Oud-lobbyist van Microsoft pleit voor digitale dekolonisatie: ‘Het bedrijf is zo groot en machtig als een natiestaat’

Oud-lobbyist van Microsoft pleit voor digitale dekolonisatie: ‘Het bedrijf is zo groot en machtig als een natiestaat’

Leuk om met NRC in gesprek te gaan over mijn aanstaande boek Kolonisten van de Cloud

‘Nederland liet zich voor het karretje van Microsoft spannen’ Jochem de Groot | Ex-lobbyist Microsoft: Microsoft benadert landen alsof het hun natuurlijke partner is. Nederland is gevoelig voor deze benadering en voert ongewild de agenda van Microsoft uit. Inmid...

„Microsoft is ook zo invloedrijk omdat het een verhaal vertelt waar de Haagse politieke elite enorm ontvankelijk voor is. Maar we moeten in Nederland zelf nadenken over de richting van het beleid, waarbij digitalisering een middel is, geen doel.”
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Begin november 2025 komt het uit. Verheug me erop!

@minpresnl.bsky.social Schoof: “The Netherlands provides a consistent supply of NATO Secretary Generals”

Is this model called #deathla? 😵 ⚰️

Inspirerende start van het NL IGF event op 5 juni! 🌐

Jochem de Groot (@jochemdegroot.bsky.social) opent de middag in de Koninklijke Schouwburg in Den Haag met zijn keynote 'Bots, blokken en bondgenoten: over de nieuwe geopolitiek van technologie'.

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So many questions

Trump is making Europe great again The US president has provided the biggest stimulus towards European integration since the end of the cold war

“Donald Trump will never win the Nobel Peace prize. But he should be a strong contender for the Charlemagne prize — which is awarded each year to the person who has made the greatest contribution to European unity.”

👌🏻

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We will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's and Musk's circles who have an hour of notice about the daily swings in tariff policy or the occasional announced *expectations* of such swings.

PSV - Juventus, wanneer de Oude Dame naast de Witte Dame neerstrijkt #psvjuv 💡👵

Geen @speld.nl tussen te krijgen

Here are the trolligarchs 🇺🇸

Just imagine if Ursula von der Leyen would scold MAGA Americans - speaking to them in the United States - that their free speech-interpretations are hypocritical & opportunistic, those very same free speech-principles would prove worthless. They probably wouldnt even let her speak

#jdvance #msc2025

Is Vance about to deliver Europe’s security’s chilly elegy?

#MSC2025 #jdvance

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

Excellent & daunting FA-essay on Trump47:

“America is on the cusp of competitive authoritarianism. The Trump administration has already begun to weaponize state institutions & deploy them against opponents. The Constitution alone cannot save U.S. democracy.”

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Jan Vroegindelegbatterij 🥚

Wilders over asielwetten: “IK bepaal wat WIJ daarvan vinden”

Enough said

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”

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Overheard in discussion on choppy NATO waters:

“If tariff wars slash GDP’s across NATO countries, it might ironically make it a lot cheaper to get to 2, 3 or even the ludicrous 5% defense spend” 📉

Now more than ever, AI needs a governance framework It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on

“It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on. The best governance policies will be designed to tactically mitigate such risk while rewarding responsible implementation.”

on.ft.com/3EEAYDu Now more than ever, AI needs a governance framework

Etnische zuivering als toeristisch business model: CorenDonald aan de Gaza Rivièra

Opinion | DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants.

Ex-FTC-boss Lina Kahn:

“Big tech chief executives…seemed more adept at reinventing themselves to suit the politics of the moment — resistance sympathizers, social justice warriors, MAGA…— than on pioneering new pathbreaking innovations & breakthrough technologies.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

Radio Cloudwijk, in dat geval? 📻 ⛅️

Beter een verre vriend dan een goede buur

WHAT DOES THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ASK FOR WHEN HE'S IN A FRENCH RESTAURANT?

hors d'oeuvres, hors d'oeuvres!

Uitgekeken op de gipsen replica van de kleine zeemeermin in de voortuin

Ivo Daalder: “To earn Trump’s respect, U.S. allies must demonstrate strength...1st, they must recognize that the era of Pax Americana is over & the era of power politics has returned. The one thing he understands is power—& if U.S allies work together, they can confront him with plenty of their own”

Has Europe’s great hope for AI missed its moment? Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology. But it has lost ground to US rivals — and now China’s emerging star

Door #deepseek & #alibaba’s hyperefficiente modellen is er optimisme dat de EU met weinig compute & eigen waarden een 3e AI-weg kan bouwen.

Maar uit FT’s profiel van Mistral, de enige echte Europese LLM-bouwer, blijkt dat het bedrijf nu vooral tussen servet en tafellaken hangt:

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After DeepSeek Shock, Alibaba Unveils Rival AI Model That Uses Less Computing Power - Slashdot Alibaba has unveiled a new version of its AI model, called Qwen2.5-Max, claiming benchmark scores that surpass both DeepSeek's recently released R1 model and industry standards like GPT-4o and Claude-...

Alibaba & de 40% infrareductie:

Alibaba zegt vandaag met #Qwen2.5-max alweer #deepseek te overtoepen, net als Amerikaanse modellen ↘️

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