OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake ft.trib.al/CPgCAny

New from 404 Media: companies are deliberately making Claude and Codex talk like cavemen because it can curb the skyrocketing cost of AI. The 'caveman' plugin keeps LLM answers very, very brief. Got leaked memo showing it's being used; OpenAI dev contributed code too www.404media.co/companies-ar...

The past two weeks were crazy… in a good way, but exhausting. At the Handelsblatt conference talking about cognitive warfare &how AI needs to be thought of as a multi dimensional attack vector for critical infrastructure Filming @Terrax with Harald Lesch on AI / democracy

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Brussels sets out an ambitious cross-sector plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign technology, spanning cloud services, semiconductors and AI, while pairing new regulatory tools with investment and industrial policy to expand domestic capacity, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

Meta says it has been “thinking through” putting face recognition into its creepy smart glasses But it’s already been shipping the face recognition code to people’s phones Big @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social scoop

In einem europäischen Projekt haben Akteure aus Wissenschaft und Industrie untersucht, welche Speichersysteme nötig sind, um die Energiewende voranzubringen. #Energiewende

Auf der @re:publica habe ich eine Keynote über die absurden Konsequenzen für unsere Gesllschaft gesprochen habe wenn Menschen abgewertet und KI Systeme, die bewusst wirken, aufgewertet werden. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDn...

Surprise… not. Das letzte Jahr an öffentlichen Auftritten haben da schon eine ganze Menge vorweg genommen.

Easy as ABC: voters in England tend to pick names nearer top of ballot, data suggests

Major players in the A.I. arms race have panicked that their fellow founders weren’t taking existential fears about the technology seriously enough. “They seem to have worried less about the risk of political backlash from actual humans,” David Wallace-Wells writes.

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This btw is classic contentious politics theory by Charls Tilly. If you close legal pathways for agency, it doesn’t stop mobilization, it just makes it illegal. If repression is inconsistent on top of that, people who mobilize radicalize. So we can expect more violence individual and organized.

Für @internationalepolitik.de schreibe ich zu De-Risking.. De-Risking ist eine Entscheidung für Handlungsfähigkeit & nicht Synonym für Au­tarkie, sondern Strategie zur Verwaltung von Abhängigkeiten um handlungsfähig zu bleiben internationalepolitik.de/de/sollte-eu...

RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.

Palantir verkauft nicht nur Software, sondern in einem Manifest ein politisches Weltbild in 22 Thesen, um die Dominanz des Westens zu sichern. #Palantir

Tracking engineered collective mobilization

Thanks to its mineral endowment, South Africa has more AI leverage than any country on the continent, writes Nathan-Ross Adams. To serve the public interest, its AI policy must use it, he says.

I think that academia has not absorbed the fact that AI agents are now good enough to independently reconstruct complex papers without access to code or the papers themselves; just the methods & data. They aren’t perfect but the errors are often in the human paper, not the AI making a mistake.

Quite fascinating. It feels like an emancipation, and will change some dynamics…

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Legacy television power is being put against a decentralized, digital-first influencer class that helped build Trumpism. That means that as younger voices break from Fox, the right’s media ecosystem turns on itself.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

If you know… you know. Berlin HBf

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

If civil society is showing courage with so little protection and support, why is the European Commission so afraid to capitalize on its own Digital Services Act wins, writes Alexandre Alaphilippe.

Engagement Politics… based on the underlying design of algorithms, this basically means the more outrageous the politician the high the ranking within party.

This is what happens when politics turns from ideology to attention, and that's not good for a functioning democracy.

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‚Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to 3 officials familiar with the intelligence.‘ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

State-sanctioned personalized energy solutions are something I’ve been tracking since last summer. My core concern: they risk undermining energy infrastructure as a public good and with it, state sovereignty.

"Ukraine is no longer just supplementing its infantry with tech — it is replacing infantry in many cases with drones, ground robots, sensor networks, minefields and artillery cued by unmanned systems." (h/t @christianthiels.bsky.social)

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Loxxmaxxing as a natural but extreme extension of whatvststred off as optimizing your day(5AM, cold plunges,) now it is meth, bone crushing and peptides… served to you by an increasing cohort of influencers.

40 countries on track to limit or ban children from social media…

@proton.me is killing it with their content…

The global order is fracturing, writes Alison Gillwald. But turning geopolitical and technological disruption into justice for the Majority World will take more than restating values. It will require reform of multilateral institutions—and confronting how technology entrenches power imbalances.

Not only women, but once AI is introduced as Infrastructure, Training data biss will become locked in… www.ft.com/content/60e2...

This just doesn’t feel right….

"The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship." www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Germany is moving to fortify its foreign intelligence agency with sweeping new powers in preparation for a potential divorce from the U.S.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Wie Russland die Epstein-Files für Propaganda nutzt#Selenskyj#Epstein-Affäre#Russland

Tech Abhängigkeit als Geschäftsmodell ⬇️

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Incentives for more creator engagement and keeping privacy standards high. Seems very attractive considering alternative existing SoMe platforms. BlueSky on a spree to get more people to their platform…