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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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Dimitri Tokmetzis @tokmetzis.bsky.social · 5h
Alles wijst erop dat de Russische Kosmos 2612 satelliet de achtervolging heeft ingezet. Het doelwit is ICEYE-X36, een Finse radarsatelliet die door Oekraïne wordt gebruikt. Ook een andere Europese satelliet is mogelijk doelwit van de manoeuvre. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ru...
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Rusland achtervolgt Europese satelliet die Oekraïne helpt
Sinds eind september beweegt een Russische satelliet in de richting van een commerciële Europese radarsatelliet die door Oekraïne wordt gebruikt. Experts vermoeden dat Rusland de satelliet wil ondersc...
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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 · 20h
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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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
From 🇪🇺 Europe.
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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 · 14/10/2026
When you manage universities like you would do in business, this is where you end up. No one really responsible, everyone can point fingers.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Makes sense. Current models are already very good for most knowledge work. And open weight models are ca. 4-6 months behind, that gap is manageable. But we better be serious about applying AI right - it’s not as simple as it sounds.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
But why?
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Yes. And that is why Europe needs to do it TOGETHER. Alone we cannot develop these large technologies (satellites, drones, C&C systems), we need to do that together.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Dank, goede link. Broncode kopiëren mag niet, functioneel namaken blijkbaar weer wel. dat 2e is lastiger maar gaat m.i. ook wel lukken…
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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
As well, yes!
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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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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Ja, wellicht. Maar of dat een oplossing is? Ilja zal dan nog steeds zijn aan fascisme grenzende hyperbool blijven gebruiken.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Goede column. Ook zonder AI kunnen we systemen ontwerpen waarin de mens niet als mens gezien wordt. Denk aan de toeslagenaffaire, Kafka's boek, slavernij, Auschwitz.
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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
Off course I'll be happy if someone proves me wrong on this.
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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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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Niet te doen deze regering.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Awesome work!
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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
We need technology transfer of every Chinese product sold in the EU.
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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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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Ja, daar heb je gelijk in, dit is vervelend wat je doet. Ik had er ook niet om gevraagd dat je de hyperbool van Ilja 'Nederland is totaal vastgelopen' begon te ondersteunen met domme, domme argumenten.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Geef je nu al op? En mijn slager dan? Die verkoopt ook maaltijden. Moet die van elke maaltijd bij gaan houden hoeveel groente er in zit? en hoeveel die groente dan waard is? Zodat hij netjes de BTW kan berekenen?
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Dit zijn de ingrediënten van mijn pizza. Reken jij s.v.p. even het BTW % uit? Ik hoor het wel.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Iedereen moet zich aan de wet houden, toch? Of hoeft deze fabrikant dat dan even niet?
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Ik doe zo een pizzaatje in de oven met wat groente er op. Zou jij even willen berekenen hoeveel BTW er op zit? Er zit ook tomatensaus met wat conserveringsmiddel in, dat dan weer niet meerekenen s.v.p. Ik hoor het wel!
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
En dan alle salades exact wegen op het grammetje nauwkeurig? En op welk moment, bij verpakken gaat niet want drie dagen later is de sla al weer uitgedroogd. Oh en dat ook voor de croutons, sausjes, alles. Fijne dag verder.
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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
Tip: je moet niet blind vertrouwen op AI.
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Ja, echt een robuust & betrouwbaar systeem wat je zo bedacht hebt. Daar zal wel niemand misbruik van maken, toch? www.parool.nl/nederland/ap...
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Appelsientje voegt een beetje melk toe aan sap om de suikertaks te ontwijken
Fruitsappenmaker Appelsientje heeft een handige manier gevonden om de verhoogde suikertaks te omzeilen: doe er een beetje melk bij en dan is het product gevrijwaard van de limonadebelasting van 26 cen...
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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Ilja leeft in een droomwereld waar groente en fruit alleen als los product verkrijgbaar zijn, zoals in oma’s tijd. De realiteit is anders: een voorverpakte salade met een beetje kip, Welk btw% moet dat krijgen? (En bedenk s.v.p. zelf andere producten)
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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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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Awesome! I have a long running urban sound classification project to tackle noise pollution. This might be a nice model for it!
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