Last January it announced project Wintermute, a personal assistant mobile app that worked across any mobile platform and, crucially, maintained profiles of individual users in the cloud.

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This, it turned out, was Sarun Kousum, the assistant director of the GHF project and the man I was supposed to meet the following day.

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