And finally, just before I left CNBC, I covered Klarna's long-awaited IPO: https://
cnbc.com/2025/09/10/kla
rna-klar-stock-soars-after-us-ipo.html
… It felt like a pretty good to way to end my 8.5-year run covering Europe's rapidly growing tech landscape…
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Klarna’s US IPO Launch Marks Europe’s Tech Growth
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UK Fintech Week 2026: Shifting Market Sentiment in Financial Technology
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As April came around, I was tasked with covering UK Fintech Week. I'd been to many fintech events in the UK over the years – but this was the first time I got a sense that the mood music was changing..
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Zepz Fintech Cuts 200 Jobs Amid Global Workforce Restructuring
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In February, I got the scoop that British fintech Zepz had laid off 200 people – a redundancy measure impacting around 20% of its global workforce at the time:
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DeepSeek’s Low-Cost AI Model Commoditizes Language Models
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In January, DeepSeek rocked the world with an advanced AI model that cost a fraction of what Western firms have spent on their models to make. I wrote about how low-cost models like DeepSeek's could result in large language models becoming a commodity:
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Valuation Maxxing: Oldest Trick in Bad Practice Book
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i've seen this too and it's the oldest trick in the valuation maxxer bad practice book
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EU Regulation: Minimal Benefit, Maximum Frustration for Europeans
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From cookies to bottle caps, Eurocrats have mastered the art of maximally irritating Europeans for minimum benefit.
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AI safety conference seeks answers to potential downsides, highlights benefits
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I ran an AI safety conference. And I look for answers to potential downfalls. AI tech will save many lives and make our economy way more productive. So I start there.
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AI-Generated Applications Reshape Job Market and Hiring Processes
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AI slop in the job application process is only going to increase internal referrals processes and network effects. At least 50% of applications I receive are the same AI answers. To the applicant, they seem impressive and well thought out. To the recipient, it looks like the
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AI Impact on Employment Taxes and Public Revenue
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How AI Will Reshape Employment Taxes And Public Revenues
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AI-Generated Live Action Movies Transform Hollywood Economics
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Ok, it’s here. We are going to have a massive explosion of live action movies and new IP being created without the need for expensive cameras. It will change the entire fabric of Hollywood and the economics of movies.