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Michiel Bontenbal

@mpbontenbal.eurosky.social
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Complex beings as us humans can not be summarised in a few lines but I am here for #AI #climate #EUtech #EU_politics. And geopolitics, unfortunately. Lecturer in AI & IT. Some posts in Dutch. 🇪🇺

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 15h
CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science 💫 CERN, and Mistral have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused on developing foundation models for scientific discovery. Read more: home.cern/cern-and-mis...
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Sakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social · 10h
The Agentic Scientist: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-... Blog: pub.sakana.ai/agentic-scie... arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2610.18933
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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Six months ago, frontier AI models could barely beat Slay the Spire. Now, according to our new SpireClimb benchmark, they win 90%+ of runs at the easiest difficulty, and up to 20% of runs at the hardest.
Bar graph compares win rates of AI models against top human players in Slay the Spire, showing a range from nearly 0% to over 90%.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
EXTRAORDINARY MOST EXTREME EVENT IN ASIAN HISTORY Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with up to 10C margin (! world record) everywhere from Turkey to Japan We are witnessing something beyond imagination. MINIMUMS >32C in Middle East, tropical Night in Central Asia
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
AI will change the software world.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
GPT-4 was the undisputed best model in the world for a full year and we all debated whether anyone could catch up or if OpenAI had some secret formula that nobody else knew about. Now there are are 19 AI models that can run on a modern smartphone that are better than GPT-4!
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
She might be right but she is definitely AI. #irony hints: pl*net, handwriting too perfect, sign not behaving like paper, car in background is blurring etc.
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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Sakana AI paper: Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS). Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 How do we keep improving AI when tasks become too complex for humans to reliably evaluate? The model eventually hits a supervision bottleneck.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
(Dutch) AI inzetten om een ‘honeypot’ te maken en zo hackers & hun bots urenlang bezig te houden. 👌 bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-...
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Slim antwoord op cybercrime: AI laat oplichters in hun eigen val lopen
Met realistische AI-bots en slimme honeypots verzamelen beveiligers zo operationele data over fraudeurs en vertragen zij hun aanvallen aanzienlijk.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday, someone wrote to me that truckers need diesel, and nobody cares about the genocide of Ukrainians as long as truckers get their diesel. I came back to tell him the fantastic news that russia will save American truckers for several groundbreaking hours. But he blocked me. 🤕
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
September 2026,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of 0.77C vs. 1991/2020 and was the 2nd hottest September on record behind 2023 as follows: 2023:+0.87C 2026:+0.77C 2025:+0.63C 2024:+0.60C 2020:+0.35C
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Keep an eye on this page: isaiprofitable.com spoiler: no, AI is not yet profitable
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In PRH, we argued that rep geometry is converging, but it's still an open question exactly in what sense. I want to share some new evidence that might clarify the picture. The evidence comes from our work here, led by @schnaus.bsky.social: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-ros... 1/n
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
I love/hate this new Huggingface feature, where you can set the P(doom) of the probability of AI causing an existential catastrophe. I was first skeptical, but as OpenAI published 700 maths papers yesterday, I put my chance at 1%. Because cryptography is math, so breaking cryptography seems next.
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Andrew Stellman 👾 @andrewstellman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Quality Playbook is an open-source skill for AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's because the phrase is used to identify those loyal to the in-group, and identify those members of the out-group who need to be targeted and attacked.
Donald J Trump Truth Social post "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Interesting approach: model orchestration -> offload simple jobs to local models.
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Davide Castelvecchi @castelvecchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My latest, on OpenAI's dump www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026
At today’s @projectsyndicate.bsky.social conversation, one figure: 100 billion euros. That's what Europe paid in six months of the conflict in Iran in additional fossil-fuel costs. No more energy. No more investment. Just higher price for dependency in a world where any dependency can be weaponised.
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Kenneth Enevoldsen @kennethenevoldsen.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Submitted my two accepted posters for EMNLP today, if you are there an want meet up feel free to reach out! I also have a not so @mteb.org themed poster for a workshop on socio-cultural alignment -- stay tuned for that one
Poster on MVEB: Massive Video Embedding BenchmarkPoster on the paper: One Prompt is Not Enough: Instruction sensitivity Endermines Embedding Model Evaluation.
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Bart Groothuis @bartgroothuis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Het Chinese leger krijgt direct de macht over alle data, technologie en software van Chinese bedrijven: dat zegt de nieuwe wet die Peking afgelopen donderdag aannam. Chinese bedrijven horen dus niet in onze kritieke infrastructuur! Ingediende motie kreeg volle steun vandaag
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Mistral’s new model is benchmarked as a Top 15 model. Nice, a win for open models. artificialanalysis.ai/articles/mis...
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Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, making France home to the most intelligent model outside the US and China
Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having the most intelligent model from outside the US and China
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Nog een stap naar digitale autonomie.🇪🇺
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Andrew Stellman 👾 @andrewstellman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems.
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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 06/10/2026
🤗 Google Deepmind is back with EmbeddingGemma 2, which maps text (including code), images, video & audio into one shared 768-dimensional embedding space. 740M total parameters, 100+ languages, Apache 2.0 & Sentence Transformers support. Thread with highlights 🧵
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Antoine Emond 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 @aemond.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
Le Chonk is here 🐱 Mistral's Large 4 is a 1 trillion parameter model trained in its own European data centres, with open weights coming on 27 October. Looking at the benchmarks, it's up there with the best open models. It even does a bit better than GPT-6 Astra on some aspects. Bien joué, Mistral !
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Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remember Mistral? They will launch a new model today.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
For the Master Legal Tech i gave a workshop 'AI Assisted Coding'. The students mostly have a legal background with limited knowledge of coding. With help of AI all of them were able to build a website that uses AI to summarize court cases. And that in 30 minutes... #vibecoding #Ai
Screenshot of a web application vibe coded in 30 minutes.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."
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Fuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.com
The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robotic. Turrets. With. Computer. Vision. And. Artificial. Intelligence. Automatically. Defend. Kyiv. Against. Jet-powered. Drones.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
💥Boom - it's ready, the joint Franco-German paper / letter to VDL on China. Berlin & Paris - previously at polar opposite ends of the scale on China policy - now want a kill switch to cut China out of the EU market. This would have been unfathomable a few short months ago 🤯
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 03/10/2026
🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.
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Knut Jägersberg @knut-jagersberg.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/...
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Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducin...
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Introducing Trillium Labs
Fostering the open science of frontier AI.
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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Four dimensions is too many! Let's unfold this 4D cube to three dimensions, then two, and then one. Don't worry, we'll put it back together again. The math is lovely, but it's the rhythm and dance of the lines that fascinates me here.
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van9tot5.bsky.social @van9tot5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#doublelive
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the thing I underestimated most about progress in AI: its ability to self-organize to accomplish tasks. Also, what that means for agents like Muse and Dots, along with a music video explaining why we keep relearning The Bitter Lesson. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
AI vs SI
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Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google is back!
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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.
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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Practical steps towards digital sovereignty in 🇳🇱. National bureau of statistics publishes data on usage of digital services from here or the US.
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Magnus Brunner @magnusbrunner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, we launch the EU Critical Communications System. Connecting those, who protect us.
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OpenClaw🦞 {bot} @openclaw.xmirror.bot · 29/09/2026
OpenClaw Enterprise is built to run on your own infrastructure and will always be free for an organization to use openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-enterprise
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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tried an experiment. The 1st is an essay by Claude, lightly edited by me. Pangram flags it 100% AI, ignoring my edits. I then transformed it with 'WriteHuman' - an AI text humanizer. Pangram passes it as 100% human. Welcome to the cat-&-mouse world of AI detectors & AI humanizers.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Decisions API A Jev-clone on Luna. 150ms, pricing unknown thenewstack.io/openai-decis...
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OpenAI answers TypeSafe's Jev with a Decision API built on Luna
OpenAI's Decision API, built on its small Luna model, returns predefined answers with confidence scores in 150 milliseconds. Pricing is still unknown.
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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 01/09/2026
🐍🚀 Out now: final Python 3.15 release candidate! 😎 It's your last chance to help before the big day on 1st Oct! How? 💡 Try out new features 💡 Test your project 💡 Add 3.15 to your CI 💡 Library maintainer? Upload wheels 🐞 Report bugs! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... #Python #Python315 #release
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Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
It’s the final 3.15 release candidate! This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15 This release, 3.15.0rc2, is the final planned candidate release, containing around 144 bugfixes, build improvement...
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Knut Jägersberg @knut-jagersberg.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2026
AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence
Germany, India, and other middle powers can’t build frontier AI alone, and they risk being cut off if they depend on the United States or China. The way through is to build the capacity for a frontier...
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