Eugene Yiga
@eugeneyiga.bsky.social
AI Education Specialist | Curriculum Designer | Data Science (Michigan) | International journalist with 1400+ bylines in 100+ publications | Helping organisations navigate AI transformation | Barcelona 🇪🇸 🇪🇺
#WednesdayWisdom about #Spain's #coffee scene. www.forbes.com/sites/daniel... #Madrid #Sevilla #Barcelona #Cádiz #Córdoba #Granada #Málaga #Valencia #Mallorca #SanSebastián
Why Spain’s Coffee Scene Is The Secret Every Traveler Needs To Know
Spain’s coffee isn’t just a drink—it’s a ritual, a story and a heartbeat. From bustling streets to sunlit patios, every cup connects craft, history, community and the quiet poetry of a sobremesa.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Happy #TravelTuesday! www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic... #Cairo #Aswan #Venice #CapeTown #Belfast #Troon #Papeete #Sorong #SanJuan #PuertoVallarta #Budapest #Vilshofen #BoraBora #Tahiti #Ushuaia #Lanzarote #Gibraltar #Casablanca #Paris #Bordeaux #Amsterdam #Brussels #Rotterdam #Antwerp
Big adventures, small ships—26 of the best voyages to book for 2026
From cargo-passenger hybrids in French Polynesia to glamorous riverboats on the Nile, small ships offer a more intimate, adventurous way of exploring the world.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:46 AM
#China builds world-class #AI models but can't monetise them. #Europe builds none but adopts at American rates. The AI race winners may not be whoever builds the best models but whoever deploys them while keeping strategic independence. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #Qwen3TTS #DeepSeek
#alibaba #qwen #meta #llama #deepseek #chatgpt | Eugene K. Yiga
Three articles in The Economist this week paint a picture that upends the conventional AI race narrative. And it's worth paying attention to.
China has quietly won the open-model race. Downloads of C...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Happy sunny Sunday! www.independent.co.uk/travel/europ... via @the-independent.com #Spain #Tenerife #Valencia #Seville #Nerja #Lanzarote #Malaga #SundayMotivation #SundayMorning #SundayVibes
The six warmest holiday destinations in Spain for winter sun
Britain might be chilly, but you can still enjoy balmy weather on the Iberian peninsula
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January 25, 2026 at 4:41 AM
#AI is now everywhere, deployed faster than we're thinking through consequences. The issue that genuinely unsettled me: #AIpsychosis and an emerging "attachment economy" targeting our deepest psychological vulnerabilities. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#ai #walmart #google #gmail #gemini #ai | Eugene K. Yiga
Yesterday I wrote about the positive case for #AI. Today, the other side of the ledger.
Kim Bhasin and Sophia June report in The New York Times that retailers are racing to integrate AI into everythi...
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January 24, 2026 at 5:49 AM
#AI is now everywhere, deployed faster than we're thinking through consequences. The issue that genuinely unsettled me: #AIpsychosis and an emerging "attachment economy" targeting our deepest psychological vulnerabilities. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
Three podcasts this week, one theme: #AI's biggest challenge isn't capability, it's adoption. The gap between hype and reality is less about the technology and more about how we're deploying it. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#ai #openai #chatgpt #aisafety | Eugene K. Yiga
Three podcasts this week made a surprisingly coherent case for #AI optimism, and it wasn't all corporate cheerleading.
On the #OpenAI Podcast, CFO Sarah Friar and investor Vinod Khosla framed 2026 as...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Three podcasts this week, one theme: #AI's biggest challenge isn't capability, it's adoption. The gap between hype and reality is less about the technology and more about how we're deploying it. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
10 most powerful #passports in the world just announced! edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/t... #Singapore #Japan #SouthKorea #Denmark #Luxembourg #Spain #Sweden #Switzerland #Austria #Belgium #Finland #France #Germany #Greece #Ireland #Italy #Netherlands #Norway #Hungary #Portugal #Slovakia #Slovenia #UAE
The world’s most powerful passports for 2026 | CNN
When it comes to shorter lines at border control and traveling from country to country without restrictions, there’s an elite tier of passports with more clout than others.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:26 PM
10 most powerful #passports in the world just announced! edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/t... #Singapore #Japan #SouthKorea #Denmark #Luxembourg #Spain #Sweden #Switzerland #Austria #Belgium #Finland #France #Germany #Greece #Ireland #Italy #Netherlands #Norway #Hungary #Portugal #Slovakia #Slovenia #UAE
The prisoner's dilemma has colonized #AIgovernance with the idea that "If I don't move first, someone else will." Strategic competition feels rational and cooperation feels naive. But it doesn't have to be this way. www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-saf... #AISafety #AISafetyConnect #AISCxIndia
What Would It Take to Actually Trust Each Other? The Game Theory Dilemma | AI Safety Connect
In October 1962, the world came within hours of ballistic nuclear annihilation. Not because anyone wanted war, but because two superpowers couldn't coordinate. Each side assumed the worst about the ot...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The prisoner's dilemma has colonized #AIgovernance with the idea that "If I don't move first, someone else will." Strategic competition feels rational and cooperation feels naive. But it doesn't have to be this way. www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-saf... #AISafety #AISafetyConnect #AISCxIndia
New @BrookingsInst report: #AI risks in #education outweigh benefits. But their own data shows <50% of students loved school before AI arrived. So perhaps the real question is why we're defending a system that was already failing at engagement before AI. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#ai #education | Eugene K. Yiga
A new report from The Brookings Institution warns that #AI's risks in #education "currently overshadow its benefits." The concerns are legitimate: cognitive offloading, dependency, students accepting...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:36 AM
New @BrookingsInst report: #AI risks in #education outweigh benefits. But their own data shows <50% of students loved school before AI arrived. So perhaps the real question is why we're defending a system that was already failing at engagement before AI. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#nowreading #vsnaipaul #abendintheriver #sundayvibes #sundayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
January 18, 2026 at 5:15 AM
#nowreading #vsnaipaul #abendintheriver #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
January 17, 2026 at 6:06 AM
AI companion robots are everywhere at #CES. Meanwhile, Google and #CharacterAI just settled lawsuits over children harmed by chatbots, including one who died. Fact is #AI is not your friend. The path back? Learning to talk to humans again. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #loneliness
#aicompanions #characterai | Eugene K. Yiga
Yesterday I wrote about how we keep building technology to fix what technology broke. Today I want to look at where that instinct leads when it comes to #AIcompanions.
At CES 2026, Robert Hart report...
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January 16, 2026 at 6:37 AM
AI companion robots are everywhere at #CES. Meanwhile, Google and #CharacterAI just settled lawsuits over children harmed by chatbots, including one who died. Fact is #AI is not your friend. The path back? Learning to talk to humans again. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #loneliness
A cult recruited children through #Roblox. Millennials mourn the old web. Silicon Valley thinks #AI can optimise love (for $50,000). We keep building #technology to fix what technology broke. But maybe just close the laptop and call someone you love. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#roblox | Eugene K. Yiga
Inside #Roblox, a group of adults steered children into Discord servers, told them a geometric symbol had real-world power, and gradually escalated demands for proof of loyalty. Some children were eve...
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January 15, 2026 at 7:03 AM
A cult recruited children through #Roblox. Millennials mourn the old web. Silicon Valley thinks #AI can optimise love (for $50,000). We keep building #technology to fix what technology broke. But maybe just close the laptop and call someone you love. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#McKinsey says we need #AI for #productivity. But @VladTenev's #TEDtalk offers a longer view: job disruption has always been constant, and future jobs will probably look like leisure to us, just as ours would have seemed to our ancestors. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#mckinsey #ai | Eugene K. Yiga
#McKinsey's message in three recent pieces is clear: we need #AI to close the productivity gap.
As Jan Mischke, Olivia White, and Rebecca J. Anderson write in Fortune, the world is "awash in wealth ...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:16 AM
#McKinsey says we need #AI for #productivity. But @VladTenev's #TEDtalk offers a longer view: job disruption has always been constant, and future jobs will probably look like leisure to us, just as ours would have seemed to our ancestors. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
Everyone's debating AI agents. Meanwhile 80-90% success rate for AI-designed drug molecules vs 40-65% historical. 20x factory output with the same workforce. Scientific searches compressed from 1560 hours to 3. The quieter revolution might be the real one. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#aiagents #chatgpt #googledeepmind #alphafold | Eugene K. Yiga
While everyone debates whether #AIagents will replace knowledge workers, something more consequential is happening in labs and factories.
The Economist reports AI-designed drug molecules are achievin...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Everyone's debating AI agents. Meanwhile 80-90% success rate for AI-designed drug molecules vs 40-65% historical. 20x factory output with the same workforce. Scientific searches compressed from 1560 hours to 3. The quieter revolution might be the real one. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
2025 gave us reasoning models, #agenticAI, and inference costs dropping from dollars to cents. 2026 predictions: specialised industry models, labs returning to fundamental research, and #AIagents that can handle full workdays. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #artificialintelligence
#ai #agenticai #vibecoding | Eugene K. Yiga
If 2025 felt relentlessly fast in #AI, 2026 is already sprinting ahead with major acquisitions, new product categories, and bold predictions. But before we get swept up in what's coming, there's value...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:06 AM
2025 gave us reasoning models, #agenticAI, and inference costs dropping from dollars to cents. 2026 predictions: specialised industry models, labs returning to fundamental research, and #AIagents that can handle full workdays. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #artificialintelligence
#nowreading #dorrislessing #thegrassissinging #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
#nowreading #hanifkureishi #thebuddhaofsuburbia #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 AM
AI-assisted workers produce fewer ideas, think less critically, and remember less of what they wrote. The fix: #AI that challenges your thinking instead of doing it for you. But even that has limits. AI still struggles with what makes humans tick. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #chatgpt
#creativethinking #criticalthinking #ai #withoutanthropologists | Eugene K. Yiga
Yesterday I wrote about AI and #creativethinking. But what about #criticalthinking?
A Microsoft Research team has been studying what happens when knowledge workers use AI assistants. The findings are...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:49 AM
AI-assisted workers produce fewer ideas, think less critically, and remember less of what they wrote. The fix: #AI that challenges your thinking instead of doing it for you. But even that has limits. AI still struggles with what makes humans tick. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #chatgpt
2025: AI topped music charts, cloned podcast voices, and landed a $1bn Disney deal. But the entry-level jobs where artists actually learn their craft are being automated away. The fix? #AI that challenges your thinking instead of replacing it. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #creativity
#ai #openai | Eugene K. Yiga
2025 was the year #AI changed everything. But one area we didn't expect it to transform was the creative arts. Creativity, after all, was supposed to be uniquely human. Until now.
Jonathan Abrams at ...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:52 AM
2025: AI topped music charts, cloned podcast voices, and landed a $1bn Disney deal. But the entry-level jobs where artists actually learn their craft are being automated away. The fix? #AI that challenges your thinking instead of replacing it. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #creativity
#AI in education isn't a question of embrace vs. resist. It's whether we prepare students to use these tools well. Five pieces this week on how China, the US, and Europe are navigating this, and what "doing it well" actually looks like. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #edtech #learning
#ai #newyorktimes #theguardian #anthropic | Eugene K. Yiga
I recently wrote about how China and the US are racing toward different #AI futures. China's "AI+" strategy focuses on embedding AI into practical domains: manufacturing, healthcare, governance, and e...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
#AI in education isn't a question of embrace vs. resist. It's whether we prepare students to use these tools well. Five pieces this week on how China, the US, and Europe are navigating this, and what "doing it well" actually looks like. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #edtech #learning
Five years after #Jan6th, America's still divided. But #RonDeSantis and #BernieSanders are finding common ground on #AI scepticism. Meanwhile, public sentiment is more nuanced than "hate." My thoughts on boom, bust, and backlash: www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #artificialintelligence
#rondesantis #berniesanders #ai | Eugene K. Yiga
Five years ago today, the January 6th insurrection marked one of the most divided moments in recent American history. Yet in 2026, something unexpected is happening: politicians from opposite ends of ...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Five years after #Jan6th, America's still divided. But #RonDeSantis and #BernieSanders are finding common ground on #AI scepticism. Meanwhile, public sentiment is more nuanced than "hate." My thoughts on boom, bust, and backlash: www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #artificialintelligence
Last week I shared #AI 2026 as boom, bust, or backlash. This week industry insiders confirm all three. The Batch is excited about possibilities. Transformer predicts bubble trouble and #SamAltman snapping. #TheEconomist flags "Towering Inferno" cash burn. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#ai #anthropic #openai | Eugene K. Yiga
Last week I shared predictions for #AI in 2026, framing them around boom, bust, and backlash. https://lnkd.in/dQ6pyvDE Two new pieces this week sharpen that picture considerably.
On the boom side, De...
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January 5, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Last week I shared #AI 2026 as boom, bust, or backlash. This week industry insiders confirm all three. The Batch is excited about possibilities. Transformer predicts bubble trouble and #SamAltman snapping. #TheEconomist flags "Towering Inferno" cash burn. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
6 trips across #Spain. www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/bes... #Barcelona #Valencia #Madrid #Toledo #Málaga #Granada #Cádiz #Seville #Bilbao #Oviedo #ACoruña #SantiagoDeCompostela #Girona #Cadaqués #Segovia #Ávila #Salamanca #Astorga #León #Burgos #Zaragoza #Mérida #Guadalupe #Trujillo #Cáceres
Spain itineraries: 6 great routes that cover the country
Be seduced by all that Spain has to offer with these top itineraries.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:52 AM
For as long as I can remember, #reading has been my greatest passion in life. Last year, that meant reading another 36 books, which have now been incorporated into the data analysis of my reading habits with #Claude. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #HappyNewYear2026 #NewYearsResolutions
Books, Bytes, and Beyond: What 10 Years of Reading Reveals About Me | Eugene K. Yiga
For as long as I can remember, #reading has been my greatest passion in life. It's the reason I set the goal to read the 100 greatest #books of all time in the 100 months leading up to my 30th birthda...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:13 AM
For as long as I can remember, #reading has been my greatest passion in life. Last year, that meant reading another 36 books, which have now been incorporated into the data analysis of my reading habits with #Claude. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #HappyNewYear2026 #NewYearsResolutions