AI in Practice Jev AI: When Classification Becomes Almost Free Jev is an AI model built to make small, structured decisions at remarkably low cost. Its significance may lie less in what it can do than in what becomes worth automating.
Money What sits underneath the payment button Mollie’s Pay by Bank announcement made me revisit the routes beneath online checkout, and the commercial choices shaping Europe’s bank-based payments.
AI Strategy Kolibri and Europe’s Emerging Industrial AI Ecosystem Aleph Alpha’s new open-weight model is interesting not because Europe has produced another chatbot, but because of what is becoming visible around it: research capability, industrial capital, cloud infrastructure and decades of accumulated knowledge.
AI Strategy Knowledge Is Becoming Infrastructure AI changes the role of organisational knowledge twice: it needs better knowledge to work from, and it gives us new ways to maintain that knowledge. What used to look like information management is becoming part of the organisation’s infrastructure.
AI in Practice ChatGPT is dreaming about me ChatGPT has become remarkably good at remembering me. I went looking for an explanation and discovered that memory is no longer just about saved facts: ChatGPT is continually synthesising what it learns about me.
AI in Practice Where should the AI actually run? A small question about filtering personal information led me to Desert Ant Labs, and to a different way of thinking about where AI belongs inside an application.
Sovereignty Apertus and the Messy Case for AI Sovereignty A Swiss AI initiative looks like a model of technological sovereignty. The Dutch alternative looks far messier. That may not be a weakness.
Money When mobile payments get out of the way A failed Visa payment and an effortless TWINT transaction reminded me what good mobile payment design looks like: the complexity is still there, but the user no longer has to operate it.
Technology A cleaner way to let AI use my browser A first test of Safari’s new agent interface suggests that browser automation can become cleaner and less dependent on any single AI provider.
Quantum Computing Learning before the quantum computer arrives Quantum computers still belong largely to the future. Learning how to think and work with them may have to start considerably earlier.
AI in Practice The company does not live in the LLM A knowledge-intensive company should keep durable organisational knowledge outside the model, and let AI do what it is unusually good at: reason across it.
AI in Practice The susurration of machines Give AI agents a small world, leave some room for wandering, and watch what they notice. Susurration makes machine attention strangely visible.
Technology LLMs Predict Language. Humans Construct Meaning. Large language models produce fluent language in seconds. Piaget helps explain why understanding still has to be constructed.
Quantum Computing You can already use a quantum computer Quantum computing still feels distant, yet anyone can already write, simulate and run simple quantum programs. The software ecosystem is arriving before the hardware matures.
AI in Practice Looking Past the Model ChatGPT Work and Kimi K3 made me look beyond the engine. Increasingly, the meaningful product may be the environment in which a model can actually work.
Quantum Computing Quantum computing is more than qubits A Dutch quantum computer just reached its first customer, not for its power to solve problems yet, but to learn what building on this new kind of computer means.
