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Upside — 105 episodes

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Nvidia Backstops Wall Street - Open Source is Back Baby! - More AI Agents Go Rogue

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Markets Too Hot? - The DeepMind Shake Up - The UKs £1bn Fund

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Markets: Why Winning Is Losing - Big Tech Is Out Of Cash - Cracks in Claude’s Cryptography.

4

US Bans Chinese AI? - Hugging Face Hack PR? - What Will Burnham Do Next?

5

100th Episode Special: What will our world look like in 2028?

6

China Blocks AI - Are UK Pensions Now In Venture!? - Is it 1999?

7

Burnham’s Britain - AI Creates A New World Order - How Trade Becomes War

8

Why Does Micron Matter? Will UK Capital Flow? The AI Bill Is Due - Who’s Paying?

9

Anthropic’s Fable - Technical or Political - The G7 AI Backroom Chat - Europe's $Trillion Company

10

Has AI Hit Its Glass Ceiling? Quantum IPOs at 500x Rev?! & Siri Goes Google!

11

Time To Rip Out Palantir? - Where Is The AI ROI? - And Florida Sues OpenAI?!

12

AI Winners Beyond NVIDIA - Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 Is Out! - A Zero Employee Startup Raises $30m!

13

IPOs Unfreeze - 3 Sovereign Euro Deals Land - Do You Hate AI?

14

Upside Special - What Would European Investors Back With Their Last Euro?

15

Anthropic Builds - ASML defends - Meta Cracks

16

Musk v. Altman - UK Eats EU AI Act - SMRs Solve UK’s Energy Crisis?!

17

EU Eats Its Own - Europe Gives Up On Space - Is SpaceX Really Buying Cursor?

18

EU Hungry for Hungary - Solo Founder Unicorns - & Let’s Ship Something Great!

19

Menacing Mythos, Mega IPOs & Dimon’s Doomerism

20

Why $800m Mistral? - Who’s Boycotting Palantir? - When CoreWeave Crushed Poolside

21

The AI Token Economy - Europe Finally Writes a Big Cheque - Cursor Caught Out

22

Jensen Drops a Trillion - Hyperscalers Go Broke - & Some Guy Cures Cancer with ChatGPT

23

It's a Recession. Europe Smashes. London Maxes.

24

AI Safety Theatre & War - What Is It Good For?

25

Intelligence Crisis, Europe’s Rearmament Boom & The End Of AI Safety

26

Clone Wars, Euro-Meme Stocks & Magic Mushrooms

27

Is AI Simply Making Work More Fun?

28

AI Wars, SaaSpocalypse & Muskonomics

29

Your AI Intern With Root Access - Masa Goes Massive - Europe's Midlife Crisis

30

Doh Davos, Data Centre Downsides, No To Delaware, Dead SaaS & Defence IPOs

31

Can EU Starlink? - The EU’s 25yr Mega Trade Deal - Anthropic's CoWork Kills It!

32

The Biggest Tech Co. You’ve Never Heard Of - FTSE Beats S&P, Psychedelics Are Back & CES AI Corner

33

10 Venture Predictions - The Picks & Nix For '26!

34

2025 Christmas Special - It’s a Wrap!

35

Why Company Sovereignty Matters - China's $1trn Surplus Flood Zone - European Punching

36

Europe’s Comeback - Brexit 2.0 - Another ‘Code Red’ & Roll Up Roll Ups

37

God AI - A German Ecosystem Deepdive - Part Time VCs - Google Hot Or Not?

38

We Get Slush’d - Germany Gets Space’d - As TPU’s Crush

39

Tech Sovereignty And Becoming Full Stack Nations

40

A Baltic Boom, Matt Clifford Rouses, A Tale Of Two Quants

41

Should You Raise Right Now? Should Govts Buy Stocks? Should NVIDIA Have Bought Nokia?

42

The Robots Are Here Already?! - UK Govt Wasting Time In AI Sandboxes - 28th Update.

43

VC's Fun'raising - Has China won AI already? & The WHY behind bubble-talk AI

44

Upside #61 - Defence Special PLUS what IS the AI bubble really?

45

Upside Ep #60 — Germany's White Gold, The UK's Red Ink, and Reinventing VC

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Upside Ep #59 — UK at a Crossroads, AI Surge, Defence Tensions, H1B Shock

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Upside #57 - What's Hot & Not in European Tech w/ Mike Butcher from TechCrunch

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Upside #56 - Most Euro Pension Cash Ever, The Power of Xi, & Let Chaos Reign

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Upside #55 - Digital Sovereignty vs Autarky

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Upside #53 - EU vs US Wealth Creation, Energy Breakthroughs, M&A Boom Means?

51

Upside #52 - More Chips Please - Be More German - No Easy A?

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🎙️ Upside #51 - Project Eurhope - SaaS Is Sexy Again - The EU US Trade Reality

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Upside #50 - Can Stablecoins Save The Dollar? UK vs US AI Strategies & The Red or Blue Pill?

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Upside #49 - The United States of Europe

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Upside #48 - Defence The Only Game In Town? Are We Peak LLM? WFH Killing Me Softly...

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Upside #47 - Will AI Kill The Internet? IPO's Up? Can Doctors Beat AI?

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Upside #46 - Is Big Tech Britain On Track? Bubble or Boom?

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Upside #45 - Proxy Wars, Booming IPOs, & Defence Saves Europe

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Upside #44 - Cybercrime Up, UK Govt Investments Up, Nuclear Up, War... Down.

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Upside #43 - EU Rate Advantage, Naughty Lawyers, AI Copy…right? A UK Defence Reviewer Says What?

61

Upside #42 - Worlds Biggest Trade + EU Scale-err-up Strategy + The Jony & Sam Love-in

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Upside Special - The Inside Track Of European Venture in 2025

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Upside Special - Poker Power For Founders & Investors

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Upside #41 - Publics Meets Privates – What It Means for Venture

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Upside #40 - Pension Cash *Will* Unlock UK VC - But when, how & so what?

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Upside #39 - Lab Grown Meat Back On? Euro-Funds Swim In Cash & Why Anti-Trust Wins

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Upside #38 - Turkish Tech, Tough Love & Trends for '25

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Upside #37 – Q1 2025 in Review + Tariffs & European Venture + Heads Down & Build

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Upside #36 - Tariffs - Liberating Europe - Pension Cha-Ching - “Peace” Tech

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Upside #35 - Spring Non-Statement, Project EurHope, Power of Brand

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Upside #34 - Filthy Food, AI Jesus, 7pm Bryan and Startup Spies.

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Upside #33 - UK DOGE, Project Europe, Trump's Real Tariff Tactics

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Upside #32 - Tech to kill, tech to heal.

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Upside #31 - The Grind is Back

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Upside #30 - Can Europe win AI, Fusion & Quantum?

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Upside #29 - Le Summit, Le Chat, Le $100bn

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Upside #28 - Inside no.10, Going Nuclear, UK merely a startup incubator? European (lack of) sovereign wealth?

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Upside #27 - You say to NATO, EU defence up in arms, UK growth rhetoric vs reality, Deepseek deep dive.

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Upside #26 - Operator operates, AI workforces launch, More runways = what? Trumps first days and Stargate.

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Upside #25 - UK IPOs Rise, AI Opportunities Action Plan, A Jurassic Lark & White Hydrogen

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Upside #24 - Fact Check This, European Unicorns, Should Govt Invest in Startups? Digits For Who?

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Upside #23 - Some not so obvious predictions for 2025

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Upside #22 - The News Behind 2024's Biggest Tech Headlines

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Upside #21 - UK Govt to act like a startup? Why China's downturn matters here. The EU Brain drain - is it real? A quantum leap, and green steel.

85

The Seed #20 - Euro-Autocrash, Euro-(no)Doom, Europe's 1st Trillion $tartup, Musk v Altman

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The Seed #19 - Body scans yay nay, ChatGPT is 2 - now what for LLMs, are psychedelics back?

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The Seed #18 - Slush worth it? Bitcoin and morality. Anthropic with $4bn. Peak AI?

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The Seed #17 - AI in real money, Identity politics is dead, M&A up, Bitcoin up. Humanity down.

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The Seed #16 - Trump in CHIPS out - UK CHIPS in? Burnout Stats and Buffet Cashes Out

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The Seed #15 - The UK Budget, ARM vs NVIDIA, Germany's Non-Profits, Where Are all the Investors Going?

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The Seed #14 - hAIpe at Perplexity, Claude controlling the desktop, Palantir & the NHS, is everyone a media company? US markets will chill

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The Seed #13 - who cares about climate, Trump poll trolls, liquidity is nowhere, UK trade, and is the EU project over?

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The Seed #12 - UK Budget, Are LPs Still Grumpy, DOJ Breaking up Google, Where Are All The Startups

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The Seed - Episode 11 - This week in Euro startup land - 29th Sep

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The Seed - Episode 10 - This Week In Euro Investing and StartupLand

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The Seed - Episode 9 - This Week In Euro StartupLand

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The Seed - Episode 8

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The Seed - Episode 7

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The Seed - Episode 6

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The Seed - Episode 5

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The Seed - Episode 4

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The Seed - Episode 3

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The Seed - Episode 2

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The Seed - Episode 1

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The Seed - Pilot