iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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re:publica @re-publica.com · 20/11/2025

Ist „mind-reading“ AI das nächste große Ding? Wie lange sind unsere Gedanken noch frei? Der Futurist und Journalist @janoschdelcker.bsky.social zeigte auf der re:publica Hamburg x Reeperbahn Festival, wie diese Technologie schon bald unser Leben durchdringen könnte. ▶️ youtu.be/as5KWHNgllc?...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires.» The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social www.authoritarian-stack.info

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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

“Microsoft and OpenAI have now extended that agreement to 2032. The new contract provides Microsoft with access to technologies after OpenAI has reached A.G.I., provided that the technology is equipped with “appropriate safety guardrails.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...

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OpenAI Restructures to Become a More Traditional For-Profit Company

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Vielen Dank für das Feedback und das Teilen!

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Sandra Hiller @sandrahiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Die Insides von Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social auf der @re-publica.com Hamburg haben mir Angst gemacht. Der Affe in meinem Kopf wollte die ganze Zeit dagegen ansingen. "Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten..." Ihr ahne es schon, die KI, die KI die kann sie erraten...

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"Former Commissioner Thierry Breton, who helped draft the bloc’s digital rulebook, does not appear to have confirmed attendance as he is listed as an “invited witness”." www.euractiv.com/news/former-...

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Former Commissioner Thierry Breton invited to MAGA DSA hearing | Euractiv

Hearing will also target the EU's Digital Markets Act and similar UK laws – with UK far right politician Nigel Farage listed as a confirmed witness

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re:publica @re-publica.com · 26/08/2025

Wie entschlüsseln neue Technologien unser Denken – und wie behalten wir die Kontrolle? In seinem neuen Buch ruft Janosch Delcker (@janoschdelcker.bsky.social) dazu auf, unsere „Neurorechte“ zu schützen. Auf der #rpHH diskutiert er, was es dafür braucht. 🔗 re-publica.com/de/session/m...

Foto von Janosch Delcker mit einem Schriftzug mit seinem Namen. Darunter sind die republica Hamburg und Reeperbahnfestival Logos zu sehen.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

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SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“Geoff Hinton is a super genius … However, he is a genius of machine learning, not governance.”

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Geoffrey Hinton is more than a household name in AI. He knows his words shape public debate. And that seems to be his #1 mission now. Proposing to embed “maternal instincts” in AI is anything but helpful. fortune.com/2025/08/14/g...

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'Godfather of AI' says tech companies should imbue AI models with 'maternal instincts' to counter the technology’s goal to 'get more control'

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has previously likened AI to a “cute tiger cub” that is harmless now, but could easily turn on you.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

To add to the confusion, I asked Perplexity's chatbot to explain the rationale behind Perplexity's offer to buy Chrome:

Answer written by Perplexity.AI chatbot:

"Perplexity’s move is both opportunistic—capitalizing on legal pressure for divestiture—and a bold statement about the future of AI, where browser control translates into data dominance and product leverage. Even if unlikely to be immediately accepted, the bid reframes the browser market as the new battleground for AI-driven innovation, investment, and control.

In short: Perplexity is publicly jockeying for a pivotal role in the post-antitrust, AI-centric internet landscape, while promising stability for users, continuity for advertisers, and competition for regulators. Whether Google actually sells Chrome or not, this bid signals a seismic shift in where the next phase of AI and web competition will play out."

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“the unsolicited bid is a long shot, since Perplexity itself is valued at an estimated $18 billion. Jesse Dwyer, a spokesman for the company, told The New York Times that outside investors had agreed to back a potential deal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/t...

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A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Genuinely curious what you think: Will this ban safeguard users as intended — or will it unintentionally harm those who have no access to mental health care?

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

From my (non-lawyer) understanding, this law now removes that option for people in Illinois.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Early research suggests that conversations with an AI chatbot *can* bring real mental health benefits – from supporting emotional well-being, to helping address specific conditions, to encouraging positive behavior change.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

BUT here’s the reality: in many parts of the world, access to a qualified human mental health professional is a privilege enjoyed by only a fortunate few.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

AI systems are not trained therapists, and they should never replace them. The intention – to protect vulnerable people from harmful or misleading advice by AI chatbots – is right and important.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The US state of Illinois has just banned AI systems from “providing mental health and therapeutic decision-making.” The wording is vague, but many interpret it as a ban on using AI tools like ChatGPT for therapy. And I’m genuinely torn on how to feel about this.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This matches with my understanding of where LLMs are likely to impact science quickest – bringing techniques that are well-understood to one set of experts, and applying them to questions raised by a different set of experts www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

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AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“Many members of Mr. Wang’s team reported to Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., last week for the first time. The group is working in an office space siloed from the rest of the company and next to Mr. Zuckerberg.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

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Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Okay, we—as in humanity—have inadvertently been broadcasting our existence to potential alien civilizations for decades. gizmodo.com/aliens-can-d...

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Aliens Can Detect Earth’s Airports From 200 Light-Years Away

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, these beings may already know where we live.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There's a simple yet effective trick for showing other insiders that you (and not AI) are still writing your LinkedIn posts. And it involves my high school teacher, Ms. Curtis--who will probably never know. www.linkedin.com/pulse/secret...

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The Secret Signal That Says: I Wrote This LinkedIn Post, Not AI

There's a subtle trick to signal that you’re still writing your own LinkedIn posts rather than using AI. Only insiders will pick up on it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"Books have sometimes been licensed for only a couple hundred dollars each, and that a publisher that asks too much may be turned down, only for tech companies to take their material anyway." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The End of Publishing as We Know It

Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28, the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI, to join the new lab…and has been in talks to invest billions of dollars in his company as part of a deal that would also bring other Scale AI employees to the company.”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Meta announces partnership with defense contractor Anduril Industries to develop military technology, including an AI-powered helmet. Given the basic AI research conducted within Meta over the last years, this expansion into defense makes a lot of sense. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Meta is working on a high-tech helmet for the U.S. military

Social network company Meta is partnering with weapons-maker Anduril to develop military technology for the Pentagon using AI and augmented reality.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Major disruptions often occur when technologies from different fields converge. Worth keeping an eye on this emerging convergence of scientific computing and AI: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/t...

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Nein, weiß ich selbst leider auch nicht. Aber das Team dort hat sicher genug zu tun und er geht sicher bald online. Ich poste einen Link, sobald ich ihn online entdecke.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Vielen Dank für das "shout-out"! Das freut mich sehr.

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Franziska Bluhm @franziskabluhm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Inspirierend. Wie lange sind unsere Gedanken noch frei? @janoschdelcker.bsky.social #rp25

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Vielen Dank, das freut mich sehr! Und danke auch für den Sonderpreis 🏆 Bekommt einen besonderen Platz im Regal. 😼

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Alexander Svensson @wortfeld.de · 27/05/2025

Sehr spannender #rp25 Vortrag von @janoschdelcker.bsky.social über mind-reading AI – wie mehrere Technologien zusammenkommen (und was für fundamentale Fragen das aufwirft). Außerdem re:publica-Sonderpreis für das perfekte Abstimmen von Outfit und Folien.⚫️🟡

Vortrag von Janosch Delcker mit einer Folie mit vier Illustrationen

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Vielen Dank für das shout-out! 🙏

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André Kroll @millerntorpirat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Die Gedanken sind frei ... oder bald nicht mehr? @janoschdelcker.bsky.social berichtet bei der re:publica 2025 über die Chancen und Risiken von Mindreading AI. Meta & Co. forschen daran. Es gibt erste Erfolge beim "Auslesen" und auch beim "Schreiben" ins Hirn. 1/2 #rp25

Janosch Delcker steht auf der Bühne der Re:publica 2025 und referiert über Mindreading AI. Im Hintergrund zeigt die Präsentation das Bild einer Patientin, deren Hirn an einem Rechner angeschlossen ist. Daneben steht der Text Brain-Computer-Interface.

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re:publica @re-publica.com · 27/05/2025

Wenn Tech-Unternehmen die Trainingsdaten für KI-Modelle ausgehen, könnten Daten unserer Gehirnströme dann diese Lücke füllen? Darüber sprach Journalist & Futurist Janosch Delcker (@janoschdelcker.bsky.social) während seiner zu „Mind-Reading AI“ auf Bühne 1 der #rp25. 📸 Gregor Fischer

Janosch Delcker auf Bühne 1 der republica.

Kachel mit einem Zitat von Janosch Delcker: "This mind-reading AI will create an incredible granular intimate information about us – how we feel, who we like, who we are. This is a gold mine for the data industry and it could also become the fuel for the next genaration of AI.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

☄️ Heads-up, re:publica 2025: Tomorrow — Tuesday, May 27 at 11:45 a.m. CET — I’ll be on Stage 1 (right after Germany’s new Digital Minister,) delivering my keynote on “Mind-Reading AI.” If you're attending, please stop by and say hello.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I keep going back to this image--actually a combination of 200 image--of the sun taken by NASA’s Solar Orbiter in early March. It is the clearest image of the sun to date. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun

Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

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Falk Steiner @fsteiner.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

NATO introducing Palantir AI system. One could argue baking US dependency into every corner of the alliance is not exactly what events tell you to do, but hey...

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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025

For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.

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A promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a rare disorder

For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“High-profile tech and investment executives, including Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and others, joined Trump on the trip. … The trip represented a strategic technology transfer that could create new AI superpowers while channeling Gulf Oil wealth into U.S. companies.”

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“Trump’s UAE visit delivered perhaps the trip’s crown jewel — a deal allowing the Emirates to import as many as 500,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips annually from 2025 through 2027, according to reports — potentially worth $15 billion.”

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Janosch Delcker @janoschdelcker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

For context, the New York Times reports that an American student is demanding a portion of her (outrageously high, I'm sure) tuition back because she believes she caught her professor using AI.

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