Putting strategic oil reserves on the market when it might be the one time you will actually need them feels like selling your snow shovel just before a winter storm.
www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-fu...
Ehm. @yoshuabengio.bsky.social should we, in your opinion, be agreeing with the appeasement of the alt -right because they now come out as AI luddites? I’m confused.
Important statement on the AI race, that clearly deserves broad support. Surprised, if not confused, nonetheless by the choice of other prominent signatories. What is the coalition being built here?
Unfortunately the UN seems to be going up in flames, but apart from that, congratulations to @yoshuabengio.bsky.social and @mariaressa.bsky.social! please keep going, it’s important work that you are doing!
Selfie. Ik hou mijn hand voor mijn gezicht als een gebaar van frustratie. Donker haar met blonde lokken en rood gelakte nagels. Bovenaan de foto staat een tekst in het Nederlands over DigiD, de Belastingdienst en btw die aan de VS zou worden overgedragen. De sfeer oogt bezorgd en moedeloos.
🚨 De Belastingdienst gaat alles wat met BTW te maken heeft aan de Amerikanen overlaten en als ik zeg alles, dan bedoel ik alles! Servers, software, onderhoud en de VS krijgt ook toegang tot de andere servers van De Belastingdienst en zelf geen toegang. Lees hier 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/btw-amerika/
Whoa! Who would've thought? ...
The brain may do backprop after all.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
LLM Evals become the engine for self-improving systems that outperform hand-written prompts and multi-agent systems. @abcamara.com talks Friday at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social's SEA on how Deep Research agents evolve without human intervention.
www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...
Frontier AI models go nuclear, a lot more that you might like… arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740
Diffusion LLM speed breakthrough by Stefano Ermon & Inception team: 1000+ tokens/sec on regular Nvidia GPUs at competitive reasoning output quality www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
It also takes a lot of energy to be a good human, but still you really should try.
Canadian startup Taalas shows hardwiring Llama-8B weights into custom chip brings 50x inference speed vs GPU at 10x less energy consumed. Early stage, but very interesting. www.forbes.com/sites/karlfr...
I guess it did not contain the word billion so it didn’t get picked up
Important work as AI safety publications decline in hype cycle. This one went a bit under the radar in the press cycle
OpenClaw for killer drones… What could possibly go wrong?
Europe has a lot of talent! Just look at the Olympics.
It takes local champions that act to build digital sovereignty. That’s why Zeta Alpha is teaming up with OEDIV, part of the Dr. Oetker Group, to deliver Sovereign AI and to securely connect companies’ internal knowledge with locally run AI models. 🧵 1/6 Reach out via lnkd.in/dktJM9W to learn more.
Claude: For each example I can do a web search and then make a LLM call with the results...
Me: Why an LLM call? Can't you just figure it out yourself?
Claude: You're right, I am the LLM!
And we're still waiting for DeepSeek V4 to drop...
The @unitreerobotics.bsky.social Kung Fu ballet performance at the Spring Festival Gala is a must watch for anyone interested in robotics.
www.tiktok.com/@unitreerobo...
The pace of AI progress in China is extremely fast.
Alibaba just dropped Qwen3.5. An open source VLM model competitive with the latest proprietary models. Superb efficiency and GPU footprint, 200+ languages, top reasoning, coding & multimodal tasks.
qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...
Especially Gemini 3 Deep Think’s 84.6% score on ARC-AGI-2 and 48.4% on HLE signals the rapid saturation of very hard benchmarks.
Two big breakthroughs this week in AI models: MiniMax M2.5 and Gemini 3 Deep Think.
The 12 Trillion dollar Molotov-Ribbentrop deal. Is this the breaking point? kyivindependent.com/russia-confi...
China keeps betting big on open source AI. State of the art performance with MIT license: GLM-5 release from Z.ai
Next time please give these guys more time to explain their vision and take questions from the audience #Techleap
State of Dutch Tech today with @robjetten.bsky.social and Peter Wennink as the keynote panelists. #hetkanwel www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
I can imagine they didn’t like the idea of being sent to space to fix all those servers floating up there.
Ban addictive designs? Any specific ideas on how? Every product designer tries to increase engagement with their product. Are you advocating government regulation for products to be crappy?
January 2026 Tesla sales in Norway nose dive 88%, down 67% in Netherlands. The bubble will burst… electrek.co/2026/02/04/t...
