BREAKING NIUS: Für mich ist es einer der unglaublichste Auftritte von Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz in dessen Amtszeit. Seit 17 Monaten erzählt Merz, er wolle Deutschland deregulieren, unnötige und schädliche Bürokratie beseitigen. Dann hat dieser Bundeskanzler die Möglichkeit, auf der Weltbühne, vor milliardenschweren Investoren dem Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang eine Frage zu stellen. Und was fragt der Bundeskanzler? Er will wissen, wie man Künstliche Intelligenz am besten REGULIEREN kann. Als Huang antwortet, nunja, erstmal müsse die KI-Industrie in Deutschland aufblühen, bevor man sie regulieren könne, legt Merz nach. Er erklärt Huang, aus seiner Sicht sei entweder eine europäische oder gar eine globale Regulierung notwendig, um die "Schädlichkeit" von KI zu begrenzen.

Afgelopen zomer heb ik mijn baan opgezegd. De reden: ik maak mij intens veel zorgen over Nederland. We worden in rap tempo armer en afhankelijker. Tijd voor actie. Een draadje.

🇩🇪 Jensen Huang has some tough love for Germany: stop overthinking and get to work. “Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically advanced countries to be left so far behind in technology. And I think the reason for that is this: maybe it’s the European way to overthink everything.” The Nvidia boss says Germany has no shortage of talent, it just needs to actually use it. The country that built the car and the printing press now needs productivity advice from Silicon Valley. How times change. Writer: Julie

This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders. And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context. Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. Always the same trap. I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's a mechanism. And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece. A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable. Look at economist Mark Perry's famous chart, the one people call "the chart of the century." It tracks US prices since 2000. At the top, what explodes: hospital services, college tuition, textbooks, childcare, housing. Increases of +100%, +150%, up to +250%, far above general inflation. At the bottom, what collapses: TVs, software, phones, toys, clothing. A TV today costs a fraction of what it did in 2000, for an infinitely better product. Look at what separates the two groups. It isn't technology. It isn't complexity. It's one variable: how much the state is involved. At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply. At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper. B. The mechanism: why it's systematic. When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time. Guaranteed student loans, and universities raise tuition. Housing aid plus blocked building permits, and rents skyrocket. Administered healthcare, and bureaucracy eats the budget before it ever reaches the patient. In France it's even more vicious, because the price doesn't disappear: it hides. You never see the hospital bill, you pay it through payroll contributions. You never see the cost of school, you pay it through taxes. Public spending at 57% of GDP, one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, more than €3.4 trillion in debt. And the result? Overflowing ERs, falling PISA scores, young people who can't afford to live in the city where they work. The market didn't fail in these sectors. It was never allowed in. C. Suffering demands a culprit. A 22-year-old lives all of this in their bones. They can't find a place to live. Their degree either buries them in debt or opens no doors. The future feels blocked. That suffering is real, and I don't deny it for a second. But human beings can't stand suffering without a culprit. They need a face. A scapegoat. And this is where everything is decided: who taught them how to read the world? D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain. Schools are public. Universities are public. Culture runs on grants. Film goes through funding committees. Public broadcasting shapes the narratives. The people handing down the interpretive framework are, overwhelmingly, paid by the very system that creates the problem. Do you really think that system is going to name itself as the culprit? No. It names the capitalist. The boss. The landlord. "The rich." The multinational. The commercial West. Same role, same casting, every time. E. One lens, a thousand causes. And this brings me back to that flag. A generation taught to read every situation through a single lens, oppressor on one side, rich, Western, capitalist, oppressed on the other, will apply that lens everywhere. To housing. To climate. To conflicts on the other side of the world. The cause changes, the lens stays. That's why the trap is always the same: it's not the cause that draws them in, it's the way of thinking that was installed in them. F. The perfect inversion. Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second. It's like blaming the firefighter for the fire because you saw him at the scene. G. The ballot box confirms it. In the US, a few weeks out from the midterms, a large share of urban young voters is getting ready to vote Democrat for more state, more spending, more regulation. New York elected a self-described socialist mayor, carried by young voters, on promises of rent freezes and city-run grocery stores. Rent freezes, the policy that has made housing scarcer everywhere it's been tried. The cure that worsens the disease. In France, it's the same play in two acts. Part of the youth votes for the radical left, which promises more state. Another part votes for the center, which promises to "manage" the state well, and has dug the debt deeper than ever. Two different ballots, one shared assumption: the problem is the market, the solution is the state. H. The way out. These young people aren't stupid. They're right to be angry. They're just aiming at the wrong target. The day they understand that their rent, their tuition and their hospital are expensive precisely because the state runs them, their anger will change direction. They'll stop protesting against those who create. They'll start protesting against those who capture. That day, the greatest intellectual scam of our time will be over.

BREAKING: The town hall of Limoges, built in 1873, didn’t survive today’s riots. The building’s spire has now collapsed

🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.

Duitse industrie: 28% onder de eigen trend. Nederlandse industrie: 14% eronder. Dertig jaar groei, in acht jaar weggelekt. De energietransitie zou ons concurrerender maken, met overvloedige goedkope energie. De grafiek wacht nog op dat moment. Bron: Eurostat, index 1993=100

Pour finir, le préfet de police a oublié de sécuriser l’Élysée... Bravooo. Face à ce genre d'amateur facilitant le désordre, l’immense majorité du peuple venu massivement dans la rue pour crier ses revendications est restée pacifique et déterminée. Les gens : rétablissez notre image. Partagez vos photos, pancartes, foules, chants ! Les réseaux sont plus forts que les médias. Ils veulent nous montrer en voyous, montrez que ce sont des manipulateurs !

De druk van statushouders op sociale huur blijkt veel groter dan eerder gedacht. Electoraal geograaf @Jossedevoogd windt zich enorm op over de 'bewuste' misinterpretatie van de cijfers door politici. "Het is naïviteit. Het is bijna desinformatie vanuit het systeem, ze hebben geen idee hoeveel mensen in verschrikkelijke posities leven. Ze hebben niet door dat dit als voorrang wordt beschouwd." #WNL #StandvanNederland

Professor Lauterbach ist der Vorsitzende des Bundestagsausschusses für Forschung, Technologie, Raumfahrt und Technikfolgenabschätzung. Als solcher ist er mit verantwortlich dafür, Deutschland im technologischen Bereich auf einer Führungsposition zu halten, oder es wieder dorthin zurückzubringen. Mit Posts wie diesen merke ich allerdings, dass er für diese Rolle offenbar gänzlich ungeeignet zu sein scheint. Wenn man nicht in der Lage ist, zu verstehen, warum eine Firma wie Tesla so ein Vehikel baut, und was für Folgeinnovationen sich daraus ergeben könnten für Technologien der Zukunft, dann hat man glaube ich in einem solchen Ausschuss nichts verloren. Ich bin frustriert, so etwas Kurzsichtiges vom Vorsitzenden lesen zu müssen. Der Aussage, dass die deutsche Automobilindustrie von Tesla nichts zu befürchten hätte, stimme ich aber zu. Denn Tesla hat längst die Zeichen der Zeit erkannt und baut Schritt für Schritt sein Geschäftsmodell komplett um, will also in Zukunft gar keine Autos mehr verkaufen. Stattdessen arbeitet die Firma daran, das Ride Sharing a la Uber global so präsent und so erschwinglich zu machen, dass der Besitz von Automobilen in den nächsten 10-20 Jahren mehr und mehr verschwinden wird. Es wäre einfach nicht mehr wirtschaftlich ein eigenes Auto zu besitzen, das statistisch gesehen eh nur zu ungefähr 95 % seiner Lebenszeit ungenutzt herumsteht. Ich würde mir vom Vorsitzenden des Forschungausschusses wünschen, dass er sich mehr anstrengt, wirklich über die Zukunft von Deutschland nachzudenken und es auf den richtigen Weg zu bringen. Dazu gehört nicht nur die Anerkennung, sondern auch das tiefe Verstehen von Innovationen, die in anderen Teilen der Welt stattfinden.