Jussi Laakkonen

@DrAndyGalpin Awesome offering and would love to book a call right away: Any chance of offering this in Europe?

A few years ago, I was sitting in a closed-door meeting with some of the most elite minds in human performance on the planet. The topic: how do we actually optimize sleep for the world's highest performers? We went around the room. These were people responsible for astronauts, Tier 1 military operators, Olympic athletes, and billion-dollar executives. And the answer was the same from everyone: Consumer wearables OR a clinical sleep study in a creepy hospital. That was it. That was the ceiling. I've spent my career working with some of the most decorated athletes in history: UFC fighters, MLB All-Stars, Olympic medalists, Hall of Famers, etc. We have incredibly precise tools for just about everything for training, nutrition, recovery — but when it came to sleep, the most fundamental pillar of human performance, we were stuck choosing between a $300 tracker OR a single night wired up in a hospital so we could be told we may or may not have apnea and sent home with a CPAP machine. Both of those options share the same fatal flaw: they tell you that your sleep is bad. But THEY DON'T TELL YOU WHY - so they don't give you a real plan to fix or improve. That gap is what led me to co-found @Absolute_Rest with my partner, Josh Ruben, a neurotechnology entrepreneur who was running into the same wall while building eye-tracking diagnostic systems for NASA and the DOD. We asked ourselves a simple yet radical question: if you had an unlimited budget and wanted to build the world's most precise sleep-optimization system from scratch, what would it actually look like? Over the last five years, we've assembled an interdisciplinary team — sleep clinicians, neuroscientists, clinical psychologists, performance coaches — to build exactly that. Today, Absolute Rest combines AT-HOME & WIRELESS FDA-cleared clinical-grade hardware (as good or better than you'll find in any sleep hospital or research lab), advanced biomarker testing, environmental analysis, and world-class expert coaching into a single, end-to-end platform. What started as a bespoke program for elite athletes and executives has grown into something much bigger. We've now supported hundreds of clients from all walks of life who have one thing in common — they are done being told they're bad sleepers and ready to finally feel how sleep can go from an anchor to an advantage. I am grateful to those of you who've supported us thus far. HUGE things are coming soon with this remarkable company. absoluterest.com to learn more.

Today, @trymirai is announcing a $10M seed round led by @uncorkcap , with participation from an incredible group of angels including @dps, @FrancoisChauba1, @marcinzukowski, @matiii , @gokulr, @scooterbraun @krishnanvijay , @benparr, @MattPRD, @adityajami and others. This funding accelerates our mission to make on-device AI inference accessible to every developer, turning what requires specialized systems teams today into something that integrates in a few lines of code. Every modern phone and laptop has AI silicon, but most developers can't access it. @trymirai removes that barrier. With this round, we're focusing on working with model makers to bring their models on-device across text, voice, and vision. As cloud inference costs become unsustainable for real-time workloads, on-device execution offers better economics, eliminating per-inference costs while improving latency. Models running on-device are becoming a new capability layer where developers can build system-level experiences independently. Inference becomes the programmable layer. We're building the infrastructure layer that enables that future. There's so much more to build, and we're just getting started. Excited to have Uncork Capital and this incredible group of investors and angels joining us on the journey. More on it at our blog: trymirai.com/blog/mirai-rai…

President Ursula von der Leyen officially announced the EU–INC today at Davos! A single legal entity for all European founders to grow massive companies in Europe. Online incorporation in 48 hours. No more bureaucratic mess across European borders. All of you made this happen!

From impossible to inevitable. 💥🇪🇺 @euinc_petition on main stage with the Vice President of the European Union. Shoutout to @SlushHQ for making this happen and to @mikikuusi for being one of EU–INC’s earliest supporters. 🔥🙏 Q1 next year they want to propose the law for it!

Second Reality now has a fully portable C++ version! Thanks to the work of @conspiracyhu and @JSRProductions You can even run it on your browser! jsr-productions.com/secondreality/… Here is the C++ source github.com/XorJS/SecondRe… And the web page jsr-productions.com/secondreality.…

Slush with massive founder energy is amazing!

As a result of the investigation, we now know it was the Russian Secret Services that commissioned the blast of the Polish railway and recruited two Ukrainians to do it. We also know the identities of the perpetrators who immediately fled Poland for Belarus.

Just a month later and... 🇪🇺 ChatControl is back! Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes The new proposal: - total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU - obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account - minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!) The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it Read more here by @echo_pbreyer: patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-contro…

Hi friends 👋 ! Coming to Slush next week 🔜 🇫🇮? Would be fun to catch up 🤝! Ping me 📫!

Owen’s very insightful post on game industry’s “hottest thing evers”: VR, crypto, metaverse, esports and cloud streaming

Oikea päätös Suomelta. Suomi ei voi tukea EU:n puheenjohtajamaa Tanskan uusinta kompromissiesitystä, jonka mukaan yhtiöiden tulisi skannata kansalaisten verkkoviestintää ennen sen lähettämistä. hs.fi/politiikka/art…

The EU Chat Control proposal would be a catastrophe for Europe. It would seal Europeans behind a new digital Berlin wall, cut off from Signal and other e2e messengers. It's embarrassing and dangerous that it's gotten this close already. Time to bail to back to sanity.

@mikko @unixtippse And the bestest subwoofer in the back of that gloriously glimmering bronze Volvo station wagon.

@unixtippse I had an MP3 player in my car in 2000. People just couldn’t believe it. It was like magic.

Slashdot’s verdict when Apple released the iPod in 2001: ”No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

🇪🇺 My fellow Europeans You have to fight ChatControl 💪 Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats! metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcont…

Creators, the wait is over! The Noice Card Game extension is now live on Twitch. To mark the launch, we’re running a competition throughout the month. The creator who tops the leaderboard by the 31st September wins $200 🤑 Read on to find out how it works 🧵

The rollout will commence shortly. Stay tuned. We will be starting off slow to make sure everything works and our servers don't melt but... LFG!

Made a nice page for all my demoscene favorites. mrdoob.com/demoscene/

Kirjoitimme avoimen kirjeen @HennaVirkkunen:lle, koska vastustamme yksityisyydensuojan murtamista. EU:n kaavailema asetus on diktaattorin toiveuni. Kirjeen allekirjoittajina ovat muun muassa @petterij, @bingatupamaki, @ramikurimo, @TimoFuruholm, @JaaJanne, @JyrkiVainio ja monet muut. Lue kirje täältä ja pistä jakoon: effi.org/avoin-kirje-he…

Haluatko että kaikki viestisi skannataan? Tanska on tuomassa kiistellyn #CSAM ehdotuksen taas päätettäväksi EU pj-kaudellaan. Ei näin. #ChatControl euronews.com/next/2025/08/0…

The EU's "Chat Control" proposal is horrifying. There's no way to implement this safely. It will destroy private communications online entirely. If you're in the EU, please fight this.