Ist „mind-reading“ AI das nächste große Ding? Wie lange sind unsere Gedanken noch frei? Der Futurist und Journalist @janoschdelcker.bsky.social zeigte auf der re:publica Hamburg x Reeperbahn Festival, wie diese Technologie schon bald unser Leben durchdringen könnte. ▶️ youtu.be/as5KWHNgllc?...

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires.» The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social www.authoritarian-stack.info

“Microsoft and OpenAI have now extended that agreement to 2032. The new contract provides Microsoft with access to technologies after OpenAI has reached A.G.I., provided that the technology is equipped with “appropriate safety guardrails.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...

Die Insides von Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social auf der @re-publica.com Hamburg haben mir Angst gemacht. Der Affe in meinem Kopf wollte die ganze Zeit dagegen ansingen. "Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten..." Ihr ahne es schon, die KI, die KI die kann sie erraten...

"Former Commissioner Thierry Breton, who helped draft the bloc’s digital rulebook, does not appear to have confirmed attendance as he is listed as an “invited witness”." www.euractiv.com/news/former-...

Wie entschlüsseln neue Technologien unser Denken – und wie behalten wir die Kontrolle? In seinem neuen Buch ruft Janosch Delcker (@janoschdelcker.bsky.social) dazu auf, unsere „Neurorechte“ zu schützen. Auf der #rpHH diskutiert er, was es dafür braucht. 🔗 re-publica.com/de/session/m...

“SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

“Geoff Hinton is a super genius … However, he is a genius of machine learning, not governance.”

Geoffrey Hinton is more than a household name in AI. He knows his words shape public debate. And that seems to be his #1 mission now. Proposing to embed “maternal instincts” in AI is anything but helpful. fortune.com/2025/08/14/g...

To add to the confusion, I asked Perplexity's chatbot to explain the rationale behind Perplexity's offer to buy Chrome:

“the unsolicited bid is a long shot, since Perplexity itself is valued at an estimated $18 billion. Jesse Dwyer, a spokesman for the company, told The New York Times that outside investors had agreed to back a potential deal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/t...

Congratulations, Petunia! 🏆

Some way to go, GPT-5.

The US state of Illinois has just banned AI systems from “providing mental health and therapeutic decision-making.” The wording is vague, but many interpret it as a ban on using AI tools like ChatGPT for therapy. And I’m genuinely torn on how to feel about this.

This matches with my understanding of where LLMs are likely to impact science quickest – bringing techniques that are well-understood to one set of experts, and applying them to questions raised by a different set of experts www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

Scoop from @eileenguo.bsky.social - huge amounts of personal information are embedded in a major data set used to train AI models www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

“Many members of Mr. Wang’s team reported to Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., last week for the first time. The group is working in an office space siloed from the rest of the company and next to Mr. Zuckerberg.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Okay, we—as in humanity—have inadvertently been broadcasting our existence to potential alien civilizations for decades. gizmodo.com/aliens-can-d...

There's a simple yet effective trick for showing other insiders that you (and not AI) are still writing your LinkedIn posts. And it involves my high school teacher, Ms. Curtis--who will probably never know. www.linkedin.com/pulse/secret...

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

"Books have sometimes been licensed for only a couple hundred dollars each, and that a publisher that asks too much may be turned down, only for tech companies to take their material anyway." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28, the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI, to join the new lab…and has been in talks to invest billions of dollars in his company as part of a deal that would also bring other Scale AI employees to the company.”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

For all our advances, we've barely scratched the surface of what's really going on out there in space. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mas...

Meta announces partnership with defense contractor Anduril Industries to develop military technology, including an AI-powered helmet. Given the basic AI research conducted within Meta over the last years, this expansion into defense makes a lot of sense. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Major disruptions often occur when technologies from different fields converge. Worth keeping an eye on this emerging convergence of scientific computing and AI: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/t...

Inspirierend. Wie lange sind unsere Gedanken noch frei? @janoschdelcker.bsky.social #rp25

Sehr spannender #rp25 Vortrag von @janoschdelcker.bsky.social über mind-reading AI – wie mehrere Technologien zusammenkommen (und was für fundamentale Fragen das aufwirft). Außerdem re:publica-Sonderpreis für das perfekte Abstimmen von Outfit und Folien.⚫️🟡

Die Gedanken sind frei ... oder bald nicht mehr? @janoschdelcker.bsky.social berichtet bei der re:publica 2025 über die Chancen und Risiken von Mindreading AI. Meta & Co. forschen daran. Es gibt erste Erfolge beim "Auslesen" und auch beim "Schreiben" ins Hirn. 1/2 #rp25

Wenn Tech-Unternehmen die Trainingsdaten für KI-Modelle ausgehen, könnten Daten unserer Gehirnströme dann diese Lücke füllen? Darüber sprach Journalist & Futurist Janosch Delcker (@janoschdelcker.bsky.social) während seiner zu „Mind-Reading AI“ auf Bühne 1 der #rp25. 📸 Gregor Fischer

☄️ Heads-up, re:publica 2025: Tomorrow — Tuesday, May 27 at 11:45 a.m. CET — I’ll be on Stage 1 (right after Germany’s new Digital Minister,) delivering my keynote on “Mind-Reading AI.” If you're attending, please stop by and say hello.

I keep going back to this image--actually a combination of 200 image--of the sun taken by NASA’s Solar Orbiter in early March. It is the clearest image of the sun to date. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

NATO introducing Palantir AI system. One could argue baking US dependency into every corner of the alliance is not exactly what events tell you to do, but hey...

For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.

“Trump’s UAE visit delivered perhaps the trip’s crown jewel — a deal allowing the Emirates to import as many as 500,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips annually from 2025 through 2027, according to reports — potentially worth $15 billion.”

For context, the New York Times reports that an American student is demanding a portion of her (outrageously high, I'm sure) tuition back because she believes she caught her professor using AI.

Good God, where to start… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

28 seconds that should kick off every game film album broadcast concert for like a year. #AIEthics #genAI

Great snapshots of how AI is upending my very own industry--journalism (which tends to be far more change-averse than most people expect.)

US lawmakers are about to vote on a moratorium to block states from enforcing artificial intelligence laws and regulations for ten years. Ten years in AI is an eternity; enough to see a complete reshaping of industries and human-computer interaction. www.yahoo.com/news/tech-sa...

Over the weekend, the Trump White House fired U.S. Copyright Office chief Shira Perlmutter—shortly after her office released a report suggesting that the methods used by tech corporations to train their AI systems may violate copyright law.

Oh wow: Pope Leo XIV said AI inspired his papal name, linking today's technological age to Leo XII's time at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. www.theverge.com/news/664719/...

"There are some tasks the team at Anthropic will not solely rely on AI for, namely, strategic storytelling. "Claude is definitely a prominent team member for everyone, but comms people are sort of like BS detectors," de Marigny said." www.axios.com/2025/05/08/a...

OpenAI launches "OpenAI for Countries". This is the modern digital equivalent of planting the American flag on the moon: a demonstration of US technological dominance. The goal is to cement OpenAI's and US influence within global digital infrastructure for decades to come.

Along with Chancellor Merz's new government, Germany is getting its first Federal Minister for Digital and State Modernization (the most Denglish job title they could have come up with...): It's political outsider Karsten Wildberger, previously CEO of MediaMarkt and Saturn's parent company.

„Ein KI-generierter SS-Arzt Mengele erzählt in moderner OP-Kleidung die fiktive Geschichte seiner vermeintlichen Läuterung, auf TikTok trendet ‚Musik, die ich in der Gaskammer spielen würde‘…“ Neuer Report von @bsannefrank.bsky.social über „History Content“: www.bs-anne-frank.de/mediathek/pu...

Bye, old friend.

Nothing beats the green this time of the year. Right? (Yup, that’s here in Berlin)

With each of these partnerships that are emerging across the industry, more power — from data to distribution to technical standards — is being concentrated in the hands of a few. www.reuters.com/business/ret...