The Backdoor you're comfortable with
Data flows are power flows, and jurisdictions are never neutral. Europe's dependency on US tech infrastructure creates the same structural risk it criticises in others
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Portable Memory & Behavioral Signatures: the missing layer for AI personalisation
Everyone is talking about context engineering and clever memory‑management tricks inside models. It's great, it's pushing the boundaries of what models can do. How does this translate into tangible benefits for users though? When you realise that those improvements are ultimately about preserving and applying user context, you start to feel that that the real unlock for users isn’t more sophisticated retrieval inside the model, it’s allowing that context to travel with the user across different
The Unfair Game - Why Fundraising Asymmetry Is a Feature, Not a Bug
When fundraising, founders must understand the rules, cultural differences and prepare strong narratives. It's about balancing vision with execution, showing ambition and having a clear path to success.
Tax the past, fund the future
Zucman's tax on unrealized gains risks penalizing entrepreneurs, forcing asset sales and driving startups abroad. France should adopt nuanced tax policies supporting innovation, not stifling it
Attention Was All We Needed -Now It’s All We Lack
Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter In 1954, electricity was hailed as "too cheap to meter" thanks to nuclear power. What a weird twist of events that, 70 years later, nuclear is now gearing up to power the very infrastructure that is creating intelligence "too cheap to meter". Back in 2017, the paper Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer architecture, the engine behind today's Large Language Models. Since then, the cost of deploying intelligence has plummeted, turning complex reaso
PhD-2-CEO: the Three-Letter Shift of the Researcher Entrepreneur
Following up on last week's post on the current compute crunch and its impact on researcher career paths, we're digging today into a few of the common traits or similar experiences I've witnessed when chatting with soon-to-be researcher entrepreneurs. 🤔"Is there really a new breed of entrepreneurs that are coming out of labs to start businesses?" "It depends" is my answer. * Yes, we’re certainly seeing more researchers, with venture-type ambitions, looking to build large inherently research
Accelerated Hardware, Accelerated Careers: The GPU-Driven Talent Shuffle
Amidst an AI boom, researchers are weighing academic careers against entrepreneurship. GPU shortages and the need for real-world problem-solving are influencing their decision, pushing more towards corporates and startups.
Are You the Right Kind of Founder? Navigating Social Spending's Impact on Entrepreneurial DNA
Exploring how social support shapes founders: from opportunity-seizing to necessity-driven mindsets. It's time to rethink success by blending these traits. What kind of founder are you?
Social Spending and Entrepreneurship: Pôle Emploi, France's n°1 pre-seed fund?
📣"The unemployed could try setting up their own business instead of just collecting unemployment benefits!" This quote by former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre in 1980 could very well have been said today by any random person criticising the allocation of unemployment benefits. I came across a Linkedin post this morning that was challenging the impact of governmental support in fostering entrepreneurship. The post was a bit 'clickbaity' in questioning whether social spending was a drain
Are Large Language Models furthering our loss of agency?
Welcome back everyone, if you're joining here for the first time, perhaps it could be valuable to read up on Part-1 discussing the implications of LLMs becoming more pervasive in society. Truth in the age of social media and LLMs "Truth", "accuracy", and "objectivity" are cornerstones of journalism and as such have always played a balancing role between the information needs and the advertising-driven business model of distribution of getting more eyeballs on your content. Unfortunately this
Large Language Models: Instead of Searching, Just Ask
Hello everyone, long time no see. 👋 I've been thinking about the implications of Large Language Models (LLMs) and thought I'd share some of my early thinking behind it. What started as a few notes in Apple Notes rapidly grew to a long dump of shower thoughts, links, articles and papers. This is my best shot at structuring it all. I've now bucketed my thoughts into what should roughly amount to 6 separate articles: 1. Instead of searching, just ask - Part 1: Philosophical implications of
The Bright Future of User Research 🔍
As some of you may know, I've been looking into design tools for a while. * Personally, I quickly got sucked into the rabbit-hole of all-things design as a teenager when I started playing around with the Adobe suite, producing below-average memes and above-average (?) skateboarding clips [https://streamable.com/cxtpx8]. Since then I've kept a curious eye on the developments in the space. * Professionally, I've been looking into how software is helping bridge the gap, or "break
What's the worst case scenario?
Thoughts on why I'm starting "yet-another-VC-blog" and why you should do the same with your own interests