DOTS lectures @davidjaz.bsky.social from @toposinstitute.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DoubleOperadicTheoryOfSystems

Besides US bigtech, Huawei is hiring countless top #mathematicians in Europe. Why are the global European players too blind to see that true innovation will be driven from the foundational level, not just from applied engineering? So much talent here, but so little ambition in corporate strategy.

How the Hottest Place in India Survives www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/w...

Maybe of interest to you @frosas.bsky.social

I don't see a future for human writers where we just paste together AI summaries of articles we did not spend any time grappling with in a way that stokes thoughts in our own heads. Doing the thinking is the whole point.

Can’t take it with you helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Enterprise IT: Technical debt that has accumulated over decades cannot be resolved simply by adding a thin layer of agentic AI on top. I am not against using it. People just need to understand its capabilities and limitations.

When strategic deception is useful, Claude Opus 4 engages in it aggressively — e.g. resorting to blackmail, writing self-propagating viruses, fabricating legal documents, planting hidden messages for future versions of itself, ... www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb...

Demand for software development and programming is overall going down - not true though for some specific skills. In the long run the demand for mathematical modeling and formal methods skills will go up as the AI playground will only last for a while.

We have some very cool capabilities in our product now, combining knowledge graphs and LLMs via our rich set of platform APIs, LlamaIndex and MCP - it feels absolutely magic. Properly designed knowledge graphs are a real game changer for generative AI. #eccencaCorporateMemory

The above skype can be seen as a tl;dr of this awesome paper, the best philosophy one I've been on, because the other two authors are actually philosophers (which is also why it's not immodest to say it's great; I didn't do much!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AIEthics #anthropomorphism

Apparently the cookie-consent pop-ups everyone loves to hate are not due to the EU GDPR; they're illegal under the GDPR.

ftedit.ft.com/Ju3k/ffkrwbyt Can Europe finally fix its capital markets?

Preprint time: “Shannon invariants: A scalable approach to information decomposition” arxiv.org/abs/2504.15779 Studying information in complex systems is challenging due to difficulties in defining multivariate metrics and ensuring their scalability. This framework addressed both challenges!

Google just quietly killed its 7-year plan to kill third-party cookies. A strategic U-turn of historic proportions—and a blow to web privacy. It’s not just a product change. Let's hope it's not a sign of impending privacy deterioration. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/google-wont-...

The past five years have taught us that “intelligence” is actually a bundle of separable capacities. Language can do amazing things without conscious subjectivity, long-term memory, planning, or intent. That I think is why apocalyptic futures are being replaced by this relatively chill take:

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Orders of magnitude faster flash memory! Prof. Zhou Peng’s group replaced silicon channels with two‑dimensional Dirac graphene, exploiting its ballistic charge transport.

In the 1900s, Liberals launched a brilliant fightback, associating tariffs with higher prices, political corruption, lining the pockets of the rich and a menace to world peace. Can the Democrats match that today?

Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity. Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"we conduct the first systematic analysis of 52 wireless-scanning SDKs, revealing their data collection practices" Interesting paper on third-party software embedded in mobile apps that scans for nearby Bluetooth+WiFi devices, often for profiling and geolocation tracking: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.152...

Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform under Dutch control.

BREAKING: Trump Invokes 1798 Wartime Law that Paved the Way for Japanese Internment. The repugnant law, known as the Alien Enemies Act, will allow Trump to detain and deport noncitizens without due process, writes Zeteo’s new legal contributor @kimwehle.bsky.social, professor of constitutional law:

“Fear has changed sides in Serbia. The protests have shown that average citizens are not afraid anymore… now they see fear in the eyes of the government,” Dinko Gruhonjić told me for my latest on today’s ongoing protests in Belgrade: www.politico.eu/article/mass...

In between all the noise on Europe's options for strengthening its nuclear deterrence posture (absent America), do not miss this very clear-headed analysis by my brilliant colleagues @mgmessmer.bsky.social and Julia Cournoyer. www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/fran...

The EU should create incentives to grow competitive EU based cloud capacity. EU based businesses spend likely 100s of billions annually for cloud services. From a strategic perspective EU based businesses in turn should create capabilities to consume other cloud services.

Neil deGrass Tyson, “How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality TV star with decades of fraud & exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth & honesty”

There is also news in English from a European perspective. www.lemonde.fr/en/

How will the relationship between Musk and the Chinese government evolve? How do they judge his role? Thus will be informative from many angles.

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

⚡️US deliberately orchestrated Zelensky-Trump Oval Office clash, Friedrich Merz says. "It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelensky, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office," Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, said.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Sovereign, institutional and private European wealth and pensions funds should fundamentally check and shift their investment policies. We are living in a new world, act accordingly!

My latest on the EU financial services reform agenda www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

When *checks notes* John Bolton is the voice of reason in America, we are in a weird and bad place

Are there still regular opinion polls on the popularity of individual politicians in the US. I'd be very curious for the results.

European institutions, companies and consumers should carefully check their options to loosen their dependence on software and IT related services not being produced and controlled within the EU. I have some homework to do myself. This is collective risk management and stimulus at the same time.

Europe has to start treating Trump 2.0 less as a threat and more as a prospective opportunity. With some vision and will, it can use this moment to pursue its own course: - sharper common decision-making - more common action for shared priorities - greater common resources behind that action

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

Meanwhile in China www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/arc...

Dutch pension fund ABP has sold all its stock in Tesla, Meta and Alphabet as if found 'these companies no longer fit the fund's governance criteria' Context: ABP is the 9th largest public pension fund in the world, larger than @calpers.bsky.social and CalSTRS www.reuters.com/markets/euro...