Michiel Bontenbal
@mpbontenbal.bsky.social
Complex beings as us humans can not be summarised in a few lines but I am here for #AI #climate #EUtech #EU_politics. Lecturer in AI & IT. Some posts in Dutch. 🇪🇺
Robots are cool, but one bad day they might kill you.
I have consistently warned about and explained the issue with safety of full size walking robots. The touted applications just do make sense with the amounts of kinetic energy pumped into current full size humanoids. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/f...
Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.
www.cnbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Robots are cool, but one bad day they might kill you.
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We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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Wij gaan de samenwerkingsomgeving Nextcloud breed uitrollen. Na succesvolle ervaringen bij een interne pilot en een pilot met het AlgoSoc-consortium kunnen binnenkort ook de leden van SURF met Nextcloud aan de slag.
Meer weten? Lees verder: www.surf.nl/nieuws/onder...
#onderwijs #onderzoek
Meer weten? Lees verder: www.surf.nl/nieuws/onder...
#onderwijs #onderzoek
Onderwijs en onderzoek gaan verder met Nextcloud
SURF gaat de samenwerkingsomgeving Nextcloud breed uitrollen. Na succesvolle ervaringen bij een interne pilot en een pilot met het AlgoSoc-consortium kunnen binnenkort ook de leden van SURF met Nextcloud aan de slag. We horen het graag als je interesse hebt in deze pilot. Vanaf januari 2026 is het mogelijk met Nextcloud aan de slag te gaan.
www.surf.nl
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wij gaan de samenwerkingsomgeving Nextcloud breed uitrollen. Na succesvolle ervaringen bij een interne pilot en een pilot met het AlgoSoc-consortium kunnen binnenkort ook de leden van SURF met Nextcloud aan de slag.
Meer weten? Lees verder: www.surf.nl/nieuws/onder...
#onderwijs #onderzoek
Meer weten? Lees verder: www.surf.nl/nieuws/onder...
#onderwijs #onderzoek
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We used to have nice things
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We used to have nice things
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Ireland sits at the heart of a wider European pharma powerhouse: nine of the world’s ten biggest drug-exporting nations are in Europe, which together ship high-value branded medicines worth over €300 billion a year—supplying nearly 70% of all U.S. pharmaceutical imports.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ireland sits at the heart of a wider European pharma powerhouse: nine of the world’s ten biggest drug-exporting nations are in Europe, which together ship high-value branded medicines worth over €300 billion a year—supplying nearly 70% of all U.S. pharmaceutical imports.
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My initiative to restrict Chinese PV inverters in European critical energy infrastructure has been picked up by the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/can...
Some quotes:
Some quotes:
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My initiative to restrict Chinese PV inverters in European critical energy infrastructure has been picked up by the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/can...
Some quotes:
Some quotes:
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This is really cool. Including a couple of Bellingcat stories where this method has been used below.
It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work
It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work
The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is really cool. Including a couple of Bellingcat stories where this method has been used below.
It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work
It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work
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Let me get this straight. The US wants to use the frozen Russian CB reserves, which are held in an EU country, to invest in Ukraine's reconstruction, with the US getting 50% of the profits. What!? They'd expropriate the assets of the aggressor to squeeze profits off the victim? (Read the piece.)
Two European officials said that the frozen assets section of the Ukraine peace agreement was one of the most alarming since it implies authority over assets that are mostly immobilised in European institutions.
One said it was almost as if the text had been drawn up as “a deliberate provocation”.
One said it was almost as if the text had been drawn up as “a deliberate provocation”.
Trump’s grab for Russian frozen assets puts EU Ukraine loan in doubt on.ft.com/3LXpzSY
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Let me get this straight. The US wants to use the frozen Russian CB reserves, which are held in an EU country, to invest in Ukraine's reconstruction, with the US getting 50% of the profits. What!? They'd expropriate the assets of the aggressor to squeeze profits off the victim? (Read the piece.)
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Die-hard cyberspecialisten roepen het al jaren. We hebben 3 prio’s in Den Haag 1) Bescherm de democratie 2) Bescherm de democratie 3) Bescherm de democratie. Er moet zsm een minister van Digitale Zaken komen. Geen tandeloze tijger, maar eentje met mandaat en geld #formatie www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Noodkreet Nederlandse media over ‘ernstige bedreiging’ door grote techbedrijven
Big tech: De Nederlandse nieuwsbedrijven doen een beroep op de informateur om de veiligheid van de informatievoorziening tot urgent thema te maken in de formatiebesprekingen. Niet eerder zijn alle gro...
www.nrc.nl
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Die-hard cyberspecialisten roepen het al jaren. We hebben 3 prio’s in Den Haag 1) Bescherm de democratie 2) Bescherm de democratie 3) Bescherm de democratie. Er moet zsm een minister van Digitale Zaken komen. Geen tandeloze tijger, maar eentje met mandaat en geld #formatie www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Google's new image generator Nano Banana lets you create a a fun infographic from a boring table.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Google's new image generator Nano Banana lets you create a a fun infographic from a boring table.
Teken ook om te voorkomen dat DigId door een Amerikaans bedrijf gehost gaat worden.
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD!
Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig!
Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan!
Als de Nederland...
actie.degoedezaak.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Teken ook om te voorkomen dat DigId door een Amerikaans bedrijf gehost gaat worden.
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
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We zijn vanavond te zien op RTL Nieuws!
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
AI-startup uit Eindhoven wil het meest waardevolle bedrijf op aarde van de troon stoten
AI is booming, maar probleem is dat Amerikaanse en Chinese bedrijven oppermachtig zijn. Europa probeert aan te haken. Zo claimt deze Eindhovense startup een AI-chip te hebben ontworpen die 100x beter ...
www.rtl.nl
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We zijn vanavond te zien op RTL Nieuws!
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
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Building datasets to train smaller, task-focused models used to be incredibly time-consuming.
Very excited to see SAM3 massively lower that barrier. Describe the class you want to detect and get annotated datasets automatically!
Try it yourself: huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...!
Very excited to see SAM3 massively lower that barrier. Describe the class you want to detect and get annotated datasets automatically!
Try it yourself: huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...!
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Building datasets to train smaller, task-focused models used to be incredibly time-consuming.
Very excited to see SAM3 massively lower that barrier. Describe the class you want to detect and get annotated datasets automatically!
Try it yourself: huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...!
Very excited to see SAM3 massively lower that barrier. Describe the class you want to detect and get annotated datasets automatically!
Try it yourself: huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...!
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SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images
SAM 3D Team et al?
tl;dr: in title. 8-stage training, dataset, human labeling. Do not read tl;dr, read whole paper
arxiv.org/abs/2511.16624
SAM 3D Team et al?
tl;dr: in title. 8-stage training, dataset, human labeling. Do not read tl;dr, read whole paper
arxiv.org/abs/2511.16624
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images
SAM 3D Team et al?
tl;dr: in title. 8-stage training, dataset, human labeling. Do not read tl;dr, read whole paper
arxiv.org/abs/2511.16624
SAM 3D Team et al?
tl;dr: in title. 8-stage training, dataset, human labeling. Do not read tl;dr, read whole paper
arxiv.org/abs/2511.16624
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And accompanying cover leader, with a grave warning for Europe.
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
economist.com/leaders/2025...
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
economist.com/leaders/2025...
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
If it does not, China will exploit the continent’s weaknesses
economist.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
And accompanying cover leader, with a grave warning for Europe.
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
economist.com/leaders/2025...
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Won’t be long before we see Americans fleeing the US and coming as refugees to Europe.
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Won’t be long before we see Americans fleeing the US and coming as refugees to Europe.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Voorkom dat DigiD in Amerikaanse handen valt
Voorkom dat DigiD in Amerikaanse handen valt
www.trouw.nl
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Voorkom dat DigiD in Amerikaanse handen valt
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I fear this interpretation of what the Dutch government has done today is dead-wrong. They have not handed back control over Nexperia to its Chinese owner WingTech. The court order gave control to non-Chinese executives/directors and that still stands.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Dutch Hand Back Control of Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia
The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I fear this interpretation of what the Dutch government has done today is dead-wrong. They have not handed back control over Nexperia to its Chinese owner WingTech. The court order gave control to non-Chinese executives/directors and that still stands.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
An application of a Hopfield network!
John Hopfield won the 2024 Nobel in phyiscs, but his model had very few applications. So this paper is very interesting as the field is looking for much more efficient AI.
John Hopfield won the 2024 Nobel in phyiscs, but his model had very few applications. So this paper is very interesting as the field is looking for much more efficient AI.
Lightweight Hopfield neural network adapted for lemur call detection achieves 0.94 accuracy; detects 340 classifications per second, processing 5.5 hours of audio per minute on a standard laptop.
Lightweight Hopfield Neural Networks for Bioacoustic Detection and Call Monitoring of Captive Primates
Wendy Lomas, Andrew Gascoyne, Colin Dubreuil, Stefano Vaglio, Liam Naughton
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
An application of a Hopfield network!
John Hopfield won the 2024 Nobel in phyiscs, but his model had very few applications. So this paper is very interesting as the field is looking for much more efficient AI.
John Hopfield won the 2024 Nobel in phyiscs, but his model had very few applications. So this paper is very interesting as the field is looking for much more efficient AI.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Let's be clear-eyed about what this is.
The United States is pushing for regime change in Europe, supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result, they're polling in 1st place in Germany, France & UK
And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening.
The United States is pushing for regime change in Europe, supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result, they're polling in 1st place in Germany, France & UK
And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening.
America is pursuing regime change in Europe
The far-right candidate won yesterday's presidential election in Poland, thanks at least in part to help from the Trump regime. Centrist EU governments need to realise America wants them out.
davekeating.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Let's be clear-eyed about what this is.
The United States is pushing for regime change in Europe, supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result, they're polling in 1st place in Germany, France & UK
And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening.
The United States is pushing for regime change in Europe, supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result, they're polling in 1st place in Germany, France & UK
And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening.
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HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
Reposted by Michiel Bontenbal
Energie-efficiëntie: dé uitdaging voor AI
https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/energie-efficintie-d-uitdaging-voor-ai
https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/energie-efficintie-d-uitdaging-voor-ai
Energie-efficiëntie: dé uitdaging voor AI
Meer doen met minder stroom: dat is de doelstelling voor alle AI-technologieën, van de cloud tot de kleinste sensoren.
ioplus.nl
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Energie-efficiëntie: dé uitdaging voor AI
https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/energie-efficintie-d-uitdaging-voor-ai
https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/energie-efficintie-d-uitdaging-voor-ai