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Suomi 2026: - yrittäjä teki leikkipaikan omalla rahalla kaupungin maalle, lapset tykkäsivät - sarjavalittaja iski - kaupunki vaatii yrittäjältä valvontaa - yrittäjä joutuu sulkemaan paikan - lehti ei saa kaupungin kommenttia, koska henkilöstön koulutus kestää loppuviikon. (1/2)

Something amazing is being built in Helsinki 🔥 @shipfr8

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech. Welcome to FR8. Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe. They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab. Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action. Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings. They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for. We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki. We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future. The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

"The vocation of the learner in the age of cheap wheat is to become a baker: to take the now-abundant raw material and turn it into something a human can eat."

Strings on fire🔥Minister of Education and Nordic cooperation Adlercreutz @adleande showing support for Liekinheitin by Linda Lampenius & Pete Parkkonen ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest final this Saturday. Let's go Finland! 🇫🇮✨ #Eurovision #Liekinheitin @thisisFINLAND

Onnea matkaan - lycka till! 12 points from Helsinki! #Eurovision

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

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We took over a former technical university. This is Hogwarts in real life. For people who want to work on something too early, too weird, too ambitious.

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Your Career Path Is a Lagging Indicator Now If I were 25 today, I wouldn’t chase a job—I’d chase leverage. The old model rewarded those who followed predefined paths, but those paths are now calibrated for a slower world that no longer exists. AI has collapsed the distance between idea and execution, which means the advantage no longer goes to the most qualified—it goes to the fastest orchestrator of outcomes. Most people are still optimizing for credentials while the real game has shifted to control over systems, tools, and momentum. If you’re still preparing for a career, what happens when the future no longer waits for you to be ready? futuristthomasfrey.substack.com/p/if-i-were-25… — Futurist Thomas Frey FuturistSpeaker.com Subscribe to The Relevance Gap: futuristthomasfrey.substack.com

Today our dear #summerofstartups teams had a thought-provoking session on 'WHY'. Credits to our official uncle @aape!

It should be pretty obvious at this point that AI is a "force multiplier" not a "labor substitute". It helps experts be better at things they are already good at. It doesn't let beginners match experts. If you can't write, anything you write with AI will be unmitigated slop. If you aren't a software engineer, anything you vibecode with AI will have security holes and won't be able to scale past a toy demo. If you blindly trust AI to deliver on a research task without knowing the subject matter, you won't be able to fact-check it. There's this weird misconception of AI as something that completely levels the playing field. I don't see it that way at all. There are mathematicians deriving novel lemmas with off-the-shelf models. Normal people can't do that. AI is a tool that makes experts better. It doesn't make everyone into an expert.

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland have the highest share of funding going to deep tech. This is excellent sign and where Finland could double down with more Universities spinoffs plus acceleration @VTTFinland 🔗 Full European Deep Tech Report 2026: dealroom.co/reports/the-eu…

@elonmusk - @xterafab is really cool. Thank you for thinking outside the orbit.

Finland is the Happiest country in the World for the 9th year running. We also climbed up the world brand index from 7th to 5th. I am often asked why we do well in these rankings. I do not think there is a magic potion, but it helps to have a society which strives towards freedom, equality and justice. The basis of it all is a welfare society, a robust education system, a sense of security and a close attachment to nature. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy society, but providing some building blocks that give us a chance to live a meaningful life, to help others, will nudge us in the right direction during the journey of life.

Building something new in these uncertain times requires conviction and commitment. LiG

mental health effects of being alive during the AI age: - mass career anxiety disguised as "upskilling" - the guilt of using AI to do work you trained years for - checking if your job still exists every 3 months - watching your craft get automated and being told to celebrate - the cognitive load of tools that change faster than you can learn them - simultaneously feeling behind and ahead of everyone - not knowing if you're building the future or being replaced by it and nobody's treating this as a public health conversation.