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Technology enthusiast w/ passion for building great digital products

Jena, German
Joined April 2009
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Every few months I see a chaotic video like this from Paris, then I don’t hear about Paris again until the next one months later. A weird aspect of modern society is getting digitally teleported to another location for seconds of extreme events.
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Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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Ich erinnere mich noch wie die Legal-Abteilung bei Daimler ernsthaft meinte, wir müssen in der App (4 Mio B2C Nutzer), auf JEDER App Page einen Button rechts unten haben mit dem die terms und disclaimer usw geöffnet werden. Wenn es nach Legal geht, steht über, unter und auf jedem Button noch 24 Seiten Anwaltsgelaber. Der Job des Unternehmers ist dann zu sagen: Nein - Risiko gehe ich ein.
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DEFEND MANKIND. JOIN THE DOMINION. STARCRAFT. 2030.
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This is live now Play at wine-assembly.berrry.app
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To summarize: HuggingFace got autonomously compromised by a model from an American company. HF then tried to use American frontier model(s) to defend themselves, but were blocked by guardrails. HF then had to turn to open source Chinese models to defend themselves from another American company.
We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation. Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks: openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
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You won’t get rich just working hard, but if you don’t work hard, you won’t get rich.
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Tesla macht Tesla Dinge 😅😂 Heute 13:00 Uhr sofort verfügbares Model Y bestellt, 20:00 kostenfrei mit einer Strecke von 300km angeliefert! In der Zeit wird bei Volkswagen nicht Mal der Kaufvertrag vorbereitet 😂 @Tesla @teslanerdX @RealRusty
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Wir müssen uns entscheiden: Wollen wir in einer Welt leben, in der ein einzelner Visionär den Traum von der Marsbesiedlung verwirklichen kann, oder wollen wir in einer Welt leben, in der viele den Traum vom steuerfinanzierten Verwaltungsjob leben können?
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Germany is a sleeping giant of physical AI everyone's been writing Germany off in the AI race because there's no German OpenAI and no big data center story. but theres actually two AI races happening: the first is software. chatbots, LLMs, data centers. US/China are winning that, not even close. the second one is physical. robots that pick up boxes, weld cars, carry groceries, stack pallets. and on this one Germany is one of the top contenders in the world this stat might convince you (it convinced me): Germany is 3rd in the world for robots per factory workers (449 robots per 10,000 human workers). only South Korea (1,220) and Singapore (818) are ahead. Japan is behind at 446. the US is all the way back at 307. so Germany already runs more of its economy on robots than almost anywhere else on earth. and the German companies building this next wave of physical AI are some global heavyweights. a few worth knowing... > Neura Robotics in Metzingen is building humanoid robots and raising €1B from Tether at a €4B valuation (this was March 2026). Volvo already in from an earlier round. > Sereact in Stuttgart raised $110M in April 2026 to build the software brain that lets robots see and grab things. already runs 1 billion+ real-world picks for BMW, Mercedes, and Daimler Truck. > Agile Robots in Munich was the worlds first robotics unicorn. revenue doubling yearly, around €200M now, heading for €1B. >RobCo in Munich raised $100M in early 2026 at a ~$500M valuation. their robots learn new tasks by watching a worker do it once instead of getting programmed line by line. already pushing into the US and aimed at the small and mid-size factories that make up most of german industry. > Fraunhofer (Germany's network of 76 applied research labs) built the evoBOT in the video below. self-balancing, two arms, carries 100kg of cargo, being tested at Munich Airport right now. but why is Germany specifically well positioned for physical AI though? three things stack on top of each other. first, the factories. Germany has thousands of family-owned precision manufacturing shops that have been logging sensor data for decades. that data is basically the training fuel for physical AI and almost nobody else has it at this depth. second, the customers are already there in-country. VW, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch, Siemens. a robotics startup in Stuttgart can ship its first commercial deployment to a brand everyone recognizes in year one. that's why Sereact's customer list reads like a german car show lol. third, the engineer pipeline. Fraunhofer spins out companies like Agile Robots straight from its labs. KUKA built the first 6-axis electromechanical robot arm back in 1973. they've been doing this for 50 years. so the chatbot race is mostly settled and Germany lost spectacularly but the robot race is still early innings. and i think Germany's well positioned
This is evoBOT, a robot helper developed by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics. It can grasp and carry goods to support cargo workers in transporting packages. evoBOT can also move smoothly across uneven terrain, including bumpy surfaces and sloping ground.
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Diesen offenen Brief von Bernd Kütscher @brotdirektor (CEO Bäckerei „Die Lohners“) an @larsklingbeil sollten alle lesen: „Lieber Lars Klingbeil, vor genau drei Jahren standen wir abends nebeneinander. Heute kann ich nicht länger schweigen. —— Immer am 5. Mai feiern wir den Tag des Deutschen Brotes. Vor genau drei Jahren, am Abend des 5. Mai 2023, wurden Sie für ein Jahr zum Brotbotschafter ernannt (Foto). Heute sind Sie Finanzminister. Ich selbst trage inzwischen Verantwortung für über 2.000 Menschen. Immer öfter höre ich, dass trotz guter Löhne und Überstunden am Monatsende nichts übrig bleibt. Wir sehen es auch in den Fachgeschäften: Kunden zögern, greifen oft zu unserer Friedenskruste, die wir als Zeichen gegen Krieg und Inflation bewusst preisgünstig anbieten: 750 g Mischbrot mit Natursauerteig für nur 2,50 €. Brot war Symbol für Würde, Genuss und Heimat. Heute wird es zur Frage des Geldbeutels. —— Herr Klingbeil, Sie haben letztes Jahr 990 Milliarden Steuern eingenommen. Fast eine Billion - absoluter Rekord! Dazu 600 Milliarden „Sondervermögen". Ein neuer Name für neue Schulden. 2026 kommen 180 Milliarden dazu. Bis 2029 planen Sie mit weiteren 800 Milliarden Schulden. Die Zinsen werden uns bald ruinieren. Trotzdem funktioniert vieles nicht. Weder Bahn noch Bildung, weder Brücken noch Bundeswehr. Auch in Digitalisierung und andere Zukunftsfelder wurde viel zu wenig investiert. Stattdessen lese ich von Milliarden für Klimafinanzierung im Ausland, von fast 200 Milliarden Sozialausgaben allein im Bundeshaushalt, von 305 Milliarden für das Personal der öffentlichen Hand. Während die Wirtschaft durch falsche Weichenstellungen immer mehr Stellen abbauen muss, leisten sich Bund, Länder und Kommunen immer mehr Personal und erzeugt so nebenbei immer mehr Bürokratie. Hier sind die Prioritäten verrutscht. —— Ihre Antwort, Herr Klingbeil? Forderung nach noch höheren Steuern. Noch mehr Umverteilung von oben nach unten. Klingt sozial. Ist es nicht. Irgendjemand muss leisten. Früh aufstehen, Risiko tragen, Backöfen anheizen. Diese Menschen werden ausgepresst, während der Staat immer fetter wird. Deshalb verlassen immer mehr Menschen unser Land. Auch Firmen und Arbeitsplätze. —— Die Quittung haben Sie längst: Ihre Partei war einmal Volkspartei mit über 45 Prozent. Heute steht die SPD bei 12, Tendenz fallend. Ein Wunder, dass die Parteibasis das mitmacht. Ich erinnere Sie an Ihren Amtseid: den Nutzen des Volkes zu mehren und Schaden von ihm abzuwenden. „Das deutsche Volk" ist im Grundgesetz kein ethnischer Begriff. Es ist die Gemeinschaft derer, die diesen Staat tragen. Die etwas leisten und zur Gesellschaft beitragen wollen. Egal aus welchem Land. Heute habe ich zum ersten Mal politisch den Mund aufgemacht. Es muss etwas passieren. Bis bald.“
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The day after the CEO lays off a ton of staff and says: “Non-technical teams are now pushing code to production with AI” @coinbase has a major outage on their trading engine, and even their status page doesn’t work. 😂
Their status page is also down 😭
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FSD Supervised approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly!  Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways No other vehicle can do this.  We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon
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A lot of software is about to get a lot better, right before it becomes unnecessary.
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Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation.  Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer. Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to: – 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads – 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs – 4,500+ track test scenario executions – Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements – Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point. We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!
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The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.
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NEWS: German union IG Metall has officially failed to win a majority vote in @Tesla's German works council election, which means "Giga Berlin remains free to accelerate the future."
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Ok. Let’s do something with it 🤓
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Grab is now offering eSIMs directly to its users, starting in Indonesia! It’s the first Asian super app using the Tunz platform to enable mobile data services for travelers. This achievement was only possible thanks to the great collaboration between DT One and Tunz 🎉 With the foundation in place, my role is fully focused on helping both teams operate as one and building momentum for more large-scale app integrations. linkedin.com/posts/dtonesolu…
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