Northerner (South Shields) now at home in London. Erstwhile publisher for Simon & Schuster UK and Picador. Opinions all my own.
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Kris Doyle retweeted
The first excerpt from The AGI Chronicles is out in @TheAtlantic!
It's the story of the central beef of the AI era: the feud between Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, who have hated each other for years.
Amodei and six of his colleagues left OpenAI in 2020 to start Anthropic, but nobody knew exactly why. After a year of digging and more than 150 interviews, I figured it out.
It involves Microsoft, Kanye West, a secret plan to sell AGI to Russia and China, and a Slack channel called BATNA.
Most of all, it involves two people who didn't trust each other to build the most powerful technology either of them could imagine -- a mutual enmity that still fuels the AI race today.
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Gordon Brown: ‘I’d tell Trump he’s unpopular’ youtu.be/jn5xYYh3-zA?si=Aexb… via @YouTube
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I talked to Gordon Brown about his new book The Future Starts With Us, about politics, Pilates, the North Sea and the north of Ireland theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Chuffed! I’m glad so many people are reading this wonderful book – congratulations @CatherineOstler!
The Renoir Girls is an instant New York Times bestseller! Thrilled and so grateful to the brilliant team at S&S/Atria in the US and UK and to the descendants of those beautiful girls who told me their stories.
@krisjdoyle, Peter Borland, @GeorginaCapel ♥️ @AtriaBooks
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Amazing to see that @CatherineOstler's #TheRenoirGirls is an instant New York Times bestseller! 🥳
Get your copy now! @AtriaBooks @simonschusterUK
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week bookmarks.reviews/the-best-r… via @bookmarksreads
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Another exciting week for The AGI Chronicles!
Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, the two main publishing trades, both gave it starred reviews.
And Ray Kurzweil, the legendary futurist whose books inspired Sam, Dario, Shane Legg, and others to work on AI, gave it a very kind blurb.
Starting to think we may have cooked with this one!
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Another great review of @CatherineOstler's #TheRenoirGirls! @nypost 😍
Out in the US tomorrow! @AtriaBooks
You can read the article here 👇
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Kris Doyle retweeted
"...Ostler transforms history’s grand sweep into intimate profile."
Fab review of @CatherineOstler's #TheRenoirGirls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal! @washingtonpost
Get your copy now! @simonschusterUK
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Amazing to see @CatherineOstler's #TheRenoirGirls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal on @Bloomberg's 'The 10 Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books of Summer 2026' 😍
Out 14th July! @AtriaBooks
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Kris Doyle retweeted
For me, it was this paragraph. Heart-breaking.
“When the President saw Musk’s post, he looked at it for several beats, an expression close to pensive crossing his face. ‘They always leave me,’ he finally said. ‘They always do this. This is why I can’t have friends.’”
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Available on BBC sounds: John Nichol was shot down over Iraq, captured, tortured and paraded on Iraqi television.
Now a successful writer John's music includes Chopin, Aaron Copland, Arthur Sullivan and Elgar.
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Thrilled to see @CatherineOstler's #TheRenoirGirls in the @nytimes round up of books to look out for in July! 😍
Publishing in the US on the 14th!
@AtriaBooks
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Kris Doyle retweeted
Should you have 90 mins spare, I was on BBCR3 Private passions with the wonderful @MichaelBerkele2 chatting about the musical milestones through my life.
Elgar to Spandau Ballet, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer to Chopin.
Eclectic choices eh? Link next in next post.
ALT screen shot from BBC i player with a photo of John
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Kris Doyle retweeted
A little taste of my contribution to @ForeignPolicy on the role of the mafia in the making of the United States.
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Catch @CatherineOstler on @Lucy_Worsley's #LadyOnTrial discussing Elizabeth Chudleigh! Available to listen on BBC sounds and at 3pm on Radio 4 today 👇👇👇
bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0016…
Get Catherine's brilliant book #TheDuchessCountess to read the full story 😍
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Kris Doyle retweeted
Final Father's Day pressie RT comp.
SIGNED copies of
"BLITZ: When WW2 Came Home" are available now online & make the PERFECT gift for your beloved dad!
Stella Artois also freely available!😂🍻
RT 4 chance to win a signed copy.
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Listen to @CatherineOstler on the John Sandoe Books podcast about her new book #TheRenoirGirls! 😍
johnsandoe.com/catherine-ost…
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Kris Doyle retweeted
Very happy to see Mafia released this month in Italian. Even happier to see @robertosaviano provide a special preface to this edition. Grazie mille a tutti!
ilsaggiatore.com/libro/mafia
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