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Patrick Grady
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🇪🇺 Tech Policy @progresschamber.org
The DeepSeek Training Cost panic didn’t last long
April 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hardly a clearer message for Europe and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

www.bbc.com/news/article...
March 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
All good tech optimists should keep receipts.

Here’s a selection of the AI headlines from 2022-2023 👇

(@pessimistsarc.bsky.social)
March 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Von der Leyen in Davos (left) just a couple months ago 😬
March 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Noooo, not you too with the silly parenthesis 😞 @economist.com

“Coin toss” would have been fine. We would have got there by ourselves
March 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Or “DG Competition has published a study on EU antitrust remedies”
March 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Also down for others?
March 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Almost two years ago today
February 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Milking it: when cafés charge plant-based milk drinkers—who already subsidise cow milk—extra, despite that alternatives often cost the same :/
February 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
When writing an email, ask yourself: who would you rather be stuck with at a party / on a date?
February 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Clean Industrial Deal gotta be the most unhinged leak in a while
February 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Meta’s new undersea cable seems to tip-toe around geopolitical hot spots

www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“I look to Brussels, where EU commissars… “ 🥴
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
While we’re on the topic of Eurobabble, how about basic typography at Commission HQ?

Spacing between the dates is forgivable but hyphen over en dash is not ❌

Who needs the dates anyway? The outsiders who might infer we are only united for the next five years or the insiders who know the terms
February 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@politico.eu taking no prisoners this morning
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There’s no reason to put EU users through this, too
February 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Meta’s new head lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, re: DeepSeek: “We have to work together to ensure the global standard for AI is built on Western values”
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
2025 will be the year of AGI proclamations and new AI fears.

More important than ever to learn from previous panics. Here’s how @nytimes.com reacted to Bing AI, two GPT iterations ago:

“[T]he A.I. that has been built into Bing… is not ready for human contact”
January 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚪🔄
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Remember that time ChatGPT hijacked democracy? Me neither.

We are due a new tech panic. Any ideas, @pessimistsarc.bsky.social?
January 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We mustn’t forget what they said
December 11, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Wrapped is undefeated
December 5, 2024 at 12:19 AM
This is Teams’ most desperate attempt yet to prevent people using other apps
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
What an image, @economist.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:12 AM
“Sorry but you really do have to leave the palace now” is definitely a ‘pro’ of Brussels networking culture
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM