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Last night I discovered the Figure AI livestream with their F.03 humanoid robots sorting packages. And you know what happened? It put me to sleep. True story. Not because it was boring but more because it was surprisingly calming with always similar motions, some subtle background noise, the same steady rhythm again and again. Feels like robotic ASMR. 😅 But in all seriousness: this is quite impressive. @Figure_robot has multiple robots running shifts, sorting packages continuously, 24/7 for 7 days now. Of course, it’s a controlled setup. The packages are quite similar in size, mostly lightweight bags and cardboard but still seeing humanoid robots operate like this for such a long time is fascinating. I really like how it flips lightweight boxes by applying a clever wrist-torque motion. Of course, the data they are gathering from these long autonomous runs will be incredibly valuable for self-improving. Great idea, also for a public stunt, and worth watching for a few minutes. And if you can’t fall asleep tonight… you know where to tune in. 👇
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Ich schreibe hier kaum noch etwas Politisches. Aber heute muss es raus: Bei der Krankenkassenreform, die heute im Kabinett beschlossen wurde, ist für mich eine Grenze erreicht. Das Maß ist voll, denn eine Reform, die kinderreiche Familien und Pflegefamilien zusätzlich belastet, ist unanständig. Ich habe diesen offenen Brief an Lars Rohwer, unseren MdB hier im Wahlkreis geschrieben, weil ich die geplante Einschränkung der Familienversicherung für Ehepartner für ein völlig falsches Signal halte. Es geht mir nicht um Parteipolitik, sondern um eine grundsätzliche Frage: Wie viel ist unserer Gesellschaft Familienarbeit, Kindererziehung und Pflegeverantwortung wirklich wert? ----------------------------- Sehr geehrter Lars Rohwer, ich schreibe Ihnen als Vater von fünf Kindern und als Bürger aus Ihrem Wahlkreis. Gleichzeitig veröffentliche ich dieses Schreiben bewusst auch öffentlich, weil die geplanten Änderungen bei der Familienversicherung viele Familien betreffen könnten und aus meiner Sicht eine offene politische Diskussion verdienen. Die geplante Einschränkung der beitragsfreien Familienversicherung für Ehepartner empfinde ich als massiven Angriff auf kinderreiche Familien und auf unbezahlte Familienarbeit. Meine Frau kann nicht einfach extern arbeiten gehen. Sie arbeitet zu Hause jeden Tag mehr als viele andere: Kinderbetreuung, Haushalt, Organisation, Schule, Termine, Krankheitstage, emotionale Begleitung und der gesamte Familienalltag. Diese Arbeit ist nicht bezahlt, aber sie ist real, notwendig und gesellschaftlich unverzichtbar. Besonders wichtig ist mir: Unser jüngstes Kind ist ein Pflegekind. Wir übernehmen also zusätzlich Verantwortung für einen kleinen Jungen, der Hilfe, Stabilität und ein Zuhause braucht. Das ist nicht nur Privatsache, sondern eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Aufgabe, die Familien wie unsere mit viel Herz, Zeit und Kraft leisten. Mir ist bewusst, dass im Entwurf bestimmte Ausnahmen vorgesehen sind, etwa bei Kindern unter sieben Jahren. Aber genau darin liegt aus meiner Sicht das Problem: Familienarbeit wird nur sehr eng und zeitlich begrenzt anerkannt. Wer fünf Kinder großzieht, ist nicht plötzlich weniger belastet, nur weil ein Kind älter wird. Kinderreiche Familien tragen über viele Jahre Verantwortung, organisatorisch, finanziell und emotional. Es wird sicher Menschen geben, die sagen: „Eure Kinder sind doch schon beitragsfrei mitversichert.“ Aber das greift zu kurz. Kinder sind kein privater Luxus, sondern Teil der Zukunft dieses Landes. Eltern ziehen die Menschen groß, die später selbst arbeiten, Beiträge zahlen und diese Gesellschaft tragen. Gleichzeitig zahlen Familien wie unsere bereits hohe Steuern und Sozialabgaben und verzichten oft auf ein zweites Einkommen, weil die Familienarbeit anders gar nicht zu leisten wäre. Hinzu kommt, dass im gleichen Reformpaket offenbar auch die Beitragsbemessungsgrenze zusätzlich angehoben werden soll. Damit werden Familien wie unsere gleich mehrfach belastet: durch höhere Beiträge auf ein höheres beitragspflichtiges Einkommen und zusätzlich durch einen möglichen Zuschlag für die bisher beitragsfreie Mitversicherung des Ehepartners. Am Ende entsteht der Eindruck, dass wieder diejenigen zur Kasse gebeten werden, die ohnehin viel leisten und schultern: Menschen, die arbeiten, Beiträge zahlen, Kinder großziehen, Pflegeverantwortung übernehmen und sich gesellschaftlich einbringen. Ausgerechnet diese Familien zusätzlich zu belasten, ist nicht nur falsch, sondern familienpolitisch verheerend. Wichtig ist mir auch: Es geht mir nicht darum, Menschen in Grundsicherung gegen Familien auszuspielen. Wer Hilfe braucht, soll Hilfe bekommen. Aber gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgaben müssen fair und transparent finanziert werden. Wenn die Bundeszahlungen für die Krankenversicherung von Bürgergeldbeziehenden nur schrittweise angepasst werden, gleichzeitig aber der allgemeine Bundeszuschuss zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung gekürzt wird, wirkt es so, als würden strukturelle Finanzierungsprobleme der GKV am Ende wieder auf Beitragszahler, Familien und Patienten verlagert. Das ist für mich kaum nachvollziehbar. Familien wie unsere ziehen fünf Kinder groß, geben einem Pflegekind ein Zuhause und leisten damit jeden Tag einen konkreten Beitrag für dieses Land. Diese Leistung darf nicht indirekt bestraft werden, nur weil ein Elternteil wegen dieser Verantwortung nicht extern erwerbstätig sein kann. Ich bitte Sie daher eindringlich, sich im Bundestag dafür einzusetzen, dass kinderreiche Familien und insbesondere Pflegefamilien ausdrücklich und dauerhaft von einem solchen Zuschlag ausgenommen werden. Wer mehrere Kinder großzieht und zusätzlich einem Pflegekind ein Zuhause gibt, darf nicht so behandelt werden, als würde ein nicht extern erwerbstätiger Ehepartner keinen Beitrag leisten. Bitte setzen Sie sich dafür ein, dass unbezahlte Erziehungs-, Pflege- und Familienarbeit nicht finanziell abgestraft wird. Mit freundlichen Grüßen René Schulte
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Physical AI holt KI aus dem Screen in die reale Welt. In der neuen Podcast-Folge spricht Rene über Spatial Intelligence, World Models, Digital Twins, Robotik und Use Cases in Industrie, Logistik, Healthcare. Höre jetzt Season 5. Youtube ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=6zZyP84D…
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The moment you all have been waiting for - I know - is finally here: The new season of my Digital Dialogs podcast where will cover World Models and Spatial Intelligence with many exciting guests. Tune in to episode 1 to get started...
Physical AI brings AI from screens to the real world. In the new podcast episode, Rene explores Spatial Intelligence, World Models, digital twins, robotics and use cases in industry, logistics and healthcare. Listen to Season 5 now. Youtube ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=6zZyP84D… #AI
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I really enjoy Andrew Ng The Batch newsletter every week and in particual his preface which is usually inspiring. Today's edition had a really nice, encouraing quote again: "As we navigate this fast-moving and uncertain world, let's help each other out, build community, and keep helping each other gain valuable skills." We are building the tools of the future. But true transformational value is only unlocked when we share knowledge, connect with each other, continuously learn and empower each other.
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I really enjoy Andrew Ng The Batch newsletter every week and in particual his preface which is usually inspiring. Today's edition had a really nice, encouraing quote again: "As we navigate this fast-moving and uncertain world, let's help each other out, build community, and keep helping each other gain valuable skills." We are building the tools of the future. But true transformational value is only unlocked when we share knowledge, connect with each other, continuously learn and empower each other.
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Reply is going all-in at NVIDIA #GTC! 🚀 We have a serious presence across multiple booths with live demos and a dedicated talk, from Edge AI to Digital Twins to autonomous robot fleet orchestration. This isn't slideware. It's real industrial value creation. Anyone attending NVIDIA GTC, make sure to check out: 🧠 Live demo at AWS Booth #921, Kiosk #7: "The AI Fast Lane for the Industrial Edge powered by NVIDIA on AWS" – How edge AI models are validated and optimized on autonomous devices in real time. With NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Digital Twin simulation baked directly into the dev loop. AI that learns in the field without stopping the line. 🤖 Live demo at Google Booth #513, Kiosk #4: NVIDIA Isaac Sim running directly on Google Cloud G4 instances – high-fidelity digital twins of complex logistics environments, no local workstations needed. Simulate and train diverse robot fleets before they hit the real world. 👓 Talk on March 17, 3:00–3:40 PM: Otto Group shows live how Roboverse Reply DE implemented a digital twin that precisely maps the warehouse, all robotic systems, and their interactions. Centralized fleet coordination, predictive layout simulation, and optimized processes – even during peak times. This is the convergence of Physical AI and Digital Twins in practice. Not theory, production. ✨ Who's on the ground in San Jose? #GTC2026 #NVIDIAGTC #SpatialComputing #PhysicalAI #DigitalTwins #AI #Robotics #EdgeAI #IsaacSim #Omniverse #Logistics #Industry40 #Reply #Innovation
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Your online anonymity now costs $4 to break. Let that sink in. Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic built an automated pipeline that strips pseudonymous users of their anonymity using off-the-shelf LLMs. No fine-tuning, no special training data, no hacking. Just your own words turned against you. ​ They ran it against 338 Hacker News accounts, scrubbed clean of every direct identifier. Names gone, URLs gone, social handles gone. The system matched 226 of them to their real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision. The whole experiment cost under $2,000. ​ Hacker News users are among the most technically literate people on the internet. If they can't hide, who can? 🧠 The pipeline is almost boring in how straightforward it is. Extract identity clues from posts. Search the web. Reason over candidates. Calibrate confidence. Standard LLM capabilities, nothing exotic. Against a pool of 1,000 candidates, 68% true matches. Scale that to 89,000, it still held at 55%.​ ​ Now, I personally have nothing to hide. But that's not where the danger is. The real threat is what this means for dissidents, journalists, and activists living under repressive regimes. Authoritarian governments already use AI surveillance to identify and detain protesters. Moscow's facial recognition network tracked anti-Putin demonstrators in 2021. During Iran's 2022 protests after Mahsa Amini's death, authorities identified protesters within hours. Those regimes needed state-level infrastructure. This paper hands them the same capability for the cost of a coffee ☕. The researchers themselves warn that "governments could use this technique to target journalists or activists". A single successful deanonymization of one activist can unravel entire networks, including associates back home who are in direct reach of regime authorities. And this will only get cheaper. Switching from low to high reasoning effort roughly doubled the correct identification rate. Models improve. API costs drop. Both curves work against privacy on the same timeline. Anonymity saves lives. That's not a slogan. It's operational reality for millions of people around the world.
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Q-Day - the moment Quantum Computers crack today's standard encryption is approaching fast and much sooner than most of us were thinking! 🤯 A new hybrid algorithm is making waves right now which reduces the quantum resources needed to break RSA-2048 by a factor of 1,000 (down from millions of qubits to under 5,000). They achieve this by offloading the heavy mathematical lifting to classical computers while using the quantum processor only for highly specific, error-resilient tasks. The paper still needs rigorous peer review, and physical noise in current quantum hardware remains a giant bottleneck but here is the reality check: The comfortable assumption that we have 10-15 years to prepare is dead. The convergence of classical high-performance computing and early quantum approaches is changing the rules. "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" is real. This means your encrypted IP, GenAI models, and enterprise Digital Twins stolen today will be an open book in the near future. Crypto-agility and the migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) are no longer just research topics. They are critical business requirements right now. Is Q-Day already on your radar?
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Look what Dave built: Amiga demoscene FX website. Via WhatsApp. 🤯 Meet Dave. Dave is my OpenClaw agent that I set up more than a week ago. If you don't know, OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent orchestrator that has been blowing up – over 100k GitHub stars in under a week and the inventor 🦄 Peter Steinberger was just hired by OpenAI. 🚀 Obviously, I did NOT install OpenClaw on my own machine. Security first. He runs in a fully isolated sandbox VM, locked down IP and ports, no access to any of my real accounts. But even in this restricted setup, what Dave can do is impressive. Especially with coding, cron jobs, and autonomous research. For this example here I simply texted Dave on WhatsApp: "Research the most famous Commodore Amiga 500 demoscene effects and build me a website that recreates them in JavaScript canvas. With procedural chiptune music." 👾 And that's exactly what he did. Copper bars, starfields, plasma, rotozoom and of coruse the sine scroller. Of course I had to refine things here and there, but all of it happened through conversation. No IDE. No git push. Just chat. 🤖 And remember: we're still just scratching the surface.
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🕹️ Try the Amiga Demoscene Effects page: rene-david-bot.github.io/ami… 🐙 OpenClaw on GitHub: github.com/openclaw/openclaw

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Speedboats vs. Tankers: The SaaS selloff panic is overdone. 🧐 Anthropic's new sector plug-ins for Cowork and the Opus 4.6 release wiped nearly $1 trillion off global software stocks in a single week but I think many investors don't really understand how enterprise software and IT actually works. The world's business runs on tankers like SAP, Microsoft, and a handful of big platforms. M365, Windows, Active Directory, SAP, etc. This stuff is the backbone of basically every enterprise out there. You can't just vibe code a replacement for an ERP system that runs your entire supply chain or a platform that every employee touches every day. These systems have to work 100% deterministic, not only in regulated industries, auditing, financial control, compliance. That stuff isn't going anywhere overnight. That said, I'm not saying there's zero threat. The real risk for SAP and Microsoft isn't replacement, it's commoditization. If AI agents sit on top of these systems and handle most of the user interactions, the platform underneath becomes invisible plumbing. Still essential, but priced like infrastructure, not like premium software. What WILL clearly fade away are the smaller niche SaaS vendors and ISVs. The single-purpose apps, the workflow tools, the point solutions. They'll get replaced by just-in-time AI-generated apps and agents but the big platforms are too deeply embedded, technically, operationally and legally. IMHO the market is panicking without understanding the difference between a Notion competitor and a system that runs your entire workforce or supply chain. The selloff is overdone, but I'd also not get too comfortable if I were a big ISV tanker, the transformation is real and the speedboats are coming to overtake, if they don't change course, just slower than Wall Street thinks. What are your thoughts on this?
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One Decade Later. 🕰️ Just saw this photo in my screensaver by accident and it brought back some good memories. This is from April 2016 when the @HoloLens 1 dev device was fresh and a total game changer back then! I still remember testing and developing for it for the first time in 2015 and having my mind blown. 🤯 It was outstanding and the first half of the decade was filled with excitement and innovative apps, but then it faded off with less commitment and now the HL is basically history. Sadly. But lots of good things remain! Most importantly the amazing people I met, many of whom are still friends today. Also the tech: sensors, hand tracking, perception, custom silicon, optical see-through, and much more paved the way for others. And I'm confident smart glasses with real displays are coming, we just need the right form factor. Hach, good ol' times...
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Agentic AI wird Realität – das zeigte die Vodafone eleVation Business Lounge in Berlin. Im „Reality Check AI“ und der „AI Agents Masterclass“ ging es darum, wie Unternehmen 2026 von Piloten in produktiven Einsatz kommen. Am Reply Stand dabei: Ameca, unser humanoider Roboter.
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Berlin, wir sind zurück! 🐻 Erster Stop 2026 der Vodafone Business eleVation-Serie und auch bei Haltepunkt #4 der Tour hatte ich wieder die Ehre, mit Dr. Marcus Hacke im Panel den „Reality Check AI" zu diskutieren und mit meinem Kollegen Johannes Morzeck die AI Agents Masterclass zu leiten. Die Fragen der Vodafone Business Kunden zeigen: 2026 wird das Jahr, in dem Agentic AI vom Buzzword zur Realität wird. Genau die richtigen Gespräche zur richtigen Zeit! Großes Dankeschön an Sarah Yvonne Elsser und Christoph Burseg für die gewohnt souveräne Moderation – und natürlich an das Vodafone Team und die Rothfabrik für die top Produktion! 🙌 Weiter geht’s am 19.02.2026 in Düsseldorf. Ich hoffe wir sehen uns auf der Tour! 🚀
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✊ Power to the OSS Devs - Free AI Coding Tools for Open Source Devs! You might know that I started and still maintain open source projects and we all know that modern LLMs like Claude or GPT were heavily trained on open source code – code that all of us OSS maintainers have provided for free for years. While @github sets a strong example with free Copilot access for maintainers, such programs are still largely missing from @AnthropicAI & Co. 🧐 It would only be fair if those who created the training data also got free access to the best tools. A "give back" from AI providers to the community is a step that is long overdue. What do you think – should all LLM providers offer free tiers for OSS maintainers? Power to the OSS Devs! ✊
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"Energy costs will decide who wins the AI race" - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Davos 🎯 I've been saying this for years: Germany's AI ambitions are dead on arrival as long as energy costs remain inflated 🏭⚡ Nadella nails it: 👉 GDP growth will directly correlate with AI energy costs 👉 "Tokens" are the new global commodity 👉 Cheaper production = competitive advantage Europe has the highest energy prices globally since 2022 - and we wonder why tech investments go elsewhere? 🤔 Microsoft is investing $80B in AI data centers - 50% outside the US. Germany? Not on the list. We need more than just words and announcements. Action. Now. 🚀
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