Since the launch of De Jakobijn in March 2026, I regularly receive the same question: "How do you manage to formulate such complex geopolitical and social problems so clearly and simply? Where do you find the time to analyse all those sources?" Today I will give you an honest answer. An answer that may be surprising, but which fits perfectly with the vision of this website: Progress through Solidarity and the Sharing of Knowledge. The honest answer is this: without artificial intelligence, De Jakobijn would not exist.

Recently I bought a dream PC. An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, an RTX 5070, 64 GB RAM and a 2 TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe solid state drive for € 4,110. And then I made the mistake of also choosing Windows 11 alongside Linux Mint as a "dual boot". Within minutes I was staring at something that felt less like an operating system and more like a surveillance tool with a start menu. Microsoft wanted my email address. Microsoft wanted my phone number. Microsoft wanted me to use Edge, Microsoft wanted me to buy Office 365 instead of LibreOffice, Microsoft wanted me to "entrust" my data to the cloud...

While China conquers the world with open-source AI models like Kimi K3 and more than 10 billion downloads, Europe is building a wall of regulation. An in-depth analysis of the AI Act, geopolitical tensions and the future of global AI governance.

Prompt engineering is the art of formulating inputs that guide AI systems toward the desired output. The input to an AI system is called a 'prompt'. Prompt engineering therefore means: creating the best prompt to obtain the desired output. A prompt can range from a simple question to a complex instruction, depending on the task and the AI system.

It is a fascinating and important story – digital sovereignty is increasingly becoming a geopolitical issue, and the German approach offers a blueprint that other governments will study seriously. In the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, nestled between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, something has happened that the global tech industry did not see coming. Without spectacle or international press conferences, the state government has decided to systematically replace Microsoft Windows and associated software with Linux and open-source alternatives. What at first glance appears to be a technical migration is, in reality, a geopolitical statement of historic proportions.

The wars and aggressions of Israel and the United States in the Middle East have destabilized not only the region but the entire world. The West is trapped in a web of its own geopolitical miscalculations. After Trump's lost war, he falls between two stools: choosing between ego or economy, as he has maneuvered himself into an impossible position by starting the war against Iran. He has trapped himself. On one hand, there is internal pressure from neoconservatives like Lindsey Graham, who demand total destruction of Iran, and on the other hand, there is the harsh reality of the world economy. His ego drives him toward victory, but reality delivers him defeat. Oil and gas prices and faltering international trade pose a constant threat because the infrastructure of GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait) is a potential target as long as the war with Iran continues. An escalation would not only disrupt oil markets but could also choke off the supply of strategic materials such as fertilizers, sulfur, helium, and aluminum.

Kyiv, May 2026 – In the four-year war against Russia, Ukraine has evolved into a global testing ground for military technology. One of the most influential, yet controversial, players in this field is the American technology company Palantir Technologies. Although unfounded accusations regarding the company's role have been made in the past, factual reports indicate that Palantir is primarily used for data-driven decision-making, air defense, and planning deep strikes on legitimate military targets. Nevertheless, the use of AI in warfare raises pressing legal questions: who is responsible if an algorithm makes a mistake?

In an AI landscape dominated by billion-dollar data centers and unlimited compute, a relatively small team from DeepSeek just dropped a bombshell: DeepSeek V4 Pro, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that competes head-to-head with the industry’s closed-source giants. What makes this story remarkable isn't just the performance—it is the constraints. DeepSeek reportedly operates with a team roughly 40 times smaller than Open AI's and lacks access to the most advanced NVIDIA chips. Yet, they have built a model with a 1 million token context window that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4.

Built on Linux Mint and driven by the ethos of the Free Software Foundation: this article explains why LibreOffice is not merely a free alternative, but a superior creative tool, designed by you, for you.

As the 15th Five-Year Plan prioritizes technological self-reliance and new quality productive forces, artificial intelligence emerges as the critical catalyst transforming traditional heavy industry. This deep-dive explores how AI — and increasingly, open collaborative frameworks — are upgrading China's steel sector from the ground up.

You’ve probably heard about ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. They’re impressive – but they are closed. No one outside the company knows exactly how they work, what data they were trained on, or where your conversations go. But there is another world of AI. A world where the recipe is shared, anyone can improve it, and you can run it on your own computer without sending your personal data anywhere. That world is Open Source AI.

In China’s industrial regions, a quiet but profound transformation is taking place. It is being driven not only by trade agreements or policy changes, but by code and algorithms that can learn. Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from research laboratories onto the factory floor, and it is changing everything.

“We are told that AI is merely a tool, like the steam engine or the shovel. But for the first time in history, the tool is beginning to design itself. Are we entering a new era of prosperity, or are we simply the next ‘horses’ of the industrial age?”

The recent announcement of Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, has caused quite a stir. With claims that it can autonomously detect thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities — including in every major operating system and every browser — the model is being praised as a game changer.

TOR mission: To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and public understanding.

In December 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen models reached a monthly download figure on Hugging Face that exceeded the combined total of the next eight most popular models: Meta, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Mistral, Nvidia, Zhipu AI, Moonshot, and MiniMax. The cumulative number of downloads surpassed 700 million. Nearly 400 models within the Qwen family have been made open source.

Belgium can only dream of the productivity gains needed to pay for ageing, but in the United States productivity is still increasing relatively quickly. The productivity gap between the US and Europe is gigantic and continues to widen. "Europe did that to itself. We forgot to build the single market, which means we lack the scale to keep up with the US," says professor emeritus Luc Soete.

Every few months, a new wave of fear sweeps through Western media. Artificial General Intelligence is about to enslave us. China has already won the AI race. Your job will disappear by next Tuesday. The algorithms are lying to you. It makes for gripping headlines. It also bears almost no resemblance to what artificial intelligence actually is, how it's being built, or where it's taking us.