Matthew Paczkowski

Tesla and Apple fan, heritage moderniser. 🧑‍✈️I fly planes ✈️ to escape the internet. Cancelled ChatGPT sub in Jan’25 - only Grok since

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

After using Grok for 4 weeks, I decided to cancel my ChatGPT subscription. I found @xai Grok more reliable and lightning fast. We now need @Apple intelligence to have an option for integration with Grok! 🫡

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

In the last 2 months, FSD Supervised has been over 3x safer than manual driving on Dutch roads

[Dr. Lars Henrik Andersen 🇪🇺 @EUAITaxonomy]

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece.

Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU.

Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service.

So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships.

Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open.

The EU rejected it.

Magnificent.

Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent.

Excellent.

This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing.

Estimated time to ship: 2047.

Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states.

Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response.

Worth it.

In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all.

Not a bug. The intended outcome.

Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision.

🇪🇺

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

Siri AI is an upgrade but disappointing that we can’t choose Grok and have to use Gemini. #wwdc

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@avstorm Just not available in the EU 😡

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

Siri AI won't be available in the EU due to regulatory requirements?? Eyebrow-raising moment for the whole EU. #wwdc

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@Aurelien_Gz We all have our own opinions. I love his designs and the attention to detail. Who else misses the new iPhone launches and Jony Ivy explaining the design? That was true art.

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@Aurelien_Gz I think the new Ferrari is misunderstood, and we need more time to appreciate it. I wasn’t sure at first, but now I love its looks and especially its interior with tactile buttons and switches designed by LoveFrom.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

50 000 Poles showed up at the main square in Kraków’s Old Town last week to celebrate the promotion of their team Wisla Krakow to the first league.

They cleaned up the square before going home, leaving no garbage behind.

0 arrests, 0 violence, 0 looting

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@RaminNasibov Sim City

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@elonmusk @Su73669564 Milliseconds matter!

I had an accident in our Model Y three years ago. The BMW that hit me ended up as a write-off. I walked away with not even a whiplash and drove away from the scene.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Try Grok

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Tesla owners in the Netherlands have driven 10 million km on FSD Supervised in under a month! Thank you for making Dutch roads safer 🤝

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

Flew over Windermere in the Lake District with a couple of friends yesterday. The views from above are stunning and the video they shot captures it perfectly. Proper slice of UK aviation heaven. #LakeDistrict #Windermere #Cessna172 #PilotLife

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercab has started production

[T J - 🇬🇧 Tracking Global FSD Rollout @tesla_jokes]

Tesla Robotaxi in the UK
Soon?

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@tesla_jokes Without question, once people try self-driving taxis and add to that Tesla's UI & UX, they won’t go back to normal taxis ever again.

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@tesla_jokes My bet is summer this year but that’s highly speculative

[Matthew Paczkowski @matthewpaco]

@GavinElwes @Tesla It’s likely it will be available shortly after