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Janosch Delcker
@janoschdelcker.bsky.social
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AI demystifier, tech journalist, futurist

Previously: Chief Technology Correspondent, Deutsche Welle; AI
Correspondent, Politico; Columbia Journalism School.

http://www.janoschdelcker.com
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To add to the confusion, I asked Perplexity's chatbot to explain the rationale behind Perplexity's offer to buy Chrome:
Answer written by Perplexity.AI chatbot: "Perplexity’s move is both opportunistic—capitalizing on legal pressure for divestiture—and a bold statement about the future of AI, where browser control translates into data dominance and product leverage. Even if unlikely to be immediately accepted, the bid reframes the browser market as the new battleground for AI-driven innovation, investment, and control. In short: Perplexity is publicly jockeying for a pivotal role in the post-antitrust, AI-centric internet landscape, while promising stability for users, continuity for advertisers, and competition for regulators. Whether Google actually sells Chrome or not, this bid signals a seismic shift in where the next phase of AI and web competition will play out."
August 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Some way to go, GPT-5.
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Major disruptions often occur when technologies from different fields converge.

Worth keeping an eye on this emerging convergence of scientific computing and AI:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/t...
May 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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May 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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☄️ Heads-up, re:publica 2025:

Tomorrow — Tuesday, May 27 at 11:45 a.m. CET — I’ll be on Stage 1 (right after Germany’s new Digital Minister,) delivering my keynote on “Mind-Reading AI.”

If you're attending, please stop by and say hello.
May 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Good God, where to start…

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
May 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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But: When AI systems are used for commercial purposes rather than research, this often “goes beyond established fair use boundaries,” the report notes.

Which is, clearly, not something tech companies are happy to hear.
May 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Over the weekend, the Trump White House fired U.S. Copyright Office chief Shira Perlmutter—shortly after her office released a report suggesting that the methods used by tech corporations to train their AI systems may violate copyright law.
May 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Oh wow:

Pope Leo XIV said AI inspired his papal name, linking today's technological age to Leo XII's time at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

www.theverge.com/news/664719/...
May 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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OpenAI launches "OpenAI for Countries".

This is the modern digital equivalent of planting the American flag on the moon: a demonstration of US technological dominance.

The goal is to cement OpenAI's and US influence within global digital infrastructure for decades to come.
Headline of OpenAI blogpost: "Introducing OpenAI for Countries A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails." Blogpost by OpenAI reads: "We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI, which means the development, use and deployment of AI that protects and incorporates long-standing democratic principles. Examples of this include the freedom for people to choose how they work with and direct AI, the prevention of government use of AI to amass control, and a free market that ensures free competition. All these things contribute to broad distribution of the benefits of AI, discourage the concentration of power, and help advance our mission. Likewise, we believe that partnering closely with the US government is the best way to advance democratic AI. Today, we’re introducing OpenAI for Countries, a new initiative within the Stargate project. This is a moment when we need to act to support countries around the world that would prefer to build on democratic AI rails, and provide a clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI that would deploy it to consolidate power. In response to these interested governments, OpenAI is offering a new kind of partnership for the Intelligence Age. Through formalized infrastructure collaborations, and in coordination with the US government, OpenAI will:"
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Along with Chancellor Merz's new government, Germany is getting its first Federal Minister for Digital and State Modernization (the most Denglish job title they could have come up with...):

It's political outsider Karsten Wildberger, previously CEO of MediaMarkt and Saturn's parent company.
May 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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„Ein KI-generierter SS-Arzt Mengele erzählt in moderner OP-Kleidung die fiktive Geschichte seiner vermeintlichen Läuterung, auf TikTok trendet ‚Musik, die ich in der Gaskammer spielen würde‘…“

Neuer Report von
@bsannefrank.bsky.social über „History Content“:

www.bs-anne-frank.de/mediathek/pu...
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Bye, old friend.
A melancholic alteration of the Skype logo appears inside a soft, white cloud shape against a muted, aged blue background. Above the logo is a small sad face, and hanging in front is a sign that reads “CLOSED.“
May 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Nothing beats the green this time of the year.

Right?

(Yup, that’s here in Berlin)
May 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Hamburg! ⚓️ Ich komme für eine Lesung von ‘Der Gedanken-Code’

Nächster Dienstag, 29.04.2025
19:00–20:30 Uhr

Auf dem Hauptdeck der Bücherhallen, ganz in der Nähe vom Hauptbahnhof

Und das Beste: Der Eintritt ist frei

www.buecherhallen.de/zentralbibli...
April 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Casually dropping a White Lotus crossover episode, Deutsche Bahn? 🌸👀
And advertisement for the German railway company Deutsche Bahn, showing a man who looks eerily like a character from the TV series White Lotus, who is a murderer on the run.
April 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Hamburg!

Ich komme für eine Lesung von Der Gedanken-Code -- mit ganz neuen Einblicken in die allerjüngste Forschung rund um 'Mind-reading AI.'

📅 Dienstag, 29. April 2025
⏰ 19:00-20:30 Uhr
📍 Hauptdeck der Bücherhallen Hamburg
Eintritt frei

Große Vorfreude.

www.buecherhallen.de/zentralbibli...
April 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Auf eine ist Verlass:

Niemand stiftet mit seinen Schaubildern so zuverlässig Verwirrung und Chaos wie die BVG. 💛

#Weilwirdichlieben
March 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Only those of us who write for a living can understand the pain of watching companies like Meta deliberately harvest our work for profit.

The Mark Zuckerbergs of the world will not understand.

They know exactly what they’re doing. And somehow they feel that it’s wrong.

But ...
Text reads: "Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from "MZ"---an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg---to download and use the data set. Text reads: "One employee remarked that "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right."
March 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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As we edge closer to AGI, a new divide is emerging—

Not just between those who know how to use AI and those who don’t, but also between those who can afford access and those who can’t.

Say hello to the new 1%.

www.independent.co.uk/independentp...
Text reads: "Within days of launching, invitation codes to join early testers of Manus were reportedly being listed on online marketplaces for 50,000 yuan (£5,300), with some of those signing up claiming that the next phase of AI may have finally been achieved."
March 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Don't be evil.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
February 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Will AI jeopardize science photography?

Lots of interesting food for thought in this article by MIT science photographer Felice Frankel:
An excerpt from the article, which reads as follows "The advent of AI means that we need to clarify three core issues related to visual communication: the difference between illustration and documentation, the ethics of image manipulation and the desperate need for visual-communication training for scientists and engineers. Decisions about how to frame an image — what to include or leave out — are already a manipulation of reality. The tools that people decide to use are also part of the manipulation. Each digital camera creates a distinct photograph. An Apple iPhone’s algorithm enhances image colours differently to that of a Samsung phone. Similarly, the near-infrared images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope are designed to be different from, yet complement, the Hubble Space Telescope’s optical scans."
February 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Would you trust these two men with the future of your children (or humanity as a whole)?
February 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Sunday Wildlife:

Costa Vicentina, Portugal
February 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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This graph from the "EuroStack" report by @francescabria.bsky.social et al., illustrating the state of Europe's tech dependency today, is striking.

www.euro-stack.info
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM