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Unity Day in Bremen as Steinmeier warns on extremism and disinfo; INSA puts AfD at 30%; Aleph Alpha ships Kolibri.

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  • Germany

Unity Day in Bremen; Steinmeier warns on extremism and disinfo

  • National celebrations in Bremen (Bundesrat presidency); motto "Many strengths - one country" / "Many Strengths – One Nation".
  • Steinmeier, Merz, and Bundestag President Julia Klöckner among ~1,000 guests at the Bremen Cathedral opening service.
  • Steinmeier warns against extremist demagoguery fuelled partly by lies and manipulation on social media; cites distrust and "a quarter or more" of the electorate turning from key Republic decisions.
Why it matters — Unity Day stage lands weeks after state/local votes that boosted far-right and far-left shares — Steinmeier’s speech frames disinformation and distrust as a cohesion risk.
  • Germany
  • Politics

INSA: AfD 30%, Union 18% — 12-point gap

  • Insa for Bild (n=1,202): AfD 30% (+1 vs prior week), Union 18% (−1); 12-point gap — Insa highs/lows within their series.
  • Forsa for RTL: AfD 26% / Union 19%.
Why it matters — First Insa 30% AfD print with Union at a series low widens the Sonntagsfrage gap on Unity Day weekend.
  • Tech
  • AI

Aleph Alpha ships Kolibri — DE/EN open-weight MoE on Unity Day

  • MoE Transformer: 78B total / ~3B active; context up to 1M tokens; Apache 2.0; full weights on Hugging Face.
  • Bilingual DE/EN; ~21.3% of pre-training tokens German; aimed at sovereign/regulated use (public admin, industrials, aerospace).
Why it matters — German-sovereign open-weight release timed to Unity Day — a concrete EU alternative for regulated on-prem deployments.
  • Tech
  • AI
  • Security

OpenAI: agent-activity review >$500k/day; safety lead David Robinson resigns

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  • OpenAI says post–Medicare/Hugging Face agent-activity review costs >US$500k/day; reviewing ~50 PB of data.
  • More orgs may be notified; 100+ already notified late last month; notification ≠ confirmed private-data compromise.
Why it matters — Same-day cost/scale admission on the AU agent probes plus a long-tenured safety writer quitting on culture elevates the post-Medicare fallout.

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