Antonio Vieira Santos
@antonio.wsocial.eu
A Portuguese in Ireland. Co-Founder of AXSChat. Working for a European Tech Company.Inclusion and Accessibility, Workplace Collaboration, Future of Work. B2B Comms Expert. European Digital Mindset Award Winner. Volt Ireland
Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, part of a major shake-up at the top of the AI lab that he founded. He will become chair of DeepMind taking on the role of chief scientist of Alphabet. Chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving to found his own start-up, which Google will back.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down to become chair
Chief scientist Jeff Dean leaves the group to found his own start-up
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Germany is witnessing a surge in calls to consider a ban on Meta Glasses. Both rights groups and regulators are expressing concerns about the potential dangers posed by this new AI tech to consumers. Simultaneously, the debate surrounding pension reforms is intensifying. www.dw.com/en/germany-n...
Germany news: Calls intensify to consider Meta Glasses ban
Both rights groups and regulators say the new AI tech is dangerous to consumers. At the same time, debate is heating up over pension reforms.
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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and PM Pedro Sánchez, differ on major geopolitical issues. King Mohammed has close ties with Trump, while Sánchez is a major US antagonist in Europe. Young Moroccans want to leave, and the presence of Spanish exclaves on the African coast makes migration a bargaining chip.
The king who outfoxed Pedro Sánchez
Morocco’s absolute ruler Mohammed VI turned Spain’s border into leverage over Madrid
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Google has launched a massive infrastructure financing program to supply over $150 billion in AI chips to Anthropic,in which Google invests. This is sprawling operation to supply its chips, involving Google, Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, and numerous crypto miners.
Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic
Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending
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Fake news and misinformation on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp have led people to cross the border in the north of Africa to the Spanish city of Ceuta. Many have died… Who is accountable?
From my blog on Médium. Inclusion and Accessibility: A Journey Towards Systemic Change medium.com/design-bootc...
Inclusion and Accessibility: A Journey Towards Systemic Change
As global conversations around inclusion and accessibility continue to gain momentum, companies and organizations are increasingly taking…
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A hedge fund betting on AI stocks lost 67% of its value in July. It had borrowed 4 dollars for every 1 it owned, so when prices fell it had to sell almost everything to Citadel at a low price. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta still plan to spend about 700 billion dollars this year.
If you go to the Reina Sofía in Madrid, walk out into the garden before you leave. Hedges, a fountain, benches under the trees. Sit for 20 minutes. Nobody else does.
Back in Montemor-o-Novo, my hometown. You walk up a narrow street of whitewashed houses, look past the tangle of overhead wires, and there it is: the castle keep on the hill, flag up, walls running down through the trees. Same view my whole childhood. #Portugal
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese police intercepted a high-speed boat in the Atlantic with over 2.6 tonnes of cocaine; four suspects were arrested. #EuropeNews l.euronews.com/zWJO
Police seize more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine in Atlantic
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese police intercepted a high-speed boat in the Atlantic with over 2.6 tonnes of cocaine; four suspects were arrested. #EuropeNews
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After a girl found a bone and her mother alerted police, archaeologists in Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria—Adolf Hitler's birthplace—uncovered a decade-defining mass grave containing at least 120 human remains. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Major find in Hitler's birthplace: bone leads to mass graves
A girl finds a bone while playing. The discovery turns into an archaeological sensation: in Braunau am Inn, remains of at least 120 young men have been found. Experts call it an exceptional find for C...
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Stood above Toledo yesterday watching the Tagus wrap around the old city. Funny thing: follow that water west and it becomes the Tejo, the same river I live beside in Lisbon. Two countries, one river.
Visiting the Alcázar de Segovia today. Photos don’t prepare you for the drop, the castle sits right on the edge of the cliff, stone growing straight out of the rock.
Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch' www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch'
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to push back against talk of a "kill switch" in American technology products following the White House's short-lived decision to keep foreigner...
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Museu del Prado. One the most important museums in Europe.
The European Commission published its final guidelines on transparency obligations under Article 50 of the Artificial Intelligence Act. 12 days before the 2 August deadline. www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni...
The European Commission published its final guidelines on transparency obligations under Article 50 of the Artificial Intelligence Act. 12 days before the 2 August deadline. My good friend Kai… | Anto...
The European Commission published its final guidelines on transparency obligations under Article 50 of the Artificial Intelligence Act. 12 days before the 2 August deadline. My good friend Kai Michael...
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France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir's military AI software. thenextweb.com/news/france-...
$21,995 for the cheapest World Cup final ticket. That sustains a family for years in much of the world. A sport built by the poor, sold to the rich. Dynamic pricing made the immorality official.
Big shift in enterprise cloud strategy: Airbus to migrate 70 critical Apps from AWS to Scaleway, targeting up to 900 over the next 6 years.The multi-cloud model is evolving—keeping sensitive core IP on European soil while leveraging hyper-scalers for non-critical workloads. #DigitalSovereignty
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India’s crackdown on a new WhatsApp feature risks setting a global precedent restofworld.org/2026/india-w...
India’s crackdown on a new WhatsApp feature risks setting a global precedent
If Meta complies or modifies its app for India, it risks creating a “slippery slope” that emboldens governments worldwide to demand changes to encrypted messaging apps.
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AI powers citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela restofworld.org/2026/venezue...
AI powers citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela
After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response.
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A study by Carr-Ryan Fellow Reid Jewett Smith, finds that working-age Americans with disabilities now hold $675 billion in disposable income, highlighting the disability community economic influence, making the case for accessibility and inclusion as drivers of business growth & economic opportunity
New Study Highlights the Growing Economic Power of the U.S. Disability Consumer Market
This study is an early signal of what's possible when barriers to workforce entry, wealth accumulation, and economic participation are reduced, but it's also a cautionary tale about how much work lies...
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Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous "abstract threat level" based on increasing reports and intelligence, the country's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a German newspaper interview published on Saturday. - www.reuters.com/world/german...
Germany upgrades security stance to 'high threat level', interior minister tells paper
Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous "abstract threat level" based on increasing reports and intelligence, the country's Interior Minister Alexander Dobr...
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You order a short espresso. They hand you a large mug.
