Max Hanet

A new era for Sovereign AI starts today

Peter Thiel has a theory most founders ignore: your company name predicts whether you'll win or fail. "I believe very strongly that the names of companies are often very predictive of future failure or success." His framework, in his own words: PayPal worked because it felt human. "It was the friend that helps you pay." Friendly, transactional, trustworthy, the name did sales before the product did. Napster was doomed from the start. "You nap", the connotation was sleep, theft, something illicit. The name telegraphed exactly what regulators and labels would eventually come after it for. The deeper point isn't aesthetics. A name is a compressed signal, about your market positioning, your customer relationship, and how the world will narrativize you when things go wrong. Names expose founder psychology. A name that sounds aggressive or antisocial is usually a tell that the founder hasn't thought hard enough about how their company will be perceived at scale. Most founders treat naming as a branding exercise. Thiel treats it as a predictive test. If you are building a startup, this is what I write about weekly in Product Market Fit: productmarketfit.tech/

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…

Switzerland is the one country that combines both very high AI adoption and high average spend:

You told us the benchmarking clause in our terms was a problem, and we agree so we've removed it. Anyone can now benchmark Giotto and publish the results, whatever they show. To support independent testing, we're setting aside €20,000 in tokens for people who run their own evaluations. Apply through our form: giottoai.typeform.com/benchm…

The Giotto server is live! Come chat to our team, ask questions, break things: discord.gg/giotto

We’re about to go live on Swiss tv! Watch us at 7:30 on RTS 🇨🇭

Today we announce the launch of the Giotto family of models. We are unveiling Giotto Alto and Giotto Solo, the smartest European sovereign AI models on the market. Giotto Alto is our flagship model built for advanced reasoning capabilities, free for everyone and available on the App Store and Google Play. It is hosted on European cloud infrastructure, so your data stays in Europe. Giotto Solo is the smartest model that runs on a single GPU, so organisations can keep their AI on their own infrastructure. We are a Swiss lab with a European heart and we built this so that Europe can run advanced AI on its own terms. Use Giotto: cloud.giotto.ai/

Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person: “He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.” “Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.” “Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.” “Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”

Every era has someone selling doom Fear has always been how power is harvested. It feeds on a frightened mind and a frightened mind gives its power to whoever promises shelter, often the hands that built the storm. Fear is the chain and it only holds if you believe in it. When you return to love, build that trust within. What they feed on starves when you stop being afraid

Napoleon Bonaparte talked about a rare skill that separates those who dominate from those who remain dominated, and he possessed it. First, u must develop the habit of thinking deeply. Without it, ur ability to think will stagnate, and you'll flee the moment something demands thinking, and this skill cannot be developed beyond a certain age. Once you've practiced enough of not thinking, you won't be able to think. And Those who cannot think cannot decide, and therefore cannot command, and that deficiency is a reliable sign of lifelong subordination and slavery. But once u develop this ability to a high degree, u will begin suffering from anxiety, depression, and overthinking. That's when u must learn to regulate ur mind through certain activities like meditation, intense sports, solving maths, reading for hours at once, or other spiritual practices. Master both abilities, and u can reach ur peak. You'll be able to tell ur brain when to think, let it unfold layers of understanding, and it will start doing the same, and tell it when to stop and it will stop. Then u can relax and move on. That's when ur ready to dominate wherever u go. Very hard.

Now feels like a good time to remind everyone that the world wide web was invented in 1989 at Cern in switzerland, and the Belgian Robert Cailliau co-invented it

An industry built on optimization should know better than to optimize for a single variable. Profit matters. So do forests, water, energy, and the communities affected by our infrastructure.

CRITICAL BUG IN PHP AFFECTS AS MANY AS 70% OF THE WORLD'S WEBSITES, COMPANY SAYS PHP IS USED BY WORDPRESS AND MANY GOVERNMENT AND E-COMMERCE WEBSITES BUG WAS FOUND USING AI, SECURITY RESEARCHERS SAY PATCH WAS PUSHED A DAY EARLY AFTER DETAILS LEAKED OUT