Giotto.ai, the European AI lab, is in a funding round at a valuation above 1 billion. It outperformed ChatGPT 5, Cloud Opus 4, Grok 4, and Gemini 4.5 in the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) test. It tests progress towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). #ai #llm #artificialintelligence

Where is USA's innovation done? The micro economics concept "Clusters" are agglomerations of businesses, universities etc that accelerate innovation. The top USA ones: San Jose–San Francisco New York City Boston–Cambridge Los Angeles San Diego Washington–Baltimore Seattle #clusters #innovation

Is happiness trending? 1. First Stockholm Wellbeing Index Report is released. 2. "The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life", by professor Arthur C. Brooks, on NY Times Bestseller list. 3. Professor Diana Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, proposes new counting in "The measures of Progress".

The most innovative economies, 2025 ranking: 1 Switzerland 2 Sweden 3 USA 4 South Korea 5 Singapore 6 UK 7 Finland 8 Netherlands 9 Denmark 10 China Global Innovation Index 2025, by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). #innovation #research #R&D #patents #science

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists. As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this). #sciencesky #academicsky #science

World's 10 most beautiful libraries, as voted by 200 000 online. No 10: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris. Note the iron frame technique used constructing the reading room by architect Henri Labrouste. The library has 160 000 volumes of Nordic books, the largest collection outside of Nordics.

Branding: HBO Max is back. A rebranding reversal. 1972: HBO (launch) 2010: HBO Go (streaming for cable subscribers). The stand alone OTT streaming service was (re)branded as... 2015: HBO Now 2020: HBO Now --> HBO Max 2023: HBO Max --> Max 2025: Max --> HBO Max

How accurate is your physician in setting diagnosis? Would AI do better? Microsoft: Physicians had 20 % accuracy and AI had 80% in benchmark w/ complex cases. Microsoft: physicians do more than diagnose, needed due to ambiguities and trust. AI matures in 5-10y. Comments has more studies.

Article: Capabilities and collaborative marketing practices among rival cluster-based wine producers, by James M. Crick & Dave Crick doi.org/10.1080/0267...

Old tech: Letterlocking is a paper folding technique used prior to envelops to protect the content of letters during transport. Book by Jana Dambrigo and Daniel Startza Smith, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter, MIT Press. Video example in comment with letter of Catherine de’ Medici.

New tech: Surprising utility of LED screen basketball floor. It is not just about advertising! "First screen" was in the movie theater. Then followed the screens in TV, PC, phone, pad, and watch. Floor screen to be counted as the 7th screen? Nice write-up by @bendowsett.bsky.social for @wired.com.

Meanwhile in Sweden: Wellbeing growth is named a goal for Stockholm. The wellbeing of citizens of Stockholm will be continuously measured by scientific methods. The Center for Wellbeing, Welfare, and Happiness at Stockholm School of Economics lead by Professor Michael Dahlen surveys.

"Europe is going all in on AI" with 5 gigafactories, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at VivaTech conference, per FT. Mistral AI, a European firm, revealed Mistral Compute today. An independent AI infrastructure in France, also available for other firms. To transform Europe's capabilities in AI tech?

Apple released a paper concluding that current AI models are unable to handle higher complexity tasks. "Complete accuracy collapse" occurs at a threshold of complexity. For both LLM and LRM artificial intelligence. Hurdle to achieving AGI? At the same time, models are overthinking easy problems.

5 AI chat tools in hard reading test. Lesson 1: ChatGPT, the most salient brand among consumers for AI chat tools, was not the overall winner. Lesson 2: None of the tools achieved more than a D+ grade in the test. If you want to avoid a near fail result, you still better do the reading yourself.

Popular culture has its icons known by mononyms: Cher, Madonna, Prince… From history: Aristotle, Plato, Socrates… Meet the man who in scientific writings is known by the single authoritative letter “L”. Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), the Swedish biologist and foundational modern taxonomist.

VUCA has been on the syllabus for strategy courses at business schools for some years. Psychologist Andrew Shatté shares how VUCA can be useful for individuals too, not just organizations. In turbulent times or stressed; Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity (VUCA) concept gives insights.

US patent power ranking: * Tesla absent from top 20 in automotive. * Meta (Facebook/Instagram/Threads) underperforms. * Apple has significant patent pipeline power. * Universities important for innovation with Harvard, MIT, and VT in the category lead.

Is water wet? Wait, not so fast...! Elaborated answers from material scientists Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social , physiologists Davide Filingeri @thermosenselab.bsky.social and Jade Warde @jadeward10.bsky.social, science philosopher @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, and chemist Tim Neudecker.

Journal of Marketing Research article "Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error" is 19th most cited scientific article ever. By marketing professor Claes Fornell, founder of American Customer Satisfaction Index, and accounting professor David F Larcker.

Jamile Hamidey shares her experience from starting to teach at the business school Hanken @hankenofficial.bsky.social. Good read for those considering seeking a PhD. Supervisors are reminded of transformation taking place when becoming a university level teacher.

Public policy is to protect "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", says the USA Declaration of Independence. What economic measures capture society's progress best? Diana Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, professor of economics, explores alternative measures reflecting issues of today.

Scientists like Bluesky! "In March 2025, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to new research than X." This while Bluesky has 33 million users vs. X 650 million. A large proportion (>90%) of those that repost science articles on X are non-academics, examples suggest.

Linköping University @liu.se celebrates 50 years in the service of science and education. Hallmarks of the university are early bets on computer science and industrial engineering (engineers also trained in supply chain management and operations management etc.). Both became successes.

For many, "bureaucracy" has a curse word ring to it. When contrasting bureaucracy with alternative forms of governance and organizing of economic activity, its advantages become apparent. In this timely comment @rgmcgrath.bsky.social reminds us of what too little bureaucracy could bring.

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A signifying ability of university students is self-guided studies. It should be, at least when completing the studies, as often is stated in Intended Learning Outcomes. How can this ability be nurtured by teachers?

There are different ways of reading. In his book "The Philosophy of Translation", Damion Sears elaborates on translation of books and what makes a good one. An appreciated translation by Damion Sears is Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". #bookreview #booksky #translation

Hanken, the business school, is now on Bluesky!

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Want to zoom out to a bigger issue for a moment? "Winter is coming", they said in GOT. Well, could it? Two scientists have calculated a year when this might sort of happen. If you want to dig deeper, see link to their academic article in comments. #amoc #gulfstream #atlanticocean #science

70% of Nature's readers participating in the poll use Bluesky. Less than 14% said they use X more than Bluesky. About 53% used X before, but had left that platform. The January poll is not claiming to be representative of all scientists or Nature readers. #science #academicsky #sciencesky #bluesky

This plays ball with the classic Gretzky quote: "Skate where the puck is going, not where it has been". #cognition #executivefunctions #bigfive #adapting #academicsky #psychology #football #soccer #scouting

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Did the US election results influence your happiness? You are not alone, it impacted across the Atlantic. Micael Dahlén, Chaired Professor in Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics, has examined the issue. Account worth following! #happiness #wellbeing #usa #europe

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