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China classifies AI safety as a national security issue with cybersecurity, biological security & natural disasters. Kwan Yee Ng outlined China’s policies: model registration, safety checks for AI, and AGI safety pilots in Beijing, Shanghai, etc. #AlignmentWorkshop

Im running the deepseek-r1 8B on my laptop. Works well.

We want technologies and products to be created, manufactured and marketed in Europe. And we must act now. Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europe’s productivity and growth. ↓🧵 #madeinEurope

A space mission to an asteroid has returned extremely delicate salts not previously observed in extraterrestrial materials go.nature.com/4aBa4Z4

Niemand lijkt er zich aan te storen, maar ik vind het jammer dat een regeerakkoord geen verwijzingen naar studies en publicaties bevat. Enkele observaties over het energieluik: /1 standaard.be/cnt/dmf2025020…

On my way to Bruges to speak at launch event of “Future-Proofing Policies: How Foresight Shapes European Union Governance” recently published with the European Law Journal European Law Journal & present my own paper with College of Europe on EU Anticipatory Governance: coleurope.eu/sites/default/…

This 👇 doesn't grow old! Sacha Baron Cohen is brilliant. (The Dictator, 2012)

Only Poland Can Save Europe Now For centuries, Poland was the rampart of Christendom – now, history is repeating as war clouds form over Europe again substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/topse…

Britains’s Jonathan Pie just completely went off on Trump’s stupidity.

Tomatoes lose their bitterness and toxicity as they ripen thanks to DNA demethylation, the hormone ethylene, and key transcription factors, finds a new Science Advances study. scim.ag/3EOMHQ4

More Task forces, action plans, recycling of existing funds, more state aid flexibility, voluntary labels, guidance, other future packages, … The European Commission #cid look lame and will likely not address climate investment needs and the competitiveness issues for EU industry.

😳 “This sensitivity allows them to detect environmental disturbances, such as oceanic activity from the Atlantic Ocean located approximately 200 kilometers away from the telescope's prospective site.”

Europees actieplan voor staal- en aluminium komt geen dag te vroeg. Oneerlijke concurrentie en overproductie uit China en torenhoge energieprijzen zijn al lang een probleem voor beide sectoren. Goed dat de Europese Commissie nu eindelijk daad bij het woord voegt. Meer info

Illusions about trade with China still run deep in Europe. At a chatham house event yesterday, one economist claimed it was “baseless” to suggest China would dominate most industries. Europe, they argued, would simply retain and develop new comparative advantages. 1/

In this context, the idea that Europe can abandon mid-tech industry and “pivot” to high-tech niches is dangerously flawed. If you give up autos, clean tech, aviation, machinery — what niches are left? Plus, I doubt one keeps niches in these ecosystems once they're gone. 7/

So, the notion that Europe can laissez-faire its way out of this challenge — that industrial policy is unnecessary, comparative advantages will simply reassert themselves — is dangerously complacent. A “do nothing” strategy carries serious risks of its own. 9/9

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by U.S. National Science Foundation–DOE Office of Science Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess what regions of sky they are? This is just a peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! ls.st/rubin-first-lo…

Exciting news from Finland: the world’s largest sand battery (1 MW/100 MWh) is now online! The Pornainen project by Polar Night Energy is 10x bigger than the first commercial sand battery and sets a new benchmark for affordable, long-duration energy storage.

NEW: Brussels plans to compensate heavy industry for the carbon paid on exports after years of debate over WTO compliance. It’s part of the EU proposal to cut emissions by 90% by 2040 coming today: on.ft.com/3TnhA29

Hydrogen Isn’t The Answer: 0.7-1.5 Billion Tons CO2e Would Make It A Climate Liability flip.it/tt-zOn