The value rarely lies in the individual AI story but in the ability to read the weekly news stream — to separate structural signal from noise. Using a typical AI-news video, I apply four test questions and cleanly separate what is officially verifiable from what remains mere assertion.
Read more →Two developments usually discussed separately are interlocking: AI turns the exploitation of vulnerabilities into a mass-market commodity — what used to cost weeks, a frontier model now handles overnight. And quantum computing threatens the foundation itself, asymmetric encryption. “Harvest now, decrypt later” is happening today. Both curves point upward and will foreseeably cross.
Read more →China's bet on AI and robotics is less a geopolitical arms race than a demographic emergency: two state experiments — the one-child policy and zero-COVID — created the fastest-ageing, shrinking society in history. AI and robots are meant to replace the people who soon won't exist. Not a faraway China story, but a preview of our own ageing Europe.
Read more →UBTECH unveiled a lifelike humanoid — positioned not as an industrial machine but as an „emotional companion“. It's the economic answer to a hard reality: collapsing birth rates, ageing societies and loneliness as a documented health problem. A great deal of capital is flowing into that gap — but is the robot really a solution?
Read more →Confidential Computing protects data not only at rest and in transit, but also while it is being processed – inside a hardware-encrypted enclave that even the cloud provider cannot look into. That genuinely solves the confidentiality problem, but it does not automatically solve digital sovereignty, because the roots of trust (the chips, the attestation technology) are themselves under US control.
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