AI in Practice When Research Turns Into Action: Understanding Deep Research vs. Agent Mode in ChatGPT Both modes inside ChatGPT seem to “think”, yet one begins to “do”. Exploring the quiet shift from analysis to operation in everyday AI tools.
AI in Practice When Bots Become Readers: Publishing in the Age of AI Crawlers Listening to Matthew Prince on Azim Azhar’s podcast made me reflect on who actually reads my blog. People (like you), machines, or both.
AI in Practice When AI Makes the Calendar Click A hotel booking, a single prompt, and a small glimpse of how AI quietly starts to understand our everyday tools.
The Hidden History Behind an Email Signature in Apple Mail After thirty years of wrangling with e-mail quirks, this is the simple method that finally made Apple Mail behave and it still makes me smile.
Tracing and Telling: From GPX Tracks to KML Stories GPX shows where you went. KML explains what it means. With Komoot and AI, maps become not just navigation tools but narratives.
AI Strategy From Hype to Workflows: Where AI’s Real Shift is Happening We expected AI to change everything overnight. Instead, progress is hidden in pilots and processes. The sinkhole is forming beneath us.
Future of Work AI’s Impact on Work, People, and Labour Law AI drives growth and efficiency, but also reshapes rights, rules, and daily work. A look at the double effect of AI on organisations and labour law.
Decentralised Identity: Prove What You Must, Reveal No More Than You Need To access content or services, we often give away more than we should. Decentralised identity lets us prove facts without exposing our digital selves.
AI Strategy Oracle’s Surprise Role in the AI Economy Oracle’s return to AI relevance shows how capital is flowing upstream. From apps to infrastructure. Training fits their strengths, inference remains a question.
AI Strategy From Sand to Software: A Whistle-Stop Tour of the AI Value Chain AI may look like pure software, but it rests on a fragile chain of quartz, optics, fabs, and GPUs. This post traces the journey, stop by stop.
AI in Practice Why I Keep Mixing Up Hortensia, Hibiscus and Rhododendron A mix-up of flower names becomes a window into how human memory works and how it contrasts with AI models.
Europe Investing in Atoms: Alain le Loux on Building the Deeptech Future Deeptech demands patience, guts, and hands-on conviction. This article profiles Alain le Loux and the rare venture model behind Europe’s hardware hopes.
Europe Streams and Archives: Two Ways of Living with Our Digital Data Personal data lives in two worlds: flowing streams of fresh information and enduring archives of credentials. Both shape our digital future.
AI in Practice From Ideas to Precision: Why I Use Mermaid with LLMs Image generation is messy for structure. With Mermaid + LLMs, diagrams become clear, tweakable, and practical. A real tool for strategy and logic.
Europe Featured The Deeptech Dilemma Deeptech isn’t SaaS. It’s often slow, risky, physical and still underfunded in Europe. What’s behind the gap with the US? A rare cross-Atlantic perspective.
AI Strategy Chrome, Gemini Nano, and the Browser as AI Platform The AI race is moving into the browser. Experiments with local models helped me recognise Chrome’s Gemini Nano for what it is.
AI in Practice AI Fine-Tuning for Non-Engineers Compact AI models make fine-tuning possible for non-engineers. I tried it myself and learned how AI becomes portable, local and real.
Europe Wero: Europe’s new payment brand Wero is Europe’s bid for payment sovereignty: pay across borders with just an email or phone number, without relying on US networks.
Europe From Shopping Cart to Server Rack: How Lidl Builds a European Cloud From groceries to gigabytes: how Lidl’s parent turned its retail IT backbone into STACKIT, a sovereign cloud based in Germany and Austria.
AI in Practice Running GPT-OSS Locally: What OpenAI Just Made Possible (And What It Didn't) OpenAI released GPT‑OSS under an open licence. Here's what that really means, how I ran it on a Mac mini, and where you might start experimenting too.
AI Governance Model Cards, System Cards and What They’re Quietly Becoming What are AI model cards, and why are they becoming the documents regulators will turn to first? I read a few and it taught me more than I expected.
AI Governance From Benchmarks to Evals: How We Measure AI and Why It Matters Benchmarks score models. Evals test them in real workflows. This is your guide to understanding how we measure and trust AI performance today.
From Mini to Pro: My Experience Switching to the iPhone 16 Pro I swapped the nimble iPhone 12 mini for the powerful 16 Pro. It changed how I shoot, what I see and how fast I can get the camera out.
How I Tuned My Social Notifications into a Single, Silent Stream During the holidays, I rethought notifications. The result: one place, no noise, no rush. A calmer way to stay connected without being pulled in.
AI in Practice From API Users to Embedded Agents: How Systems Are Becoming Smarter From Within From passive APIs to embedded agents: systems now host autonomous, AI‑powered modules that live inside and act proactively rather than wait for calls.
