The Week of IO+: New steps for Laio and lots of chip news
Every Sunday, our weekly review offers a rundown of the most interesting stories surrounding important innovations.
Published on February 2, 2025
Laio in Amersfoort
Bart, co-founder of Media52 and Professor of Journalism oversees IO+, events, and Laio. A journalist at heart, he keeps writing as many stories as possible.
We've written about it before, but there's every reason to take another look at Laio. Laio? Yes, the toolkit developed by our team that helps journalists and other content creators make their work more complete and context-rich. Currently, the toolkit consists of three components:
- Laio Assistant (the basic version, accessible via laio.pro),
- Laio Podcast (accessible via podcaist.com), and
- Laio Feed (a complete, continuously updated website on a particular topic or region).
In a couple of months, the entire package will become accessible in a self-service form via laio.pro. Until then, we offer customization through [email protected].
This week's great news is that Laio is currently providing a podcast for Dagblad De Limburger, which keeps the international audience (expats, students) in Maastricht informed about local news in English daily. Check out the most recent episodes here.
Want to give it a try yourself? Then go to podcaist.com and use the voucher code TEST_2025 for the first free podcast.
Laio in Amersfoort
We were in Amersfoort last Monday to explain the cooperation between Laio and Library Eemland. During this evening on artificial intelligence, we stood next to the genius Henk van Ess to explain how the library world can use AI (and Laio in particular). Be sure to check out the Laio Feed we built for that purpose: https://bieba.bytes.news/
The local news platform Nieuwsplein33 made a report of it, you can read it here.
Meanwhile, there was plenty of other news:
- Companies with patents find easier path to success
- 165 Dutch ambassadors and top diplomats on school trip to High Tech Campus
- 'Quick feedback and flat hierarchies: the Dutch work environment suits my style'
- Heel prick for anemia may soon be unnecessary, thanks to blood test by this researcher
- Innovative 3D printed brain-like environment fuels neuron research
- Innovation first: Von der Leyen's Europe aims to boost competitiveness
- One hack after another: 'Current way of securing broken' (interview Ruben van Vreeland)'
- Netherlands in the European top for tech investments: how BOM contributes to this success
- Dutch chip sector calls for joint investment of €735 million
- GPT-NL in the making: a language model based on Dutch legislation
- The ethical dilemmas of child tracking systems: care or control?
ChipNews
Oh yes, I also promised lots of chip news. You can find all that in our editor-in-chief Aafke Eppinga's monthly newsletter. Read yesterday's episode here.
Still not had enough? Here, you can read everything we published last week.
Happy Sunday, and make it an innovative and entrepreneurial week!
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