPMorgan’s Dimon Says AI Cost Savings Now Matching Money Spent
Jamie Dimon said JPMorgan Chase & Co. spends $2 billion a year on developing artificial intelligence technology, and saves about the same amount annually from the investment.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
besides the point, but Advanced Micro Devices is the most normcore company name
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
BENDING SPOONS, BABY www.reuters.com/world/yahoo-...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
Bending Spoons has emerged as one of Europe's most prominent technology firms, with a strategy of purchasing struggling tech companies and revamping them.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
data center, server farm, computer warehouse. hell even data centre. not a factory.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
~progressively~
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Jensen in London
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a woman in a red dress holds a microphone and says you get one and you get one we all get one
ALT: a woman in a red dress holds a microphone and says you get one and you get one we all get one
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
spree feech
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
upgraded my pixel phone & now every time I get directions in maps - say, within a London borough - then reopen the app, it zooms out to the entire African and Eurasian continent. thinking about this & how Google's press release this week called maps and "AI service" lol
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
old enough to remember this Sergey appearance www.forbes.com/sites/mattdr...
forbes.com
Google's Sergey Brin And Sundar Pichai Deliver Stirring Speeches During Employee Walkout
More than 2,000 Google employees from at least eight offices around the country participated in the company-supported demonstrations.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
[runs over the sports desk, slams coffee cup down, clears throat] ABOVE THE KLAW
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
the misspelling on elon's shirt is the 🍒 on the 💩
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
german word for when you copy a big chunk of text, immediately forget you've done so, and then paste it in the very wrong place?
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
google news changed design & I hate it why don't you integrate gemini with google reader #rip @killedbygoogle.com
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Sundar digs a penny from the couch www.mlex.com/mlex/data-pr...
mlex.com
Google agrees to pay $30 million to resolve long-running US child-privacy suit | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
MLex Summary: Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle six-year-old litigation alleging it unlawfully tracked, profiled and targeted children under the age of 13, plaintiffs in the class-action ...
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"talent-dense" -> talented "learnings" -> lessons "LFG" -> giddy-up
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
When phrases like "new and dangerous" and "crony capitalism state" appear in a Bloomberg story, you know there are alarms ringing among investors. 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump Bid for Cut of Nvidia, AMD Revenue Risks ‘Dangerous World’
Even in an administration that has repeatedly pushed the legal limits of using economic statecraft to reshape the global business landscape, a new deal with two tech giants is raising alarm bells amon...
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
pumped for the Masa photoshoot in Lordstown
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
of all the umlauts and syntactical quirks of the NYer, calling Murdoch's pap this really tops it
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“...I’m proud of the team who dared to build a bold ambition. Every success was theirs; the failures were mine.” Builder.ai's founder in his first public comments since the company's bust read our rollicking big take today www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
How an ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Brought the First Big Bust to AI Boom
Sachin Dev Duggal helped Builder.ai reach a $1.5 billion valuation. Then its board ousted him amid allegations of inflated revenue and the startup filed for bankruptcy.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
platonic ideal of a european startup announcement: all-black fits, all-male, cheekbones to cut glass, Harry Stebbings.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“Water is an afterthought. The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
nytimes.com
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New: My deep dive into a Trump-triggered deep-sea mining gold rush and the technological and geopolitical obstacles US-licensed seabed mining companies face in extracting EV battery metals from biodiverse ecosystems in global waters under international jurisdiction. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
Trump's Critical Minerals Obsession Reignites Deep-Sea Mining
Extracting EV-battery metals from the ocean floor with support from the White House could hit tough technological and legal obstacles
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
996: use nine different llms to post nine times a week on linkedin about being a BUILDER, pat self on back six times
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
gonna build an airport, put my name on it www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
semafor.com
‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
the brutal truth is; semicolons aren't for everyone. for the psychologically impaired few that gain joy from using them incorrectly; don't do it.
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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
question is: this dude SGA or Brad Beal? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Meta Poached Apple’s Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million
Meta Platforms Inc. has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple Inc. distinguished engine...
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