What it means to be human in the age of AI and biotechnology? Take a look at the English translation of my speech from the Science Day celebration in Slovenia: medium.com/@begus.nina/...

A new study applies deep reinforcement learning to art history: First detect cultural context (Western, Islamic, East Asian), then identify style — achieving 96% accuracy. A step toward more culturally contextual AI for art recognition? #AIArt #DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning

Digital art history is shifting from books to databases. In her paper, Jana Horáková argues that the database is the symbolic form of the computer age. AI and digital humanities now merge to write a new kind of art history. #DigitalArtHistory #AIArt #HumanitiesTech

Rumble is set to acquire German AI infrastructure firm Northern Data in a deal worth up to $970M, bringing both companies — backed by Tether — under one roof. A convergence of social media, AI compute, and crypto-backed infrastructure. #AI #Infrastructure #Tether

Watching this project unfold is fascinating: An agent that pulls transcripts from YouTube, extracts data from BlueSky threads, searches Google Scholar, and compiles a full scientific paper in minutes, orchestrated through sitegeist.ai. #AIResearch #AgenticAI

Ahhh, I just realized you mean the paper generator above. I built a browser agent: sitegeist.ai I then pointed it at: - YouToube videos (extracted transcripts) - BlueSky threads (extracted text, img urls for charts and their alt text) - Google Scholar for references that fit

More info here: bsky.app/profile/mari...

Ben Thompson argues that the AI boom isn’t just a bubble — it’s an accelerator of infrastructure and ideas. Like railways or the dot-com era, speculation builds the groundwork for lasting progress in chips, energy, and innovation capacity. #AI #Innovation #Bubble

Microsoft baut Chips und Kraftwerke, Google setzt auf Solarsatelliten, AWS verlegt Unterseekabel: Strategisch geht es um digitale Grenzposten der Zukunft. Europas muss eigene souveräne Infrastrukturen schaffen und nicht hinter dem Moat zurückbleiben. #DigitaleSouveränität @garymarcus.bsky.social

AWS has announced Fastnet, a transatlantic subsea fiber optic cable, connecting Maryland, USA and County Cork, Ireland, operational by 2028. With a capacity of 320+ Tbps, the project underscores how digital infrastructure is shaping geopolitical dynamics. #AIInfrastructure #CloudComputing

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits the company doesn’t have enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it owns. Compute is no longer the bottleneck — energy is. How sustainable is the current AI expansion if the largest cloud providers are hitting power limits? #AI #Infrastructure #Sustainability

As for the METR paper, it's definitely needed research, because claims by AI peddlers are severly overblown imho. However, I do think that LLM-assisted development can be a huge net benefit. If you put in the time to establish your own workflows and understand when and when not to use an LLM.

Sehr guter Thread.

The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) Compute for LLMs The paper examines how RL pipelines can be optimized at every stage — data generation, policy updates, evaluation — and how this could make post-training the new frontier of LLMs! arxiv.org/abs/2510.13786 #Scaling #DeepLearning

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JOB: Interim Professorship “Creative AI + Design” Applicants should combine technical expertise in AI/ML with a strong creative and pedagogical profile, ideally backed by experience in both academia and industry. Apply by November 3, 2025 #AI #Design #CreativeAI #MachineLearning

IMF warns that AI is hitting the global labour market “like a tsunami.” 60% of jobs in advanced economies and 40% worldwide will be affected within the next two years. AI could deepen inequality and spread misinformation if poorly managed. #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation

This article introduces a Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) with only 7M parameters that outperforms many large LLMs on reasoning benchmarks like ARC-AGI, achieving 45% accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2. #AIResearch #EfficientAI #RecursiveReasoning arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

OpenAI’s Nick Turley wants to turn the chatbot into a new kind of operating system — inspired by web browsers rather than Windows or macOS. ChatGPT becomes a platform for third-party apps, connecting 800 million users to AI-based services, from writing and coding to e-commerce. #AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI

A Yale study finds that AI is causing far fewer disruptions in the labor market than many expected. Researchers drawparallels to the slow adjustments following the introduction of computers – technological transformations that took place over decades, not months. #AI #FutureOfWork #YaleResearch

OpenAI is tightening integration and reducing flexibility for switching to competing models, effectively encouraging users to remain within its platform. #OpenAI #AIagents #PlatformStrategy

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

So funny because it's true… ;)

Be prepared! #DigitalArtHistory

Study: GenAI reshapes knowledge work (software, data, accounting) but leaves hands-on jobs like care largely untouched. Few tasks are fully automatable. This means: adapt skills, keep learning, stay competitive. PDF: www.hiringlab.org/wp-content/u... #FutureOfWork #AITransformation #Jobs

TildeOpen LLM is an open-source multilingual foundation model developed for 34 European languages. Supported by the EU and running on EuroHPC supercomputers, it aims to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty by providing secure, transparent and adaptable AI. #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich. Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures. Program & Registration:

Tim Berners-Lee reminds us: the web was given away for free so it could work for everyone. In AI, the lesson is clear: leaving development to companies won’t empower individuals. We need to restore the web as a space of collaboration, creativity, and compassion. #AI #DigitalSovereignty

Why do language models hallucinate? Not because they’re “broken” – but because training rewards them for giving plausible answers, even when uncertain. Benchmarks punish “I don’t know,” so bluffing is rewarded. #DigitalSovereignty #AIInfrastructure #TrustworthyAI PDF cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be...

AI is no longer just a software feature – it has become infrastructure, geopolitics, and society. Whoever controls chips, clouds, data, and standards will control the future. Europe must act now to build digital sovereignty. #DigitalSovereignty #HybridAI #Geopolitics

LLMs struggle with symbolic planning. A new paper shows how instruction tuning with logical CoT steps + an external validator (VAL) makes them far more reliable. Results: up to 94% valid plans vs. 28–35% in baselines. arxiv.org/abs/2509.13351 #AI #LLM #Planning #AgenticAI #HybridAI #TrustworthyAI

AI Startup Landscape 2025 935 of the most promising German #AI startups: 📈 Growth +36% vs. last year 🤖 1/3 focused on #GenerativeAI 🏙️ Berlin & Munich dominate – Hamburg, Cologne, Karlsruhe & others catching up 💶 >€7.5B funding over 10 years, €2B in 2025 alone #Startups #DigitalSovereignty

OpenAI’s Economic Research team + Harvard’s David Deming just published a paper on how people actually use ChatGPT: 700M weekly users by mid-2025 70% of usage = non-work tasks Top uses: Practical Guidance, Writing, Seeking Info Writing = 40% of work tasks #AI #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI

Transformation of, with, and through AI – @dfki.bsky.social Symposium On 19 September 2025, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) hosts a symposium in Berlin. Free event, registration required #AI #DFKI #Berlin #AITransformation #Research #Innovation

'Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration' digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ... Organised by The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group and hosted by the Bodleian Libraries 25 September 16:00 to 18:30, hybrid

Switzerland has launched Apertus, a national open-source LLM developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS. Built with transparency and compliance with European data laws, Apertus is positioned as a public alternative to commercial AI models. #AI #OpenSource #LLM #Switzerland #Apertus

This diagram, taken from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power. This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it shuts the door on competition. #DataAggregation #BigTech #NetworkEffects

Für den Audio-Guide zur aktuellen Ausstellung im Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, «The Museum of the Future», hab ich mir ein paar Gedanken zum Thema «KI und Museum» gemacht … app.audio-cult.com/museum_of_th...

You expect the best from Apple and then you only get something good and then everyone is disappointed

Experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Use design docs and TODO lists to guide agents – Break down big tasks, plan deeply, and keep logs detailed – Never let agents disable tests or use git unsupervised – If agents struggle, build them tools #AI #CodingAgents #SoftwareEngineering

👀 Meta considers downsizing its AI division, with some executives expected to leave, and is exploring using third-party models for its AI products. Some see this as an AI bubble bursting, others as Meta doubling down with a smaller team and record spending. #AI #Meta #BigTech #Restructuring

This master thesis by Meenu Kadalassery explores the role of #BigData in shaping cultural policymaking. Future research is needed to test proposed frameworks, share best practices, and strengthen connections between cultural and technical fields. #CulturalPolicy #DigitalHeritage #DataScience

Just listened to a great interview with @karenhao.bsky.social. Highly recommended if you want to understand what’s really going on with OpenAI, the strange idea of AGI, and the broader effects of scaling. #ArtificialIntelligence #ResponsibleAI

A quick OpenAI timeline for the record: 2015: Founded as a nonprofit to build „safe AGI“. 2019: $1B Microsoft investment. 2020: GPT-3 (175B params). 2021: DALL·E 1. 2022: DALL·E 2 & ChatGPT go viral. 2023: GPT-4. 2024: GPT-4o unifies text, image, and audio. 2025: GPT-5. #OpenAI #AI #GPT5

Five insights from Paul Graham’s essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale” (2013): 1 Recruit your first users manually. 2 Early startups are fragile. 3 Over-delight your first users. 4 Start in a narrow niche. 5 Leverage unscalable efforts to learn before scaling the system. paulgraham.com/ds.html

Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-). www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...

JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀 Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films… #DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory

Read here about the announcement of the announcement of the announcement of the new iPhone.

The concept of the “Jagged Technological Frontier” describes how AI can solve some seemingly similar tasks astonishingly well, while failing surprisingly on others. The key is knowing beforehand where AI is reliable – and where it isn’t… #AI #AIFrontier #Productivity

As expected: OpenAI just launched GPT-5 for coding and agentic workflows. Three sizes (gpt-5, mini, nano), new parameters (verbosity, reasoning_effort=minimal) and support for plaintext-based tool calls via custom grammars. #GPT5 #AIagents #CodeGeneration