Order of Play

Order of Play is the etn. newsletter: what is happening in European technology that day, sent every weekday morning before the show goes live.

  1. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Tesla revealing its flying car. Here’s your Order of Play.

  2. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Nvidia backing five UK startups in one go. Here’s your Order of Play plus an op-ed on bots and Yandex.

  3. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is an OpenAI employee allegedly planting a listening device in one of their offices, but the real news is Elon and Zuck’s thoughts on our pint ch

  4. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Meta saying its new Muse Wonder model has caught up with the frontier.

  5. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is the UK wanting AI companies to report when their models go rogue. We've also got Monty on why AI agents could make product matter more than di

  6. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. etn is officially one year old, so thank you to everyone who has tuned in along the way!!

  7. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Isomorphic Labs raising funding. We've also got a recap of yesterday's EF x ETN Demo Day

  8. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is OpenAI publishing over 700 maths papers generated by an unreleased AI model. Here's your Order of Play.

  9. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Elon Musk becoming a trillionare again. Here's your Order of Play.

  10. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be alive. The main thing happening today is OpenAI’s safety leader quitting. Here's your Order of Play plus an Op-Ed on bots, fruit flies and the man in the Chinese room.

  11. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is the European Commission's homegrown Teams replacement. Here's your Order of Play, plus an Op-Ed from Ronan

  12. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. A slight delay to the show today but we’ll be live from 12:40!

  13. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Trump telling AI companies to regulate themselves. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  14. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is AMD buying Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  15. Continental Breakfast

    We’re back live. We’ll be recapping our travels from the Axel Springer PT Awards to HumanX and more!

  16. Continental Breakfast

    Happy Friday! Just a few stops left on our Europe tour before we head back to the studio.

  17. Continental Breakfast

    What a show! HumanX did not disappoint. Keep an eye on the timeline for more updates from Europe.

  18. Continental Breakfast

    The team is live right now from HumanX in Amsterdam today and we have a stacked line up for you! The main thing happening today is discussions around AI at the UN.

  19. Continental Breakfast

    We are at the Welt AI Summit. The boys may be in Berlin, but the newsletter is still on duty this week!

  20. Continental Breakfast

    We’re taking etn on tour this week! The boys are heading over to Amsterdam for HumanX, and tomorrow will be the only live show this week.

  21. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is King Charles urging AI chiefs to stop tech going rogue. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  22. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is a one month old British AI startup closing in on a $4 billion valuation. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  23. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Open AI weighing a huge new round of funding. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  24. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is the viral post questioning who really funds AI safety. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  25. Continental Breakfast

    What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is AI's biggest rivals uniting behind a call to slow down. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  26. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Anthropic's report on the attempts to weaponise its AI. Plus, another one from Luke in our op-ed section

  27. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the launch of Apple's first foldable phone. Plus, our new op-ed section kicks off with Luke's thoughts on AI's prisoner's dilemma.

  28. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is an Anthropic researcher quitting over fears AI is spiralling out of control. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  29. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Mistral pulling off Europe's biggest-ever tech raise. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  30. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is a German startup making European space history. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  31. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  32. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is London getting its first self-driving taxis. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  33. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Apple's first CEO change in over a decade. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  34. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the debate around Dwarkesh Patel's "Agent Civilisations" essay. Live from 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play..

  35. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is TIME's new list of the 100 most influential people in AI. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  36. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Nvidia's reported $13 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play

  37. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is OpenAI's Jalapeño chip posting its first benchmark results. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  38. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the launch of the Rhine Group, a new coalition to rebuild European competitiveness. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  39. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the $13 billion takeover interest circling Hugging Face. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  40. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the discussion around Palantir's role in the British state. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  41. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Callosum's $100 million raise to make AI cheaper to run. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  42. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is OpenAI's second-quarter sales falling behind Anthropic's. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  43. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Amazon destroying rare books to train its AI. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  44. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is the upheaval at OpenAI as it heads towards an IPO. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  45. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Mistral announcing its plan to build a gigawatt of European compute by 2030. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  46. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Anthropic's backers tipping it for a $2 trillion debut. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  47. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is SpaceXAI releasing its Grok Bot agent in beta. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  48. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Anthropic meeting investors ahead of its IPO. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  49. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is an AI assistant pulling off Australia's first known autonomous cyberattack. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  50. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is AI’s creation of 16 new viruses. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  51. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Google's DeepMind leadership shake-up. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  52. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is a UK watchdog flagging AI models going rogue in cyber tests. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  53. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is Bending Spoons’ acquisition of Airtable. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  54. Welcome back. The main thing happening today is OpenAI's announcement that its model has cracked decade-old maths problems. Live 12–3 BST. Here's your Order of Play.

  55. Five days live, almost in the books, and what a week it's been. A big thanks to everyone who tuned in. Rounding it off is a Friday lineup worth clearing your diary for

  56. Welcome back. After the recent AI-stock sell-off, Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20bn fund is out seeking fresh capital. We're diving into it today

  57. Another day, another tech leader weighing in on AI's future

  58. We're back and we’re live every day, 12-3 BST. All eyes are on Anthropic today as Dario Amodei responded to the open-weights row yesterday

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