Pete Marcus
@petemarcus
💻Founder at Delphi, a strategic communications consultancy in tech 🤓MSc at the Oxford Internet Institute 2022-24 🥰Tech comms, strategy, culture
A useful reminder from Benedict Evans on the messy, non-technical reality of deploying AI: "Gareth is your user."
WSJ sums up a busy 10 days in AI (which weren't very helpful to Meta's pro-AI push)
Saturday's World Cup quarter-final makes me remember the opening to Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island...
Some new stats on AI usage in the UK (via @deloittedigi.bsky.social). 1 in 10 people use AI daily and 63% have used it at least once, a big jump on last year.
Interesting WSJ piece on the rise of chief comms officers www.wsj.com/cmo-today/th...
Looking at the semiotics of Apple's new CEO announcement. Presumably the choice of clothing here denotes 'minimum disruption imaginable'...? www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Lots of great charts in the new 2026 Stanford AI Index. But this one stood out to me: "AI adoption is spreading at historic speed". hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
This is a remarkable map of attitudes to tech across Britain, with a stark urban-rural divide. The full data here is well worth a read: www.moreincommon.org.uk/blog/britons...
Bonkers chart from a16z: Computer & software demand clocked steady c20% contribution to US GDP growth from 2010, "until it absolutely exploded upwards in 2025. That’s a Dotcom crash amount of discontinuity, but *in the positive direction*."
A valuable note of caution from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social on the current AI hype and SaaSacre 👇
Spotted around Shepherd’s Bush recently. Not sure what it means but I kinda like it.
Stat in @economist.com: 71% of US podcasts now have video. Interesting suggestion that video aids social sharing and discovery too. (Audio is notoriously difficult to share and seems not to be inherently viral like text/video.)
Interesting to see the logic set out in Ben H's post on a16z's new fund. The chain goes: policy --> tech --> geopolitics --> freedom. They increasingly understand the first two links as connected, and essential for underpinning the second two. You can argue against it, but that's the logic.
Tech predictions for 2026 from @caseynewton.bsky.social www.platformer.news/2026-tech-pr...
Just getting round to reading the NYT's obit for Tom Stoppard and I'm struck once again by the brilliance of this speech from The Real Thing...
Good chart from @azeem.bsky.social that captures something I've noticed anecdotally: AI obsession from businesses, leaders, elites; AI suspicion from workers and consumers...
Interesting TfL data that shows Londoners are slowly coming back the office more and WFH less (via @jim.londoncentric.media)