Project notes, technical articles, and personal reflections on current events. A behind-the-scenes look at the things I’m building and the topics I can’t overlook
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The Bologna Gathering 2026: when Europe stopped talking and started building
There are events you attend because you have to. And then there are events where, two days in, you realize the conversation in the room is different from everything else you hear online. The Bologna Gathering 2026 was the second kind. Here’s what it’s actually about It’s a gathering of over 500 innovation leaders, like venture capitalists, founders, and corporate executives, who have funds managing more than €50 billion in assets.…
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ARM AGI CPU: the moment I realized I was looking at the wrong thing
ARM announced a new CPU. One of those announcements that, if you work in this space, should immediately grab your attention: new architecture, new use cases, “agentic AI,” next-generation data centers. And yet my first reaction was something like: “Okay… interesting. But why does this feel familiar?” Then I thought about it a bit more. And I realized it’s not that the CPU is new. It’s that the way I was…
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IoT-Regulierung: Bremse oderstrategischer Vorteil?
Über das Whitepaper, das wir gemeinsam mit eco und Arthur D. Little entwickelt haben – und warum die Frage falsch gestellt ist. Regulierung hat in der Digitalbranche keinen guten Ruf. Zu langsam, zu komplex, zu wenig praxisnah das sind die Standardklagen, die man auf fast jedem Branchenevent hört. Ich kenne sie gut. Und trotzdem oder gerade deshalb war es mir wichtig, an einem Whitepaper mitzuwirken, das diese Sichtweise differenziert. Wir haben…
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AI: America’s Intelligence
AI: America’s Intelligence where ideas find opportunity, and opportunity finds you. The United States is still an exciting and unique place, full of people who don’t follow the usual path. It always paid off to be an optimist When you talk to people (or even just observe them), you realize how central freedom is to their identity and, for this reason, how it must be vigorously defended at all times. From…
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From the data centre to the palm of your hand
While the world is busy building enormous cloud infrastructures, Apple is betting on something radically different: bringing artificial intelligence directly to the palm of your hand. Listening to the legendary BlackBox podcast these days, I realised how, in recent years, we have arrived at what we saw two years ago in the automotive sector.Many years ago, it was clear that cars would be transformed into small data centres on four wheels.…
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Head in the clouds, hands on the stack
Open source in AI is therefore not an ideological choice, but an acceleration strategy.
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The Next Wave of the Smart City: Resilience, Openness, and the Connected Community
From Digitization to Transformation: Why Edge Intelligence, Open Source, and a New Culture of Cooperation are Future-Proofing European infrastructure.
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Reflections on the European Summit on Digital Sovereignty 2025
Attending the 2025 European Summit on Digital Sovereignty in Berlin offered a valuable insight into how Europe is redefining its digital priorities during a period of significant change. The discussions made it clear that the question of digital sovereignty is no longer theoretical; rather, it is a strategic necessity concerning competitiveness, security and technological independence. Against this backdrop, one announcement in particular stood out for its significance and scope. The Schwarz…