Tom Ough (UnHerd)

Tom Ough (UnHerd): The Death of Ask Jeeves & UK AI Optimism

Tom Ough, editor at UnHerd and co-host of its futurism podcast, explains his piece on the shutdown of Ask Jeeves, reading the valet mascot's demise as a parable for Britain's shrinking soft power and an internet increasingly designed for users with no cultural context. They weigh naming a future UK frontier lab 'Jeeves', assess the UK's £500 million AI funding and the influx of AI labs to London, and Tom flags headwinds like expensive industrial energy, a bloated state, and the UK's abandoned vertical-launch program.

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