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Great new paper from @devintellab! Excited to see Bridi Rice, Geordie Fung & team using #UbiquitybyFilterLabs alongside traditional surveys to map local sentiment across countries of interest. What a pleasure to partner with them & support their work! devintelligencelab.com/analyses/pulse…

Announcing: Ubiquity! Our new data intelligence platform is now live. It saves analysts hours of data curation time, rapidly surfacing source-verified, hyperlocal data so they can get back to what they do best - producing insights that make a difference. filterlabs.ai/ubiquity-launch

We’re going live soon! On January 21st, we will be unveiling Ubiquity – a tool that will enable analysts to vet up to 1,000 high-quality, geotagged sources in an hour. Learn more on our Ubiquity Launch Hub: filterlabs.ai/ubiquity-launch

Collecting hyper-local online data reveals narratives a broad view can miss. Our data from Iran shows unity doesn’t always equal support for the Supreme Leader. Jonathan Teubner, the CEO of @FilterLabs, shared more with @KeirSimmons on @NBCNews nbcnews.com/world/iran/isr…

What do Chinese citizens really think about their country?

Many of the common LLMs aren’t trained to navigate the nuances of the Chinese language. Here’s the reason: #AI #NLP #LanguageModels

Language encodes values, not just meaning. Here’s a beautiful example of this in Chinese from @rorrydaniels: #ChineseLanguage #CulturalInsight #NavigatingNoise

Migration is political. It's cultural. It’s not a solution for population decline.

What makes data good? @PRBdata CEO Dr. @JenniferSciubba says it's all about: ✔️ Trust ✔️ Understanding If it’s confusing or unreliable, it’s useless. Clear, credible data drives better decisions. #GoodData #Leadership #PRB

America’s life expectancy was falling before Covid. That’s not normal. It’s a signal that something deeper is broken. This isn’t just about health, it’s about the quiet failure of entire systems. #LifeExpectancy #PublicHealth #USDecline

If your media brand vanished today… Would anyone notice? AI tools are now more essential to people’s lives than most media brands. Why? They’re useful, relevant, and integrated into daily life. Can you say the same about your content?

Still think media bias isn't real? One media CEO built bias flags into their CMS. It checks who’s quoted, how balanced a story is, and even prompts AI to suggest what perspectives are missing. Not censorship. Just reflection. #MediaBias #NewsTech #RepresentationMatters

"Media is dead" is lazy thinking. AI relies on real journalism. No model can investigate, break stories, or show editorial judgment. Platforms don’t replace the press. They only amplify what humans create. Without media, AI collapses.

Ansgar calls it the “Dark Valley.” It’s already here.

Palantir is leading the charge, but it’s not alone. Across the U.S. and Europe, startups are pitching themselves as essential to defense and state resilience (and thriving because of it). The era of building for global scale is giving way to segmenting for strategic advantage.

Some tech companies aren’t waiting to be caught in geopolitical crossfire… they’re designing their businesses around it. As Ansgar Baums explains, a new generation of firms is using national security as a wedge.

How does Germany position itself in a new great power competition? Ansgar Baums advises governments and multinational companies on how to survive geopolitical disruption, and he says Germany is going through a full-blown worldview crisis.

That’s why you’re seeing plant closures in Germany—and it’s not just cars. This logic is coming for every global industry. China’s not just a market. It’s becoming the center of gravity. Catch the full episode with Ansgar: navigatingnoisepodcast.com

You want to understand the global economy? Watch where the profits stay. Ansgar Baums broke it down like this: German automakers are reinvesting every euro they make in China… back into China. They can’t afford to subsidize factories in Europe anymore.

For founders, analysts, and policymakers: if your mental map of AI still starts with Sand Hill Road, it’s time to redraw it. We loved this conversation with Ansgar and hope you will find it fascinating as well: navigatingnoisepodcast.com

We’ve seen this ourselves at FilterLabs. Our last few hires — brilliant engineers and analysts — came from mid-sized cities across the U.S. and Europe. None from SF. The idea that innovation only happens in one place? That era is over.

If you were to map the top 1% of global AI talent today, would you still look to Silicon Valley? Probably not. As Ansgar Baums pointed out on this week’s episode of Navigating Noise, the world’s best AI researchers are no longer clustered around one zip code.