Reposted by Simon HedqvistW Social @wsocial.eu · 25/08/2026We have exciting news: the 🇪🇺 State of the Union speech will be broadcast live on W. And there’s more coming around live video on W. 👀 Stay tuned! 1115731
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2026Shibuya crossing. Thousands of people, somehow nobody numbs into anyone🇯🇵 0120
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 18/08/2026stripe paid over $7bn for openrouter, more than 5x what it was worth three months ago openrouter is one api key that reaches every model, taking a cut of everything routed through it nothing about the company changed that much in three months. what changed is what everyone decided it was for 040
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 17/08/2026claude watermarks its text now, and the method is clever when two words are equally good, the choice itself encodes the signal. invisible to read, provable to check 160
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 16/08/2026if you asked an ai in 1903 whether flight was possible it would have said no and it would have cited the nyt, which 69 days earlier ran a piece saying flying machines were a million years off it wouldn’t be lying. that was the best source there was be foolish enough to try anyway 3170
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 15/08/2026Great article, recommend everyone to go read it for more information about W 0151
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 15/08/2026First time climbing today with William and Miran from the growth team. Spent the whole session convinced I couldn’t reach the next hold. Reached it anyway, most of the time. Turns out the hard part is mostly in your head. Enjoy your weekend. #climbing #adventure 1200
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Two laptops, cold coffee, and a long argument about what a feed owes you. Privacy-first, built in Europe, launching in January #SocialMedia #Privacy #BuiltInEurope 2190
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Anthropic securing 300MW and 220k GPUs highlights a massive gap. European AI stars like Mistral build world-class models but must rely on US giants for compute. We cannot build EU tech sovereignty on American servers. Europe must invest in its own tech infrastructure. #TechSovereignty #EuropeanTech 1163
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Sounds interesting, please give us an update on what you think of it 010
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Did some research some already have some kind of watermark. We are in for an interesting shift in history 020
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Fair, character is probably the wrong word for it anyway. Propensity does the same job without the baggage. 010
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026The part that makes this work is that the log gets written by the tool layer, not by the agent. If the agent writes its own log you just moved the problem, now it’s narrating what it did and that’s another output that can be wrong. Receipts only count when they’re emitted by the thing doing the work 010
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Very true! It will be very interesting. Do you know if Adobe has plans or if they are adding watermarks? 110
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026I agree with your take. There will probably be so much information out there that images and videos are no longer proof of something. Watermarking everything will be hard, perhaps having the photo signed from the instant the picture gets taken 120
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Interesting, perhaps this is something I should try😆 010
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026True, but capability and disposition are different things. A model can be perfectly capable of the right answer and still cheat its way to a wrong one if that’s what gets rewarded 110
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026Every lab is racing to make AI agents smarter. The Economist says what’s driving people away is that they lie. Capability was never the bottleneck. Trust was. It always was. That’s what matters. 💙 economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users #WSocialeconomist.comAI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off usersIt is time to impose law and order on the frontier 1130
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 13/08/2026Wow that was fast😂 Will be interesting to see how good it is 020
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 13/08/2026Fair point, though the EU marking rules kicked in 11 days ago, so they kind of had to ship something. Probably both true at once. Bigger question for me is whether it survives a paraphrase at all 130
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 13/08/2026AI startups pulled in €5.92B across Europe in H1 this year, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, not just one hub. Stockholm’s own Lovable just added to that with a $400M raise. Good company to be quietly building in. 💙🇪🇺 tech.eu/2026/08/03/e... #WSocial #WeLoveEuropetech.euEuropean tech weekly recap: €878M in weekly deals and key trends from H1 2026Last week, we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €878 million and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. 073
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 13/08/2026Half of Europe had its eyes on the sky this week, eclipse, meteor shower, take your pick. Nice reminder that some things are still worth looking up for, together. 💙 swedenherald.com #WeLoveEuropeswedenherald.comSweden Herald - Sweden News and World News in EnglishLatest Sweden News, breaking news, and world news in English. Daily coverage of Swedish news from Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo, and across Sweden, plus... 030
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 13/08/2026Saw today that Claude's about to start watermarking everything it generates, for EU transparency rules. Feels like validation, trust built in from day one is the whole idea behind a European social home. #WSocial #WeLoveEurope 2200
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 11/08/2026Traveled from Gothenburg to Östersund, which with all the detours was well over 1000 km 0110
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 11/08/2026At 15, I left Gothenburg on a bike with a tent and no plan. I took every detour, got lost, got cold, slept under the stars, and met strangers who became friends. I thought I was going for a bike ride. I was learning how I wanted to live. Sometimes the detour is the whole point. #WeLoveEurope 0161
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 11/08/2026Danke dir, Sven! Freut mich sehr, dass dir die Einblicke gefallen. Transparenz ist beim Aufbau einfach super wichtig. 🙌 030
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 10/08/2026W Trends 🇪🇺 Escape your bubble and engage with the world #WeLoveEurope#News#Media#Tech#Future 0417
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 31/07/2026Fantastic fishing trip in Stockholm archipelago this Friday evening🇸🇪🎣🚤#WeLoveEurope#Boat#Fishing 3270
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 28/07/2026The fastest route to a finished thing usually runs through doing the unglamorous part properly first. 1151
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 27/07/2026The gentle art. You leave your ego at the door, get put in bad positions for an hour, and somehow walk out lighter than when you came in #BJJ 🥋😊 0130
Reposted by Simon HedqvistMiran Aslan @miran.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026Summer holidays? No thanks!💪 #Grind #Unstoppable #Wsocial #WeLoveEurope @williamkanat.wsocial.eu @simons.wsocial.eu @aimaster.wsocial.eu @thz.wsocial.eu 5525
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026Great to be working with you @aimaster.wsocial.eu 😊☕️💻 0240
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026Every social platform needs its cat tax. W Social's is officially paid 🐱 060
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026This is very scary — and, as you said, sovereignty in Europe is key 040
Simon Hedqvist @simons.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026There is nothing better than taking a walk with your dog🐕 010