Selcuk Ergin

#entrepreneur #venturecapitalist Will always meet for coffee to talk Tech&VC

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

I’ve known many hundreds of people visiting Istanbul for the first time. Not one was disappointed. It’s a magical city.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇨🇳 LATEST: China to assign digital IDs to humanoid robots.

28,000+ robots across 200 models are already registered.

[WLTH @wlthxyz]

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[Buraq @Buraq515]

I love it! If I had my own land, I'd make an exact replica. 😌💯👍🏡

[Sinan Tavsan @SinanTavsan]

Scoop ) 1/4 According to a senior Turkish official, "consensus is emerging" within NATO towards inviting Japan, South Korea, NZ, Australia leaders and defense ministers to the Ankara summit in July, as Indo-Pacific partners; a.k.a IP4. https://t.co/YllrRkWdZx via @NikkeiAsia

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Gave google omni a sketched camera path and asked it to generate drone POV footage.

[ひで2022真実を追求 @hide_Q_]

マジで日本の宝が泣いてる…信じたくない😭
日本百名山のひとつ「赤城山」にコンクリートなど約3tものゴミが不法投棄された。
逮捕されたのはトルコ国籍で、 さいたま市会社社長の男ら５人だけど、これって氷山の一角だよね？
私たちの美しい国土がこんな形で汚されるの、本当に許せない💢

[Dr. Thilo Scholpp @Wilehalm]

Bosch verlässt Deutschland.

Der einstige Stolz Schwäbens baut bis 2030 allein in der Mobility-Sparte 22.000 Stellen in Deutschland ab – die meisten davon in Baden-Württemberg.
Das ist kein Sparprogramm. Das ist ein strategischer Rückzug. Bosch verlässt strukturell seine Heimat, um global zu überleben.

Ein zentraler Pfeiler der Industrie bröckelt. Die Auto- und Zulieferbranche verliert massiv an Substanz – mit dramatischen Folgen für Export, Steuereinnahmen und den industriellen Mittelstand.

Baden-Württemberg trifft es besonders hart. Das „Autoland“ verliert sein Herz. In der Region Stuttgart hängen 240.000 Jobs am Auto. Gewerbesteuerausfälle und Strukturbruch drohen.

Weitere 90.000 bis 100.000 Jobverluste bei den Zulieferern sind realistisch. Der klassische Verbrenner-Kern stirbt, neue Jobs in Elektromobilität und Software entstehen viel zu langsam und oft nicht in Deutschland.

Robert Bosch selbst sagte einmal:
„Immer habe ich nach dem Grundsatz gehandelt: Lieber Geld verlieren als Vertrauen.“

Heute verliert sein Unternehmen etwas noch Wertvolleres: die tiefe Verwurzelung in der schwäbischen Heimat.

Der Strukturwandel ist da. Die Frage ist nur: Wollen wir ihm tatenlos zuschauen – oder endlich die Weichen stellen für bezahlbare Energie, weniger Bürokratie und echte Investitionsanreize?

Was denkt ihr?
Schreibt es unten. Und taggt eure Abgeordneten. Es wird Zeit, dass die Politik aufwacht.
#Bosch #Endgame

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system.

The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned.

King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable.

Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure.

The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning.

The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

These @Dyson strawberries are from an advanced fully automated farm.

Europe is a leader in Agri-Tech! 🇪🇺

[a16z @a16z]

Google is now processing more than 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, a 7x increase from a year ago

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/O1SZEaWPFX

[SkalskiP @ CVPR2026 @skalskip92]

there's no catch; SAM3 is open source and really good

one of the things it does really well is object tracking, even in crazy complex scenes like basketball

probably my favorite computer vision model ever

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

China: a 10-year-old casually gets a Mac Studio for “raising lobsters,” aka letting multiple AI agents work together like a tiny digital crew.

“The world of the future belongs to those who understand Tokens.”

Meet the AI-native children.

[Thang Luong @lmthang]

Very excited to share a new milestone in AI for Math: Aletheia, powered by Gemini Deep Think, was just used to autonomously solve a Kirby problem! “Kirby’s list” is a “compendium of the most important unsolved problems in topology, the study of deformable shapes” (Quanta magazine). 🧵

[Alejo @ecommartinez]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: El cofundador de Google DeepMind acaba de anunciar 2.100 millones de dólares para curar todas las enfermedades.

Demis Hassabis lleva años construyendo la IA que dobla proteínas, diseña moléculas y acelera el descubrimiento de medicamentos. Isomorphic Labs es su apuesta para que la IA resuelva lo que la medicina convencional no ha conseguido en décadas.

2.100 millones. Una sola misión.

[Figure @Figure_robot]

Day 2 is Live: Watch humanoid robots Bob, Frank, and Gary running 24/7. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/dsacH4HOzJ

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

BYD can't even see their competition in the rear view mirror anymore.

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

GitLab announced a layoff today.

Please take this seriously.

There will be many, many more.

Your assignment is clear:
Get skilled with agents and practice shipping to prod.

It doesn't matter if you're HR, eng, infra, customer success, admin, ops, sales, whatever.

As a Founder/CEO, I can tell you that I won't be hiring any employees who aren't really skilled with agents and able to ship to prod.

I'm not alone in this.

There is no 'engineering' org in the future.

[Dheepan Ratnam @Dheepanratnam]

AI video is moving way too fast.

This entire sequence was generated using just the Seedance 2.0 x ChatGPT combo.

🎬 Anime Fight Previz (testing choreography & camera beats) ✨ Fashion Lookbook Motion (turning static fits into runway clips)

I'm dropping the exact prompts in the
comments below. 👇