Vladas Lasas

PhD in Computer Vision, Entrepreneur, Global Soul, Connector & Mentor; Co-founder/owner Techstars London

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If self-driving cars are 8x safer than human drivers and we refuse to deploy them because of one bad case, we are choosing to let hundreds of thousands of people die per year to protect our feelings about control.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Lithuania hosted its annual festival celebrating its pink beetroot soup, or 'saltibarsciai.’ Around 100,000 visitors were expected for the festivities, featuring events such as a boat parade and waiter race

[ArcticStartup @arcticstartup]

Lithuania’s https://t.co/oakrP28JQI raises €2 million seed round to expand agentic e-commerce platform https://t.co/Yr3sS4X0LF via @ArcticStartup @PracticaCapital @inovia @kopa_ai #balticmade #Lithuania #funding #startups #SaaS #martech #trending

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

FSD Supervised now approved in Estonia🇪🇪. Rollout will begin soon

[Vladas Lasas @lasas]

Netherlands 🇳🇱
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Estonia 🇪🇪

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

the three most advanced countries in the EU right now:

[ArcticStartup @arcticstartup]

Baltic PE and VC funds hold €1.4B in dry powder as fundraising surges https://t.co/uUI8zUDUUl via @ArcticStartup @KPMG #balticmade #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #surveys #reports #startups #investors #privateequity #venturecapital #trending
Credit: Helena Lehtmets

[Borys Musielak @ Warsaw @michuk]

Za 5 lat będziesz żałować, że w 2026 roku siedziałeś w korpo i nie robiłeś startupu, w tym czasie kiedy wszystko stało się na chwilę możliwe dzięki Codex i Claude Code.

Just saying!

#infoshare #startup #claude #codex #bootstrap

[Vladas Lasas @lasas]

Totally agree!
Please come to see it yourself - https://t.co/MWeDLM6nKW in #Vilnius #Lithuania June 1-2

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Lithuania is now one of the most technologically advanced counties in Europe.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

The perfect Baltic Airspace Protection Plan:
1. Ask Ukraine for advice
2. Use it

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth.
From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F.
For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access.
image compilation: @niccruzpatane

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A humanoid robot learning hand eye coordination

[Vladas Lasas @lasas]

Tesla launches Full Self-Driving in #Lithuania @teslaeurope https://t.co/Y1yrXO3vq7

[Vladas Lasas @lasas]

The Artery: This building was designed by Daniel Libeskind @DanielLibeskind

[Kuršenieks @Kursenieks]

Vilnius

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.

The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 A robot just worked an 8-hour shift. Fully autonomous. Sorted packages at human speed and then diagnosed its own maintenance issues

Figure AI's Helix-02 replaced 109,000 lines of code with a neural network trained on human movement. One system. Legs, arms, fingers, eyes. All running together like a person.

Get this: in a warehouse in America, a robot just clocked out after a full shift. And immediately clocked back in because it doesn't sleep.

[Vladas Lasas @lasas]

Finland: Even Cooler Than You Think @alexstubb at #Lithuania - #Finland Business Forum #Vilnius

[Kuršenieks @Kursenieks]

Lietuva jau šiais metais pasivys, o kitąmet – aplenks „PIGS“ šalis (Portugaliją, Italiją, Graikiją ir Ispaniją) pagal BVP vienam gyventojui rodiklį. Tai – įspūdingas rezultatas, turint omenyje, kad prieš 30 metų atotrūkis tarp Lietuvos ir „PIGS“ valstybių siekė net 8 kartus.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

SpaceX is only ~200 satellites away from having launched as many satellites as the rest of the world combined

(despite giving the rest of the world a 61-year head start)

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

EVs Exceed 60% of China's Auto Market!

April 2026 was a disaster globally for gasoline and diesel burning vehicles!

EVs made big market share gains.

Wonderful!

China's EV exports skyrocketed as well.

https://t.co/ngGWAzhWDS

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Solar is the fastest growing source of electricity in history.

It's now the 4th largest, having passed nuclear and wind.