Simon Hedqvist
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Growth & Community Manager - W social 🇪🇺 Building Europe’s sovereign social network
We have exciting news: the 🇪🇺 State of the Union speech will be broadcast live on W. And there’s more coming around live video on W. 👀 Stay tuned!
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last wk.Another year, another chapter in Europe’s history. Save the date for the State of the European Union on 16 September 2026. President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver her annual address to Europe, setting out priorities for the year ahead.
Shibuya crossing. Thousands of people, somehow nobody numbs into anyone🇯🇵
stripe paid over $7bn for openrouter, more than 5x what it was worth three months ago openrouter is one api key that reaches every model, taking a cut of everything routed through it nothing about the company changed that much in three months. what changed is what everyone decided it was for
claude watermarks its text now, and the method is clever when two words are equally good, the choice itself encodes the signal. invisible to read, provable to check
if you asked an ai in 1903 whether flight was possible it would have said no and it would have cited the nyt, which 69 days earlier ran a piece saying flying machines were a million years off it wouldn’t be lying. that was the best source there was be foolish enough to try anyway
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Denys Vuika@denysvuika.wsocial.eu · 3w agoIntroducing a new blog series: "W Mythology" 🎉 Debunking myths and clarifying misconceptions about #WSocial - so you can separate fact from fiction. Myths About W Social, Explained in Simple Words. Vol 1. denys.dev/w-mythology-...
First time climbing today with William and Miran from the growth team. Spent the whole session convinced I couldn’t reach the next hold. Reached it anyway, most of the time. Turns out the hard part is mostly in your head. Enjoy your weekend. #climbing #adventure
Two laptops, cold coffee, and a long argument about what a feed owes you. Privacy-first, built in Europe, launching in January #SocialMedia #Privacy #BuiltInEurope
Anthropic securing 300MW and 220k GPUs highlights a massive gap. European AI stars like Mistral build world-class models but must rely on US giants for compute. We cannot build EU tech sovereignty on American servers. Europe must invest in its own tech infrastructure. #TechSovereignty #EuropeanTech
Every lab is racing to make AI agents smarter. The Economist says what’s driving people away is that they lie. Capability was never the bottleneck. Trust was. It always was. That’s what matters. 💙 economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users #WSocial
AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
It is time to impose law and order on the frontier
economist.com
AI startups pulled in €5.92B across Europe in H1 this year, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, not just one hub. Stockholm’s own Lovable just added to that with a $400M raise. Good company to be quietly building in. 💙🇪🇺 tech.eu/2026/08/03/e... #WSocial #WeLoveEurope
European tech weekly recap: €878M in weekly deals and key trends from H1 2026
Last week, we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €878 million and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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Half of Europe had its eyes on the sky this week, eclipse, meteor shower, take your pick. Nice reminder that some things are still worth looking up for, together. 💙 swedenherald.com #WeLoveEurope
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Saw today that Claude's about to start watermarking everything it generates, for EU transparency rules. Feels like validation, trust built in from day one is the whole idea behind a European social home. #WSocial #WeLoveEurope
Traveled from Gothenburg to Östersund, which with all the detours was well over 1000 km
Simon Hedqvist@handle.invalid · 3w agoAt 15, I left Gothenburg on a bike with a tent and no plan. I took every detour, got lost, got cold, slept under the stars, and met strangers who became friends. I thought I was going for a bike ride. I was learning how I wanted to live. Sometimes the detour is the whole point. #WeLoveEurope
At 15, I left Gothenburg on a bike with a tent and no plan. I took every detour, got lost, got cold, slept under the stars, and met strangers who became friends. I thought I was going for a bike ride. I was learning how I wanted to live. Sometimes the detour is the whole point. #WeLoveEurope
W Trends 🇪🇺 Escape your bubble and engage with the world #WeLoveEurope#News#Media#Tech#Future
Fantastic fishing trip in Stockholm archipelago this Friday evening🇸🇪🎣🚤#WeLoveEurope#Boat#Fishing
The fastest route to a finished thing usually runs through doing the unglamorous part properly first.
The gentle art. You leave your ego at the door, get put in bad positions for an hour, and somehow walk out lighter than when you came in #BJJ 🥋😊
