This is the famous video of the Arianespace CEO dismissing SpaceX as a dream America has a lot of dreams. Too many if anything. It would benefit from more focus on getting the basics right if anything (China does the latter well) But in Europe, you aren’t supposed to dream. No one wants to hear about dreams. They disrupt things. The problem is, some dreams come true. Since this is a basic fact about the world, it’s best that they happen to be yours x.com/ApoStructura/status/20…

This is totally crazy and will have unintended consequences for US AI models. I need to think about it a bit more, but I am probably moving to open source Chinese models. You can’t rely on US models anymore. Really unfortunate decision.

"What will happen to Europe if it keeps ignoring AI?" Three American labs each (!!) operate more AI compute than all of Europe combined. Today we're launching Europe 2031: a story of what might happen if that doesn't change.

As I said, they’ve been asking to be regulated and have now succeeded!

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

This platform went public again today btw

Ontnuchterende blik op de Europese positie in de AI-race. Zelfs als de achterstand in maanden en gigawatts niet verder oploopt, gaan we verder achterlopen. Een paper door Europese researchers met ook een vleugje hoop: “Time is short, but we believe Europe’s course can still be changed” Helemaal eens, goed gedaan. europe2031.ai/

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe. We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

If you are wondering why the 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇪🇪 Estonia, and 🇩🇰 Denmark are the first countries to adopt regulations for FSD in 🇪🇺 Europe, this fact provides a significant part of the answer: Combined, the automotive industries including tier 2-3 suppliers of these four countries account for only 2 to 3% of the total European automotive industry. Heavy lobbying by the automotive industries plays a significant role in regulations and approvals.

As a EU citizen, I'm really worried that the EU will disappear and be technology irrelevant. It's one thing to not be able to produce the latest tech, but it's another thing to also cut yourself off from the latest tech because you have bureaucrats unable to understand a thing.

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece. Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU. Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service. So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships. Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open. The EU rejected it. Magnificent. Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent. Excellent. This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing. Estimated time to ship: 2047. Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states. Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response. Worth it. In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all. Not a bug. The intended outcome. Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision. 🇪🇺

ASML should be treasured and supported. It is arguably the greatest company in Europe.

De sektarische strijd van o.a. de @volkskrant de @NOS en Nederlandse top-ambtenaren tegen @X lijkt totaal geen effect te hebben. Wat wél heel hard weg zakt is het aantal Bluesky gebruikers (en dat waren er al niet veel).

The solution is to rally around open source. That's the only way to compete with a superpower technology network effect if you are not a superpower yourself. And it's the only way to bring the rest of the world along on the same team as you. Open source.

Of je het leuk vindt of niet, ik denk dat X heel dicht in de buurt komt van totale democratie. Iedereen kan alles over alles vinden. Dat het soms/vaak ook heel lelijk, agressief, dom whatever kan zijn betekent alleen dat democratie geen rozegeur, maneschijn en bloemendansjes is

It’s the same for everyone, I hear this story everywhere. We are simply so much more productive that you can’t stop. I’m in a constant flow, but it’s also physically draining. Running and hikes keep me sane, but this can’t go on forever of course.