🔵 Innovation tools for chaotic times
This is a special edition. And yes, since yesterday's announcement, you know why.
Philippe MEDA
We switched to Proton Mail
I'm not a prominent security expert, but I have always been concerned with basic data hygiene.
And I'm not perfect: I never was on Facebook, but I massively used Twitter before it became a cesspool. For many years, all my business mail (Merkapt and then Innovation
🟢 Waymo has quietly crossed 50 million autonomous miles with fewer crashes than human drivers—right when no one’s watching.
The hype cycle has moved on, headlines have cooled, but that’s exactly when deep tech innovation gets real: boring, unsexy, and quietly transformative. Waymo’s data now shows statistically safer driving at scale—marking the inflection point where the tech becomes not just viable, but inevitable.
The worrying inflection point that US-based AI platforms will embrace
Elon Musk's surprise move of merging xAI with X (ex-Twitter) is a process that should have required at least four independent parties: each company and their respective investment banks. Here, the deal only involved Elon agreeing with Elon and Morgan Stanley agreeing with Morgan Stanley. This ensures that
Breaking: Apple enters the PC market with direct sales on its website
This is real:
"State of the art" AI - part 2
Another tool I was exploring today is theyseeyourphotos.com, where you can explore what Google Vision API will "see" in any given photo of you.
My first test was quite impressive indeed:
The second one... much less so:
I can confirm with any form of doubt (or prejudice)
Gmail, Siri, and "state of the art" AI...
At this point in time, everyone is producing AI-flavored everything. Your bike is now developing an opinion on how your pedaling is going and whether it is fluid enough in relation to your personal neuromuscular profile. Your washing machine is probably trying to write a PhD thesis on the proper