Yay! Just got my Chinese HSK1 (beginner Mandarin proficiency) officially confirmed! Back to the books for level 2 now.

Sadly, France, Belgium and Spain still financing the russian war machine via LNG purchases...

6 months to live for open models Staring down the barrel of policy action that could make open models a permanent second class citizen. We need to a) win on the distillation issue and b) form a coalition www.interconnects.ai/p/6-months-t...

"Digital sovereignty will not come from replacing every American platform overnight, nor from regulation alone, but through everyday choices, not only by legislators, but also by institutions and users." thegoodlobby.eu/why-arent-eu...

Built a terrarium ecosystem simulation as an experiment in emergent balance: • plants grow/wilt/reproduce • herbivores forage/flee/breed • carnivores hunt/fight/chase • O2/CO2, water, nutrients, weather, and day/night all interact. Now I’m tuning for resilient equilibrium.

AI industry seems to be all about low moral standards and constant data and intellectual property theft www.wired.com/story/apple-...

"Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free" The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely... finance.yahoo.com/technology/a... #AI

Oregon approves 29.7% energy rate hike for data centres, cryptocurrency companies and large industrial energy users, under landmark law. Residential customers will see a 1.3% decrease on their energy bills. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Digital #euro enters final round of EU negotiations | Euronews www.euronews.com/business/202... #digitaleuro #eu

Wanted: Web Apps based in EU (or with big customer base inside EU), ideally serving non-tech sectors. B2B, B2C, whatevs. Please let me know industry sector. If you can tell me size (customer base, turnover thru web app) please do.

All standup comedians will run out of jobs...

We’re in a dangerous place. NATO recognises that.

"Ukraine will favour AI systems it can run on its own servers. The policy was reinforced after the U.S. ​government ordered Anthropic to cut access to powerful models, echoing broader European sentiment" www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... #AI #Ukraine

"the money can't be touched until the child turns 18. The child — not the parent — ultimately controls the money" Now it makes a perfect sense why Meta's Zuckerberg enters the prediction market arena aiming at 18 year olds...

I see a lot of articles in the June on Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI platform using near-zero water for cooling, reducing facility cooling water consumption to nearly zero, etc... From what I understand, that architecture also is not compatible with the current datacenters... icharles.com/articles/nvi...

It is extremely ironic putting an AI chatbot (backed by clean water hungry datacenters) answering questions about clean water...

With US corporations buying all UK news and streaming services, it's going to be Fox news and Maga narratives 24/7 for Britain, I am afraid.

Using AI summaries is killing the journalism. From the other side, how to motivate users to subscribe given the $999 pricing tags? I know that's "a service for professionals who need exclusive, deeply sourced news and tools to excel at their jobs", but paywalls are everywhere these days...

"When Americans choose Chinese AI" Developers say DeepSeek is good enough for a fraction of the cost. “You don’t need God to write your email.” restofworld.org/2026/when-am...

Adverts are an important source of income for Meta. So important Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India with typical "our review team found that the advertiser's ad does not go against our community standards" responses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Before anyone attacks your exposed LLM backend server, they want to know 2 things: (a) is it alive; and (b) what models sit behind it." On the mass discovery and model-probing reconnaissance campaigns happening right now: labs.zenity.io/p/scanning-f...

Well, hello everyone!