Building AI agents that run your infrastructure. CEO & cofounder at Plural. Venture-backed. A decade in New York, now London still on NY time. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Proud that @Microsoft has named @plural_sh as one of 14 startups to watch at #Ignite. Our governed AI agents clear CVEs, incidents and K8s upgrades, with every fix as a reviewable PR.
Come see it live at Innovation Basecamp in SF, Nov 16-18.
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Amazon is blocking third-party AI shopping agents (Perplexity, Google, Meta’s Muse) so shoppers use its own. Walmart just shipped an MCP server so approved agents can search inventory and check out on your behalf, with per-agent controls 🍿
Can we just declare political bankruptcy and start again from scratch?
🚨 NEW: John Healey is considering introducing income tax on parents who pass their business down to their children in the Budget
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Character.ai files for Chapter 11 – my guess is we are about to see a flood of boom to bust AI startups with little moat, low switching cost and no critical pain solved
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OpenAI’s post is very very very carefully worded so here’s more information from the criminal complaint and DOJ statements.
The individual that planted the device was Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national and engineer on the product team who joined OpenAI in July 2025.
Key allegations from the complaint (N.D. Cal.):
• On or about Sept. 30, OpenAI’s technical surveillance team found a surreptitious audio recording device plugged into a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room. It was concealed in toilet paper, installed around Sept. 28, and its contents were encrypted.
• The room is used for highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic discussions. Alfozan had no authority to access it or attend meetings there. CCTV showed him near the room on multiple dates beforehand.
• On Oct. 5 he entered the room and appeared to look behind the TV. That same day he left an unattended bag in another room containing his wallet, ID, and a second similar recording device.
• Before installation, he queried internal tools about building addresses, meeting rooms, room capacities, calendars, and locations of leadership and external partner meetings.
• A chatbot account tied to his spouse (sharing multiple identifiers with his own) submitted prompts between Sept. 24–30 about building a continuous audio recorder, encrypting the SD card, concealing the device, adding Wi-Fi/remote access, and the specific device’s MAC address.
He’s been charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications (18 U.S.C. § 2511).
If convicted: up to 5 years, $250,000 fine, and 3 years supervised release.
Arrested Oct. 9, initial appearance Oct. 13, remains in custody. Detention hearing set for Oct. 19.
OpenAI says it used its models to help identify him, coordinated the termination with the FBI (access was progressively restricted beforehand), and has no indications of model-weight, source-code, or customer-data exfiltration.
U.S. Attorney described it as a national-security matter; FBI has flagged protection of American AI innovation as a high counterintelligence priority.
Friendly reminder that physical + digital insider-threat controls matter even when the goal isn’t classic IP exfiltration. Wiretap charges don’t require successful data theft. Toilet-paper concealment and a second device left in a bag with ID are not sophisticated tradecraft.
(Complaint details drawn from SF Standard reporting, DOJ/USAO Northern District of California statements, and OpenAI’s own post.)
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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📊Las 10 mejores adquisiciones de todos los tiempos.
🤯Locura que de las 5 más rentables, 3 sean de Google (Alphabet).
En Youtube casi han hecho un x100 veces.
Brutal 👇👇
My car was stolen in London 😒 According to the police there was no footage, no suspect and clearly no investigation.
Case closed in 1 hour. In one of the most surveilled cities on earth. Bonkers.
So I went and looked at the data. It turns out my case is the norm. 🧵
@metpoliceuk @MayorofLondon @AndyBurnhamGM @ukhomeoffice
Three questions:
What is the target charge rate for vehicle theft?
Why does recovery range from 13% to 50% between forces?
Will you publish both figures quarterly?
Some credit where due. The Crime and Policing Act 2026 makes it an offence to possess or supply these devices, with up to 5 years in prison. The Met says vehicle offences fell 9% in the year to June.
A law only matters if someone is caught, and at a 0.9% charge rate very few are.
This is organised crime. The Met's own estimate is that around 60% of London vehicle thefts use electronic devices like relay boxes and signal jammers.
A crime with a 1 in 100 chance of a charge is a business model with almost no risk.
What are the odds of getting your car back?
Police forces recovered about 13% of stolen vehicles between 2022 and 2025. The Met recovers around 400 a month against roughly 2,800 thefts.
Staffordshire recovers 50%. So this can be done.
What are the odds of someone being charged?
In the quarter to June 2024, the Met closed 8,861 vehicle theft investigations. 80 ended in a charge.
That is 0.9%. In 90% of cases no suspect was even identified.
London accounts for roughly a third of all UK vehicle thefts. The Met recorded 33,409 in a single year, which is 91 a day, or one every 16 minutes.
Oura shelved its IPO. I've worn a @Garmin for years. The first few months are fascinating. Once you've learned your stats, it's less interesting. My RHR is pretty static. I know what good vs bad sleep is. But a watch is still a watch. A ring with a monthly fee is a harder sell.
Slovenia's .si domain registrations jumped 2,199% in the last few days... Somewhere in Ljubljana a registry admin is having the month of their life 😆