Merz outlines his plans to work with Paris, Warsaw, and London going forward, in the plane headed for France. Video taken from Michaela Kuefner, DW, from Twitter as she unfortunately isn’t here.

BBC - Former US President Joe Biden, in his first interview since leaving office, says he believes "the Republican Party is waking up to what Trump is about." https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn8085j2jnno

Onderstaande initiatief is sowieso te prijzen, natuurlijk zal er vast wat op aan te merken zijn zodra meer details bekend worden (gebruikt model, finetuning etc.). Je kunt je als overheid niet beperken tot alleen maar afwijzen van BigTech AI en vervolgens zelf geen actie ondernemen. Want dat AI een tool is die gebruikt wordt in werksituaties is een zekerheid.
https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/chatamsterdam/
#AI #Amsterdam

@hanscees @MishaVelthuis @gemeenteamsterdam ...interessant inderdaad om te weten wat het basismodel was, wat daarmee is gedaan (finetuning?), met welke data etcetera

We lanceren ChatAmsterdam: een veilige AI-assistent die ambtenaren helpt met teksten, samenvattingen en analyses.

Met ChatAmsterdam zetten we een volgende stap naar digitale onafhankelijkheid en een veilige, verantwoorde inzet van kunstmatige intelligentie binnen de organisatie.

➡️ https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/chatamsterdam/

We're finally living in an episode of 'Black Mirror'. You can create your own digital clone in seconds* and even resurrect your dead brother to say some wise words in a court case.

How creepy is that? Where does the data end up? Who else has access to 'your' face and video? Are people not worried about deep fakes?

I also read about a 13-year-old faking her mum's voice via AI to take sick days from school. She even used that voice to trick her dad. A true 21st-century Ferris Bueller, but I'm not laughing.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Does the AI hyping brigade not see any issues with this?

*I'm not joking: see e.g. https://www.veed.io/tools/ai-avatar

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/arizona-road-rage-victim-ai-chris-pelkey

#BlackMirror
#AI
#DeepFakes #Creepy #CreepyAF #WeirdNews

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/
#bellingcat #deepfake #porn

@christianschwaegerl something like these? https://www.techradar.com/best/best-rugged-smartphones

Interesting innovation by Amazon,
"Today at our Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, we’re introducing a robot that is neither numb nor dumb. Built on key advances in robotics, engineering, and physical AI, Vulcan is our first robot with a sense of touch."
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-vulcan-robot-pick-stow-touch
#AI #Robotics #Amazon #Vulcan #warehousing

Use AI in a smart way, always check outcomes if you want to use them in real life, here they didn't... 😆
https://www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/07/when-cases-relied-upon-in-written-arguments-were-simply-false-wasted-costs-order-made-against-counsel-and-solicitors/
#AI #legal

Donald Trump Is a Man in Decline

https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-a-man-in-decline/

"“I don’t know.” Three words that should chill anyone paying attention. Three words that make it unmistakably clear—Donald Trump is no longer capable of understanding the office he occupies, let alone executing its obligations.

This isn’t a legal argument. It’s not a philosophical dispute over constitutional interpretation. It’s a confession of incapacity."

Trump is such a fool.
https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-a-man-in-decline/
#trump #canada

"Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs"
https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/
#trump #chat #cybersecurity

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

Trump family's net worth has i...

I love to see more cooperation between Canada and the Netherlands (and the EU in general).

I think Canada will benefit a lot from a closer relationship with the EU, and I think it's completely reasonable that Canada could join the EEA some day.

"elbows up!" 🇨🇦

https://nos.nl/artikel/2566151-canadezen-willen-zakendoen-in-nederland-we-weten-nu-wie-onze-echte-vrienden-zijn

Geert Wilders vindt het prima dat Israël de burgerbevolking in Gaza doodt, kinderen laat sterven van de honger, hij moedigt het zelfs aan als ik zijn berichten lees. Misselijkmakend.
#wilders #pvv #politiek #gaza #israel

@AngelaScholder is NotebookLM not useful? There are useful GenAI applications, it's just technology, ofcourse it has it's problems but the discussion about it is completely polarized between believers in AGI and people who think GenAI is just "smart autocorrect", both are wrong in my view 😀

@euractiv let's wait and see, he just started

Trump will try to present coming "trade deals" as victories while they are in fact a retreat from his original plan, also any additional tariff will increase prices for US citizens and make a recession near inevitable, also because of the ongoing destruction of US society.
#trump #tradedeals #usa #geopolitics #economy @geopolitics