Is Apple training us for a post smartphone world? @sineadbovell.bsky.social on the hint everyone missed at WWDC - here is what Liquid Glass is really about! open.substack.com/pub/sineadbo...

Great perspective from @sineadbovell.bsky.social: #AI isn’t about replacing jobs, it’s a wake-up call for the unmotivated. Those who embrace adaptability and continuous learning will thrive. Time to level up and stay ahead. #FutureOfWork #AIAdaptation

Those who treat AI as a magic wand waved over passive ambition will easily be outcompeted, even by AIs themselves. The gap between the motivated and the unmotivated widens. The average and the overachievers. This will be true across all sectors of knowledge work. open.substack.com/pub/sineadbo...

Canadian OpenAI researcher Kai Chen was denied a US green card today. She has lived and worked in the US for 12 years. I hope people are grasping the severity of what is unfolding.

Me two weeks ago.. Beijing sent warning shots that they would restrict critical minerals… the signals were clear. Now it’s a scramble in the US

How we handle AI today shapes future societies, global power, and humanity’s future. Yet, we're doing it amidst rising geopolitical tension, new economic blocs, and military standoffs. open.substack.com/pub/sineadbo...

I think one of the most important moves in the escalating trade war is China placing 7 rare earth metals on the export control list. This is a huge signal coming from Beijing—it’s telling the U.S.: watch out. Rare earths are essential to everything commercial to national security.

Who will be the *influencers* of the future? In an AI-mediated world, the signal from a trusted human becomes more valuable as it passes through more rigorous filters. Value shifts from sheer volume and follower count to resonance, trust, credibility and community. open.substack.com/pub/sineadbo...

Foreign influence operations targeting Canadian voters are working on overdrive for this upcoming election. Disinformation is everywhere. youtu.be/xqkwH0kxss4?...

Some of the most important skills for the future are the non-technical skills. Reading, critical thinking, curiosity, play, imagination, teamwork. We must prepare kids to adapt and think critically (and imaginatively) about the world around them. Regardless of the directions technology takes.

Today at SXSW, I attended an AI & energy event featuring private sector investors and Texas-based academics. The unanimous takeaway? Policy chaos is freezing energy investment—jeopardizing U.S. AI dominance.

Powerful remarks by @profgalloway.com on Canada’s unwavering allyship to America. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Canadian diplomats risked their lives to shelter Americans. “Canada hid us.” 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I will joining 🇨🇦CFRB 1010 today at 3:20pm EST to discuss Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic, the increasing military pacing threat along the northern border, and the impact of tariffs on our national security.

The threat Canada is facing is much bigger than tariffs. It’s a direct threat to our national security by virtue of crippling our ability to defend ourselves against (active) foreign aggression. Including the military pacing threat in Canada’s Arctic.

One of the most consequential technologies to global security is now being scaled during a time of hyper geopolitical uncertainty. Fractures between allies, breakdowns in decades-old transatlantic security packs, shifts towards a multi-polar world.

We’re on the brink of a pretty radical transformation in our economies—billions of AI agents will soon be transacting, negotiating, and making decisions across industries. Should some require a license? open.substack.com/pub/sineadbo...

“Whom can we trust with this technology that gives us the power of gods.” - Maria Ressa

Re: tariffs that are going live to air on Canada tomorrow Which country is the largest buyer of US exports? 🇨🇦 Canada. Purchasing roughly $356.5 billion worth of American goods annually. Why does the 🇺🇸 have a trade deficit with 🇨🇦 ? Canada is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S.

You should read DeepSeek terms and conditions before you download the app: -DeepSeek retains user data even after account is deleted -The app has the right to monitor and process user inputs and outputs, including the collection of sensitive or strategic information.1/

An evening and morning discussing DeepSeek! @cnn.com

I don’t believe DeepSeek is a Sputnik moment. It’s an architectural breakthrough and will (should) serve as a valuable and innovative method US AI companies cannot ignore. But the real Sputnik moment will be if a Chinese AI company builds a model that can do things US AI models are not capable of

Last week, we saw China’s open-source model DeepSeek deliver some stunning performance, showing just how far open systems are coming. And today, OpenAI announced that the free tier of ChatGPT will now get access to their most advanced model, O3-Mini

Imagine threatening tariffs on your biggest ally and the country you expect to get free fresh water from in the future

Meanwhile

I’m not sure I understand the migration from TikTok to RedNote, especially given the reasons behind TikTok’s ban

Fertility rates continue to plummet. Historically the drop was driven by couples having fewer children. Now the driving force in fertility decline is *fewer couples.* t.co/J7Vsjt3hLH

We have already reached peak social media. Market is fragmenting, growth rates slowing, and a new technology has entered the market. A hostile environment will simply accelerate the decline of individual platforms. Re: meta’s content moderation decision

Amidst unprecedented global leadership shifts, vacuums, and uncertainty, one of the most transformative general-purpose technologies is coming online. For historians, philosophers & deep thinkers, this is a defining moment for your leadership.

What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI? There is a trade-off between false accusations and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate, detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less. Don’t trust AI detectors!

If TikTok is banned or sold, it might look like Reels and Shorts would benefit most—but I don’t think this holds true in the medium to long-term. TikTok’s unique culture and algorithm can’t be easily replicated. Reels risks alienating Instagram’s core users

It’s time for states to take their AI transition plans seriously. Progress isn’t slowing—it’s evolving. While it may ebb and flow, the frontier is undeniably moving forward.

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the AI policies that will take shape in the coming years. This period will be a defining era.

AI progress is advancing. The frontier is moving forward. We are bound to hear really exciting announcements in 2025. But AGI has not been achieved. While o3 seems to have taken many steps forward in solving *stem* problems, I’m confused by all of the AGI claims

ChatGPT is the most famous/ one of the most widely used generative AI platforms in the world. By integrating video generation into its ecosystem, OpenAI is making this technology accessible to an audience at a scale we haven’t seen before.

Taking the train in New York: the 1 train is now the 2 train, the 2 will become the F halfway through, the 3 is now the 5, the 6 might become the A but we can’t tell yet

Google’s Willow chip is a massive breakthrough in quantum computing, solving a decades-old challenge of reducing errors as systems scale. Quantum computers rely on fragile qubits, prone to errors from tiny environmental changes, but Willow exponentially reduces these issues.1/

Electronic tattoos that could replace EEGs. They use special liquid ink composed of conductive polymers that detect brain signals like a traditional eeg but much cheaper/simpler. We could also be looking at the future of brain computer interfaces. Fascinating paper www.cell.com/cell-biomate...

I’m curious to see how the newly appointed *AI Czar* navigates the sharply contrasting positions within the administration’s pool of informal but influential tech advisors on open versus closed-source AI.

Energy is becoming a technology. The story of technology is one of things getting cheaper. Imagine a future where all countries are energy abundant? Big changes to global economic order.

Foundation *world* models are pretty incredible. You give the AI an image and it turns that into a world you can explore and interact with. You can imagine the pipeline with entertainment, games, etc This one is from Google (genie 2)

When someone asks you to explain why @bsky.app is a different social media experience: (I got the chance to ask CEO Jay Graber last week at the Summit of the Future of the Internet)

The average walking speed has increased by 15%. After 8 years in New York I finally feel seen. www.nber.org/papers/w3318...

I know they are on here but I’m struggling to find scientists/ professors/ industry leaders in the following areas: Computer science/ AI Quantum Synthetic biology AR/VR / neuro interfaces Emerging tech Space National security Geopolitics Any help would be appreciated🙏🏽

Social media—in its current form—teaches kids that their life is a performance for others to rate

The only version of the future that is acceptable is the one with zero violence against women and girls. On the international day for the elimination of violence against women, it was an incredible honor to deliver a keynote at the UN on the impact of AI systems on women and girls.

Regulation and human rights are not barriers to progress but essential to it. It was an honor to deliver a keynote at the UN on the international day for the elimination of violence against women on the role AI plays in perpetuating gender-based violence & the solutions we can employ to overcome it

Dad came to cheer me on at the United Nations today🥹🥹

Getting to introduce Vint Cerf and Steve Crocker was surreal🥹. But it gets better. Hearing their answer to the question: what can we expect from you next on the future of the internet? “The extension of the internet to operate across the solar system. The development of interplanetary protocols.“

“Don’t ban TikTok. Give it to the people.” This is Frank McCourt, the founder of project Liberty making the bid for TikTok to turn it into a decentralized social platform where we own our data, our experience, ourselves.