The secret behind Gemini 3? Simple: Improving pre-training & post-training 🤯 Pre-training: Contra the popular belief that scaling is over—which we discussed in our NeurIPS '25 talk with Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Le—the team delivered a drastic jump. The delta between 2.5 and 3.0 is

💸 NEURA Robotics, a German startup company building cognitive humanoid robots, is raising approximately $1.16B in a funding round that would value the company between €8B and €10B. buff.ly/3nTILFa

The situation on the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2023 and today - the strategic level. There is a certain method, one of the first we were taught: for an objective analysis, put yourself in the shoes of a completely external (but competent) observer. For example, if

US manufacturing employment continues to decline: The US economy lost -6,000 manufacturing jobs in September, marking the 5th consecutive monthly contraction. During this period, manufacturing jobs have dropped -58,000, to 12.71 million, the lowest since March 2022. Since the

European counter-plan. Ukraine NATO membership up to NATO; no territorial concessions; ceasefire along contact line; no cap on Ukrainian military; EU membership; reconstruction to be paid by Russia.

Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must. Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a

European VCs have outperformed US VCs over the past 5 years, 10 years and 15 years. As an asset class it also outperformed US public equities. "Over a 10-year horizon, the European VC index returned 17.2% compared to 13.1% for US VC and 13.7% for US public equities. The gap

One of the great divides in venture for the following year(s) is whether general-purpose vibe coding is possible or not. As an ex-developer, I don't think there's even a remote possibility that it happens. Excited to see how this plays out!

The biggest hoax in euro tech right now is that you need to move to the US to make it. Yes the bay area is great and defo a place to learn and over time build a team there as you scale. No doubt the 50y of tech expertise and talent density need to be leveraged. No place like it

If this is how the IDF acts in Jenin where it has three separate cameras pointing at them (including international media), imagine what's been going on for more than 2 years behind the siege in Gaza.

The 🇺🇦 SBU has stopped using Anduril’s Altius drones due to frequent malfunctions and unreliability. " including vulnerability to enemy jamming, according to former employees and others 1/

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." reporting by Alex Horton Ellen Nakashima

Devastating @wsj report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders. wsj.com/world/russia/r…

As we put our children to bed tonight, safe and protected from harm, we must remember that peace is exactly what makes this simple thing possible. Ukraines negotiates for peace, Russia uses the money of its citizens to bomb innocent children in an unjust and unprovoked war, a

"We are seeing affirmative action for Goliath. We know that Goliath can lose. Wars are unpredictable. Russia has many problems. They could be exploited…David can win…This US administration seems to prefer a world where Goliath always wins." Nataliya Gumenyuk snyder.substack.com/p/what-if-trum…

🇪🇺 Can Europe build frontier AI research labs? Black Forest Labs just raised 300m USD on a 3.25 billion USD valuation, and all of this not from San Francisco, but from Freiburg. Why? Focus & Talent! They still have a strong presence in the US, but they keep their HQ here and see

Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally 🇷🇴 Romania on their National Day! #RomaniaNationalDay #WeAreNATO 🤝 Romania at NATO

“There were no agreements with the Muscovites in the 19th, 20th, or 21st century, only lies, a desire to take lives, and to destroy,” said Polish President Karol Nawrocki. He stressed that history offers a lesson for modern Poland: deals with Russia have never been real, and it’s