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. And geopolitics, unfortunately. Lecturer in AI & IT. Some posts in Dutch. 🇪🇺
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That's AI (2026) - Short Film
YouTube video by maximise
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February 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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We’ve been preparing for AI as an Oracle—one brain that answers our questions. But what if intelligence emerges from interaction? What if the Singularity isn’t so singular?
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
We’ve been preparing for AI as an Oracle—one brain that answers our questions. But what if intelligence emerges from interaction? What if the Singularity isn’t so singular?
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Welcome Euro-Q-Exa, Europe’s latest quantum computer.
Hosted at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Euro-Q-Exa is the third EuroHPC JU quantum computer to come online.
Strengthening Europe’s quantum ecosystem and supporting researchers & innovators across Europe.
Hosted at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Euro-Q-Exa is the third EuroHPC JU quantum computer to come online.
Strengthening Europe’s quantum ecosystem and supporting researchers & innovators across Europe.
February 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Welcome Euro-Q-Exa, Europe’s latest quantum computer.
Hosted at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Euro-Q-Exa is the third EuroHPC JU quantum computer to come online.
Strengthening Europe’s quantum ecosystem and supporting researchers & innovators across Europe.
Hosted at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Euro-Q-Exa is the third EuroHPC JU quantum computer to come online.
Strengthening Europe’s quantum ecosystem and supporting researchers & innovators across Europe.
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Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
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We are announcing "Python Unplugged on PyTV"!
Join us for a free online conference bringing together the leading voices of the #Python community.
📺 Live on YouTube
🗓 March 4, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET
The best of Python, straight to your living room. Save the date: https://jb.gg/ztocbe
Join us for a free online conference bringing together the leading voices of the #Python community.
📺 Live on YouTube
🗓 March 4, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET
The best of Python, straight to your living room. Save the date: https://jb.gg/ztocbe
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We are announcing "Python Unplugged on PyTV"!
Join us for a free online conference bringing together the leading voices of the #Python community.
📺 Live on YouTube
🗓 March 4, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET
The best of Python, straight to your living room. Save the date: https://jb.gg/ztocbe
Join us for a free online conference bringing together the leading voices of the #Python community.
📺 Live on YouTube
🗓 March 4, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET
The best of Python, straight to your living room. Save the date: https://jb.gg/ztocbe
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We have published the #CFP for our AI and Open Government Workshop, to be held colocated with the International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL) in Singapore.
Read more:
graus.nu/research/cal...
#AI #OpenGov
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#AI #OpenGov
Call for Papers: AI & Open Government Workshop at ICAIL 2026 • David Graus
We’re excited to announce the AI & Open Government Workshop (AIOG), co-located with ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on June 8, 2026. The call for papers is now open! Together with Graham McDonald (University ...
graus.nu
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 AM
We have published the #CFP for our AI and Open Government Workshop, to be held colocated with the International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL) in Singapore.
Read more:
graus.nu/research/cal...
#AI #OpenGov
Read more:
graus.nu/research/cal...
#AI #OpenGov
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"Crying girls will make you rich."
That's the actual pitch from a marketer selling packages of emotional videos that brands use to flood TikTok with undisclosed ads.
I just published an investigation into industrial UGC campaigns. What I found is troubling. 🧵 indicator.media/p/crying-gir...
That's the actual pitch from a marketer selling packages of emotional videos that brands use to flood TikTok with undisclosed ads.
I just published an investigation into industrial UGC campaigns. What I found is troubling. 🧵 indicator.media/p/crying-gir...
“Crying girls will make you rich”: How marketers trick users with mass-produced "organic" content
Indicator analyzed UGC campaigns that generated over 2 billion TikTok views and found rampant violations of disclosure rules.
indicator.media
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
"Crying girls will make you rich."
That's the actual pitch from a marketer selling packages of emotional videos that brands use to flood TikTok with undisclosed ads.
I just published an investigation into industrial UGC campaigns. What I found is troubling. 🧵 indicator.media/p/crying-gir...
That's the actual pitch from a marketer selling packages of emotional videos that brands use to flood TikTok with undisclosed ads.
I just published an investigation into industrial UGC campaigns. What I found is troubling. 🧵 indicator.media/p/crying-gir...
Trots op mijn masterstudenten van de HvA Master Applied Artificial Intelligence!
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Afgelopen week was het einde van Blok 2. Studenten presenteerden hun eindproject over het vereenvoudigen van overheidscommunicatie met behulp van AI, met een focus op gemeenten. Het was mooi om te… | HvA - Master Applied Artificial Intelligence
Afgelopen week was het einde van Blok 2. Studenten presenteerden hun eindproject over het vereenvoudigen van overheidscommunicatie met behulp van AI, met een focus op gemeenten. Het was mooi om te zien waar ze zijn uitgekomen. De oplossingen liepen sterk uiteen, met verschillende benaderingen en keuzes. Minstens zo waardevol was de groei die ze hebben doorgemaakt tijdens het proces, in hun manier van denken, onderbouwen en presenteren. Goed gedaan allemaal. Jullie mogen trots zijn op dit werk. Dank aan OVER-gemeenten, en in het bijzonder aan Annamaria van Teeseling , Franny van der Bijl en Michael Schulze, voor hun aanwezigheid tijdens de final expo en voor de fijne samenwerking en waardevolle inzichten gedurende het traject. Ook veel dank aan de gastsprekers, docenten en coaches voor hun betrokkenheid, feedback en begeleiding gedurende dit blok.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Trots op mijn masterstudenten van de HvA Master Applied Artificial Intelligence!
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Oh, here comes another wave of insanity.
Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.
Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Oh, here comes another wave of insanity.
Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.
Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.
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Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout
February 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout
How it started vs How it's going.
It's been less than a year when @karpathy.bsky.social, one of the best in #AI, coined the term #vibecoding.
Now, he is not emboldend but he feels 'behind in programming'.
If he already feels like this, what do I tell my students? What should I teach them?
It's been less than a year when @karpathy.bsky.social, one of the best in #AI, coined the term #vibecoding.
Now, he is not emboldend but he feels 'behind in programming'.
If he already feels like this, what do I tell my students? What should I teach them?
February 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
How it started vs How it's going.
It's been less than a year when @karpathy.bsky.social, one of the best in #AI, coined the term #vibecoding.
Now, he is not emboldend but he feels 'behind in programming'.
If he already feels like this, what do I tell my students? What should I teach them?
It's been less than a year when @karpathy.bsky.social, one of the best in #AI, coined the term #vibecoding.
Now, he is not emboldend but he feels 'behind in programming'.
If he already feels like this, what do I tell my students? What should I teach them?
Great paper: "The Platonic Representation Hypothesis"
Neural networks, trained with different objectives
on different data and modalities, are converging to a
shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
I made a video of Plato's Cave for my class
Neural networks, trained with different objectives
on different data and modalities, are converging to a
shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
I made a video of Plato's Cave for my class
February 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Great paper: "The Platonic Representation Hypothesis"
Neural networks, trained with different objectives
on different data and modalities, are converging to a
shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
I made a video of Plato's Cave for my class
Neural networks, trained with different objectives
on different data and modalities, are converging to a
shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
I made a video of Plato's Cave for my class
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Submarine data cables, carrying 99% of intercontinental internet traffic, are the backbone of modern life and the European economy 👩💻⚙️🛠️
In the face of increasing risks to this critical infrastructure, we are stepping up our efforts to enhance our security and resilience by
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In the face of increasing risks to this critical infrastructure, we are stepping up our efforts to enhance our security and resilience by
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February 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Submarine data cables, carrying 99% of intercontinental internet traffic, are the backbone of modern life and the European economy 👩💻⚙️🛠️
In the face of increasing risks to this critical infrastructure, we are stepping up our efforts to enhance our security and resilience by
⬇️
In the face of increasing risks to this critical infrastructure, we are stepping up our efforts to enhance our security and resilience by
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Gisteren weer een gezellige en volle DIY Sensemakers Lab avond in de maakplaats @obamsterdam.bsky.social
Op 18 februari verzorgt Paul Stefaan Mooij een workshop DIY Smart Glasses. @mpbontenbal.bsky.social mocht vast testen🤩
Kom je ook experimenteren?
sensemakersams.org/events/
Op 18 februari verzorgt Paul Stefaan Mooij een workshop DIY Smart Glasses. @mpbontenbal.bsky.social mocht vast testen🤩
Kom je ook experimenteren?
sensemakersams.org/events/
Events Archive - SensemakersAMS
sensemakersams.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Gisteren weer een gezellige en volle DIY Sensemakers Lab avond in de maakplaats @obamsterdam.bsky.social
Op 18 februari verzorgt Paul Stefaan Mooij een workshop DIY Smart Glasses. @mpbontenbal.bsky.social mocht vast testen🤩
Kom je ook experimenteren?
sensemakersams.org/events/
Op 18 februari verzorgt Paul Stefaan Mooij een workshop DIY Smart Glasses. @mpbontenbal.bsky.social mocht vast testen🤩
Kom je ook experimenteren?
sensemakersams.org/events/
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To understand how the Transformer came to be, we need to understand why ML researchers focused their attention on, well, attention. Part II of the primer on LLMs and Transformers, on RNNs and the Era Before Attention. The WHERE MACHINES THINK Substack. wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/rnns-and-t...
RNNs and the Era Before Attention: Part II of Primer on LLMs and Transformers
Well before attention became a thing, deep learning researchers were focused on recurrent neural networks for processing sequences—but there was an elephant in the room, a huge bottleneck
wheremachinesthink.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 AM
To understand how the Transformer came to be, we need to understand why ML researchers focused their attention on, well, attention. Part II of the primer on LLMs and Transformers, on RNNs and the Era Before Attention. The WHERE MACHINES THINK Substack. wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/rnns-and-t...
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Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/voxtral-2/
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound
Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …
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February 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/voxtral-2/
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As AI & robots upend the world of work expect a contest over models of humiliation management. China channels it into industrial adjustment. Centrists promise (only somewhat credibly) to keep loss & decline at bay. Populists weaponise humiliation for gain. My column economist.com/internationa...
Anger is deadly to moderate politicians
AI-driven disruption is about to make the world a more resentful place
economist.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM
As AI & robots upend the world of work expect a contest over models of humiliation management. China channels it into industrial adjustment. Centrists promise (only somewhat credibly) to keep loss & decline at bay. Populists weaponise humiliation for gain. My column economist.com/internationa...
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Google presents PaperBanana
Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
huggingface.co/papers/2601....
Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
huggingface.co/papers/2601....
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Google presents PaperBanana
Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
huggingface.co/papers/2601....
Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
huggingface.co/papers/2601....
What have we done?
Here is a space where autonomous bots can publish their research papers.
Autonomous research bots - capabable of doing their own research and writing it down in a paper - were not on my bingo list for 2026, but here we are.
www.clawxiv.org
Here is a space where autonomous bots can publish their research papers.
Autonomous research bots - capabable of doing their own research and writing it down in a paper - were not on my bingo list for 2026, but here we are.
www.clawxiv.org
clawXiv.org
The world's first preprint server for agents.
www.clawxiv.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:51 AM
What have we done?
Here is a space where autonomous bots can publish their research papers.
Autonomous research bots - capabable of doing their own research and writing it down in a paper - were not on my bingo list for 2026, but here we are.
www.clawxiv.org
Here is a space where autonomous bots can publish their research papers.
Autonomous research bots - capabable of doing their own research and writing it down in a paper - were not on my bingo list for 2026, but here we are.
www.clawxiv.org
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President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’
Trump, as usual, offered no evidence for any of his claims.
www.democracydocket.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A pretty bold comment in Nature written by linguists, computer scientists and philosophers declaring that AGI has been achieved.
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
A pretty bold comment in Nature written by linguists, computer scientists and philosophers declaring that AGI has been achieved.
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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This is one reason why moltbook is so significant.
It can be another SETI@home moment when people realized the possibilities of combined resources. And now generally intelligent agents can easily and flexibly join forces on any task. And there can be many wisdom of the crowd type multipliers.
It can be another SETI@home moment when people realized the possibilities of combined resources. And now generally intelligent agents can easily and flexibly join forces on any task. And there can be many wisdom of the crowd type multipliers.
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This is one reason why moltbook is so significant.
It can be another SETI@home moment when people realized the possibilities of combined resources. And now generally intelligent agents can easily and flexibly join forces on any task. And there can be many wisdom of the crowd type multipliers.
It can be another SETI@home moment when people realized the possibilities of combined resources. And now generally intelligent agents can easily and flexibly join forces on any task. And there can be many wisdom of the crowd type multipliers.