History and macro-geopolitics have always fascinated me. What we are living through now: the global competition for technological power, is, in my view, the defining story of the 21st century. It is exhilarating, but it is also fraught with danger. And those dangers stem far
TECHNOLOGY
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Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.0 Preview
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Baidu released ERNIE 5.0 Preview omnimodal foundational model. It is now available for testing on Ernie Chat.
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GPT-5.1 Drops Em Dashes on Command
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GPT-5.1 does NOT use em dashes anymore—in case it is specified in custom instructions! Instruction following is also getting much better in comparison to GPT-5.
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AI and Robots Signal the End of Human Work
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Début de la fin du travail humain. En commençant par les cadres (surtout ceux dans les tours en verre qui passent leurs journées derrière un ordinateur). L'IA fera tout ce qui peut être fait derrière un écran. Puis les robots humanoïdes feront toutes les tâches physiques.
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Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team Expands GPU Infrastructure
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Let's just say the new @MicrosoftAI Superintelligence Team is pretty pumped… Even more GPUs go brrrr https://t.co/OhKf71dFSq
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) 12 novembre 2025Let's just say the new @MicrosoftAI Superintelligence Team is pretty pumped… Even more GPUs go brrrr
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K2 architecture with 1T parameters and 32B active MoE for reasoning
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The K2 architecture? 1T total parameters.
32B active MoE.
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Open-source Kimi model outperforms GPT-5 using 1/1000 compute
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Kimi just released the best open-source thinking model last week. It topped benchmarks like HLE and BrowseComp, even beating big closed-source models like Grok-4 and GPT-5. And get this: they pulled it off using just 1/1000 of the compute those closed models use. Absolutely
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xAI drops Grok-4-Fast: 2M-token reasoning model, faster, cheaper
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xAI just dropped a monster: Grok-4-Fast Its a 2M-token reasoning model that’s faster than anything in its class and cheaper than lunch. $0.20 in / $0.50 out per million tokens. That’s 6× cheaper than Grok-4-0709 with the same brain. The wild part? It’s not just speed. It’s
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AI-based climate emulation with Chris Bretherton livestream
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Chris Bretherton talking about AI based climate emulation. Join our livestream https://
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Heart and Vascular Care Wins Platinum Award for Healthcare Website
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Congratulations to Heart and Vascular Care at @BaptistHealthSF for winning a Platinum Award for Best Overall Internet Site at the #eHealthcareAwards! https://
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