1,037,000 vehicles. Exported in one month. In June 2026, China became the first country ever to export more than 1 million vehicles in a single month....
Bjoern Ognibeni
@ognibeni.bsky.social
Practical Visionary. Co-Founder ChinaBriefs.io & XRLab-MCM.space @ University of Münster. Finding the future before it's obvious. Keynote speaker & trusted advisor: China Tech · AI · Digital Strategy.
„Idolatry of profit“ - 💯
Noah Barkin@noahbarkin.bsky.social · 2mo agoPope Leo: “All systems used in a war setting must guarantee the possibility of retracing and reconstructing decision-making processes, so that accountability and blame are not collapsed into ‘the machine’.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
AI won't kill physical retail. It will save it — but only for brands that figure out how to use AI to enable humans, not replace them. Chinese brands & retailers are already doing this with 全域经营 (all-domain commerce), while in the West we are still debating chatbots on the homepage... 🤖
Experience, Community & AI: How China Rebuilds Retail While the West Debates It.
EV showrooms are out. Pop Mart, Lululemon, and robot dogs are in. Three ideas from China’s malls — and one strategy that ties them…
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Weekend reflections: Big Tech just posted record profits 💰💰💰— again. Everyone is celebrating. But is that proof the system works, or proof it has stopped working? A few thoughts on #capitalism, #market economies, and a Soviet-era word that suddenly feels very current: #hypernormalisation.
#bigtech #capitalism #marketeconomy #competition #society #agi #hypernormalisation | Björn Ognibeni
Earnings season is here, and #BigTech is crushing it. Again. 🚀 Amazon, Apple, Meta — record profits 💰 across the board. Everyone treats it as proof the system is working. But is it? What does clearl...
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Not much to see here. Except the Foreign Minister of Singapore explaining how he built a „diplomatic brain“ for himself using OpenClaw and Raspberry Pi, with a link to his GitHub at the end. 😳 Are you confident your foreign minister can find the on switch for his or her computer? I am not. 🫣
I've been thinking about how the hottest AI hype topic right now - #AgenticAI - in the West connects to the #IranWar, what China is doing differently, and how Europe could turn all of this to its advantage... medium.com/@ognibeni/wh...
Why the Iran War Cements China’s AI Advantage: Scaling Requires Predictability.
The US is building AI on speculative capital and a fragile grid. China is building it on cheap power and patience. Guess who’s winning…
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What an achievement. And still no Nobel Prize. So sad.
The Atlantic just connected the dots between the Iran war, the AI bubble, and the global financial system. It's not pretty. 🫣 I wrote some thoughts on LinkedIn about what this means — and why Europe should stop copying this death spiral and invest in an alternative. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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The #AI industry is spending trillions to build something that might destroy the economy. Twice. First by sucking up all available capital. Then by eliminating the jobs and incomes of the people who ...
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If that all weren't so sad & stupid… www.instagram.com/reel/DWYlilD...
Most Western business discussions around AI come with a big logical error: they assume companies can actually deploy it at scale. But for decades a four-stage Innovation Theater Cycle has left new digital ideas stuck in PoCs. Why should AI be any different? ognibeni.medium.com/citrinis-ai-...
Let the War Department ask its Chatbot for a target list with things to obliterate creates AI slop that kills people? 😳 Who would have thought? 🫣
But Ukraine has no #Grüngas! So.... 🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️
Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · 5mo agoEven if global warming was not such a pressing issue, renewables are not only more affordable and less price-volatile than single-use fossile fuels, they also increase a country’s resilience in armed conflict. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
"Round and round it goes; where it stops nobody knows" 🤷♂️
Well, the feeling of Europe getting ahead of the US was nice. While it lasted. 🤦🏻♂️ x.com/sama/status/...
"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families" extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto.
Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn’t always fare so well.
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The world’s first EV with a sodium-ion battery has landed – and it beats traditional lithium batteries in one key way www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech...
The world's first sodium-ion EV is here to end winter range anxiety – it retains 90% of its capacity even in Arctic temperatures
The world’s first production sodium-ion EV battery emerges unscathed from extreme winter testing, delivering consistent power without the range loss
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Sounds like globalism and election interference rolled into one.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 6mo agoSenior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a
Not a single ticket sold for the opening night of Melania at Boston’s largest theater
Pretty clever strategy: put soldiers on the street but with hot beverages instead of guns, support peaceful protests and create an atmosphere that make ice look even more thuggish…
VoteVets@votevets.org · 6mo agoNon-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
Yann LeCun at Davos: US tech giants are "LLM-pilled" — everyone betting billions on the same tech heading for a wall. LLMs can't predict consequences of its own actions. That kills agentic AI and physical AI. Europe's opening? Build the next generation of AI while Silicon Valley is locked in...
Why “LLM-Pilled” Silicon Valley Is Heading for a Wall — And How Europe Can Get Back into the AI…
Meta’s ex-AI Chief: US tech is ‘LLM-pilled’ and hitting limits. Why Europe can compete in AI by building world models, not chasing LLMs…
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