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

OpenAI released its first open-weight models since GPT-2: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b can run locally and be fine-tuned. A notable shift—away from fully proprietary releases. Why now? Competition, regulation, community pressure—or strategic repositioning? #OpenWeights #OpenAI #AI #LLM #AIstrategy

ASI-ARCH introduces a fully autonomous AI system for neural architecture discovery—moving beyond traditional NAS by enabling AI to innovate new architectures, not just optimize existing ones. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.18074 #AI #ASI #LLM #NeuralArchitectureSearch #AIresearch #ASI4AI #ML

What an interesting—and unsettling—read: Google’s Sundar Pichai suggests a “marketplace” will emerge where creators simply “create for AI.” Is this the Uberization of intellectual work? #AIethics #DigitalLabor #CreativeRights Via @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

Interesting chart—but it seems Microsoft might not fully understand what historians actually do (and why LLMs better not take over that role). Same with writers and authors: it’s not just about putting words together. AI won’t replace these roles—but it will transform them. #LLM #FutureOfWork

Tim Cook says the AI revolution is “as big or bigger” than the internet, smartphones, cloud, and apps. Do you agree? What could this mean for society, business, education—and for us personally? #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #DigitalSociety Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

„Riesige Mengen visueller Daten prägen zunehmend unser Wissen und beeinflussen, wie wir die Welt wahrnehmen … widmet sich der gegenwärtigen Konjunktur & d. wachsenden Bedeutung sehr gr. digitaler visueller Datenmengen, die in versch. Forschungsdisziplinen begrifflich unter #BigVisualData firmieren.“

Germany just launched its Hightech Agenda to boost innovation and digital sovereignty. Focus: – AI – Quantum tech – Microelectronics – Biotechnology – Fusion & clean energy – Climate-neutral mobility Target: 10% of GDP from AI by 2030. #HightechAgenda #AIstrategy #TechSovereignty

Tim Cook says the AI revolution is “as big or bigger” than the internet, smartphones, cloud, and apps. Do you agree? What could this mean for society, business, education—and for us personally? #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #DigitalSociety Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An essay dismantling the “cloud” metaphor — revealing its physical, ecological, and social realities. This is a call for a place-conscious web grounded in environmental and cultural responsibility. #DigitalEcology #TechAndClimate #PlaceAwareDesign #SustainableWeb #DigitalCraft

Generativa is a free academy on generative AI for the cultural and creative sector — launching Oct 2025 in Naples & online. For artists, GLAM professionals, ICC workers & graduates. Limited spots. Applications open until Sept 5. #GenerativeAI #DigitalCulture #CreativeAI #GLAM #CulturalHeritage

💡When designing an image API, it’s worth going beyond just returning image URLs. Including image feature vectors in the response can significantly expand what’s possible for users and researchers. 🧵 #bigimagedata #metaimage #digitalarthistory

Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio. Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...

The Margaret Walker Center is hiring! We are looking for a Mellon Visiting Scholar. The Visiting Scholar is a 3-year position and will entail a 1-1 teaching load as well as 2 digital humanities convenings for the community. Job posting: shorturl.at/L07jt Questions? Contact [email protected]

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

NYC Google Street View image count by year

Willkommen, @dhdkonferenz.bsky.social 🐘

📣 Call for Papers für DHd Konferenz 2026, 23.–27. Februar @univie.ac.at 🧭 Thema: „Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten“ Wie verändert digitale Modellierung geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisprozesse? Fokus: materielle Kultur, Code, Interfaces, KI etc 📝 Bis 1.8.2025: dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de #DHd2026

Applications for the 2025 Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop are due next week! PhD students and postdocs are invited to apply to accelerate their careers through opportunities to plug into networks, platforms, and opportunities Apply today! datascience.stanford.edu/events/works...

This paper on identifying prompted artist names from generated images is such a fun and creative take on data attribution arxiv.org/abs/2507.18633 Wonder if it would do something meaningful for analysing artistic influence for human-made art 🤔

F13 is live! Fully open source (MPL 2.0), model-agnostic, and deployable on your own infrastructure. – Chat assistant – RAG-based language model – Document summarization – Modular architecture with open interfaces for easy extension & integration #OpenSourceAI #DigitalSovereignty #PublicSectorAI

The US just released its AI Action Plan aimed at global dominance through infrastructure, standards, and alliances. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 🇪🇺 Europe must define its own strategy that is assertive, not aggressive – collaborative, sustainable, and open. #DigitalSovereignty #AIstrategy

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Germany is home to at least six LLM initiatives – including OpenGPT-X, DeutschlandGPT, BayernGPT, OpenEuroLLM – many of them open source, privacy-focused, and aligned with European values. #LLM #OpenSourceAI #DigitalSovereignty opengpt-x.de openeurollm.eu de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuken_7B

Here’s a little something I wrote for Project Syndicate: „Just as the European Union seeks to reduce its reliance on external providers for semiconductors, cloud computing, and AI, it must do the same for social media.“ cc: @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

@grimalkina.bsky.social has a nice thread and blog post about it: bsky.app/profile/grim...

New Cornell study: Experienced developers were 19% slower when using AI tools like Claude 3.5 and Cursor Pro—despite expecting 20% time savings. The reason? Low reliability of current AI assistants in real-world coding tasks. #AIProductivity #DevTools #SoftwareEngineering

Open-Access: Gemeinsam mit Sebastian Hoggenmüller habe ich den Artikel veröffentlicht: Metabilder als Forschungswerkzeuge. Zur Kontingenz und algorithmischen Bedingtheit ihrer Herstellung. #Metabilder #VisualEpistemology #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #KI @seismoverlag.bsky.social

Big Visual Data als neue Form des Wissens: Die Sonderausgabe der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für #Soziologie ist #OpenAccess verfügbar – hrsg. und mit einem Beitrag von Sebastian W. Hoggenmüller, Oberassistent am Soziologischen Seminar. www.unilu.ch/news/big-vis... @seismoverlag.bsky.social

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