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- ING Estimates ASML's Direct Contribution to Dutch Economy at 1.6% This Year
ING economists estimate that ASML's direct contribution to the Dutch economy will reach 1.6% this year, up from 1.3% in 2025, TechNews reported. The report says ASML and its surrounding industrial ecosystem have given the Netherlands a key position in the AI-driven technology boom. ING researchers also warned that the Dutch economy is becoming increasingly dependent on a single company, drawing a comparison with Finland's past reliance on Nokia. TechNews cited Reuters for the claim that ASML equipment is indispensable for advanced chip manufacturing and that AI demand helped lift the company's market value to €547 billion.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - Essay: a multimodal AI gave up on a 1,000-piece all-white jigsaw in five hours
A first-person essay republished by Huxiu AI describes an attempt to have a multimodal AI chatbot solve a 1,000-piece all-white "Pure White Hell" jigsaw by photographing the pieces laid out in a numbered 20×50 grid and asking which edges interlock. The author says accuracy was poor from the first hours, that the model described edge curvature rather than measuring it, and that when asked to order 30 consecutive pieces it returned a closed loop (A joins B, B joins C, C joins A); he abandoned the attempt after about five hours. The essay cites the JigShape study, which it says tested five frontier vision models on synthetic puzzles and found only one beat guessing at 16 pieces while all dropped to chance at 64, and contrasts this with classical contour-matching solvers that it says have handled puzzles of several hundred pieces.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - FT survey: 54% of 94 economists see AI gains spreading across G20
The Financial Times published a survey of 94 economists across Asia, the US and Europe on October 18. 54% expect many or nearly all G20 economies to see significant AI-driven growth and productivity gains over the next decade, rather than gains concentrating only in the US and China; 32 respondents expect African countries to fall behind. Huxiu AI notes the findings are forward-looking expectations, not measured growth, and that adoption depends on infrastructure, skills and business process changes.
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