September Management founder Jonathan Dickins participated in a rare on-stage interview at SXSW London on Friday (June 6).
Speaking with broadcaster Edith Bowman, Dickins reflected on his 20-year journey from being “a pretty average A&R guy at a major record company” to managing some of the biggest artists in the world – including superstar Adele.
The conversation spanned the work behind constructing a temporary stadium in Munich for Adele’s record-breaking residency to nurturing long-term careers of September Management artists like Jamie T, among others.
MBW had a front row seat. Here are five things we learned…
1. Long-term artist development trumps viral moments every time
Dickins is adamant that sustainable success comes from patient career building rather than chasing social media trends or viral moments. He emphasized this philosophy using various examples of artists who have developed over time.
“I’m proud of the work we’ve done [with artists] like Jamie T. The last album [The Theory of Whatever ] was his first No.1 album [in the UK]. He’s 37 years old, and, you know, he came out at the same time [as] the Klaxons and the Kooks.
“We’ve just continued to grow, and that culminated in [Jamie T] selling 35,000 tickets at Finsbury Park two years ago.”
But Dickins believes the industry is finally embracing “long-term thinking” when it comes to artist development.
“I think there’s a new way of thinking where it isn’t necessarily like, it has all got to happen on the first record. And long may that continue, because we as a business, really need to concentrate more and more [on] development of artists. Quick fixes usually just give short-term results.”
In the wider industry, he pointed to artists like Sleep Token, Mitski and Turnstile as having developed long-term and finding success. “I would put my money on Turnstile being the next really big alternative rock [band], 15 years in the making,” he said.
“Sleep Token have been putting music out since 2016.” Sleep Token’s Even in Arcadia (RCA) recently hit No.1 on the US album chart.
“Long-term thinking, long-term planning, and long-term strategies are key,” added Dickins.
2. Modern management is all about teamwork and self-sufficiency
Asked about what’s changed the most in management over the past 20 years, Dickins said: “When we look back at [the history] management, you always look at individuals. It’s like, Brian Epstein or Jon Landau, always men by the way, which is bollocks. There are brilliant managers [who are]. women out there. But I don’t think it’s about the individual [managers] anymore.
“Management is a team, and in a weird way, what we’re trying to build are services that kind of mirror a small record company. We build self-sufficiency.”
He explained that September Management has developed extensive in-house capabilities:
“What I mean by self-sufficiency is that we have a place where people can record. We have a facility where people can put music out as a record label. And more importantly, we have digital [capabilities] in-house. And that’s been very valuable.”
This approach allows the company to maintain control and quality: “[The September team] have already added value to that, and they almost, in a way, supply some of the functions that you would expect to find at a social media agency or a record company.
“It’s not about individuals. It’s really about teams and having resources in-house, which means that you can be self-sufficient and not rely on other people.”
3. The Munich stadium project set new standards for bespoke artist experiences
Adele’s 10-night stadium residency in Munich in August 2024 represented a completely new model for touring, one that Dickins describes as “the single biggest grossing show by a female artist in history for one city.”
The event attracted over 730,000 fans, making it the highest-attendance concert residency outside of Las Vegas, according toLive Nation and Ticketmaster.
“No one’s done anything like it,” said Dickens. “I just don’t want to be generic. I want us to try new things. I don’t just want to be doing the same shit as everyone else, playing the same venues.”
The project involved constructing a purpose-built venue in the car park of the Messe in Munich, and even earned a Guinness World Record for the “Largest Continuous Outdoor LED Screen.”
“As soon as people entered the walkway into the stadium, it [was] a reflection on Adele,” Dickins explained. “So you had two pressures. You had the pressure of building the show, like you do with any tour. Then you had the pressure of building the surroundings.”
The venue operated more like a festival than a traditional concert, as Dickins explained: “She went on about 8:15 pm, for probably a two-hour show, but we had the license in the venue until 1 am.
“At 1 am in the morning, there were 22,000 people in there, still drinking, hanging out… We [created] an environment where people [experienced] a mini festival. It was a festival for one artist.”
The approach created two distinct experiences for Adele: “We had the Munich show, which [was] so big and huge, and then we [had] the complete antithesis of that with Las Vegas, which was … small and intimate, playing a room of, I think, 4,000 people. And then the other side of that was building this stadium and having 80,000 people in it every night.”
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4. Historical streaming deals are creating an unfair system for some artists
Dickins was asked about how the industry has changed for artists, and the conversations he’s having with artists in terms of fighting for them in the music business. He was particularly critical of how pre-streaming record deals are being treated in the current landscape.
“If you’re in a deal in the UK music business [signed in around ] 2010, just prior to streaming and you weren’t in the position to be able to renegotiate that deal, you are getting paid a fucking slave rate for historical catalog,” he said.
“Artists [who signed a deal] in 2006, 2007, I don’t think it’s uncommon to see those artists getting paid a royalty of 14% on streaming.
Asked by Bowman what can be done for artists in that situation, Dickens explained: “You’re talking about times when every deal was in perpetuity of contract. So there’s not much you can do.”
He explained how this creates a profitable situation for labels at artists’ expense: “New music becomes a loss leader. Everybody’s really holding on to these historical [contracts], because there’s a lot of money to be made in streaming.
“As an artist gets bigger, no one’s invested in the catalog. It’s just sitting there, and they’re spending no money on marketing, and those streaming numbers are just hitting the bottom line. So it’s pure profit, and when that’s being shared, I think [at] a really poor rate [with] those artists [who signed deals] at the time, I think it’s not right.
“That’s the problem for artists pre-streaming; deals before 2011, 2012. Since then, there’s much more flexibility for artists.”
Elsewhere, Dickens highlighted the importance for artists to focus on making good music:
“I believe that, when you have a successful business with an artist, the recorded part of it could end up being a little bit like special projects. But music is central to everything.
“Without the music, it doesn’t drive all these other areas. You’ve got to be focused on making great music, but at the same time, it’s definitely important to look at growing outside the areas of the traditional verticals.”
5. Relevance is about combining youth and experience, not choosing between them.
For Dickins, staying relevant in the music industry requires embracing both fresh perspectives and accumulated wisdom.
“I’ve always been neither disrespectful of experience nor disrespectful of youth, because they both offer different things.
“It’s mind-blowing to me how internet savvy the younger generation are [compared] to someone of my age. It’s important as well that you’re always [exploring] new models and new things, because the last thing you want is your artist to get old with you.”
Dickins added: “I’m always interested in people who are designing or producing shows or making music in terms of production, or beat makers. It’s really important as a company that we’re on top of things.”
But experience proves crucial when success arrives: “Experience comes in [useful] when artists become a bit more successful. People lose their minds when it blows up. They get gassed up. And then when it comes to [the] real business, which is touring, and some of the stuff around that, and the costs, if you don’t get a bunch of that right, artists can lose fortunes. And that’s where I think experience comes in.
“I think it’s really about having a blend of youth and experience. I don’t think one works without the other. I always want to try to get that blend as good as we possibly can.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Dickins explained that he’s “not worried” about the company getting any bigger than it is today.
“I’m proud that the company is 100% independent,” he said. “I’m really happy about that. There’s no private equity, there’s no big corporate funding.
“I’ve never wanted to be a management supermarket. I’ve always wanted to get better, rather than bigger.”Music Business Worldwide
An Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after taking off for London Gatwick Airport on Thursday, the airline said.
Sources: Aerial image by Airbus via Google Earth; Flight data by Flightradar24
Note: All times shown are local.
Video of the incident shot from a nearby rooftop and verified by The New York Times shows the plane steadily descending. A large explosion follows.
Source: Newsflare, via Associated Press
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Source: Newsflare, via Associated Press
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The plane crashed into the campus of a medical college, killing at least five students, according to Minakshi Parikh, the college’s dean. It damaged multiple dormitories and a dining hall. The plane’s tail was lodged in the dining hall building, where many students had fled, some leaving their meals behind.
Sources: Aerial image by Airbus via Google Earth. Photos by Reuters.
The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. There have been no fatal crashes recorded for the aircraft, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
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A US senator was forcibly removed and handcuffed by federal agents at a press conference held by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California.
US Secret Service agents assigned to Noem’s security detail pushed Alex Padilla, the Democratic senator from California, from the room as Noem spoke to reporters at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles.
Video of the altercation showed federal agents wrestling Padilla to the ground outside the room and handcuffing him.
Padilla later told reporters outside the federal building that he was “almost immediately forcibly removed from the room” after he began to ask Noem a question.
“I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested,” he said.
“I will say this: if this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question . . . you can only imagine what they are doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day labourers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country,” Padilla added. “We will hold this administration accountable.”
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused Padilla of “disrespectful political theatre” and “incredibly aggressive behaviour”.
She said in a series of posts to X that the senator had “interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem”.
“Mr Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands,” McLaughlin said. “Secret Service thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.”
Video footage showed Padilla interrupting the press conference and saying, “My name is Senator Alex Padilla, and I have questions for the secretary,” as he was pushed out of the room.
The FBI later issued a statement saying Padilla was removed by Secret Service agents “when he became disruptive while formal remarks were being delivered”. The FBI said the agents were assisted by FBI police.
“Senator Padilla did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin,” the FBI added. “Senator Padilla was subsequently positively identified and released.”
The altercation involving a member of Congress and federal agents marked a new escalation after days of tensions in Los Angeles, where the Trump administration has ordered the deployment of National Guard troops and US Marines to help in an anti-immigration crackdown.
Protests have sprung up in Los Angeles and across the country in opposition to the White House’s efforts to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Thursday: “I just saw something that sickened my stomach, the manhandling of a United States senator. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on.”
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat, added: “This is the stuff of dictatorships.”
US President Donald Trump did not immediately respond to the incident. But White House communications director Steven Cheung said the video footage “shows the public what a complete lunatic Padilla is by rushing towards Secretary Noem and disturbing the informative press conference”.
Noem, who was addressing events in the city, told reporters at the press conference that Padilla’s actions were inappropriate.
“I don’t even know the senator,” she said, adding she would “have a conversation with him and visit and find out, really, what his concerns were”.
“I think everybody in America would have to agree that that wasn’t appropriate, that if you wanted to have a civil discussion, especially as a leader, a public official, that you would reach out and try to have a conversation.”
The homeland security department later said Noem and Padilla met for 15 minutes after the incident.
Abduweli Ayup has not been back to Kashgar since 2015, and his chances of doing so anytime soon seem slim. The Chinese government has canceled his passport, he said.
Sometimes he watches videos on YouTube of his hometown. They do not make him feel better. It feels compulsive, he said, “like eating bad food.”
“You know, you want to keep eating it, but afterward your stomach feels upset,” he added. As he watched one video while speaking with a BuzzFeed News reporter, Ayup pointed to a giant sculpture of a traditional stringed instrument by the gates of the city. “See that, that’s just for tourists,” he said.
The city is now full of these sorts of photogenic additions. There are giant teapots at the main junction near the city gate. Elsewhere, murals show maps of Xinjiang or carry slogans such as “Xinjiang Impressions” where visitors stop to take holiday snaps. A new entrance has been added to the metalwork market, with a large sign featuring silhouetted figures hammering iron. The anvil statue at the corner now comes with projection-mapped fire, as well as sparks and a piped soundtrack of metal being struck. Camel rides are available too.
In the videos he has seen, Ayup has also noticed footage of people dancing while wearing traditional Uyghur dress — costumes that they might have worn more than a century ago. Figures like these can be seen on Chinese state television and at the country’s annual rubber-stamp parliamentary session. “Nobody would wear that clothing anymore unless it was for show,” Ayup said.
Tourism is now booming in Xinjiang. Last year, even as global numbers fell as a consequence of the pandemic, 190 million tourists visited the region — more than a 20% increase from the previous year. Revenue increased by 43%. As part of its “Xinjiang is a wonderful land” campaign, the Chinese government has produced English-language videos and held events to promote a vision of the region as peaceful, newly prosperous, and full of dramatic landscapes and rich culture.
Chinese state media has portrayed this as an economic growth engine for Xinjiang natives, too. One article described how a former camp detainee named Aliye Ablimit had, upon her release, received hospitality training. “After graduation, I became a tour guide for Kashgar Ancient City,” Ablimit said, according to the article. “And later, I turned my home into a Bed and Breakfast. Tourists love my house very much because of its Uygur style. All the rooms are fully booked these days. Now I have a monthly income of about 50,000 yuan,” or about $7,475.
The facade holds up less well with Kashgar’s mosques. Many of the smaller neighborhood mosques appear to be out of use, their wooden doors damaged and padlocked shut — and others have been demolished completely or converted to other uses, including cafés and public toilets.
Inside the Id Kah mosque, many of the cameras, including inside the prayer halls, have disappeared. But as might be expected given the past five years, many of the worshippers have disappeared too, down from 4,000–5,000 at Friday prayers in 2011 to just 800 or so today.
The mosque’s imam, Mamat Juma, acknowledged as much in an interview with a vlogger who often produces videos that support Chinese government narratives, posted in April 2021. Speaking through a translator, he is at pains to point out that not all Uyghurs are Muslims and to diminish the role of the religion in Uyghur culture. “I really worry that the number of believers will decrease,” he said, “but that shouldn’t be a reason to force them to pray here.” ●
MAX Field Hockey is excited to announce the official launch of a brand new Player Profile and Data System! This project is something that has been in the works for years and we are thrilled to finally make it live and share it with the field hockey community. MAX Field Hockey’s previous player profiles, college commitments and data were all static content. Our new system connects all of that and enhances the access to all of the content we host on MAX Field Hockey.
Player Profiles We are making a complete switch to these new Player Profiles. We will leave up the old player profiles for a couple of months to allow players to pull information from those to their new profiles. We also don’t want to switch immediately in the middle of a high recruiting season in case players have linked to and are relying on the old profiles in their communications with college coaches.
We already moved 1,200+ player profiles into the new system to ensure the existing data carries over. Any player who reported a college commitment, is in the player rankings, received a MAXFH High School award, participated in the Top 150 or Top 100 event, is on a Team USA Indoor or Outdoor National Team, or is a Longstreth Ambassador has already been moved over to the new system. We did not pull the detailed profile content you may have had from the High School, Club, USA Field Hockey, Other sections. You will need to shift those over if you are interested in keeping them on your profile.
To find out if you are already in the new system, please go to thePlayer Search and search for your name. If it is in there, please email admin@maxfieldhockey.com and we will send you a start-up account login. This will not be the same login you used with the old system. Please do NOT create a new account if you are already in the system. We have the awards, player rankings, commitments, etc. tagged to your specific name/account and that will not carry over to a new account.
If you are not in the new system, please go to the Create Profile page and follow the instructions to create a new player profile.
The information contained in the MAX Field Hockey Trophy Case is all verified awards by MAX Field Hockey and include all of our awards and player rankings.
Click around the new system and see how all of the content is now connected. The way this is setup is already helping us with our own content. We have High School National Invitational results history entered in for High Schools and can now look back at who teams have already played and how they did when we are scheduling this upcoming year’s event. When we go to work on Preseason High School Rankings this summer, we will be able to see who is graduating and who is returning for each school and factor that into our rankings. This will all be huge for our next round of Player Rankings for the Classes of 2028 & 2029 at the beginning of 2026.
This is only stage 1 of this project!
Next up:
-Linking the “MAX Field Hockey Trophy Case” verified honors to the features on the site -Adding college commitment share images to athlete’s player profiles -Make it mobile friendly (currently it is functioning well on a desktop/laptop) -Adding major High School postseason championships to the High School pages -Adding club logos and more info to the club pages -Adding more college info to the college pages
The possibilities are endless and we look forward to expanding the content contained in the system and it’s performance moving forward.
If you have any questions, please email us at admin@maxfieldhockey.com
XGIMI has updated its funky portable projector line to include a laser edition. The battery-powered MoGo 4 has been “engineered to resonate with tech-savvy Millennials, Gen Z and Gen A” though there’s no reason old coots like me can’t join the portable laser party.
“We saw an opportunity to reinvent what a portable projector could be – not just for watching, but for setting a mood, creating a space, even transforming a selfie,” said Apollo Zhong, CEO of XGIMI. “The MoGo 4 Series isn’t just portable – it’s expressive. While others shrink projectors, we added more: filters, speakers, and design. It lives in your bag, but also in your vibe.”
At the heart of the tubular entertainment hub is a triple-laser light source that gives red, green and blue colors their own laser, which blend together before streaming through the optics. Though this only translates to the projector putting out 550 ISO lumens, there is 110% coverage of the BT.2020 color gamut and 1,000:1 native contrast for “exceptional clarity, vibrancy and depth.”
A 360-degree tilt stand and autofocus plus auto keystone correction should make for a relatively easy setup
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Its 1080p DLP projection engine with a 0.23-inch DMD chip can reportedly throw visuals at up to 200 diagonal inches, but 120 inches is the recommended maximum, and there’s support for HDR10 content. Autofocus and auto keystone correction should make setup relatively painless too.
The MoGo 4 Laser boasts a built-in 71.28-Wh battery that’s reckoned good for up to 2.5 hours of watching in eco mode or 6 hours of rocking in Bluetooth speaker mode. Video play can be increased to 5 hours with the optional 20,000-mAh PowerBase stand, or a 65-W powerbank can be plugged in if you want to keep things compact and portable.
Wi-Fi 5 is cooked in, while Google TV serves up streaming entertainment, plus there’s ARC-supported HDMI for cabling to a source. A 12-watt dual-speaker Dolby sound system courtesy of Harman Kardon rocks the soundtrack. And there’s an IR mini remote for quick control as well as a backlit BT remote for more control options.
Setting the mood with a Sunset filter
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Beyond movie entertainment, the projector also ships with four magnetic filters that can be popped in front of the lens to help set the mood, with the wave of a hand switching between different modes. The main unit is attached to a transparent tilt base that can disperse a little of the projector’s laser light when docked, and there’s a buckle lanyard for between-use transport.
The MoGo 4 Laser edition measures 8.2 x 3.8 x 3.8 in (207.6 x 96.5 x 96.5 mm) and tips the scales at 2.9 lb (1.32 kg). It’s available from today for US$799, but can be bundled with a PowerBase stand and 70-inch outdoor screen for an extra hundred bucks. For the next month, XGIMI is also running a 10% off launch promotion.
If LED will do you, then a MoGo 4 model putting out 450 ISO lumens and coming with one ambient filter will set you back $499, or $549 with the PowerBase.
Trump deployed federal troops to Los Angeles as ICE raids sparked protests and citywide unrest.
Los Angeles has become a military zone. As citywide protests erupted following ICE raids on local immigrant communities, United States President Donald Trump sent Marines and National Guard troops into the city for the first time in decades. How is this show of force turning immigration raids into a national flashpoint?
Welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition…Disney and Universal join forces in lawsuit against AI image creator Midjourney…France’s Mistral gets a business boost thanks to fears over US AI dominance…Google names DeepMind’s Kavukcuoglu to lead AI-powered product development.
Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to be personally recruiting — reportedly at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto — for a new 50-person “Superintelligence” AI team at Meta meant to gain ground on rivals like Google and OpenAI. The plan includes hiring a new head of AI research to work alongside Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who is being brought in as part of a plan to invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the training data company.
On the surface, it might appear that Zuckerberg could easily win this war for AI talent by writing the biggest checks.
And the checks Zuck is writing are, by all accounts, huge. Deedy Das, a VC at Menlo Ventures, told me that he has heard from several people the Meta CEO has tried to recruit. “Zuck had phone calls with potential hires trying to convince them to join with a $2M/yr floor,” he said (a number that one AI researcher told me was “not outrageous at all” and “is likely low in certain sub-areas like LLM pre-training,” though most of the compensation would be in the form of equity). Later, on LinkedIn Das went further, claiming that for candidates working at a big AI lab, “Zuck is personally negotiating $10M+/yr in cold hard liquid money. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Some of these pro athlete-level offers are working. According to Bloomberg, Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, is expected to join Meta’s “superintelligence” team, while it said Meta has also recruited Johan Schalkwyk, a machine learning lead at AI voice startup Sesame AI.
Money isn’t everything
But money alone may not be enough to build the kind of AI model shop Meta needs. According to Das, several researchers have turned down Zuckerberg’s offer to take roles at OpenAI and Anthropic.
There are several issues at play: For one thing, there simply aren’t that many top AI researchers, and many of them are happily ensconced at OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind with high six- or low seven-figure salaries and access to all the computing capacity they could want. In a March Fortunearticle, I argued that companies are tracking top AI researchers and engineers like prized assets on the battlefield. The most intense fight is over a small pool of AI research scientists — estimated to be fewer than 1,000 individuals worldwide, according to several industry insiders Fortune spoke with — with the qualifications to build today’s most advanced large language models.
“In general, all these companies very closely watch each others’ compensation, so on average it is very close,” said Erik Meijer, a former senior director of engineering at Meta who left last year. However, he added that Meta uses “additional equity” which is a “special kind of bonus to make sure compensation is not the reason to leave.”
Beyond the financial incentives, personal ties to leading figures and adherence to differing philosophies about artificial intelligence have lent a tribal element to Silicon Valley’s AI talent wars. More than 19 OpenAI employees followed Mira Murati to her startup Thinking Machines earlier this year, for example. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees who disagreed with their employer’s strategic direction.
Das, however, said it really depends on the person. “I’d say a lot more people are mercenary than they let on,” he said. “People care about working with smart people and they care about working on products that actually work but they can be bought out if the price is right.” But for many, “they have too much money already and can’t be bought.”
Meta’s layoffs and reputation may drive talent decisions
Meta’s own sweeping layoffs earlier this year could also sour the market for AI talent, some told me. “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” said Zuckerberg in an internal memo back in January. The memo said Meta planned to increasingly focus on developing AI, smart glasses and the future of social media. Following the memo, about 3,600 employees were laid off—roughly 5% of Meta’s workforce
One AI researcher told me that he had heard about Zuckerberg’s high-stakes offers, but that people don’t trust Meta after the “weedwacker” layoffs.
Meta’s existing advanced AI research team FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) has increasingly been sidelined in the development of Meta’s Llama AI models and has lost key researchers. Joelle Pineau, who had been leading FAIR, announced her departure in April. Most of the researchers who developed Meta’s original Llama model have left, including two cofounders of French AI startup Mistral. And a trio of top AI researchers left a year ago to found AI agent startup Yutori.
Finally, there are hard-to-quantify issues, like prestige. Meijer expressed doubt that Meta could produce AI products that experts in the field would perceive as embodying breakthrough capabilities. “The bitter truth is that Meta does not have any leaders that are good at bridging research and product,” he said. “For a long time Reality Labs and FAIR could do their esoteric things without being challenged. But now things are very different and companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek excel at pushing out research into production at record pace, and Meta is left standing on the sidelines.“
In addition, he said, huge salaries and additional equity “will not stick if the company feels unstable or if it is perceived by peers as a black mark on your resume. Prestige compounds, that is why top people self-select into labs like DeepMind, OpenAI, or Anthropic. Aura is not for sale.”
That’s not to say that Zuck’s largesse won’t land him some top AI talent. The question is whether it will be enough to deliver the AI product wins Meta needs.
A man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik told ANI there was one survivor who was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight.
The flight manifest shared by authorities said the passenger in that seat was British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
Indian media said they had spoken toMr Ramesh in hospital and reported him saying: “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”
Indian media said he shared his boarding pass which showed his name and seat number.
Commissioner Malik told ANI the survivor “has been in the hospital and is under treatment”.
There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian on the Gatwick Airport-boundflight, Air India said.
The plane crashed into accommodation used by doctors less than a minute after take-off.
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