Mud lobster datacenter - Chinese Sputnik moments - Printed labs

The openness stack - Alignment, stress-tested - Ghost workers

On OpenAI’s Astra, and the ride that still needs a human

Agentic cooperation - Price of maintenance - Human rights as alignment target

Acemoglu's automation theorem - Hollywood's antitrust fight - Portfolio diversification

AI-native startups - Involution with AI agents - Open by necessity

Open Metaverse Browser - AI Mistakes - Brussels Effect in Latin America

Item Response Scaling Laws - The Politics of Open Infrastructures - Unlawful by Design

Modular agents - State media and LLMs - Citizen hackathons

Digital Freedom as Networked Autonomy - Foucault and AI - Satoshi

Techno‑Negative - AI Monoculture and Ethics - How to Spread Risk

Japan and Chips - Salarymen in the Age of AI - Alignment as Monoculture

Antitrust as Security - Tokenised finance - Decentralised identity & enforcement

How digital democracy looks like in Saxony, in Japan, and in Silicon Valley

Our Language, our Data - Open Source Talent - Distributed by Design

Replication (in political science) - Sovereignty (in India) - Ownership (in software)

TinyIceNet - German GPTs - AI Agents and Von Neumann Constructors

European CVE - Open Source Plumbing - Cloud Tenders

Swarms of Parasitic AI - Gig Work - Tales of Concentration

AI’s Material Costs - DMA Review - Europe After Scaling

New Coasean Bargain - China’s Internet - Choice

Mit Hilfe von KI-Agenten sollen Einzelpersonen schon bald Unternehmen mit Milliardenbewertung aufbauen. Das klingt verführerisch, weil es einer prometheischen Sehnsucht nach totaler Souveränität schmeichelt. Allerdings wusste schon Franz Kafka, dass Ein-Personen-Unicorns mythische Wesen sind.

Power Concentration - Ideology as Infrastructure - Physical Edge AI - TurboQuant

The learning curve doesn't negotiate

Distributed AI - Ethics of Financial Decentralization - Heckscher's Network Theorem

TINA in Tech - Standards as Infrastructure - "Fairness" as Legal Concept

Pooling AI Resources - Lowering Barriers - Disability and Avatars

Adam Becker on Mars - Thomas Hampel on Digital Twins - August Lösch on Geography

Local AI Efficiency - Sovereignty as Service - Few-Sample Speech Recognition

The transatlantic partnership is changing, but not collapsing. A closer look at EU–US relations, public opinion and Europe’s remaining leverage.

Taiwan's Deepfake Counterstrike - Open Web - VR Rules

Wikipedia at 25 - the “Middle Field” of AI - NFT Utility

Tiny Recursive Models - China’s Open Source Swarm - Vertical Data Moats

A weekly note on how digital decentralization can make our economies more human – inspired by my book "Small is beautiful 2.0". Click to read The Small Signal, by Anselm Küsters, a Substack publicatio...