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All speakers are announced at AIE EU, schedule coming soon. Join us there or in Miami with the renowned organizers of React Miami! Singapore CFP also open!We've called this out a few times over in AINews, but the overwhelming consensus in the Valley is that “the IDE is Dead”. In November it was just a gut feeling, but now we actually have data: even at the canonical “VSCode Fork” company, people are officially using more agents than tab autocomplete (the first wave of AI coding):Cursor has launched cloud agents for a few months now, and this specific launch is around Computer Use, which has come a long way since we first talked with Anthropic about it in 2024, and which Jonas productized as Autotab:We also take the opportunity to do a live demo, talk about slash commands and subagents, and the future of continual learning and personalized coding models, something that Sam previously worked on at New Computer. (The fact that both of these folks are top tier CEOs of their own startups that have now joined the insane talent density gathering at Cursor should also not be overlooked).Full Episode on YouTube!please like and subscribe!Timestamps00:00 Agentic Code Experiments00:53 Why Cloud Agents Matter02:08 Testing First Pillar03:36 Video Reviews Second Pillar04:29 Remote Control Third Pillar06:17 Meta Demos and Bug Repro13:36 Slash Commands and MCPs18:19 From Tab to Team Workflow31:41 Minimal Web UI Philosophy32:40 Why No File Editor34:38 Full Stack Cursor Debate36:34 Model Choice and Auto Routing38:34 Parallel Agents and Best Of N41:41 Subagents and Context Management44:48 Grind Mode and Throughput Future01:00:24 Cloud Agent Onboarding and MemoryTranscriptEP 77 - CURSOR - Audio version[00:00:00]Agentic Code ExperimentsSamantha: This is another experiment that we ran last year and didn't decide to ship at that time, but may come back to LM Judge, but one that was also agentic and could write code. So it wasn't just picking but also taking the learnings from two models or and models that it was looking at and writing a new diff.And what we found was that there were strengths to using models from different model providers as the base level of this process. Basically you could get almost like a synergistic output that was better than having a very unified like bottom model tier.Jonas: We think that over the coming months, the big unlock is not going to be one person with a model getting more done, like the water flowing faster and we'll be making the pipe much wider and so paralyzing more, whether that's swarms of agents or parallel agents, both of those are things that contribute to getting much more done in the same amount of time.Why Cloud Agents Matterswyx: This week, one of the biggest launches that Cursor's ever done is cloud agents. I think you, you had [00:01:00] cloud agents before, but this was like, you give cursor a computer, right? Yeah. So it's just basically they bought auto tab and then they repackaged it. Is that what's going on, or,Jonas: that's a big part of it.Yeah. Cloud agents already ran in their own computers, but they were sort of site reading code. Yeah. And those computers were not, they were like blank VMs typically that were not set up for the Devrel X for whatever repo the agents working on. One of the things that we talk about is if you put yourself in the model shoes and you were seeing tokens stream by and all you could do was cite read code and spit out tokens and hope that you had done the right thing,swyx: no chanceJonas: I'd be so bad.Like you obviously you need to run the code. And so that I think also is probably not that contrarian of a take, but no one has done that yet. And so giving the model the tools to onboard itself and then use full computer use end-to-end pixels in coordinates out and have the cloud computer with different apps in it is the big unlock that we've seen internally in terms of use usage of this going from, oh, we use it for little copy changes [00:02:00] to no.We're really like driving new features with this kind of new type of entech workflow. Alright, let's see it. Cool.Live Demo TourJonas: So this is what it looks like in cursor.com/agents. So this is one I kicked off a while ago. So on the left hand side is the chat. Very classic sort of agentic thing. The big new thing here is that the agent will test its changes.So you can see here it worked for half an hour. That is because it not only took time to write the tokens of code, it also took time to test them end to end. So it started Devrel servers iterate when needed. And so that's one part of it is like model works for longer and doesn't come back with a, I tried some things pr, but a I tested at pr that's ready for your review.One of the other intuition pumps we use there is if a human gave you a PR asked you to review it and you hadn't, they hadn't tested it, you'd also be annoyed because you'd be like, only ask me for a review once it's actually ready. So that's what we've done withTesting Defaults and Controlsswyx: simple question I wanted to gather out front.Some prs are way smaller, [00:03:00] like just copy change. Does it always do the video or is it sometimes,Jonas: Sometimes.swyx: Okay. So what's the judgment?Jonas: The model does it? So we we do some default prompting with sort. What types of changes to test? There's a slash command that people can do called slash no test, where if you do that, the model will not test,swyx: but the default is test.Jonas: The default is to be calibrated. So we tell it don't test, very simple copy changes, but test like more complex things. And then users can also write their agents.md and specify like this type of, if you're editing this subpart of my mono repo, never tested ‘cause that won't work or whatever.Videos and Remote ControlJonas: So pillar one is the model actually testing Pillar two is the model coming back with a video of what it did.We have found that in this new world where agents can end-to-end, write much more code, reviewing the code is one of these new bottlenecks that crop up. And so reviewing a video is not a substitute for reviewing code, but it is an entry point that is much, much easier to start with than glancing at [00:04:00] some giant diff.And so typically you kick one off you, it's done you come back and the first thing that you would do is watch this video. So this is a, video of it. In this case I wanted a tool tip over this button. And so it went and showed me what that looks like in, in this video that I think here, it actually used a gallery.So sometimes it will build storybook type galleries where you can see like that component in action. And so that's pillar two is like these demo videos of what it built. And then pillar number three is I have full remote control access to this vm. So I can go heat in here. I can hover things, I can type, I have full control.And same thing for the terminal. I have full access. And so that is also really useful because sometimes the video is like all you need to see. And oftentimes by the way, the video's not perfect, the video will show you, is this worth either merging immediately or oftentimes is this worth iterating with to get it to that final stage where I am ready to merge in.So I can go through some other examples where the first video [00:05:00] wasn't perfect, but it gave me confidence that we were on the right track and two or three follow-ups later, it was good to go. And then I also have full access here where some things you just wanna play around with. You wanna get a feel for what is this and there's no substitute to a live preview.And the VNC kind of VM remote access gives you that.swyx: Amazing What, sorry? What is VN. AndJonas: just the remote desktop. Remote desktop. Yeah.swyx: Sam, any other details that you always wanna call out?Samantha: Yeah, for me the videos have been super helpful. I would say, especially in cases where a common problem for me with agents and cloud agents beforehand was almost like under specification in my requests where our plan mode and going really back and forth and getting detailed implementation spec is a way to reduce the risk of under specification, but then similar to how human communication breaks down over time, I feel like you have this risk where it's okay, when I pull down, go to the triple of pulling down and like running this branch locally, I'm gonna see that, like I said, this should be a toggle and you have a checkbox and like, why didn't you get that detail?And having the video up front just [00:06:00] has that makes that alignment like you're talking about a shared artifact with the agent. Very clear, which has been just super helpful for me.Jonas: I can quickly run through some other Yes. Examples.Meta Agents and More DemosJonas: So this is a very front end heavy one. So one question I wasswyx: gonna say, is this only for frontJonas: end?Exactly. One question you might have is this only for front end? So this is another example where the thing I wanted it to implement was a better error message for saving secrets. So the cloud agents support adding secrets, that's part of what it needs to access certain systems. Part of onboarding that is giving access.This is cloud is working onswyx: cloud agents. Yes.Jonas: So this is a fun thing isSamantha: it can get super meta. ItJonas: can get super meta, it can start its own cloud agents, it can talk to its own cloud agents. Sometimes it's hard to wrap your mind around that. We have disabled, it's cloud agents starting more cloud agents. So we currently disallow that.Someday you might. Someday we might. Someday we might. So this actually was mostly a backend change in terms of the error handling here, where if the [00:07:00] secret is far too large, it would oh, this is actually really cool. Wow. That's the Devrel tools. That's the Devrel tools. So if the secret is far too large, we.Allow secrets above a certain size. We have a size limit on them. And the error message there was really bad. It was just some generic failed to save message. So I was like, Hey, we wanted an error message. So first cool thing it did here, zero prompting on how to test this. Instead of typing out the, like a character 5,000 times to hit the limit, it opens Devrel tools, writes js, or to paste into the input 5,000 characters of the letter A and then hit save, closes the Devrel tools, hit save and gets this new gets the new error message.So that looks like the video actually cut off, but here you can see the, here you can see the screenshot of the of the error message. What, so that is like frontend backend end-to-end feature to, to get that,swyx: yeah.Jonas: Andswyx: And you just need a full vm, full computer run everything.Okay. Yeah.Jonas: Yeah. So we've had versions of this. This is one of the auto tab lessons where we started that in 2022. [00:08:00] No, in 2023. And at the time it was like browser use, DOM, like all these different things. And I think we ended up very sort of a GI pilled in the sense that just give the model pixels, give it a box, a brain in a box is what you want and you want to remove limitations around context and capabilities such that the bottleneck should be the intelligence.And given how smart models are today, that's a very far out bottleneck. And so giving it its full VM and having it be onboarded with Devrel X set up like a human would is just been for us internally a really big step change in capability.swyx: Yeah I would say, let's call it a year ago the models weren't even good enough to do any of this stuff.SoSamantha: even six months ago. Yeah.swyx: So yeah what people have told me is like round about Sonder four fire is when this started being good enough to just automate fully by pixel.Jonas: Yeah, I think it's always a question of when is good enough. I think we found in particular with Opus 4 5, 4, 6, and Codex five three, that those were additional step [00:09:00] changes in the autonomy grade capabilities of the model to just.Go off and figure out the details and come back when it's done.swyx: I wanna appreciate a couple details. One 10 Stack Router. I see it. Yeah. I'm a big fan. Do you know any, I have to name the 10 Stack.Jonas: No.swyx: This just a random lore. Some buddy Sue Tanner. My and then the other thing if you switch back to the video.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: I wanna shout out this thing. Probably Sam did it. I don't knowJonas: the chapters.swyx: What is this called? Yeah, this is called Chapters. Yeah. It's like a Vimeo thing. I don't know. But it's so nice the design details, like the, and obviously a company called Cursor has to have a beautiful cursorSamantha: and it isswyx: the cursor.Samantha: Cursor.swyx: You see it branded? It's the cursor. Cursor, yeah. Okay, cool. And then I was like, I complained to Evan. I was like, okay, but you guys branded everything but the wallpaper. And he was like, no, that's a cursor wallpaper. I was like, what?Samantha: Yeah. Rio picked the wallpaper, I think. Yeah. The video.That's probably Alexi and yeah, a few others on the team with the chapters on the video. Matthew Frederico. There's been a lot of teamwork on this. It's a huge effort.swyx: I just, I like design details.Samantha: Yeah.swyx: And and then when you download it adds like a little cursor. Kind of TikTok clip. [00:10:00] Yes. Yes.So it's to make it really obvious is from Cursor,Jonas: we did the TikTok branding at the end. This was actually in our launch video. Alexi demoed the cloud agent that built that feature. Which was funny because that was an instance where one of the things that's been a consequence of having these videos is we use best of event where you run head to head different models on the same prompt.We use that a lot more because one of the complications with doing that before was you'd run four models and they would come back with some giant diff, like 700 lines of code times four. It's what are you gonna do? You're gonna review all that's horrible. But if you come back with four 22nd videos, yeah, I'll watch four 22nd videos.And then even if none of them is perfect, you can figure out like, which one of those do you want to iterate with, to get it over the line. Yeah. And so that's really been really fun.Bug Repro WorkflowJonas: Here's another example. That's we found really cool, which is we've actually turned since into a slash command as well slash [00:11:00] repro, where for bugs in particular, the model of having full access to the to its own vm, it can first reproduce the bug, make a video of the bug reproducing, fix the bug, make a video of the bug being fixed, like doing the same pattern workflow with obviously the bug not reproducing.And that has been the single category that has gone from like these types of bugs, really hard to reproduce and pick two tons of time locally, even if you try a cloud agent on it. Are you confident it actually fixed it to when this happens? You'll merge it in 90 seconds or something like that.So this is an example where, let me see if this is the broken one or the, okay, this is the fixed one. Okay. So we had a bug on cursor.com/agents where if you would attach images where remove them. Then still submit your prompt. They would actually still get attached to the prompt. Okay. And so here you can see Cursor is using, its full desktop by the way.This is one of the cases where if you just do, browse [00:12:00] use type stuff, you'll have a bad time. ‘cause now it needs to upload files. Like it just uses its native file viewer to do that. And so you can see here it's uploading files. It's going to submit a prompt and then it will go and open up. So this is the meta, this is cursor agent, prompting cursor agent inside its own environment.And so you can see here bug, there's five images attached, whereas when it's submitted, it only had one image.swyx: I see. Yeah. But you gotta enable that if you're gonna use cur agent inside cur.Jonas: Exactly. And so here, this is then the after video where it went, it does the same thing. It attaches images, removes, some of them hit send.And you can see here, once this agent is up, only one of the images is left in the attachments. Yeah.swyx: Beautiful.Jonas: Okay. So easy merge.swyx: So yeah. When does it choose to do this? Because this is an extra step.Jonas: Yes. I think I've not done a great job yet of calibrating the model on when to reproduce these things.Yeah. Sometimes it will do it of its own accord. Yeah. We've been conservative where we try to have it only do it when it's [00:13:00] quite sure because it does add some amount of time to how long it takes it to work on it. But we also have added things like the slash repro command where you can just do, fix this bug slash repro and then it will know that it should first make you a video of it actually finding and making sure it can reproduce the bug.swyx: Yeah. Yeah. One sort of ML topic this ties into is reward hacking, where while you write test that you update only pass. So first write test, it shows me it fails, then make you test pass, which is a classic like red green.Jonas: Yep.swyx: LikeJonas: A-T-D-D-T-D-Dswyx: thing.No, very cool. Was that the last demo? Is thereJonas: Yeah.Anything I missed on the demos or points that you think? I think thatSamantha: covers it well. Yeah.swyx: Cool. Before we stop the screen share, can you gimme like a, just a tour of the slash commands ‘cause I so God ready. Huh, what? What are the good ones?Samantha: Yeah, we wanna increase discoverability around this too.I think that'll be like a future thing we work on. Yeah. But there's definitely a lot of good stuff nowJonas: we have a lot of internal ones that I think will not be that interesting. Here's an internal one that I've made. I don't know if anyone else at Cursor uses this one. Fix bb.Samantha: I've never heard of it.Jonas: Yeah.[00:14:00]Fix Bug Bot. So this is a thing that we want to integrate more tightly on. So you made it forswyx: yourself.Jonas: I made this for myself. It's actually available to everyone in the team, but yeah, no one knows about it. But yeah, there will be Bug bot comments and so Bug Bot has a lot of cool things. We actually just launched Bug Bot Auto Fix, where you can click a button and or change a setting and it will automatically fix its own things, and that works great in a bunch of cases.There are some cases where having the context of the original agent that created the PR is really helpful for fixing the bugs, because it might be like, oh, the bug here is that this, is a regression and actually you meant to do something more like that. And so having the original prompt and all of the context of the agent that worked on it, and so here I could just do, fix or we used to be able to do fixed PB and it would do that.No test is another one that we've had. Slash repro is in here. We mentioned that one.Samantha: One of my favorites is cloud agent diagnosis. This is one that makes heavy use of the Datadog MCP. Okay. And I [00:15:00] think Nick and David on our team wrote, and basically if there is a problem with a cloud agent we'll spin up a bunch of subs.Like a singleswyx: instance.Samantha: Yeah. We'll take the ideas and argument and spin up a bunch of subagents using the Datadog MCP to explore the logs and find like all of the problems that could have happened with that. It takes the debugging time, like from potentially you can do quick stuff quickly with the Datadog ui, but it takes it down to, again, like a single agent call as opposed to trolling through logs yourself.Jonas: You should also talk about the stuff we've done with transcripts.Samantha: Yes. Also so basically we've also done some things internally. There'll be some versions of this as we ship publicly soon, where you can spit up an agent and give it access to another agent's transcript to either basically debug something that happened.So act as an external debugger. I see. Or continue the conversation. Almost like forking it.swyx: A transcript includes all the chain of thought for the 11 minutes here. 45 minutes there.Samantha: Yeah. That way. Exactly. So basically acting as a like secondary agent that debugs the first, so we've started to push more andswyx: they're all the same [00:16:00] code.It is just the different prompts, but the sa the same.Samantha: Yeah. So basically same cloud agent infrastructure and then same harness. And then like when we do things like include, there's some extra infrastructure that goes into piping in like an external transcript if we include it as an attachment.But for things like the cloud agent diagnosis, that's mostly just using the Datadog MCP. ‘Cause we also launched CPS along with along with this cloud agent launch, launch support for cloud agent cps.swyx: Oh, that was drawn out.Jonas: We won't, we'll be doing a bigger marketing moment for it next week, but, and you can now use CPS andswyx: People will listen to it as well.Yeah,Jonas: they'llSamantha: be ahead of the third. They'll be ahead. And I would I actually don't know if the Datadog CP is like publicly available yet. I realize this not sure beta testing it, but it's been one of my favorites to use. Soswyx: I think that one's interesting for Datadog. ‘cause Datadog wants to own that site.Interesting with Bits. I don't know if you've tried bits.Samantha: I haven't tried bits.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: That's their cloud agentswyx: product. Yeah. Yeah. They want to be like we own your logs and give us our, some part of the, [00:17:00] self-healing software that everyone wants. Yeah. But obviously Cursor has a strong opinion on coding agents and you, you like taking away from the which like obviously you're going to do, and not every company's like Cursor, but it's interesting if you're a Datadog, like what do you do here?Do you expose your logs to FDP and let other people do it? Or do you try to own that it because it's extra business for you? Yeah. It's like an interesting one.Samantha: It's a good question. All I know is that I love the Datadog MCP,Jonas: And yeah, it is gonna be no, no surprise that people like will demand it, right?Samantha: Yeah.swyx: It's, it's like anysystemswyx: of record company like this, it's like how much do you give away? Cool. I think that's that for the sort of cloud agents tour. Cool. And we just talk about like cloud agents have been when did Kirsten loves cloud agents? Do you know, in JuneJonas: last year.swyx: June last year. So it's been slowly develop the thing you did, like a bunch of, like Michael did a post where himself, where he like showed this chart of like ages overtaking tap. And I'm like, wow, this is like the biggest transition in code.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: Like in, in [00:18:00] like the last,Jonas: yeah. I think that kind of got turned out.Yeah. I think it's a very interest,swyx: not at all. I think it's been highlighted by our friend Andre Kati today.Jonas: Okay.swyx: Talk more about it. What does it mean? Yeah. Is I just got given like the cursor tab key.Jonas: Yes. Yes.swyx: That's that'sSamantha: cool.swyx: I know, but it's gonna be like put in a museum.Jonas: It is.Samantha: I have to say I haven't used tab a little bit myself.Jonas: Yeah. I think that what it looks like to code with AI code generally creates software, even if you want to go higher level. Is changing very rapidly. No, not a hot take, but I think from our vendor's point at Cursor, I think one of the things that is probably underappreciated from the outside is that we are extremely self-aware about that fact and Kerscher, got its start in phase one, era one of like tab and auto complete.And that was really useful in its time. But a lot of people start looking at text files and editing code, like we call it hand coding. Now when you like type out the actual letters, it'sswyx: oh that's cute.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: Oh that's cute.Jonas: You're so boomer. So boomer. [00:19:00] And so that I think has been a slowly accelerating and now in the last few months, rapidly accelerating shift.And we think that's going to happen again with the next thing where the, I think some of the pains around tab of it's great, but I actually just want to give more to the agent and I don't want to do one tab at a time. I want to just give it a task and it goes off and does a larger unit of work and I can.Lean back a little bit more and operate at that higher level of abstraction that's going to happen again, where it goes from agents handing you back diffs and you're like in the weeds and giving it, 32nd to three minute tasks, to, you're giving it, three minute to 30 minute to three hour tasks and you're getting back videos and trying out previews rather than immediately looking at diffs every single time.swyx: Yeah. Anything to add?Samantha: One other shift that I've noticed as our cloud agents have really taken off internally has been a shift from primarily individually driven development to almost this collaborative nature of development for us, slack is actually almost like a development on [00:20:00] Id basically.So Iswyx: like maybe don't even build a custom ui, like maybe that's like a debugging thing, but actually it's that.Samantha: I feel like, yeah, there's still so much to left to explore there, but basically for us, like Slack is where a lot of development happens. Like we will have these issue channels or just like this product discussion channels where people are always at cursing and that kicks off a cloud agent.And for us at least, we have team follow-ups enabled. So if Jonas kicks off at Cursor in a thread, I can follow up with it and add more context. And so it turns into almost like a discussion service where people can like collaborate on ui. Oftentimes I will kick off an investigation and then sometimes I even ask it to get blame and then tag people who should be brought in. ‘cause it can tag people in Slack and then other people will comeswyx: in, can tag other people who are not involved in conversation. Yes. Can just do at Jonas if say, was talking to,Samantha: yeah.swyx: That's cool. You should, you guys should make a big good deal outta that.Samantha: I know. It's a lot to, I feel like there's a lot more to do with our slack surface area to show people externally. But yeah, basically like it [00:21:00] can bring other people in and then other people can also contribute to that thread and you can end up with a PR again, with the artifacts visible and then people can be like, okay, cool, we can merge this.So for us it's like the ID is almost like moving into Slack in some ways as well.swyx: I have the same experience with, but it's not developers, it's me. Designer salespeople.Samantha: Yeah.swyx: So me on like technical marketing, vision, designer on design and then salespeople on here's the legal source of what we agreed on.And then they all just collaborate and correct. The agents,Jonas: I think that we found when these threads is. The work that is left, that the humans are discussing in these threads is the nugget of what is actually interesting and relevant. It's not the boring details of where does this if statement go?It's do we wanna ship this? Is this the right ux? Is this the right form factor? Yeah. How do we make this more obvious to the user? It's like those really interesting kind of higher order questions that are so easy to collaborate with and leave the implementation to the cloud agent.Samantha: Totally. And no more discussion of am I gonna do this? Are you [00:22:00] gonna do this cursor's doing it? You just have to decide. You like it.swyx: Sometimes the, I don't know if there's a, this probably, you guys probably figured this out already, but since I, you need like a mute button. So like cursor, like we're going to take this offline, but still online.But like we need to talk among the humans first. Before you like could stop responding to everything.Jonas: Yeah. This is a design decision where currently cursor won't chime in unless you explicitly add Mention it. Yeah. Yeah.Samantha: So it's not always listening.Yeah.Jonas: I can see all the intermediate messages.swyx: Have you done the recursive, can cursor add another cursor or spawn another cursor?Samantha: Oh,Jonas: we've done some versions of this.swyx: Because, ‘cause it can add humans.Jonas: Yes. One of the other things we've been working on that's like an implication of generating the code is so easy is getting it to production is still harder than it should be.And broadly, you solve one bottleneck and three new ones pop up. Yeah. And so one of the new bottlenecks is getting into production and we have a like joke internally where you'll be talking about some feature and someone says, I have a PR for that. Which is it's so easy [00:23:00] to get to, I a PR for that, but it's hard still relatively to get from I a PR for that to, I'm confident and ready to merge this.And so I think that over the coming weeks and months, that's a thing that we think a lot about is how do we scale up compute to that pipeline of getting things from a first draft An agent did.swyx: Isn't that what Merge isn't know what graphite's for, likeJonas: graphite is a big part of that. The cloud agent testingswyx: Is it fully integrated or still different companiesJonas: working on I think we'll have more to share there in the future, but the goal is to have great end-to-end experience where Cursor doesn't just help you generate code tokens, it helps you create software end-to-end.And so review is a big part of that, that I think especially as models have gotten much better at writing code, generating code, we've felt that relatively crop up more,swyx: sorry this is completely unplanned, but like there I have people arguing one to you need ai. To review ai and then there is another approach, thought school of thought where it's no, [00:24:00] reviews are dead.Like just show me the video. It's it like,Samantha: yeah. I feel again, for me, the video is often like alignment and then I often still wanna go through a code review process.swyx: Like still look at the files andSamantha: everything. Yeah. There's a spectrum of course. Like the video, if it's really well done and it does like fully like test everything, you can feel pretty competent, but it's still helpful to, to look at the code.I make hep pay a lot of attention to bug bot. I feel like Bug Bot has been a great really highly adopted internally. We often like, won't we tell people like, don't leave bug bot comments unaddressed. ‘cause we have such high confidence in it. So people always address their bug bot comments.Jonas: Once you've had two cases where you merged something and then you went back later, there was a bug in it, you merged, you went back later and you were like, ah, bug Bot had found that I should have listened to Bug Bot.Once that happens two or three times, you learn to wait for bug bot.Samantha: Yeah. So I think for us there's like that code level review where like it's looking at the actual code and then there's like the like feature level review where you're looking at the features. There's like a whole number of different like areas.There'll probably eventually be things like performance level review, security [00:25:00] review, things like that where it's like more more different aspects of how this feature might affect your code base that you want to potentially leverage an agent to help with.Jonas: And some of those like bug bot will be synchronous and you'll typically want to wait on before you merge.But I think another thing that we're starting to see is. As with cloud agents, you scale up this parallelism and how much code you generate. 10 person startups become, need the Devrel X and pipelines that a 10,000 person company used to need. And that looks like a lot of the things I think that 10,000 person companies invented in order to get that volume of software to production safely.So that's things like, release frequently or release slowly, have different stages where you release, have checkpoints, automated ways of detecting regressions. And so I think we're gonna need stacks merg stack diffs merge queues. Exactly. A lot of those things are going to be importantswyx: forward with.I think the majority of people still don't know what stack stacks are. And I like, I have many friends in Facebook and like I, I'm pretty friendly with graphite. I've just, [00:26:00] I've never needed it ‘cause I don't work on that larger team and it's just like democratization of no, only here's what we've already worked out at very large scale and here's how you can, it benefits you too.Like I think to me, one of the beautiful things about GitHub is that. It's actually useful to me as an individual solo developer, even though it's like actually collaboration software.Jonas: Yep.swyx: And I don't think a lot of Devrel tools have figured that out yet. That transition from like large down to small.Jonas: Yeah. Kers is probably an inverse story.swyx: This is small down toJonas: Yeah. Where historically Kers share, part of why we grew so quickly was anyone on the team could pick it up and in fact people would pick it up, on the weekend for their side project and then bring it into work. ‘cause they loved using it so much.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: And I think a thing that we've started working on a lot more, not us specifically, but as a company and other folks at Cursor, is making it really great for teams and making it the, the 10th person that starts using Cursor in a team. Is immediately set up with things like, we launched Marketplace recently so other people can [00:27:00] configure what CPS and skills like plugins.So skills and cps, other people can configure that. So that my cursor is ready to go and set up. Sam loves the Datadog, MCP and Slack, MCP you've also been using a lot butSamantha: also pre-launch, but I feel like it's so good.Jonas: Yeah, my cursor should be configured if Sam feels strongly that's just amazing and required.swyx: Is it automatically shared or you have to go and.Jonas: It depends on the MCP. So some are obviously off per user. Yeah. And so Sam can't off my cursor with my Slack MCP, but some are team off and those can be set up by admins.swyx: Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, I think, we had a man on the pod when cursor was five people, and like everyone was like, okay, what's the thing?And then it's usually something teams and org and enterprise, but it's actually working. But like usually at that stage when you're five, when you're just a vs. Code fork it's like how do you get there? Yeah. Will people pay for this? People do pay for it.Jonas: Yeah. And I think for cloud agents, we expect.[00:28:00]To have similar kind of PLG things where I think off the bat we've seen a lot of adoption with kind of smaller teams where the code bases are not quite as complex to set up. Yes. If you need some insane docker layer caching thing for builds not to take two hours, that's going to take a little bit longer for us to be able to support that kind of infrastructure.Whereas if you have front end backend, like one click agents can install everything that they need themselves.swyx: This is a good chance for me to just ask some technical sort of check the box questions. Can I choose the size of the vm?Jonas: Not yet. We are planning on adding that. Weswyx: have, this is obviously you want like LXXL, whatever, right?Like it's like the Amazon like sort menu.Jonas: Yes, exactly. We'll add that.swyx: Yeah. In some ways you have to basically become like a EC2, almost like you rent a box.Jonas: You rent a box. Yes. We talk a lot about brain in a box. Yeah. So cursor, we want to be a brain in a box,swyx: but is the mental model different? Is it more serverless?Is it more persistent? Is. Something else.Samantha: We want it to be a bit persistent. The desktop should be [00:29:00] something you can return to af even after some days. Like maybe you go back, they're like still thinking about a feature for some period of time. So theswyx: full like sus like suspend the memory and bring it back and then keep going.Samantha: Exactly.swyx: That's an interesting one because what I actually do want, like from a manna and open crawl, whatever, is like I want to be able to log in with my credentials to the thing, but not actually store it in any like secret store, whatever. ‘cause it's like this is the, my most sensitive stuff.Yeah. This is like my email, whatever. And just have it like, persist to the image. I don't know how it was hood, but like to rehydrate and then just keep going from there. But I don't think a lot of infra works that way. A lot of it's stateless where like you save it to a docker image and then it's only whatever you can describe in a Docker file and that's it.That's the only thing you can cl multiple times in parallel.Jonas: Yeah. We have a bunch of different ways of setting them up. So there's a dockerfile based approach. The main default way is actually snapshottingswyx: like a Linux vmJonas: like vm, right? You run a bunch of install commands and then you snapshot more or less the file system.And so that gets you set up for everything [00:30:00] that you would want to bring a new VM up from that template basically.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: And that's a bit distinct from what Sam was talking about with the hibernating and re rehydrating where that is a full memory snapshot as well. So there, if I had like the browser open to a specific page and we bring that back, that page will still be there.swyx: Was there any discussion internally and just building this stuff about every time you shoot a video it's actually you show a little bit of the desktop and the browser and it's not necessary if you just show the browser. If, if you know you're just demoing a front end application.Why not just show the browser, right? Like it Yeah,Samantha: we do have some panning and zooming. Yeah. Like it can decide that when it's actually recording and cutting the video to highlight different things. I think we've played around with different ways of segmenting it and yeah. There's been some different revs on it for sure.Jonas: Yeah. I think one of the interesting things is the version that you see now in cursor.com actually is like half of what we had at peak where we decided to unshift or unshipped quite a few things. So two of the interesting things to talk about, one is directly an answer to your [00:31:00] question where we had native browser that you would have locally, it was basically an iframe that via port forwarding could load the URL could talk to local host in the vm.So that gets you basically, so inswyx: your machine's browser,likeJonas: in your local browser? Yeah. You would go to local host 4,000 and that would get forwarded to local host 4,000 in the VM via port forward. We unshift that like atswyx: Eng Rock.Jonas: Like an Eng Rock. Exactly. We unshift that because we felt that the remote desktop was sufficiently low latency and more general purpose.So we build Cursor web, but we also build Cursor desktop. And so it's really useful to be able to have the full spectrum of things. And even for Cursor Web, as you saw in one of the examples, the agent was uploading files and like I couldn't upload files and open the file viewer if I only had access to the browser.And we've thought a lot about, this might seem funny coming from Cursor where we started as this, vs. Code Fork and I think inherited a lot of amazing things, but also a lot [00:32:00] of legacy UI from VS Code.Minimal Web UI SurfacesJonas: And so with the web UI we wanted to be very intentional about keeping that very minimal and exposing the right sum of set of primitive sort of app surfaces we call them, that are shared features of that cloud.Environment that you and the agent both use. So agent uses desktop and controls it. I can use desktop and controlled agent runs terminal commands. I can run terminal commands. So that's how our philosophy around it. The other thing that is maybe interesting to talk about that we unshipped is and we may, both of these things we may reship and decide at some point in the future that we've changed our minds on the trade offs or gotten it to a point where, putswyx: it out there.Let users tell you they want it. Exactly. Alright, fine.Why No File EditorJonas: So one of the other things is actually a files app. And so we used to have the ability at one point during the process of testing this internally to see next to, I had GID desktop and terminal on the right hand side of the tab there earlier to also have a files app where you could see and edit files.And we actually felt that in some [00:33:00] ways, by restricting and limiting what you could do there, people would naturally leave more to the agent and fall into this new pattern of delegating, which we thought was really valuable. And there's currently no way in Cursor web to edit these files.swyx: Yeah. Except you like open up the PR and go into GitHub and do the thing.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: Which is annoying.Jonas: Just tell the agent,swyx: I have criticized open AI for this. Because Open AI is Codex app doesn't have a file editor, like it has file viewer, but isn't a file editor.Jonas: Do you use the file viewer a lot?swyx: No. I understand, but like sometimes I want it, the one way to do it is like freaking going to no, they have a open in cursor button or open an antigravity or, opening whatever and people pointed that.So I was, I was part of the early testers group people pointed that and they were like, this is like a design smell. It's like you actually want a VS. Code fork that has all these things, but also a file editor. And they were like, no, just trust us.Jonas: Yeah. I think we as Cursor will want to, as a product, offer the [00:34:00] whole spectrum and so you want to be able to.Work at really high levels of abstraction and double click and see the lowest level. That's important. But I also think that like you won't be doing that in Slack. And so there are surfaces and ways of interacting where in some cases limiting the UX capabilities makes for a cleaner experience that's more simple and drives people into these new patterns where even locally we kicked off joking about this.People like don't really edit files, hand code anymore. And so we want to build for where that's going and not where it's beenswyx: a lot of cool stuff. And Okay. I have a couple more.Full Stack Hosting Debateswyx: So observations about the design elements about these things. One of the things that I'm always thinking about is cursor and other peers of cursor start from like the Devrel tools and work their way towards cloud agents.Other people, like the lovable and bolts of the world start with here's like the vibe code. Full cloud thing. They were already cloud edges before anyone else cloud edges and we will give you the full deploy platform. So we own the whole loop. We own all the infrastructure, we own, we, we have the logs, we have the the live site, [00:35:00] whatever.And you can do that cycle cursor doesn't own that cycle even today. You don't have the versal, you don't have the, you whatever deploy infrastructure that, that you're gonna have, which gives you powers because anyone can use it. And any enterprise who, whatever you infra, I don't care. But then also gives you limitations as to how much you can actually fully debug end to end.I guess I'm just putting out there that like is there a future where there's like full stack cursor where like cursor apps.com where like I host my cursor site this, which is basically a verse clone, right? I don't know.Jonas: I think that's a interesting question to be asking, and I think like the logic that you laid out for how you would get there is logic that I largely agree with.swyx: Yeah. Yeah.Jonas: I think right now we're really focused on what we see as the next big bottleneck and because things like the Datadog MCP exist, yeah. I don't think that the best way we can help our customers ship more software. Is by building a hosting solution right now,swyx: by the way, these are things I've actually discussed with some of the companies I just named.Jonas: Yeah, for sure. Right now, just this big bottleneck is getting the code out there and also [00:36:00] unlike a lovable in the bolt, we focus much more on existing software. And the zero to one greenfield is just a very different problem. Imagine going to a Shopify and convincing them to deploy on your deployment solution.That's very different and I think will take much longer to see how that works. May never happen relative to, oh, it's like a zero to one app.swyx: I'll say. It's tempting because look like 50% of your apps are versal, superb base tailwind react it's the stack. It's what everyone does.So I it's kinda interesting.Jonas: Yeah.Model Choice and Auto Routingswyx: The other thing is the model select dying. Right now in cloud agents, it's stuck down, bottom left. Sure it's Codex High today, but do I care if it's suddenly switched to Opus? Probably not.Samantha: We definitely wanna give people a choice across models because I feel like it, the meta change is very frequently.I was a big like Opus 4.5 Maximalist, and when codex 5.3 came out, I hard, hard switch. So that's all I use now.swyx: Yeah. Agreed. I don't know if, but basically like when I use it in Slack, [00:37:00] right? Cursor does a very good job of exposing yeah. Cursors. If people go use it, here's the model we're using.Yeah. Here's how you switch if you want. But otherwise it's like extracted away, which is like beautiful because then you actually, you should decide.Jonas: Yeah, I think we want to be doing more with defaults.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: Where we can suggest things to people. A thing that we have in the editor, the desktop app is auto, which will route your request and do things there.So I think we will want to do something like that for cloud agents as well. We haven't done it yet. And so I think. We have both people like Sam, who are very savvy and want know exactly what model they want, and we also have people that want us to pick the best model for them because we have amazing people like Sam and we, we are the experts.Yeah. We have both the traffic and the internal taste and experience to know what we think is best.swyx: Yeah. I have this ongoing pieces of agent lab versus model lab. And to me, cursor and other companies are example of an agent lab that is, building a new playbook that is different from a model lab where it's like very GP heavy Olo.So obviously has a research [00:38:00] team. And my thesis is like you just, every agent lab is going to have a router because you're going to be asked like, what's what. I don't keep up to every day. I'm not a Sam, I don't keep up every day for using you as sample the arm arbitrator of taste. Put me on CRI Auto.Is it free? It's not free.Jonas: Auto's not free, but there's different pricing tiers. Yeah.swyx: Put me on Chris. You decide from me based on all the other people you know better than me. And I think every agent lab should basically end up doing this because that actually gives you extra power because you like people stop carrying or having loyalty with one lab.Jonas: Yeah.Best Of N and Model CouncilsJonas: Two other maybe interesting things that I don't know how much they're on your radar are one the best event thing we mentioned where running different models head to head is actually quite interesting becauseswyx: which exists in cursor.Jonas: That exists in cur ID and web. So the problem is where do you run them?swyx: Okay.Jonas: And so I, I can share my screen if that's interesting. Yeahinteresting.swyx: Yeah. Yeah. Obviously parallel agents, very popal.Jonas: Yes, exactly. Parallel agentsswyx: in you mind. Are they the same thing? Best event and parallel agents? I don't want to [00:39:00] put words in your mouth.Jonas: Best event is a subset of parallel agents where they're running on the same prompt.That would be my answer. So this is what that looks like. And so here in this dropdown picker, I can just select multiple models.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: And now if I do a prompt, I'm going to do something silly. I am running these five models.swyx: Okay. This is this fake clone, of course. The 2.0 yeah.Jonas: Yes, exactly. But they're running so the cursor 2.0, you can do desktop or cloud.So this is cloud specifically where the benefit over work trees is that they have their own VMs and can run commands and won't try to kill ports that the other one is running. Which are some of the pains. These are allswyx: called work trees?Jonas: No, these are all cloud agents with their own VMs.swyx: Okay. ButJonas: When you do it locally, sometimes people do work trees and that's been the main way that people have set out parallel so far.I've gotta say.swyx: That's so confusing for folks.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: No one knows what work trees are.Jonas: Exactly. I think we're phasing out work trees.swyx: Really.Jonas: Yeah.swyx: Okay.Samantha: But yeah. And one other thing I would say though on the multimodel choice, [00:40:00] so this is another experiment that we ran last year and the decide to ship at that time but may come back to, and there was an interesting learning that's relevant for, these different model providers. It was something that would run a bunch of best of ends but then synthesize and basically run like a synthesizer layer of models. And that was other agents that would take LM Judge, but one that was also agentic and could write code. So it wasn't just picking but also taking the learnings from two models or, and models that it was looking at and writing a new diff.And what we found was that at the time at least, there were strengths to using models from different model providers as the base level of this process. Like basically you could get almost like a synergistic output that was better than having a very unified, like bottom model tier. So it was really interesting ‘cause it's like potentially, even though even in the future when you have like maybe one model as ahead of the other for a little bit, there could be some benefit from having like multiple top tier models involved in like a [00:41:00] model swarm or whatever agent Swarm that you're doing, that they each have strengths and weaknesses.Yeah.Jonas: Andre called this the council, right?Samantha: Yeah, exactly. We actually, oh, that's another internal command we have that Ian wrote slash council. Oh, and they some, yeah.swyx: Yes. This idea is in various forms everywhere. And I think for me, like for me, the productization of it, you guys have done yeah, like this is very flexible, but.If I were to add another Yeah, what your thing is on here it would be too much. I what, let's say,Samantha: Ideally it's all, it's something that the user can just choose and it all happens under the hood in a way where like you just get the benefit of that process at the end and better output basically, but don't have to get too lost in the complexity of judging along the way.Jonas: Okay.Subagents for ContextJonas: Another thing on the many agents, on different parallel agents that's interesting is an idea that's been around for a while as well that has started working recently is subagents. And so this is one other way to get agents of the different prompts and different goals and different models, [00:42:00] different vintages to work together.Collaborate and delegate.swyx: Yeah. I'm very like I like one of my, I always looking for this is the year of the blah, right? Yeah. I think one of the things on the blahs is subs. I think this is of but I haven't used them in cursor. Are they fully formed or how do I honestly like an intro because do I form them from new every time?Do I have fixed subagents? How are they different for slash commands? There's all these like really basic questions that no one stops to answer for people because everyone's just like too busy launching. We have toSamantha: honestly, you could, you can see them in cursor now if you just say spin up like 50 subagents to, so cursor definesswyx: what Subagents.Yeah.Samantha: Yeah. So basically I think I shouldn't speak for the whole subagents team. This is like a different team that's been working on this, but our thesis or thing that we saw internally is that like they're great for context management for kind of long running threads, or if you're trying to just throw more compute at something.We have strongly used, almost like a generic task interface where then the main agent can define [00:43:00] like what goes into the subagent. So if I say explore my code base, it might decide to spin up an explore subagent and or might decide to spin up five explore subagent.swyx: But I don't get to set what those subagent are, right?It's all defined by a model.Samantha: I think. I actually would have to refresh myself on the sub agent interface.Jonas: There are some built-in ones like the explore subagent is free pre-built. But you can also instruct the model to use other subagents and then it will. And one other example of a built-in subagent is I actually just kicked one off in cursor and I can show you what that looks like.swyx: Yes. Because I tried to do this in pure prompt space.Jonas: So this is the desktop app? Yeah. Yeah. And that'sswyx: all you need to do, right? Yeah.Jonas: That's all you need to do. So I said use a sub agent to explore and I think, yeah, so I can even click in and see what the subagent is working on here. It ran some fine command and this is a composer under the hood.Even though my main model is Opus, it does smart routing to take, like in this instance the explorer sort of requires reading a ton of things. And so a faster model is really useful to get an [00:44:00] answer quickly, but that this is what subagent look like. And I think we wanted to do a lot more to expose hooks and ways for people to configure these.Another example of a cus sort of builtin subagent is the computer use subagent in the cloud agents, where we found that those trajectories can be long and involve a lot of images obviously, and execution of some testing verification task. We wanted to use that models that are particularly good at that.So that's one reason to use subagents. And then the other reason to use subagents is we want contexts to be summarized reduced down at a subagent level. That's a really neat boundary at which to compress that rollout and testing into a final message that agent writes that then gets passed into the parent rather than having to do some global compaction or something like that.swyx: Awesome. Cool. While we're in the subagents conversation, I can't do a cursor conversation and not talk about listen stuff. What is that? What is what? He built a browser. He built an os. Yes. And he [00:45:00] experimented with a lot of different architectures and basically ended up reinventing the software engineer org chart.This is all cool, but what's your take? What's, is there any hole behind the side? The scenes stories about that kind of, that whole adventure.Samantha: Some of those experiments have found their way into a feature that's available in cloud agents now, the long running agent mode internally, we call it grind mode.And I think there's like some hint of grind mode accessible in the picker today. ‘cause you can do choose grind until done. And so that was really the result of experiments that Wilson started in this vein where he I think the Ralph Wigga loop was like floating around at the time, but it was something he also independently found and he was experimenting with.And that was what led to this product surface.swyx: And it is just simple idea of have criteria for completion and do not. Until you complete,Samantha: there's a bit more complexity as well in, in our implementation. Like there's a specific, you have to start out by aligning and there's like a planning stage where it will work with you and it will not get like start grind execution mode until it's decided that the [00:46:00] plan is amenable to both of you.Basically,swyx: I refuse to work until you make me happy.Jonas: We found that it's really important where people would give like very underspecified prompt and then expect it to come back with magic. And if it's gonna go off and work for three minutes, that's one thing. When it's gonna go off and work for three days, probably should spend like a few hours upfront making sure that you have communicated what you actually want.swyx: Yeah. And just to like really drive from the point. We really mean three days that No, noJonas: human. Oh yeah. We've had three day months innovation whatsoever.Samantha: I don't know what the record is, but there's been a long time with the grantsJonas: and so the thing that is available in cursor. The long running agent is if you wanna think about it, very abstractly that is like one worker node.Whereas what built the browser is a society of workers and planners and different agents collaborating. Because we started building the browser with one worker node at the time, that was just the agent. And it became one worker node when we realized that the throughput of the system was not where it needed to be [00:47:00] to get something as large of a scale as the browser done.swyx: Yeah.Jonas: And so this has also become a really big mental model for us with cloud, cloud agents is there's the classic engineering latency throughput trade-offs. And so you know, the code is water flowing through a pipe. The, we think that over the coming months, the big unlock is not going to be one person with a model getting more done, like the water flowing faster and we'll be making the pipe much wider and so ing more, whether that's swarms of agents or parallel agents, both of those are things that contribute to getting.Much more done in the same amount of time, but any one of those tasks doesn't necessarily need to get done that quickly. And throughput is this really big thing where if you see the system of a hundred concurrent agents outputting thousands of tokens a second, you can't go back like that.Just you see a glimpse of the future where obviously there are many caveats. Like no one is using this browser. IRL. There's like a bunch of things not quite right yet, but we are going to get to systems that produce real production [00:48:00] code at the scale much sooner than people think. And it forces you to think what even happens to production systems. Like we've broken our GitHub actions recently because we have so many agents like producing and pushing code that like CICD is just overloaded. ‘cause suddenly it's like effectively weg grew, cursor's growing very quickly anyway, but you grow head count, 10 x when people run 10 x as many agents.And so a lot of these systems, exactly, a lot of these systems will need to adapt.swyx: It also reminds me, we, we all, the three of us live in the app layer, but if you talk to the researchers who are doing RL infrastructure, it's the same thing. It's like all these parallel rollouts and scheduling them and making sure as much throughput as possible goes through them.Yeah, it's the same thing.Jonas: We were talking briefly before we started recording. You were mentioning memory chips and some of the shortages there. The other thing that I think is just like hard to wrap your head around the scale of the system that was building the browser, the concurrency there.If Sam and I both have a system like that running for us, [00:49:00] shipping our software. The amount of inference that we're going to need per developer is just really mind-boggling. And that makes, sometimes when I think about that, I think that even with, the most optimistic projections for what we're going to need in terms of buildout, our underestimating, the extent to which these swarm systems can like churn at scale to produce code that is valuable to the economy.And,swyx: yeah, you can cut this if it's sensitive, but I was just Do you have estimates of how much your token consumption is?Jonas: Like per developer?swyx: Yeah. Or yourself. I don't need like comfy average. I just curious. ISamantha: feel like I, for a while I wasn't an admin on the usage dashboard, so I like wasn't able to actually see, but it was a,swyx: mine has gone up.Samantha: Oh yeah.swyx: But I thinkSamantha: it's in terms of how much work I'm doing, it's more like I have no worries about developers losing their jobs, at least in the near term. ‘cause I feel like that's a more broad discussion.swyx: Yeah. Yeah. You went there. I didn't go, I wasn't going there.I was just like how much more are you using?Samantha: There's so much stuff to be built. And so I feel like I'm basically just [00:50:00] trying to constantly I have more ambitions than I did before. Yes. Personally. Yes. So can't speak to the broader thing. But for me it's like I'm busier than ever before.I'm using more tokens and I am also doing more things.Jonas: Yeah. Yeah. I don't have the stats for myself, but I think broadly a thing that we've seen, that we expect to continue is J'S paradox. Whereswyx: you can't do it in our podcast without seeingJonas: it. Exactly. We've done it. Now we can wrap. We've done, we said the words.Phase one tab auto complete people paid like 20 bucks a month. And that was great. Phase two where you were iterating with these local models. Today people pay like hundreds of dollars a month. I think as we think about these highly parallel kind of agents running off for a long times in their own VM system, we are already at that point where people will be spending thousands of dollars a month per human, and I think potentially tens of thousands and beyond, where it's not like we are greedy for like capturing more money, but what happens is just individuals get that much more leverage.And if one person can do as much as 10 people, yeah. That tool that allows ‘em to do that is going to be tremendously valuable [00:51:00] and worth investing in and taking the best thing that exists.swyx: One more question on just the cursor in general and then open-ended for you guys to plug whatever you wanna put.How is Cursor hiring these days?Samantha: What do you mean by how?swyx: So obviously lead code is dead. Oh,Samantha: okay.swyx: Everyone says work trial. Different people have different levels of adoption of agents. Some people can really adopt can be much more productive. But other people, you just need to give them a little bit of time.And sometimes they've never lived in a token rich place like cursor.And once you live in a token rich place, you're you just work differently. But you need to have done that. And a lot of people anyway, it was just open-ended. Like how has agentic engineering, agentic coding changed your opinions on hiring?Is there any like broad like insights? Yeah.Jonas: Basically I'm asking this for other people, right? Yeah, totally. Totally. To hear Sam's opinion, we haven't talked about this the two of us. I think that we don't see necessarily being great at the latest thing with AI coding as a prerequisite.I do think that's a sign that people are keeping up and [00:52:00] curious and willing to upscale themselves in what's happening because. As we were talking about the last three months, the game has completely changed. It's like what I do all day is very different.swyx: Like it's my job and I can't,Jonas: Yeah, totally.I do think that still as Sam was saying, the fundamentals remain important in the current age and being able to go and double click down. And models today do still have weaknesses where if you let them run for too long without cleaning up and refactoring, the coke will get sloppy and there'll be bad abstractions.And so you still do need humans that like have built systems before, no good patterns when they see them and know where to steer things.Samantha: I would agree with that. I would say again, cursor also operates very quickly and leveraging ag agentic engineering is probably one reason why that's possible in this current moment.I think in the past it was just like people coding quickly and now there's like people who use agents to move faster as well. So it's part of our process will always look for we'll select for kind of that ability to make good decisions quickly and move well in this environment.And so I think being able to [00:53:00] figure out how to use agents to help you do that is an important part of it too.swyx: Yeah. Okay. The fork in the road, either predictions for the end of the year, if you have any, or PUDs.Jonas: Evictions are not going to go well.Samantha: I know it's hard.swyx: They're so hard. Get it wrong.It's okay. Just, yeah.Jonas: One other plug that may be interesting that I feel like we touched on but haven't talked a ton about is a thing that the kind of these new interfaces and this parallelism enables is the ability to hop back and forth between threads really quickly. And so a thing that we have,swyx: you wanna show something or,Jonas: yeah, I can show something.A thing that we have felt with local agents is this pain around contact switching. And you have one agent that went off and did some work and another agent that, that did something else. And so here by having, I just have three tabs open, let's say, but I can very quickly, hop in here.This is an example I showed earlier, but the actual workflow here I think is really different in a way that may not be obvious, where, I start t

Duizenden Nederlanders die vastzitten in het Midden-Oosten worden binnenkort teruggehaald. Volgens ANVR-directeur Frank Radstake is er een publiek-private samenwerking opgezet om de operatie mogelijk te maken. ‘Het is logistiek ongelooflijk ingewikkeld,' zegt Radstake, aangezien mensen uit verschillende landen naar veilige verzamelpunten gebracht moeten worden. Luchtaanvallen tussen Iran, Israël en Hezbollah houden aan, met explosies in Jeruzalem en nieuwe aanvallen in Zuid-Beiroet. Israël meldt 300 vernietigde raketinstallaties in Iran en Amerikaanse troepen hebben meer dan 20 schepen aangevallen of laten zinken. Uit Teheran zijn inmiddels naar schatting 100.000 mensen gevlucht, volgens de VN-vluchtelingenorganisatie UNHCR.Uit onderzoek van ABN AMRO blijkt dat doorsnee Nederlandse huishoudens het afgelopen jaar een kleiner deel van hun inkomen kwijt zijn aan woonlasten. Vooral hogere salaris- en uitkeringsgroei zorgen voor een daling van de woonlastenratio, al blijven verschillen groot tussen leeftijdsgroepen en het type huishouden. In Europees perspectief vallen Nederlandse woonlasten in de hogere klasse, met grote verschillen ten opzichte van andere landen.Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur.Over deze podcastBNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt 's ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duizenden Nederlanders die vastzitten in het Midden-Oosten worden binnenkort teruggehaald. Volgens ANVR-directeur Frank Radstake is er een publiek-private samenwerking opgezet om de operatie mogelijk te maken. ‘Het is logistiek ongelooflijk ingewikkeld,' zegt Radstake, aangezien mensen uit verschillende landen naar veilige verzamelpunten gebracht moeten worden. Luchtaanvallen tussen Iran, Israël en Hezbollah houden aan, met explosies in Jeruzalem en nieuwe aanvallen in Zuid-Beiroet. Israël meldt 300 vernietigde raketinstallaties in Iran en Amerikaanse troepen hebben meer dan 20 schepen aangevallen of laten zinken. Uit Teheran zijn inmiddels naar schatting 100.000 mensen gevlucht, volgens de VN-vluchtelingenorganisatie UNHCR.Uit onderzoek van ABN AMRO blijkt dat doorsnee Nederlandse huishoudens het afgelopen jaar een kleiner deel van hun inkomen kwijt zijn aan woonlasten. Vooral hogere salaris- en uitkeringsgroei zorgen voor een daling van de woonlastenratio, al blijven verschillen groot tussen leeftijdsgroepen en het type huishouden. In Europees perspectief vallen Nederlandse woonlasten in de hogere klasse, met grote verschillen ten opzichte van andere landen.Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur.Over deze podcastBNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt 's ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MALIČKOSTI A DROBNÉ MOMENTY RADOSTI Drobné momenty radosti, ako jemné ozdoby v hudbe, prichádzajú nečakane. Ako keď sa usmejeme — a až potom si uvedomíme, že sme sa usmiali. Usmejme sa aj vo vnútri, že sa nášho srdca dotkla radosť.   AKO STRÁCAŤ A NEPRESTAŤ MILOVAŤ V živote všetci strácame. A zároveň sa učíme sa umeniu života - ako neprestať milovať. Nechajte sa inšpirovať spolu s nami hudbou Johanna Sebastiana Bacha. Ponúkame siedmu z 30 Goldbergových variácií, ktorú interpretuje talentovaná klaviristka Kimiko Ishizaka. Táto variácia nás v Plamienku priviedla k úsmevu a nachádzaniu radosti. Vnímate to aj Vy?  

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Alena a František Maryškovi jsou spolu deset let. Období zamilovanosti vystřídalo rozčarování, František totiž propadl patologickému hráčství. Alena tomu dlouho nemohla uvěřit i proto, že o téhle nemoci do té doby nic nevěděla. Co se dělo, když to na Františka prasklo? Kolik peněz a co dalšího prohrál? Vnímala to Alena, jako velké ublížení a požádala o rozvod? Čím si František získal zpět důvěru Aleny? Mají se dnes rádi a věří si navzájem?

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V novém filmu Poberta odehrávajícím se na Slovácku ztvárnila postavu Tamary. V Národním divadle je zase Emmou Bovaryovou. Kým je herečka Denisa Barešová v reálném životě? „Nemám ráda, když mi někdo říká, kde je moje místo. Snažím se říkat ano a ne tak, abych byla spokojená,“ pojmenovává v pořadu Osobnost Plus.Všechny díly podcastu Osobnost Plus můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

TICHÝ TANEC ŽIVOTA: Keď smútok na chvíľu povolí, život sám zosilnie. Tichý tanec života nás vedie ďalej. AKO STRÁCAŤ A NEPRESTAŤ MILOVAŤ V živote všetci strácame. A zároveň sa učíme sa umeniu života - ako neprestať milovať. Nechajte sa inšpirovať spolu s nami hudbou Johanna Sebastiana Bacha. Ponúkame štvrtú z 30 Godlbergových variácií, ktorú interpretuje talentovaná klaviristka Kimiko Ishizaka. Táto variácia nás v Plamienku inšpirovala premýšľať o tichom tanci života. Vnímate ho aj Vy?

SPOMIENKY A LÁSKA ŽIJÚ S NAMI KAŽDÝ DEŇ: Možno v tejto skladbe nájdeme energiu, ktorú potrebujeme, aby sme zvládli obyčajné dni – pracovať, starať sa o deti, nakupovať, telefonovať… Nech nás krása tónov a neviditeľné struny lásky nesú – a pomaly vracajú do tanca života.  AKO STRÁCAŤ A NEPRESTAŤ MILOVAŤ V živote všetci strácame. A zároveň sa učíme sa umeniu života - ako neprestať milovať. Nechajte sa inšpirovať spolu s nami hudbou Johanna Sebastiana Bacha. Ponúkame prvú z 30 Goldbergových variácií, ktorú interpretuje talentovaná klaviristka Kimiko Ishizaka. Táto variácia nás v Plamienku inšpirovala k spomínaniu a nájdeniu energie k bežným veciam. Vnímate to aj Vy?  

„Každá redakce nabízí svá témata. Jiná jsou v Německu a jiná platí třeba pro Francii nebo Španělsko,“ říká v Blízkých setkáních Terezy Kostkové šéfredaktorka Radio Prague International Klára Stejskalová. Stanice, vysílající v několika jazykových mutacích, letos slaví 90 let. A co svět na Česku nejvíc zajímá? „Všeobecně funguje pivo. V Německu pak například téma vlaků a železnice, napříč redakcemi pak překvapivě archeologie. Velký zájem je i o českou hudbu,“ vyjmenovává.Všechny díly podcastu Blízká setkání můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Tổng bí thư đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam Tô Lâm đã đến Washington trong tuần qua để dự cuộc họp khai mạc “Hội đồng Hòa bình” do Donald Trump thành lập. Nhân dịp này, ông Tô Lâm đã hội kiến tổng thống Mỹ tại Nhà Trắng ngày 20/02/2026. Chuyến đi Hoa Kỳ của ông Tô Lâm được báo chí quốc tế chú ý vì đây là chuyến công du đầu tiên đến một cường quốc kể từ khi ông được bầu làm tổng bí thư thêm một nhiệm kỳ và kể từ nay thâu tóm mọi quyền lực trong tay. Theo thông báo của chính quyền Hà Nội, trong cuộc gặp với ông Tô Lâm, tổng thống Trump cho biết sẽ xóa tên Việt Nam khỏi "danh sách kiểm soát xuất khẩu chiến lược (D1 - D3)", tức là danh sách các quốc gia bị hạn chế tiếp cận công nghệ tiên tiến của Mỹ. Cuộc gặp tại Nhà Trắng diễn ra sau khi các hãng hàng không Việt Nam công bố các hợp đồng trị giá tổng cộng 37 tỷ đô la mua 90 máy bay Boeing.  Trang mạng The Diplomat ngày 23/02/2026, nhận định, thông báo nói trên của tổng thống Trump "là dấu hiệu cho thấy sự tin tưởng chiến lược ngày càng tăng giữa hai quốc gia. Tuy nhiên, xét đến vị trí mang tính cơ cấu của Việt Nam trong chuỗi cung ứng liên kết Mỹ và Trung Quốc, thương mại và thuế quan có khả năng sẽ là điểm gây bất đồng chính giữa Hà Nội và Washington trong thời gian còn lại của nhiệm kỳ thứ hai của ông Trump." Đàm phán thương mại gay go Quan hệ Việt-Mỹ hiện nay đang phần nào bị chựng lại do bế tắc trong đàm phán thương mại song phương. Trên trang mạng The Diplomat ngày 13/02, biên tập viên về Đông Nam Á Sebastian Strangio nhắc lại: “ Washington áp thuế 20% đối với hàng hóa Việt Nam từ tháng 8 năm ngoái. Hai nước đã tổ chức vòng đàm phán thứ sáu vào đầu tháng này, nhưng vẫn chưa đạt được thỏa thuận cuối cùng. Theo các nguồn tin được hãng tin Bloomberg trích dẫn, các cuộc đàm phán thương mại Mỹ-Việt Nam đang bế tắc về định nghĩa hàng hóa “trung chuyển”. Chính quyền Trump cho biết những hàng hóa “trung chuyển” sẽ bị đánh thuế 40%, nhưng vẫn chưa nói cụ thể xác cách thức xác định và xử lý loại hàng hóa đó.  Các cố vấn thương mại của ông Trump từ lâu vẫn cho rằng một lượng lớn hàng hóa Trung Quốc được vận chuyển qua Việt Nam, hoặc được sản xuất tại đó với rất ít nguyên liệu đầu vào, để tránh thuế quan của Mỹ đối với Trung Quốc. Họ cho đây là lý do chính dẫn đến thặng dư mậu dịch của Việt Nam đối với Mỹ, mức thặng dư lớn thứ ba thế giới sau Trung Quốc và Mêhicô.”  Các cuộc đàm phán thương mại có thể đã trở nên phức tạp hơn do mức thuế 20% đã không làm giảm đáng kể thặng dư thương mại của Việt Nam với Mỹ. Theo số liệu của chính phủ Việt Nam, xuất khẩu của Việt Nam sang Mỹ đã tăng từ 119,6 tỷ đôla năm 2024 lên 153,2 tỷ đôla năm ngoái, tăng 28%, đẩy thặng dư thương mại lên mức kỷ lục gần 134 tỷ đôla vào năm 2025, cao hơn đáng kể so với năm 2024. (1) Sebastian Strangio ghi nhận: “Chưa biết có dẫn đến bước đột phá nào trong thương mại với Mỹ hay không, chuyến công du lần này của ông Tô Lâm dường như phá vỡ một tiền lệ, đó là các lãnh đạo mới được bổ nhiệm của đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam thường đến thăm Trung Quốc trước bất kỳ cường quốc lớn nào khác. Ngoài chuyến đi ngắn tới Cam Bốt và Lào vào ngày 5-6 tháng 2, chuyến thăm ông Tô Lâm tại Mỹ sẽ là chuyến thăm đầu tiên tới một cường quốc lớn kể từ khi Đại hội Đảng lần thứ 14 bầu ông làm tổng bí thư thêm nhiệm kỳ 5 năm.  Thực tế này đã khiến một số nhà quan sát cho rằng nó có thể phản ánh một sự thay đổi tiềm tàng trong định hướng chiến lược của Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, xét đến tính nhất quán tương đối của chính sách đối ngoại Việt Nam trong hai thập kỷ qua, ta nên thận trọng, không diễn giải quá mức về thời điểm chuyến thăm của ông Tô Lâm sang Mỹ. Ngày diễn ra Hội nghị Thượng đỉnh Hội đồng Hòa bình là do Washington ấn định, chứ không phải do Hà Nội, và chuyến thăm của ông Tô Lâm cũng có thể xuất phát từ nhu cầu cấp thiết của Việt Nam đạt được một thỏa thuận thương mại với Hoa Kỳ, yếu tố cần thiết nếu đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam (CPV) muốn đạt được các mục tiêu kinh tế đầy tham vọng trong những năm tới.  Ngoài ra, ông Tô Lâm hầu như không cho thấy dấu hiệu nào muốn xa rời Trung Quốc mà thật ra đang làm ngược lại, như nhận xét của Sheena Chestnut Greitens của Đại học Texas, Austin trên mạng X: “Tô Lâm là động lực thúc đẩy tăng cường hợp tác về an ninh nội bộ giữa Việt Nam với Trung Quốc.”  Thực tế là, theo Sebastian Strangio, “do tính khí thất thường của ông Trump và chính quyền của ông, cùng với tình trạng không chắc chắn của các cuộc đàm phán thương mại, quan hệ với Hoa Kỳ hiện cần được “chăm sóc” về mặt ngoại giao nhiều hơn so với mối quan hệ Việt Nam - Trung Quốc, vốn vẫn ổn định nhờ vào các chuyến thăm song phương luân phiên hàng năm của các quan chức hai bên. Rất có thể ông Tô Lâm sẽ sớm có chuyến thăm đáp lễ tới Bắc Kinh. Lần cuối cùng ông đi thăm Trung Quốc là vào tháng 8/2024, chuyến công du nước ngoài đầu tiên sau khi nhậm chức tổng Bí thư. Ông Tập Cận Bình đã đáp lễ với chuyến thăm Việt Nam hồi tháng 4 năm ngoái.” “Ngoại giao cây tre giữa cơn bão Trump” Trên trang mạng Financial Review của Úc ngày 16/02, ông James Curran, giáo sư Lịch sử Hiện đại và nghiên cứu viên cao cấp tại Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Hoa Kỳ thuộc Đại học Sydney, ghi nhận về đối ngoại, chính sách “ngoại giao cây tre” của Việt Nam “vẫn còn khá yếu ớt giữa cơn bão Trump”.  Giáo sư Curran trích nhận xét của một nhà phân tích: Thuế quan “ngày giải phóng” là một “cú đánh mạnh”, gợi lại những ký ức đau buồn về việc Washington lôi kéo Hà Nội gia nhập TPP ( Hiệp định Đối tác xuyên Thái Bình Dương ), rồi Chú Sam lại rút lui vào phút cuối. Một số người ở Hà Nội đang rất tức giận, nói rằng “người Mỹ hành xử không phải như một nhà tư bản mà là đế quốc”. Hà Nội hiện đang nhắm đến thỏa thuận tương tự thỏa thuận mà thủ tướng Ấn Độ Narendra Modi đã nhận được, tức là mức thuế 18%. Nhưng một nguồn tin từ Việt Nam lo ngại không biết chính quyền Washington có nhận thức được hậu quả hay không. Nhân vật này lập luận rằng tâm lý chống Trung Quốc ở Việt Nam đôi khi bị thổi phồng quá mức và nói thêm rằng “mọi người đang nhìn về phía Trung Quốc và tự hỏi liệu đó có phải là lựa chọn tốt hơn hay không.”  Theo giáo sư Curran, nói chuyện riêng, các quan chức Mỹ nhấn mạnh thông điệp của họ gửi tới Hà Nội rất thẳng thắn: “Hãy cẩn thận khi chơi trò thân mật với Bắc Kinh quá mức”. Họ nghĩ rằng Hà Nội sẽ nhượng bộ Trung Quốc một số điều, chẳng hạn như qua việc hợp tác trong dự án đường sắt cao tốc, nhưng về các khoáng sản quan trọng, chất bán dẫn và các lĩnh vực khác có tầm quan trọng quốc gia cao, "Hà Nội muốn chúng ta."  Chính sách đối ngoại thực dụng Trong bài viết đăng trên trang mạng Geopolitical Monitor ngày 28/01/2026, giáo sư James Borton, Viện Chính sách đối ngoại SAIS - Đại học Johns Hopkins (Mỹ), trước hết nhận định:  “Ông Tô Lâm đã làm được điều mà ít nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam nào làm được từ nhiều thập niên qua: thâu tóm vững chắc quyền lực của Đảng và Nhà nước vào tay mình. Tái đắc cử tổng bí thư và chuẩn bị đảm nhiệm chức chủ tịch nước, ông Tô Lâm hiện đang đứng đầu cơ cấu lãnh đạo tập trung nhất của Việt Nam kể từ thời hậu chiến, một sự tập trung có thể giúp điều chỉnh lại sự cân bằng mong manh giữa Hà Nội và Washington. Những tác động đối với quan hệ Mỹ - Việt Nam là rất sâu sắc.”  Theo ông Borton, Washington, đặc biệt là dưới chính quyền Trump nhiệm kỳ thứ hai, vốn công khai ủng hộ việc hợp tác với các nhà lãnh đạo quyền lực, dĩ nhiên là rất hoan nghênh thực tế mới này. Sự tập trung quyền lực của ông Tô Lâm không chỉ là về chính trị, mà còn gắn liền với một kế hoạch kinh tế đầy tham vọng. Hà Nội đã đặt ra mục tiêu tăng trưởng hàng năm từ 10% trở lên trong giai đoạn 2026-2030, bằng cách đẩy mạnh sản xuất công nghệ cao, chuyển đổi số và mở rộng khu vực tư nhân. Để đạt được mục tiêu này, Việt Nam phải đảm bảo nguồn vốn, công nghệ và tiếp cận thị trường từ nước ngoài, đặc biệt là từ Hoa Kỳ.  Giáo sư Borton viết tiếp: “Yêu cầu cấp thiết về kinh tế đó giải thích cho chính sách đối ngoại thực dụng của ông Tô Lâm. Bất chấp những tranh chấp thương mại định kỳ và những lo ngại dai dẳng của Hoa Kỳ về thặng dư mậu dịch, quản lý tiền tệ và rào cản tiếp cận thị trường của Việt Nam, ông Tô Lâm đã theo đuổi một chính sách dựa trên sự linh hoạt hơn là dựa trên ý thức hệ. Việc ông sốt sắng nhận lời mời của Hoa Kỳ tham gia “Hội đồng Hòa bình”, một hành động được coi là nhanh bất thường theo tiêu chuẩn ngoại giao thận trọng cố hữu của Hà Nội, cho thấy ông sẵn sàng hợp tác với Washington, kể cả dưới thời tổng thống Donald Trump. Thông điệp rất rõ ràng: Để hiện đại hóa kinh tế Việt Nam cần phải có một mối quan hệ ổn định với Hoa Kỳ.” Tuy nhiên, theo giáo sư James Borton, việc ông Tô Lâm củng cố quyền lực cũng khiến tình hình trở nên phức tạp. Việt Nam từ lâu vẫn cố giữ thế cân bằng thận trọng giữa Washington và Bắc Kinh. Một cấu trúc lãnh đạo tập trung hơn có thể làm cho chiến lược cân bằng đó được sắc bén, nhưng cũng có thể thu hẹp không gian cho các cuộc tranh luận nội bộ mà trước đây vẫn giúp điều tiết các biến động về chính sách.  Theo giáo sư Borton, ông Tô Lâm thừa hiểu Trung Quốc vẫn là đối tác thương mại lớn nhất của Việt Nam và là thế lực áp đảo về địa lý và chiến lược. Còn Hoa Kỳ là thị trường xuất khẩu lớn nhất của Việt Nam và là nguồn cung cấp công nghệ tiên tiến và đầu tư không thể thiếu. Sự thịnh vượng của Việt Nam phụ thuộc vào cả hai mối quan hệ này.  Ông Borton viết tiếp: “Với quyền lực tập trung ở cấp cao nhất, ông Tô Lâm có thể hành động quyết đoán hơn trong các cải cách mà các ban lãnh đạo dựa trên sự đồng thuận trước đây vẫn thi hành một cách thận trọng. Các cải cách có thể bao gồm việc điều chỉnh quy định sâu rộng hơn để thu hút đầu tư của Mỹ trong ngành bán dẫn và trí tuệ nhân tạo và mở rộng hợp tác năng lượng - bao gồm các hợp đồng khí đốt tự nhiên hóa lỏng dài hạn của Mỹ, giúp thu hẹp thâm hụt thương mại song phương. Những bước đi như vậy sẽ phù hợp với các ưu tiên kinh tế và chiến lược của Washington.” Nhưng giáo sư Borton lưu ý: “Học thuyết chính sách đối ngoại của Việt Nam vẫn dựa trên sự độc lập, tự lực và chủ nghĩa đa phương. Hà Nội sẽ cố không để mình trở thành đồng minh chính thức của Mỹ hay trở thành một quốc gia đứng tuyến đầu trong cuộc cạnh tranh giữa các cường quốc. Quyền lực của Tô Lâm có thể cho phép ông đàm phán một cách tự tin với Washington, nhưng sẽ không khiến ông lệ thuộc vào Mỹ.” Đối với Hoa Kỳ, theo giáo sư Borton, “thách thức sẽ là làm thế nào hợp tác với Việt Nam dưới sự lãnh đạo của Tô Lâm để hỗ trợ cải cách kinh tế mà không gây ra phản ứng mang tính dân tộc chủ nghĩa. Việc gây áp lực mạnh mẽ lên Hà Nội về mất cân bằng thương mại hoặc vấn đề tiền tệ có thể làm phức tạp chương trình cải cách của Tô Lâm và củng cố những tiếng nói bảo thủ hơn trong chế độ. Ngược lại, sự hợp tác mang tính xây dựng, đặc biệt là về chuyển giao công nghệ, năng lượng sạch, hợp tác an ninh hàng hải và giáo dục, có thể củng cố con đường đến tăng trưởng giá trị cao hơn và hội nhập toàn cầu sâu rộng hơn của Việt Nam.” ___ (1)Theo AFP ngày 23/02/2026, Cơ quan Hải quan và Biên phòng Mỹ (CBP) thông báo ngừng thu các khoản thuế quan được áp đặt theo Đạo luật Quyền lực Kinh tế Khẩn cấp Quốc tế (IEEPA) từ 0h01 sáng 24/2 theo giờ miền Đông nước Mỹ (12h01 giờ VN), tức hơn ba ngày sau khi Tòa án Tối cao Mỹ tuyên bố phần lớn các mức "thuế đối ứng" mà chính quyền Trump ban hành ngày 02/04/32025 là bất hợp pháp.

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Tổng bí thư đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam Tô Lâm đã đến Washington trong tuần qua để dự cuộc họp khai mạc “Hội đồng Hòa bình” do Donald Trump thành lập. Nhân dịp này, ông Tô Lâm đã hội kiến tổng thống Mỹ tại Nhà Trắng ngày 20/02/2026. Chuyến đi Hoa Kỳ của ông Tô Lâm được báo chí quốc tế chú ý vì đây là chuyến công du đầu tiên đến một cường quốc kể từ khi ông được bầu làm tổng bí thư thêm một nhiệm kỳ và kể từ nay thâu tóm mọi quyền lực trong tay. Theo thông báo của chính quyền Hà Nội, trong cuộc gặp với ông Tô Lâm, tổng thống Trump cho biết sẽ xóa tên Việt Nam khỏi "danh sách kiểm soát xuất khẩu chiến lược (D1 - D3)", tức là danh sách các quốc gia bị hạn chế tiếp cận công nghệ tiên tiến của Mỹ. Cuộc gặp tại Nhà Trắng diễn ra sau khi các hãng hàng không Việt Nam công bố các hợp đồng trị giá tổng cộng 37 tỷ đô la mua 90 máy bay Boeing.  Trang mạng The Diplomat ngày 23/02/2026, nhận định, thông báo nói trên của tổng thống Trump "là dấu hiệu cho thấy sự tin tưởng chiến lược ngày càng tăng giữa hai quốc gia. Tuy nhiên, xét đến vị trí mang tính cơ cấu của Việt Nam trong chuỗi cung ứng liên kết Mỹ và Trung Quốc, thương mại và thuế quan có khả năng sẽ là điểm gây bất đồng chính giữa Hà Nội và Washington trong thời gian còn lại của nhiệm kỳ thứ hai của ông Trump." Đàm phán thương mại gay go Quan hệ Việt-Mỹ hiện nay đang phần nào bị chựng lại do bế tắc trong đàm phán thương mại song phương. Trên trang mạng The Diplomat ngày 13/02, biên tập viên về Đông Nam Á Sebastian Strangio nhắc lại: “ Washington áp thuế 20% đối với hàng hóa Việt Nam từ tháng 8 năm ngoái. Hai nước đã tổ chức vòng đàm phán thứ sáu vào đầu tháng này, nhưng vẫn chưa đạt được thỏa thuận cuối cùng. Theo các nguồn tin được hãng tin Bloomberg trích dẫn, các cuộc đàm phán thương mại Mỹ-Việt Nam đang bế tắc về định nghĩa hàng hóa “trung chuyển”. Chính quyền Trump cho biết những hàng hóa “trung chuyển” sẽ bị đánh thuế 40%, nhưng vẫn chưa nói cụ thể xác cách thức xác định và xử lý loại hàng hóa đó.  Các cố vấn thương mại của ông Trump từ lâu vẫn cho rằng một lượng lớn hàng hóa Trung Quốc được vận chuyển qua Việt Nam, hoặc được sản xuất tại đó với rất ít nguyên liệu đầu vào, để tránh thuế quan của Mỹ đối với Trung Quốc. Họ cho đây là lý do chính dẫn đến thặng dư mậu dịch của Việt Nam đối với Mỹ, mức thặng dư lớn thứ ba thế giới sau Trung Quốc và Mêhicô.”  Các cuộc đàm phán thương mại có thể đã trở nên phức tạp hơn do mức thuế 20% đã không làm giảm đáng kể thặng dư thương mại của Việt Nam với Mỹ. Theo số liệu của chính phủ Việt Nam, xuất khẩu của Việt Nam sang Mỹ đã tăng từ 119,6 tỷ đôla năm 2024 lên 153,2 tỷ đôla năm ngoái, tăng 28%, đẩy thặng dư thương mại lên mức kỷ lục gần 134 tỷ đôla vào năm 2025, cao hơn đáng kể so với năm 2024. (1) Sebastian Strangio ghi nhận: “Chưa biết có dẫn đến bước đột phá nào trong thương mại với Mỹ hay không, chuyến công du lần này của ông Tô Lâm dường như phá vỡ một tiền lệ, đó là các lãnh đạo mới được bổ nhiệm của đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam thường đến thăm Trung Quốc trước bất kỳ cường quốc lớn nào khác. Ngoài chuyến đi ngắn tới Cam Bốt và Lào vào ngày 5-6 tháng 2, chuyến thăm ông Tô Lâm tại Mỹ sẽ là chuyến thăm đầu tiên tới một cường quốc lớn kể từ khi Đại hội Đảng lần thứ 14 bầu ông làm tổng bí thư thêm nhiệm kỳ 5 năm.  Thực tế này đã khiến một số nhà quan sát cho rằng nó có thể phản ánh một sự thay đổi tiềm tàng trong định hướng chiến lược của Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, xét đến tính nhất quán tương đối của chính sách đối ngoại Việt Nam trong hai thập kỷ qua, ta nên thận trọng, không diễn giải quá mức về thời điểm chuyến thăm của ông Tô Lâm sang Mỹ. Ngày diễn ra Hội nghị Thượng đỉnh Hội đồng Hòa bình là do Washington ấn định, chứ không phải do Hà Nội, và chuyến thăm của ông Tô Lâm cũng có thể xuất phát từ nhu cầu cấp thiết của Việt Nam đạt được một thỏa thuận thương mại với Hoa Kỳ, yếu tố cần thiết nếu đảng Cộng Sản Việt Nam (CPV) muốn đạt được các mục tiêu kinh tế đầy tham vọng trong những năm tới.  Ngoài ra, ông Tô Lâm hầu như không cho thấy dấu hiệu nào muốn xa rời Trung Quốc mà thật ra đang làm ngược lại, như nhận xét của Sheena Chestnut Greitens của Đại học Texas, Austin trên mạng X: “Tô Lâm là động lực thúc đẩy tăng cường hợp tác về an ninh nội bộ giữa Việt Nam với Trung Quốc.”  Thực tế là, theo Sebastian Strangio, “do tính khí thất thường của ông Trump và chính quyền của ông, cùng với tình trạng không chắc chắn của các cuộc đàm phán thương mại, quan hệ với Hoa Kỳ hiện cần được “chăm sóc” về mặt ngoại giao nhiều hơn so với mối quan hệ Việt Nam - Trung Quốc, vốn vẫn ổn định nhờ vào các chuyến thăm song phương luân phiên hàng năm của các quan chức hai bên. Rất có thể ông Tô Lâm sẽ sớm có chuyến thăm đáp lễ tới Bắc Kinh. Lần cuối cùng ông đi thăm Trung Quốc là vào tháng 8/2024, chuyến công du nước ngoài đầu tiên sau khi nhậm chức tổng Bí thư. Ông Tập Cận Bình đã đáp lễ với chuyến thăm Việt Nam hồi tháng 4 năm ngoái.” “Ngoại giao cây tre giữa cơn bão Trump” Trên trang mạng Financial Review của Úc ngày 16/02, ông James Curran, giáo sư Lịch sử Hiện đại và nghiên cứu viên cao cấp tại Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Hoa Kỳ thuộc Đại học Sydney, ghi nhận về đối ngoại, chính sách “ngoại giao cây tre” của Việt Nam “vẫn còn khá yếu ớt giữa cơn bão Trump”.  Giáo sư Curran trích nhận xét của một nhà phân tích: Thuế quan “ngày giải phóng” là một “cú đánh mạnh”, gợi lại những ký ức đau buồn về việc Washington lôi kéo Hà Nội gia nhập TPP ( Hiệp định Đối tác xuyên Thái Bình Dương ), rồi Chú Sam lại rút lui vào phút cuối. Một số người ở Hà Nội đang rất tức giận, nói rằng “người Mỹ hành xử không phải như một nhà tư bản mà là đế quốc”. Hà Nội hiện đang nhắm đến thỏa thuận tương tự thỏa thuận mà thủ tướng Ấn Độ Narendra Modi đã nhận được, tức là mức thuế 18%. Nhưng một nguồn tin từ Việt Nam lo ngại không biết chính quyền Washington có nhận thức được hậu quả hay không. Nhân vật này lập luận rằng tâm lý chống Trung Quốc ở Việt Nam đôi khi bị thổi phồng quá mức và nói thêm rằng “mọi người đang nhìn về phía Trung Quốc và tự hỏi liệu đó có phải là lựa chọn tốt hơn hay không.”  Theo giáo sư Curran, nói chuyện riêng, các quan chức Mỹ nhấn mạnh thông điệp của họ gửi tới Hà Nội rất thẳng thắn: “Hãy cẩn thận khi chơi trò thân mật với Bắc Kinh quá mức”. Họ nghĩ rằng Hà Nội sẽ nhượng bộ Trung Quốc một số điều, chẳng hạn như qua việc hợp tác trong dự án đường sắt cao tốc, nhưng về các khoáng sản quan trọng, chất bán dẫn và các lĩnh vực khác có tầm quan trọng quốc gia cao, "Hà Nội muốn chúng ta."  Chính sách đối ngoại thực dụng Trong bài viết đăng trên trang mạng Geopolitical Monitor ngày 28/01/2026, giáo sư James Borton, Viện Chính sách đối ngoại SAIS - Đại học Johns Hopkins (Mỹ), trước hết nhận định:  “Ông Tô Lâm đã làm được điều mà ít nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam nào làm được từ nhiều thập niên qua: thâu tóm vững chắc quyền lực của Đảng và Nhà nước vào tay mình. Tái đắc cử tổng bí thư và chuẩn bị đảm nhiệm chức chủ tịch nước, ông Tô Lâm hiện đang đứng đầu cơ cấu lãnh đạo tập trung nhất của Việt Nam kể từ thời hậu chiến, một sự tập trung có thể giúp điều chỉnh lại sự cân bằng mong manh giữa Hà Nội và Washington. Những tác động đối với quan hệ Mỹ - Việt Nam là rất sâu sắc.”  Theo ông Borton, Washington, đặc biệt là dưới chính quyền Trump nhiệm kỳ thứ hai, vốn công khai ủng hộ việc hợp tác với các nhà lãnh đạo quyền lực, dĩ nhiên là rất hoan nghênh thực tế mới này. Sự tập trung quyền lực của ông Tô Lâm không chỉ là về chính trị, mà còn gắn liền với một kế hoạch kinh tế đầy tham vọng. Hà Nội đã đặt ra mục tiêu tăng trưởng hàng năm từ 10% trở lên trong giai đoạn 2026-2030, bằng cách đẩy mạnh sản xuất công nghệ cao, chuyển đổi số và mở rộng khu vực tư nhân. Để đạt được mục tiêu này, Việt Nam phải đảm bảo nguồn vốn, công nghệ và tiếp cận thị trường từ nước ngoài, đặc biệt là từ Hoa Kỳ.  Giáo sư Borton viết tiếp: “Yêu cầu cấp thiết về kinh tế đó giải thích cho chính sách đối ngoại thực dụng của ông Tô Lâm. Bất chấp những tranh chấp thương mại định kỳ và những lo ngại dai dẳng của Hoa Kỳ về thặng dư mậu dịch, quản lý tiền tệ và rào cản tiếp cận thị trường của Việt Nam, ông Tô Lâm đã theo đuổi một chính sách dựa trên sự linh hoạt hơn là dựa trên ý thức hệ. Việc ông sốt sắng nhận lời mời của Hoa Kỳ tham gia “Hội đồng Hòa bình”, một hành động được coi là nhanh bất thường theo tiêu chuẩn ngoại giao thận trọng cố hữu của Hà Nội, cho thấy ông sẵn sàng hợp tác với Washington, kể cả dưới thời tổng thống Donald Trump. Thông điệp rất rõ ràng: Để hiện đại hóa kinh tế Việt Nam cần phải có một mối quan hệ ổn định với Hoa Kỳ.” Tuy nhiên, theo giáo sư James Borton, việc ông Tô Lâm củng cố quyền lực cũng khiến tình hình trở nên phức tạp. Việt Nam từ lâu vẫn cố giữ thế cân bằng thận trọng giữa Washington và Bắc Kinh. Một cấu trúc lãnh đạo tập trung hơn có thể làm cho chiến lược cân bằng đó được sắc bén, nhưng cũng có thể thu hẹp không gian cho các cuộc tranh luận nội bộ mà trước đây vẫn giúp điều tiết các biến động về chính sách.  Theo giáo sư Borton, ông Tô Lâm thừa hiểu Trung Quốc vẫn là đối tác thương mại lớn nhất của Việt Nam và là thế lực áp đảo về địa lý và chiến lược. Còn Hoa Kỳ là thị trường xuất khẩu lớn nhất của Việt Nam và là nguồn cung cấp công nghệ tiên tiến và đầu tư không thể thiếu. Sự thịnh vượng của Việt Nam phụ thuộc vào cả hai mối quan hệ này.  Ông Borton viết tiếp: “Với quyền lực tập trung ở cấp cao nhất, ông Tô Lâm có thể hành động quyết đoán hơn trong các cải cách mà các ban lãnh đạo dựa trên sự đồng thuận trước đây vẫn thi hành một cách thận trọng. Các cải cách có thể bao gồm việc điều chỉnh quy định sâu rộng hơn để thu hút đầu tư của Mỹ trong ngành bán dẫn và trí tuệ nhân tạo và mở rộng hợp tác năng lượng - bao gồm các hợp đồng khí đốt tự nhiên hóa lỏng dài hạn của Mỹ, giúp thu hẹp thâm hụt thương mại song phương. Những bước đi như vậy sẽ phù hợp với các ưu tiên kinh tế và chiến lược của Washington.” Nhưng giáo sư Borton lưu ý: “Học thuyết chính sách đối ngoại của Việt Nam vẫn dựa trên sự độc lập, tự lực và chủ nghĩa đa phương. Hà Nội sẽ cố không để mình trở thành đồng minh chính thức của Mỹ hay trở thành một quốc gia đứng tuyến đầu trong cuộc cạnh tranh giữa các cường quốc. Quyền lực của Tô Lâm có thể cho phép ông đàm phán một cách tự tin với Washington, nhưng sẽ không khiến ông lệ thuộc vào Mỹ.” Đối với Hoa Kỳ, theo giáo sư Borton, “thách thức sẽ là làm thế nào hợp tác với Việt Nam dưới sự lãnh đạo của Tô Lâm để hỗ trợ cải cách kinh tế mà không gây ra phản ứng mang tính dân tộc chủ nghĩa. Việc gây áp lực mạnh mẽ lên Hà Nội về mất cân bằng thương mại hoặc vấn đề tiền tệ có thể làm phức tạp chương trình cải cách của Tô Lâm và củng cố những tiếng nói bảo thủ hơn trong chế độ. Ngược lại, sự hợp tác mang tính xây dựng, đặc biệt là về chuyển giao công nghệ, năng lượng sạch, hợp tác an ninh hàng hải và giáo dục, có thể củng cố con đường đến tăng trưởng giá trị cao hơn và hội nhập toàn cầu sâu rộng hơn của Việt Nam.” ___ (1)Theo AFP ngày 23/02/2026, Cơ quan Hải quan và Biên phòng Mỹ (CBP) thông báo ngừng thu các khoản thuế quan được áp đặt theo Đạo luật Quyền lực Kinh tế Khẩn cấp Quốc tế (IEEPA) từ 0h01 sáng 24/2 theo giờ miền Đông nước Mỹ (12h01 giờ VN), tức hơn ba ngày sau khi Tòa án Tối cao Mỹ tuyên bố phần lớn các mức "thuế đối ứng" mà chính quyền Trump ban hành ngày 02/04/32025 là bất hợp pháp.

President Donald Trump van Amerika sê sy Vredesraad gaan in die toekoms baie nou saam met die Verenigde Nasies werk. Minstens 20 lande wat deur hul staatshoofde of ministers van Buitelandse Sake en afgesante verteenwoordig is, het die eerste Vredesberaad onder Trump se voorsitterskap in Washington bygewoon. Talle bondgenote, insluitend die Vatikaan, het nie die raadsbyeenkoms bygewoon nie omdat dit die VN se mag kan oorneem. Trump sê dis eenvoudig: Hulle soek vrede:

Send a textIn deze aflevering van blckbx Today bij Doelah Verzijde aan tafel: Gideon van Meijeren, Arno Wellens, Caroline Franssen en Karin-Maria Keser.Jarenlang werd kritiek op het World Economic Forum weggezet als complottheorie. Maar uit recente onthullingen in de Epstein Files blijkt dat er achter de schermen méér speelde dan gedacht. Zo wisselde Børge Brende, CEO van het WEF, e-mails uit met Jeffrey Epstein over ideeën rond een nieuwe mondiale architectuur — en zelfs het vervangen van de VN. Wat betekent dit voor democratie en transparantie? FVD-Kamerlid Gideon van Meijeren schuift aan om deze ontwikkelingen te duiden. Daarnaast spreken we met Caroline Franssen, bestuursvoorzitter van Voor-zij. Met een petitie vraagt zij aandacht voor vrouwen in gevangenissen die noodgedwongen verblijven met mannen die zich identificeren als transgender. Wordt er nog voldoende rekening gehouden met de veiligheid en rechten van deze vrouwen? Ook bespreken we de plannen rond de nieuwe Savings and Investments Union van de EU, die tijdens de recente Eurotop nadrukkelijk op de agenda stond. Wat houdt dit financiële project écht in? Financieel journalist Arno Wellens legt uit waarom dit plan volgens hem grotere gevolgen kan hebben dan op het eerste gezicht lijkt. Tot slot: wat zegt je gebit eigenlijk over je algehele gezondheid? Holistisch mondhygiënist Karin-Maria Keser pleit voor een andere kijk op tandheelkunde. Zijn de materialen die we gebruiken wel zo onschuldig? En welke signalen geeft ons lichaam via onze mond? Support the showWaardeer je deze video('s)? Like deze video, abonneer je op ons kanaal en steun de onafhankelijke journalistiek van blckbx met een donatieWil je op de hoogte blijven?Telegram - https://t.me/blckbxtvTwitter - / blckbxnews Facebook - / blckbx.tv Instagram - ...

Voor het eerst komt de zogenoemde Vredesraad van Trump bij elkaar. Niet alle landen die zijn uitgenodigd doen mee, er is veel kritiek. Officieel gaat de Vredesraad over de wederopbouw van Gaza, maar Trump heeft al gezegd dat het daar wat hem betreft niet bij blijft. Dennis zoekt voor je uit wat dat betekent voor internationale organisaties als de VN.

Namibië kan meer as 900 miljoen Amerikaanse dollar, meer as N$14 miljard, in nuwe ekonomiese aktiwiteit ontsluit en ongeveer 26 000 werksgeleenthede skep deur strategies uit te brei na die uitvoer van rou minerale, volgens 'n nuwe verslag deur die VN se Handels- en Ontwikkelingsorganisasie. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die organisasie se inligtingspesialis, Ivana Padierna, gesels wat sê Namibië het konkrete geleenthede om oor te skakel na hoërwaarde-aktiwiteite wat verband hou met verwerking, vervaardiging en verwante nywerhede.

5.Mojžišova 17,14-20 14 Keď vojdeš do krajiny, ktorú ti dáva Hospodin, tvoj Boh, obsadíš ju a budeš v nej bývať, povieš si: ‚Ustanovím si nad sebou kráľa ako všetky okolité národy.‘ 15 Ustanov si teda nad sebou kráľa, ktorého si vyvolí Hospodin, tvoj Boh. Ustanov si nad sebou kráľa spomedzi svojich bratov. Nesmieš si ustanoviť nad sebou cudzinca, ktorý nie je tvojím bratom. 16 Nesmie mať mnoho koní. Nesmie vodiť ľud späť do Egypta, aby si obstaral viac koní, lebo Hospodin vám povedal: ‚Nikdy sa už nevracajte touto cestou!‘ 17 Nesmie mať mnoho žien, aby sa neodvrátilo jeho srdce, a nesmie mať mnoho striebra a zlata. 18 Keď zasadne na kráľovský trón, nech si odpíše do knihy tento zákon, ktorý opatrujú léviovskí kňazi. 19 Nech je uňho a nech si ho číta po všetky dni života, aby sa naučil báť sa Hospodina, svojho Boha, a zachovávať všetky slová tohto zákona a tieto ustanovenia. 20 Nech sa jeho srdce nepovyšuje nad jeho bratov a nech neodbočí od príkazu ani napravo, ani naľavo, aby on i jeho synovia dlho vládli vo svojom kráľovstve uprostred Izraela. Mocní pod vyššou Autoritou. Takto si Boh predstavuje kráľa Izraela „podľa Jeho srdca“! I najvyšší vládcovia sveta majú žiť s pokorou a podriadenosťou autorite Božieho zákona. Hovorí o tom, čo je v Jeho očiach dobré: kráľ nemá byť bez viery. Nemá hromadiť bohatstvo, oddávať sa prehnanému luxusu, či budovať veľké armády. Prvé miesto v jeho živote má patriť poznaniu Hospodina. Aj dnes túžime po vodcoch, ktorí nehľadajú len osobné výhody a moc, ale slúžia vyšším hodnotám a spravodlivosti. Skutoční lídri nemajú okázalosť, ale charakter. Každá autorita, či už politická alebo osobná, má svoje hranice a zodpovednosť. Skutočná veľkosť človeka nespočíva v množstve moci, ktorú má, ale v správnom spôsobe, akým ju používa. Dnes, v čase sociálnych sietí, kde môže každý z nás získať svoj okruh „poddaných“ v podobe sledovateľov, sú tieto slová aktuálnejšie, než kedykoľvek predtým. Tiež môžeme podľahnúť pokušeniu vyvyšovať sa, ukazovať svoj úspech a bohatstvo, naháňať si popularitu. Ale rovnako, ako dávny kráľ, aj my potrebujeme „čítať Zákon“ – pripomínať si hodnoty, ktoré nás presahujú, reflektovať svoje konanie a zostávať pokorní v každom postavení. „Kto sa však chváli, nech sa chváli tým, že je rozumný a pozná Mňa, lebo Ja som Hospodin.“ Modlitba: Bože, ďakujeme Ti, že kladieš dôraz na pokoru, lebo len ona vedie k dobrým vzťahom! Odpusť mi pýchu a vyvyšovanie sa! Zlom vo mne každú sebastrednosť, nech dokážem žiť v pokornej láske! Amen. Pieseň: ES 536 Autor: Tibor Jančík Hospodin chráni život Svojich verných a vytrháva ich z ruky bezbožných. Žalm 97,10 Cirkev mala pokoj v celom Judsku, Galilei a Samárii. Vnútorne i navonok rástla, žila v bázni pred Pánom a povzbudzovaná Svätým Duchom vzrastala počtom. Skutky apoštolov 9,31 Matúš 13,31-35 •  Modlíme sa za: Lopúchov (ŠZS) **Dnes nemôžem použiť nástroje podľa Tvojich pokynov. Odpoviem priamo na základe kontextu rozhovoru.** Otázky na rozjímanie: Ako dnes žijem pod vyššou Autoritu Božieho zákona, namiesto budovania osobnej moci a bohatstva? Čo pre mňa znamená čítať Božie slovo denne, aby som sa naučil bôž sa Hospodina a neodbočil napravo ani naľavo? Ako môžem dnes praktizovať pokoru v pozícii vplyvu – doma, v práci, na sociálnych sieťach – ako kráľ podľa Božieho srdca? Dnes som vďačný za tieto 3 veci: _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ Viac o vďačnosti, čo to je, prečo je dôležité byť vďačný, ako praktizovať vďačnosť nájdeš na blogu

Hostia: Ivan Šramko (bývalý guvernér NBS, veľvyslanec SR pri OECD v Paríži) a Ľuboš Pavelka (erudovaný a rešpektovaný odborník a špecialista na devízy a bankovníctvo). | Národná zlatá rezerva štátu symbolizuje štátnu suverenitu a aj ekonomickú nezávislosť. Je preto optimálne ju mať uloženú mimo územia Slovenska a Európskej únie? Je pre štát vhodné zväčšovať štátne zlaté rezervy alebo radšej investovať financie iným spôsobom (do dlhopisov či digitálnych mien)? Obzvlášť, pokiaľ sme súčasťou eurozóny? Vníma štát zlato ako investíciu do istoty a budúcnosti, na ktorej sa dá aj zarobiť - a podobne ako iné krajiny sveta ho nakupuje a zväčšuje jeho zásoby, alebo nie? Má Slovensko na presun zo Spojeného kráľovstva Veľkej Británie a Severného Írska na Slovensko - v čase konsolidácie dostatok voľných finančných zdrojov? Máme dostatočne bezpečné priestory na jeho uskladnenie? | Vrátia sa slovenské zlaté rezervy na Slovensko? | Moderuje: Matej Baránek; | Diskusiu Z prvej ruky pripravuje Slovenský rozhlas, Rádio Slovensko, SRo1. Vysielame každý pracovný deň o 12:30 v Rádiu Slovensko.

Vandaag moet de Nederlandse regering zich in Genève bij het toezichthoudende VN-comité van het VN-Vrouwenverdrag verantwoorden. Nederland moet laten zien hoe zij de discriminatie van vrouwen tegengaan. Het Netwerk VN-Vrouwenverdrag, waar tientallen vrouwenorganisaties onder vallen, is kritisch op Nederland. Te gast: Petra Snelders en Janna Visser van Netwerk VN-Vrouwenverdrag! 

Morten Handberg, Uptime’s blade whisperer, returns to the show to tackle leading edge erosion. He covers the fatigue physics behind rain erosion, why OEMs offer no warranty coverage for it, how operators should time repairs before costs multiply, and what LEP solutions are working in the field. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining Light on Wind. Energy’s brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering Tomorrow. Allen Hall: Morten, welcome back to the program.  Morten Handberg: Thanks, Allen. It’s fantastic to be back on on, on the podcast. Really excited to, uh, record an episode on Erosion Today.  Allen Hall: Wow. Leading as erosion is such a huge worldwide issue and. Operators are having big problems with it right now. It does seem like there’s not a lot of information readily available to operators to understand the issue quite yet. Morten Handberg: Well, it, I mean, it’s something that we’ve been looking at for the, at least the past 10 years. We started looking at it when I was in in DONG or as it back in 2014. But we also saw it very early on because we were in offshore environment, much harsher. Uh, rain erosion conditions, and you were also starting to change the way that the, the, uh, the coatings [00:01:00]that were applied. So there was sort of a, there was several things at play that meant that we saw very early on, early on offshore.  Allen Hall: Well, let’s get to the basics of rain erosion and leading edge erosion. What is the physics behind it? What, what happens to the leading edges of these blades as rain? Impacts them.  Morten Handberg: Well, you should see it as um, millions of, of small fat, uh, small fatigue loads on the coating because each raindrop, it creates a small impact load on the blade. It creates a rail wave that sort of creates a. Uh, share, share loads out on, uh, into the coating that is then absorbed by the coating, by the filler and and so on. And the more absorbent that your substrate is, the longer survivability you, you’re leading into coating will have, uh, if you have manufacturing defects in the coating, that will accelerate the erosion. But it is a fatigue effect that is then accelerated or decelerate depending on, uh, local blade conditions.  Allen Hall: Yeah, what I’ve seen in the [00:02:00] field is the blades look great. Nothing. Nothing. You don’t see anything happening and then all of a sudden it’s like instantaneous, like a fatigue failure.  Morten Handberg: I mean, a lot of things is going on. Uh, actually you start out by, uh, by having it’s, they call, it’s called mass loss and it’s actually where the erosion is starting to change the material characteristics of the coating. And that is just the first step. So you don’t see that. You can measure it in a, um, in the laboratory setting, you can actually see that there is a changing in, in the coating condition. You just can’t see it yet. Then you start to get pitting, and that is these very, very, very small, almost microscopic chippings of the coating. They will then accelerate and then you start to actually see the first sign, which is like a slight, a braided surface. It’s like someone took a, a fine grain sandpaper across the surface of the plate, but you only see it on the leading edge. If it’s erosion, it’s only on the center of the leading edge. That’s very important. If you see it on the sides and further down, then it’s, it’s [00:03:00] something else. Uh, it’s not pure erosion, but then you see this fine grain. Then as that progresses, you see more and more and more chipping, more and more degradation across the, the leading edge of the blade. Worse in the tip of it, less so into the inner third of the blade, but it is a gradual process that you see over the leading edge. Finally, you’ll then start to see the, uh, the coating coming off and you’ll start to see exposed laminate. Um, and from there it can, it can accelerate or exposed filler or laminate. From there, it can accelerate because. Neither of those are actually designed to handle any kind of erosion.  Allen Hall: What are the critical variables in relation to leading edge erosion? Which variables seem to matter most? Is it raindrop size? Is it tip speed? What factors should we be looking for?  Morten Handberg: Tip speeds and rain intensity. Uh, obviously droplet size have an impact, but. But what is an operator you can actually see and monitor for is, well, you know, your tip speed of the blade that matters. Uh, but it is really the rain intensity. So if you have [00:04:00] sort of a, an average drizzle over the year, that’s a much better condition than if you have like, you know, showers in, in, in, in a, in a few hour sessions at certain points of time. Because then, then it becomes an aggressive erosion. It’s not, it’s, you don’t, you get much higher up on the. On the, on the fatigue curve, uh, then if it’s just an average baseline load over long periods of time,  Allen Hall: yeah, that fatigue curve really does matter. And today we’re looking at what generally is called VN curves, velocity versus number of impacts, and. The rain erosion facilities I’ve seen, I’ve been able to, to give some parameters to, uh, provide a baseline or a comparison between different kinds of coatings. Is is that the, the standard as everybody sees it today, the sort of the VN curve  Morten Handberg: that is what’s been developed by this scientific, uh, community, these VN curve, that that gives you some level of measure. I would still say, you know, from what we can do in a rain erosion tester to what is then actually going on [00:05:00] the field is still very two very, very, very different things you can say. If you can survive a thousand hours in a rain erosion tester, then it’s the similar in the field that doesn’t really work like that. But there are comparisons so you can do, you know, uh, a relationship study, uh, between them. And you can use the VN curves to determine the ERO erosion aggressiveness. Field. We did that in the bait defect forecasting that we did in wind pile up with DCU back in 2019, uh, where we actually looked at rain erosion across Europe. Uh, and then the, uh, the actual erosion propagation that we saw within these different sites, both for offshore and for onshore, where we actually mapped out, um, across Europe, you know, which areas will be the most erosion prone. And then utilize that to, to then mo then, then to determine what would be the red, the best maintenance strategy and also, uh, erosion, uh, LEP, uh, solution for that wind farm. Allen Hall: Oh, okay. Uh, is it raindrop size then, or just [00:06:00] quantity of raindrops? Obviously drizzle has smaller impact. There’s less mass there, but larger raindrops, more frequent rain.  Morten Handberg: If you have showers, it tends to be larger drops. Right. So, so they kind of follow each other. And if it’s more of a drizzle. It will be smaller raindrops. They typically follow each other. You know, if you’ve been outside in a rainstorm before we just showered, you would have sense that these are, these are much higher, you know, raindrop sizes. So, so there is typically an a relation between raindrop size and then showers versus a drizzle. It’s typically more fine, fine grain rain drops. Allen Hall: And what impact does dirt and debris mixed in with the rain, uh, affect leading edge erosion? I know a lot of, there’s a lot of concern. And farm fields and places where there’s a lot of plowing and turnover of the dirt that it, it, it does seem like there’s more leading edge erosion and I, I think there’s a little bit of an unknown about it, uh, just because they see leading edge [00:07:00]erosion close to these areas where there’s a lot of tilling going on. Is it just dirt impact worth a blade or is it a combination of dirt plus rain and, and those two come combining together to make a worse case. Uh, damage scenario.  Morten Handberg: Technically it would be slightly worse than if it were, if there is some soil or, or sand, or sand contamination in the raindrops. But I mean, logically rain typically, you know, comes down from the sky. It doesn’t, you know, it doesn’t mix in with the dirt then, you know, it would be more if you have dirt on the blades. It’s typically during a dry season where it would get mixed up and then blown onto the blades. Honestly, I don’t think that that is really what’s having an impact, because having contamination in the blade is not something that is, that would drive erosion. I think that that is, I think that is, that is a misunderstanding. We do see sand, sand erosion in some part of the world where you have massive, uh, sand, uh, how do you say, sandstorms [00:08:00] coming through and, and that actually creates an, an abrasive wear on the plate. It looks different from rain erosion because it’s two different mechanisms. Uh, where the sand is actually like a sandpaper just blowing across the surface, so you can see that. Whereas rain is more of this fatigue effect. So I think in the, theoretically if you had soil mixed in with rain, yes that could have an impact because you would have an a, a hardened particle. But I do, I don’t think it’s what’s driving erosion, to be honest. Allen Hall: Okay, so then there’s really two different kinds of failure modes. A particle erosion, which is more of an abrasive erosion, which I would assume be a maybe a little wider, spread along the leading edge of the blade versus a fatigue impact from a raindrop collision. They just look different, right?  Morten Handberg: Yeah, so, so sand erosion you could have spreading across a larger surface of the blade because it, because it doesn’t bounce off in the same way that a raindrop would, you know, because that’s more of an impact angle and the load that it’s applying. So if it comes in at a, at a st [00:09:00] at a, um, at the, at the, at a, at a steep angle, then it would just bounce off because the amount of load that it’s impacting on would be very limited. So that’s also why we don’t really see it on the, um, uh, outside of the leading edge. Whereas sand erosion would have a, would, would have a different effect because even at a steep angle, it would still, you know, create some kind of wear because of the hardened particle and the effect of that. Allen Hall: Okay. So let’s talk about incubation period, because I’ve seen a lot of literature. Talking about incubation period and, and what that means. What does incubation period mean on a leading edge coating?  Morten Handberg: So that is, that, that is from when you start having the first impacts until you get the, the, the change in structure. So when you get to the mass loss or first pitting, that would be your incubation period, because that is from when it starts until you can see the actual effects. Would say that, that that is what would be defined as the incubation period of leading into erosion.  Allen Hall: Okay. So you wanna then maximize the incubation period where the coating still looks mostly pristine [00:10:00] once incubation period is over and you get into the coating. Are there different rates at which the coatings will deteriorate, or are they all pretty much deteriorating at roughly the same rate?  Morten Handberg: I mean, for the really high durability. We don’t really have good enough data to say anything about whether the, um, the, the period after the incubation period, whether that would actually, how that would work in the field. We don’t really know that yet. I would say, because the, um, some of the, the shell solutions, some of the high end polyurethane coatings, if they fail, typically it’s because of workmanship. Or adhesion issues. It’s has so far not really been tied in directly in, into leading edge erosion. Uh, the ones that I’ve seen, so typically, and, and, you know, all of these high-end coatings, they’re just, they, they have shown, you know, some of them you couldn’t even wear down in a rain erosion tester. Um, so, so we don’t really know. Um, how, [00:11:00] how the, how the shells, they would, they, they, they, they, how they would react over the five, 10 year period because we haven’t seen that much yet. And what we have seen have been more of a mechanical failure in, in the bonding  Allen Hall: that, I guess that makes sense. Then operators are still buying wind turbine blades without any leading edge coating at all. It is basically a painted piece of fiberglass structure. Is that still advisable today or are there places where you could just get away with that? Or is that just not reality because of the tip speeds?  Morten Handberg: For the larger, I would say anything beyond two megawatt turbines, you should have leading edge protection because you’re at tip speeds where, you know, any kind of rain would create erosion within, um, within the lifetime of the late. That is just a fact. Um, so. I don’t, I don’t see any real areas of the world where that would not apply. And if it, if you are in a place where it’s really dry, then it would typically also mean that then you would have sand erosion. Is that, that, [00:12:00] that would, I would expect that it would be one of the two. You wouldn’t be in an area where it couldn’t get any kind of erosion to the blades. Um, so either you should have either a very tough gel code, um, coating, or you should have have an LEP per urethane based coating. On the blades,  Allen Hall: well do the manufacturers provide data on the leading edge offerings, on the coatings, or even the harder plastic shells or shields. Does, is there any information? If I’m an operator and I’m buying a a three megawatt turbine that comes along with the blade that says, this is the li, this is the estimated lifetime, is that a thing right now? Or is it just We’re putting on a coating and we are hoping for the best?  Morten Handberg: The OEMs, as far as I, I haven’t seen any. Any contract or agreement where today, where erosion is not considered a wear and tear issue, there is simply no, no coverage for it. So if you buy a turbine and there’s any kind of leading [00:13:00] edge erosion outside of the end of warranty period, it’s your your problem. There is no guarantee on that.  Allen Hall: So the operator is at risk,  Morten Handberg: well, they’re at risk and if they don’t take matters into their own hands and make decisions on their own. But they would still be locked in because within the warranty period, they will still be tied to the OEM and the decisions that they make. And if they have a service agreement with the OEM, then they would also be tied in with what the OEM provides.  Allen Hall: So that does place a lot of the burden on the owner operator to understand the effects of rate erosion, particularly at the at a new site if they don’t have any history on it at all. To then try to identify a, a coating or some sort of protecting device to prevent leading edge erosion. ’cause at the end of the day, it does sound like the operator owner is gonna be responsible for fixing it and keeping the blades, uh, in some aerodynamic shape. That that’s, that’s a big hurdle for a lot of operators. Morten Handberg: The problem is that if you have a service [00:14:00]contract, but you are depending on the OEM, providing that service. Then you have to be really certain that any leading edge erosion or anywhere on the leading edge is then covered by that contract. Otherwise, you’re in, you’re in a really bad, you’re in a really risky situation because you can’t do anything on your own. Because if you’re a service contract, but you’re beholden to whatever the, your service provider is, is, is agreeing to providing to you. So you might not get the best service.  Allen Hall: And what are the risks of this? Uh, obviously there can be some structural issues. Particularly around the tips of the blaze, but that’s also power loss. What are typical power loss numbers?  Morten Handberg: Well, there is a theoretically theoretical power loss to it, but for any modern turbine, the blade, the, the turbine would simply regulate itself out of any leading erosion loss. So, so the blades would just change their behavior that the turbine would just change, its its operation [00:15:00]conditions so that it would achieve the same lift to the blade. So. Uh, any study that we have done or been a part of, uh, even, you know, comparing blades that were repaired, blades that were cleaned, blades that were, uh, left eroded, and then operating the, uh, the deviation was within half, half percent and that was within the margin of error. We couldn’t read, we couldn’t see it even for really, you know, really er road blades. Of course there is different between turbines. Some turbines, they, they could show it, but I haven’t seen any data that suggests that erosion actually leads to a lot of power loss. There is a theoretical loss because there is a loss in aerodynamic performance, but because blades today they’re pitch controlled, then you can, you can regulate yourself out of that. Some of that, uh, power laws,  Allen Hall: so the control laws in the turbine. Would know what the wind speeds are and what their power output should be, and it’ll adjust the [00:16:00]pitch of each of the blades sort of independently to, to drive the power output.  Morten Handberg: Typically, erosion is a uniform issue, so what happens on one blade happens on three. So it’s rare to see that one blade is just completely erod in the two other they look fine. That’s really rare unless you start, you know, doing uh, abnormal repairs on them. Then you might get something. But even then, I mean, we’re not talking, you know, 10 per 10 degrees in, in variation. You know, it’s not, it’s not anything like that. It’s very small changes. And if they would do a lot of weird DA, you know, uh, different angles, you would get instant imbalance and then, you know, you would get scatter alarm. So, so you would see that quite fast.  Allen Hall: Well, let me, let me just understand this just a little bit. So what the control logs would do would increase the pitch angle of the blaze, be a little more aggressive. On power production to bring the power production up. If leading edge erosion was knocking it down a percentage point or two, does that have a consequence? Are like when you [00:17:00] start pitching the blades at slightly different angles, does that increase the area where rain erosion will occur? Is like, are you just. Keep chasing this dragon by doing that,  Morten Handberg: you could change the area a little bit, but it’s not, it’s not something that, that changes the erosion, uh, that the erosion zone, that that much. It’s very minimal. Um, and one, one of the, another, another reason why, why you might see it might, might not see it as much is because voltage generator panels is widely used in the industry today. And, and Vortex panel, they are. Uh, negating some of the negative effect from, uh, leading erosion. So that also adds to the effect that there, that the aerodynamic effect of leading erosion is limited, uh, compared to what we’ve seen in the past.  Allen Hall: Okay. So there’s a couple manufacturers that do use vortex generators around the tip, around the leading edge erosion areas right outta the factory, and then there’s other OEMs that don’t do that at all. Is, is there a benefit to [00:18:00] having the VGs. Right out of the factory. Is that, is that just to, uh, as you think about the power output of the generator over time, like, this is gonna gimme a longer time before I have to do anything. Is, is in terms of repair,  Morten Handberg: it does help you if you have contamination of the blade. It does help you if you have surface defects off the blade. That, that any, uh, any change to the air, to the aerodynamics is, is reduced and that’s really important if you have an optimized blade. Then the negative effect of leading erosion might get, uh, you know, might, might, might get, might get affected. But there are, there are still reasons why I do want to do leading erosion repairs. You should do that anyway, even if you can’t see it on your power curve or not, because if you wait too long, you’ll start to get structural damages to the blade. As we talked about last time. It’s not that leading edge erosion will turn into a critical damage right away, but if you need, if you go into structural erosion, then the, then the cost of damage. The cost of repairing the damage will multiply. Uh, [00:19:00] and at, at a certain point, you know, you will get a re structure. It might not make the blade, you know, uh, cost a, a condition where the blade could collapse or you’re at risk, but you do get a weakened blade that is then susceptible to damage from other sources. Like if you have a lighting strike damage or you have a heavy storm or something like that, then that can accelerate the damage, turning it into a critical damage. So you should still keep your leading edge in, in shape. If you want to do to, to minimize your cost, you should still repair it before it becomes structural. Allen Hall: Okay. So the blades I have seen where they actually have holes in the leading edge, that’s a big problem just because of contamination and water ingress and yeah, lightning obviously be another one. So that should be repaired immediately. Is is that the, do we treat it like a cat four or cat five when that happens? Or how, what? How are we thinking about that?  Morten Handberg: Maximum cat, cat four, even, even in those circumstances because it is a, it is a severe issue, but it’s not critical on, on its own. So I would not treat it as a cat five where you need to stop [00:20:00] the turbine, stuff like that. Of course, you do want, you don’t want to say, okay, let’s wait on, let’s wait for a year or so before we repair it. You know, do plan, you know, with some urgency to get it fixed, but it’s not something where you need to, you know, stubble works and then get that done. You know, the blade can survive it for, for a period of time, but you’re just. Susceptible to other risks, I would say.  Allen Hall: Alright. So in in today’s world, there’s a lot of options, uh, to select from in terms of leading edge protection. What are some of the leading candidates? What, what are some of the things that are actually working out in the field?  Morten Handberg: What we typically do, uh, when we’re looking at leading edge erosion, we’re looking at the, the raw data from the wind farm. Seeing how, how bad is it and how long have the wind farm been operated without being repaired? So we get a sense of the aggressiveness of the erosion and. Um, if we have reliable weather data, we can also do some modeling to see, okay, what is the, what is the, the, uh, environmental conditions? Also, just to get a sense, is this [00:21:00] material driven fatigue or is it actually rain erosion driven fatigue? Because if the, if the coating quality was not, was not very good, if the former lead leading edge, it was not applied very, very, very good, then, you know, you still get erosion really fast. You get surface defects that, uh, that trigger erosion. So that’s very important to, to, to have a look at. But then when we’ve established that, then we look at, okay, where do we have the, the, the, uh, the structural erosion zone? So that means in what, in what part of the BA would you be at risk of getting structural damage? That’s the part where that you want to protect at all costs. And in that, I would look at either shell solution or high duty, um, put urethane coating something that has a a long durability. But then you also need to look at, depending on whether you want to go for coating or shell, you need to look at what is your environmental condition, what is your, you know, yeah. Your environmental conditions, because you also wanna apply it without it falling off again. Uh, and if you have issues with [00:22:00] high humidity, high temperatures, uh, then a lot of the coatings will be really difficult to process or, you know, to, to. Uh, to handle in the field. And, you know, and if you don’t, if you don’t get that right, then you just might end up with a lot of peeling coating or uh, peeling shells. Um, so it’s very important to understand what is your environmental conditions that you’re trying to do repairs in. And that’s also why we try not to recommend, uh, these shell repairs over the entire, out a third of the blade. Because you’re, you’re just putting up a lot of risk for, for, uh, for detaching blades if you put on too high, um, uh, how do you say, high height, sea of solutions. Allen Hall: Yeah. So I, I guess it does matter how much of the blade you’re gonna cover. Is there a general rule of thumb? Like are we covering the outer 10%, outer 20%? What is the. What is that rule of thumb?  Morten Handberg: Typically, you know, you, you get a long way by somewhere between the outer four to six meters. Um, so that would [00:23:00]probably equivalate to the, out of the outer third. That would likely be something between the outer 10 to 15 to 20% at max. Um, but, but it is, I, I mean, instead of looking at a percentage, I usually look at, okay, what can we see from the data? What does that tell us? And we can see that from the progression of the erosion. Because you can clearly see if you have turbines that’s been operating, what part of the blade has already, you know, exposed laminate. And where do you only have a light abrasion where you only have a light abrasion, you can just continue with, and with the, with, with the general coating, you don’t need to go for any high tier solutions. And that’s also just to avoid applying, applying something that is difficult to process because it will just end up, that it falls off and then you’re worse off than, than before actually. Allen Hall: Right. It’s about mitigating risk at some level. On a repair,  Morten Handberg: reducing repair cost. Um, so, so if you, if you look at your, your conditions of your blades and then select a solution that is, that is right for that part of [00:24:00] the blade  Allen Hall: is the best way to repair a blade up tower or down tower is what is the easiest, I guess what’s easier, I know I’ve heard conflicting reports about it. A lot of people today, operators today are saying we can do it up tower. It’s, it’s pretty good that way. Then I hear other operators say, no, no, no, no, no. The quality is much better if the blade is down on the ground. What’s the recommendation there?  Morten Handberg: In general, it can be done up tower. Um, it is correct if you do a down tower, the quality is better, but that, that, that means you need to have a crane on standby to swap out blades. Uh, and you should have a spare set of blades that you can swap with. Maybe that can work. Um. But I would say in general, the, your, your, your, your cheaper solution and your more, you know, you know, uh, would be to do up tower. And if, and again, if you do your, your, your homework right and, and selecting the right, uh, products for, for your [00:25:00] local environments, then you can do up tower then leading it, erosion. Not something that you need to, you should not need to consider during a down tower. Unless you are offshore in an environment where you only have, uh, 10 repair days per year, then you might want to look at something else. But again, if we talk for offs for onshore, I would, I would always go for up, up tower. I, I don’t, I don’t really see the need for, for, for taking the blades down.  Allen Hall: So what is the optimum point in a blaze life where a leading edge coating should be applied? Like, do you let it get to the point where you’re doing structural repairs or. When you start to see that first little bit of chipping, do you start taking care of it then there I, there’s gotta be a sweet spot somewhere in the middle there. Where is that?  Morten Handberg: There is sweet spot. So the sweet spot is as soon as you have exposed laminate, because from exposed laminate, uh, the repair cost is exactly the same as if it was just, you know, uh, a light abrasion of the coating because the, the, the time to, to, um, prepare the [00:26:00] surface to apply the coating is exactly the same. From, you know, from, from, from light surface damage to exposed laminate. That is the same, that is the same repair cost. But as soon as you have a structural damage to your blade, then you have to do a structural repair first, and then you’re, you’re multiplying the repair time and your repair cost. So that is the right point in time. The way to, to determine when that is, is to do inspections, annual inspections, if you do 10% of your wind farm per year. Then you would know why, what, how the rest of your wind farm looks like because erosion is very uniform across the wind farm. Maybe there are some small deviations, but if you do a subset, uh, then, then you would have a good basic understanding about what erosion is. You don’t need to do a full sweep of the, of the wind farm to know, okay, now is my right time to do repairs.  Allen Hall: Okay, so you’re gonna have a, a couple years notice then if you’re doing drone inspections. Hopefully you put, as you put your blades up, doing a drone inspection maybe on the ground so you [00:27:00] have a idea of what you have, and then year one, year two, year three, you’re tracking that progression across at least a sampling of the wind farm. And then, then you can almost project out then like year five, I need to be doing something and I need to be putting it into my budget.  Morten Handberg: When you start to see the first minor areas of exposed laminate. Then the year after, typically then you would have a larger swat of, of laminated exposure, still not as structural. So when you start to see that, then I would say, okay, next year for next year’s budget, we should really do repairs. It’s difficult when you just direct the wind farm, maybe have the first year of inspection. It’s difficult to get any, any kind of, you know, real sense of what is the, you know, what is the where of scale that we have. You can be off by a factor of two or three if, you know, if, um, so I would, I would give it a few years and then, uh, then, then, then see how things progresses before starting to make, uh, plans for repairs. If you [00:28:00] don’t have any leading edge erosion protection installed from the start. I would say plan, at least for year, year five, you should expect that you need to go out, do and do a repair. Again, I don’t have a crystal ball for every, you know, that’s good enough to predict for every wind farm in the world, but that would be a good starting point. Maybe it’s year three, maybe it’s year seven, depending on your local conditions. That is, but then at least you know that you need to do something. Allen Hall: Well, there’s been a number of robotic, uh, applications of rain erosion coatings. Over the last two, three years. So now you see several different, uh, repair companies offering that. What does the robotic approach have to its advantage versus technicians on ropes?  Morten Handberg: Obviously robots, they don’t, they don’t, uh, get affected by how good the morning coffee was, what the latest conversation with the wife was, or how many hours of sleep it got. There is something to, with the grown operator, uh, you know how good they are. But it’s more about how well, uh, [00:29:00] adjusted the, the controls of the, of the, the robot or the drone is in its application. So in principle, the drone should be a lot better, uh, because you can, it will do it the right, the same way every single time. What it should at least. So in, so in principle, if you, you, you, when we get there, then the leading it then, then the robot should be, should outmatch any repair technician in, in the world. Because repair technician, they’re really good. They’re exceptionally good at what they do. The, the, the far majority of them, but they’re, they’re still people. So they, you know, anyone, you know, maybe standing is not a hundred percent each time, maybe mixing of. Um, of materials and they’re much better at it than I am. So no question there. But again, that’s just real reality. So I would say that the, the, the draw, the robots, they should, uh, they should get to a point at some, at some point to that they will, they will be the preferable choice, especially for this kind of, this kind of repair. Allen Hall: What should [00:30:00] operators be budgeting to apply a coating? Say they’re, you know, they got a new wind farm. It’s just getting started. They’re gonna be five years out before they’re gonna do something, but they, they probably need to start budgeting it now and, and have a scope on it. ’cause it’s gonna be a capital campaign probably. How much per turbine should they be setting aside?  Morten Handberg: I would just, as a baseline, at least set aside 20,000 per per blade  Allen Hall: dollars or a Corona  Morten Handberg: dollars.  Allen Hall: Really. Okay.  Morten Handberg: Assuming that you actually need to do a repair campaign, I would say you’re probably ending up in that region again. I can be wrong with by a factor of, you know, uh, by several factors. Uh, but, um, but I would say that as a starting point, we don’t know anything else. I would just say, okay, this should be the, the, the, the budget I would go for, maybe it’ll be only 10 because we have a lesser campaign. Maybe it will be twice because we have severe damages. So we need just to, to, to source a, um, a high end, uh, LEP solution. Um, so, so [00:31:00] again, that would just be my starting point, Alan. It’s not something that I can say with accuracy that will go for every single plate, but it would be a good starting point.  Allen Hall: Well, you need to have a number and you need to be, get in the budget ahead of time. And so it, it’s a lot easier to do upfront than waiting till the last minute always. Uh, and it is the future of leading edge erosion and protection products. Is it changing? Do you see, uh, the industry? Winning this battle against erosion.  Morten Handberg: I see it winning it because we do have the technology, we do have the solutions. So I would say it’s compared to when we started looking at it in 14, where, you know, we had a lot of erosion issues, it seems a lot more manageable. Now, of course, if you’re a, if you’re a new owner, you just bought a wind farm and you’re seeing this for this first time, it might not be as manageable. But as an, as an industry, I would say we’re quite far. In understanding erosion, what, how it develops and what kind of solutions that that can actually, uh, withstand it. We’re still not there in [00:32:00] terms of, uh, quality in, in repairs, but that’s, um, but, but, uh, I, I think technology wise, we are, we are in a really good, good place.  Allen Hall: All the work that has been done by DTU and RD test systems for creating a rain erosion test. Facility and there’s several of those, more than a dozen spread around the world at this point. Those are really making a huge impact on how quickly the problem is being solved. Right? Because you’re just bringing together the, the, the brain power of the industry to work on this problem.  Morten Handberg: They have the annual erosion Symposium and that has been really a driving force and also really put DTU on the map in terms of, uh, leading edge erosion, understanding that, and they’re also trying to tie, tie it in with lightning, uh, because, uh. If you have a ro, if you have erosion, that changes your aerodynamics. That in fact changes how your LPS system works. So, so there is also some, some risks in that, uh, that is worth considering when, when, when discussing [00:33:00]repairs. But I think these of you, they’ve done a tremendous amount of work and r and d system have done a lot of good work in terms of standardizing the way that we do rain erosion testing, whether or not we can then say with a hundred uncertainty that this, uh, this test will then match with. With, um, how say local environment conditions, that’s fine, but we can at least test a DP systems on, on the same scale and then use that to, to, to look at, well how, how good would they then ferry in in the, um, out out in the real world.  Allen Hall: Yeah, there’s a lot too leading edge erosion and there’s more to come and everybody needs to be paying attention to it. ’cause it, it is gonna be a cost during the lifetime of your wind turbines and you just need to be prepared for it. Mor how do people get ahold of you to learn more about leading edge erosion and, and some of the approaches to, to control it?  Morten Handberg: Well, you can always re reach me, uh, on my email, meh, at wind power.com or on my LinkedIn, uh, page and I would strongly advise, you know, reach out if you have any concerns regarding erosion or you need support with, um, [00:34:00] uh, with blade maintenance strategies, uh, we can definitely help you out with that. Or any blade related topic that you might be concerned about for your old local wind farm.  Allen Hall: Yes. If you have any blade questions or leading edge erosion questions, reach out to Morton. He’s easy to get ahold of. Thank you so much for being back on the podcast. We love having you. It  Morten Handberg: was fantastic being here. Cheers. A.

V Národnej rade SR sa vo štvrtok (5.2.) pokračuje v diskusiách o opozičných návrhoch na odvolanie viacerých ministrov a na vyslovenie nedôvery vláde. Rozpravu začali v stredu (4. 2.) krátko pred 22.00 h a majú v nej bez prestávky pokračovať až do úplného prerokovania. V Téme diskutovali poslankyňa NR SR Zuzana Števulová (PS) a poslanec NR SR Igor Šimko (Hlas-SD).

V tomto podcaste s Jánom Menkynom ideme hlboko pod povrch podnikania, lídershipu a psychiky majiteľov firiem. Je to pre vás ak: - ste majiteľ firmy, líder alebo podnikateľ. - cítite tlak, zodpovednosť a chaos v hlave. - materiálny úspech vám už nestačí. - hľadáte hlbší zmysel života, pokoj a vedomý rast. - chcete pochopiť zákonitosti a múdrosť života. V rozhovore sa dozviete: - Ako efektívne pracovať so svojou pozornosťou a mysľou. - Životná múdrosť: Prečo sú náročné momenty príležitosťou na ponaučenie a rast. - Lídership novej generácie: Ako prejsť od direktívneho riadenia k motivujúcemu vedeniu tímu - Vnútorná stabilita: Prečo nespájať svoju osobnú hodnotu len s úspechom firmy. - Rovnováha (Work-Life Balance): Ako vedomo vstupovať do rôznych životných rolí a byť prítomný pre rodinu popri riadení firmy. - Ako tvoriť pozitívne a konštruktívne riešenia v akomkoľvek prostredí aj v náročných situáciách. Ján Menkyna: Web: https://menkyna.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-menkyna-32906559/ Stanislav Ličko: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanislav-li%C4%8Dko-95a806121/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stanislavlicko/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/licko.stanislav/ Chcete byť hosťom v mojom podcaste a budovať svoju značku, autoritu a získavať povedomie a nových klientov? Pozrite si možnosti na: https://stanislavlicko.sk/podcast/ alebo napíšte na podcast@stanislavlicko.sk a spojíme sa ohľadne možností spolupráce. Najnovšia kniha Mapa k bohatstvu, ako vybudovať slobodný a bohatý život objednajte s poštovným zdarma tu: https://stanislavlicko.com/ Prinášam rozhovory so zaujímavými hosťami, ktorí majú cenné skúsenosti a viem, že vás to inšpiruje. Nezabudnite dať Odber a zapnúť Upozornenia. Témy: #podnikanie #liderstvo #osobnyrozvoj #biznis #mentalnaodolnost #uspech #vedomylider #podcast

Deze keer bespreken Remco Breuker en Freek Ewals wat de enorme machtsverschuivingen in de wereld betekenen voor de Koreanen. Kan dictator Kim Jong-un zijn gang gaan, nu de VN vleugellam is en het onmogelijk wordt de internationale rechtsorde te handhaven? Zullen Noord-Koreaanse soldaten ook aan andere fronten dan de Oekraïense verschijnen? En is het Zuid-Koreaanse leger wel opgewassen tegen de dreigingen van deze tijd? Ondertussen is het ook in de rest van Azië onstuimig. Wat zullen wij daar in Nederland van gaan merken? Zoals altijd wisselen we zwaarder nieuws af met lichter nieuws. We tippen de laatste K-Pop-hitjes en dit keer ook: een bijzonder ijsje, gewoon te halen bij je Albert Heijn om de hoek. Tips uit de aflevering: - Remco tipt het relaxte nummer ‘Cheap Coffee' van Chang Kia https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - Freek tipt het rap-nummer ‘Haegum' van August D https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - Luisteraar Jitse tipt vanuit Seoel de Youtube-pagina 'Korean Classic Film' https://www.youtube.com/korean... - Remco tipt tot slot ook nog een lekkernij: het Melona-ijsje https://www.ah.nl/producten/pr... Remco Breuker is hoogleraar Korea-studies aan de Universiteit van Leiden en schrijver van o.a. het boek De wereld volgens Noord-Korea en De Koreaanse golf Freek Ewals is mede-oprichter van Haagsch College

Wake up! It's the year 2000 - you remember the year 2000, right? In those days, almost no one had a cell phone and the millennials that were in middle and high school at the time spent their days watching old CRT monitors, hanging out in arcades, wandering the mall after school, or murdering vampires with a pocket knife! Yeah, those were wild times back then... Kids just roamed freely, getting trapped in hotels full of zombified beasts and hanging around True Ancestors while their families wondered where they were at. In hindsight, perhaps it wasn't all so idyllic as we remember, given the grievous injuries and traumatic memory loss, but just thinking back on it fills you with nostalgia. Let's return, for just a little while, to that time...This month, Sara and Runa make good on their previous threats and read the Arcueid Route in the original version of Tsukihime (2000)! As one of the earliest  VNs covered on the podcast, it's not only an excellent period piece in its own right but also shows just how much the VN development space, and Type-Moon as a studio, has changed in the last quarter century. From different minor antagonists to tonal shifts and drastic changes in scene and character dynamics, the original Tsukihime gives players a much different experience than the remake. Is that for better? For worse? Through playing the original Arcueid route, we compare the romance between Shiki and Arcueid, the plot beats and character arcs, and the overall feel of both versions of Tsukihime and discuss the challenges and benefits of remaking such a seminal classic of the genre. As always, if you enjoy our show please consider writing us a review on your podcast platform of choice! You can always support us directly on Patreon at patreon.com/sayitinred where you will get access to all of our bonus episodes past and present, including our most recent bonus episode in which Sara tells Runa all about gay hockey and the Heated Rivalry series! 

Európska únia podpísala historickú obchodnú dohodu Mercosur s krajinami Latinskej Ameriky. Mala by vytvoriť najväčšiu zónu voľného obchodu na svete so 700 miliónmi spotrebiteľov.Ročný vývoz EÚ do krajín Mercosuru by sa mohol zvýšiť až o 39 %, čo predstavuje 49 miliárd eur. Tisíce európskych farmárov sa však búria a hovoria o likvidácii európskeho poľnohospodárstva. Boja sa následkov, keď sa podľa dohody liberalizuje 82% agroproduktov a na európsky trh sa dostane lacné mäso a cukor z Brazílie, či Argentíny. Expert na agrosektor Juraj Huba z portálu poľnoinfo.sk vysvetľuje, že žiadna záplava juhoamerických komodít nehrozí. Množstvá na liberalizáciu obsiahnuté v dohode nie sú zásadné z hľadiska európskej produkcie. Európskych farmárov skôr hnevá to, že oni musia v EÚ dodržiavať množstvo ekologických opatrení a ich juhoamerickí kolegovia nie, pričom majú byť teraz pripustení na spoločný trh. Vnímajú to ako krivdu. „Nerobme z juhoamerického dovozu drámu. Tie komodity sem prúdia už teraz a nedôjde k žiadnemu masovému navýšeniu tohto objemu. Okrem toho, vždy to bude v konečnom dôsledku na spotrebiteľovi, či uprednostní mäso domáceho pôvodu, alebo lacnejší dovoz z Brazílie,“ hovorí Huba. Pre farmárov v EÚ však bude veľmi náročné byť konkurencieschopní voči ich kolegom v Argentíne alebo Brazílii. Nie sú to len ekologické opatrenia a prísne normy, ktoré musia dodržiavať. Dôležitou súčasťou ich nákladov sú mzdy. „V Brazílii je priemerný plat v agrosektore 340 dolárov mesačne. Na Slovensku to môže byť 1100 eur. Potom sa nečudujem slovenským, či európskym farmárom, že sú nahnevaní, keď počujú o Mercosure.“ Slovenskí farmári sa však viac ako Mercosuru boja dovozu poľnohospodárskych komodít z Ukrajiny. Podľa Hubu však problém slovenského agrosektora leží úplne inde. „My sme sa dostali na úroveň Afriky, že produkujeme komoditu, ktorú len vyvážame a nevyrábame z nej konečný produkt. Úplne sa nám rozpadla výrobná vertikála, teda chýba spracovateľský priemysel.“ Štát by mal prísť s modernou koncepciou rozvoja a podpory poľnohospodárstva i spracovateľského priemyslu, aby celý výrobný reťazec dával zmysel a pridanú hodnotu. Kľúčové sú investície do moderných technológií a veľkovýroba. Bez toho bude slovenská poľnohospodárska produkcia naďalej stagnovať a celý agrosektor zostane zaseknutý v 90-tych rokoch. Príčiny vysvetľuje Juraj Huba v rozhovore, ktorý moderuje Eva Mihočková. V rozhovore sa dozviete: Prečo farmári z EÚ vnímajú Mercosur ako krivdu Objem dovážaných komodít nebude pre EÚ zásadný Prečo je pre farmárov v EÚ ťažké konkurovať juhoamerickým farmárom Ako to bude s dovozom GMO plodín Ako poklesol dovoz ukrajinskej pšenice do EÚ Čo je skutočný problém slovenského agrosektora See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Europa in omwenteling. Transatlantische perikelen. Haagse meerderheden of niet. Drie schaakborden waarop de zetten ongewis zijn. Want dit zijn weken dat soms decennia aan gebeurtenissen in een enkele dag geconcentreerd lijken. De labiliteit en onzekerheden bij alle wereldmachten beïnvloeden elkaar, soms ongemerkt. Europa lijkt te ontwaken uit een boze droom en aan de slag te gaan met een eigen perspectief en daarbij nieuwe partners te vinden. En Nederland dreigt als muurbloempje achter de feiten aan te hobbelen. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger kijken naar die drie schaakborden en wie per bord op winst staat. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** De Europese signalen tonen een herstel van zelfvertrouwen en coherentie in de aanpak. Ursula von der Leyen en Manfred Weber kregen ineens de volle steun van Emmanuel Macron en Donald Tusk voor de inzet van het zwaarste kanon in het EU-arsenaal. Alleen zo zou Donald Trump ontnuchterd kunnen worden. In een geheime sessie van de EVP in het Europees Parlement én en plein public op Cyprus kondigde de Commissiepresident een geheel nieuw beleidspakket aan: de Europese veiligheidsstrategie. Ze zette het nieuwe Mercosur-verdrag en komende vrijhandelsverdragen zoals met India nadrukkelijk in dat wereldwijde, geopolitieke kader. Zelfs de inrichting van een EU-Veiligheidsraad met een twaalftal leden staat op de agenda. Dat daarbij meteen 'Arctische veiligheid' prioriteit kreeg kan niet verbazen. Bovendien heeft Noorwegen alarm geslagen over de cruciale eilandengroep Spitsbergen en Vladimir Poetins ambities daar. Ooit was dat een industrieel machtscentrum van de Republiek (het huidige Nederland) en haar mercantiele expansie op wereldschaal. Maar onverwacht werd niet de Poolregio het finale breekpunt voor Europa en haar partners. De 'Board of Peace' waarmee Trump de G7, de G20 en zelfs de VN wil marginaliseren was de laatste druppel. Een entreegeld van $1 miljard en de eerste invitatie aan Viktor Orbán deden de deur dicht. En vervolgens werden Poetin en Aleksandr Loekasjenko uitgenodigd. Deze bewuste poging om de instituties van de op regels gebaseerde wereldorde te onttakelen en door autoritaire structuren te vervangen cementeerde de alliantie van de EU met partners als Canada, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Noorwegen, Oekraïne en ook landen als Japan. "De ergste bondgenootschappelijke crisis sinds Suez in 1956" werd dit genoemd. De onsamenhangendheid van deze situatie is verbluffend. Terwijl Nederland met nieuwe heffingen bedreigd werd, nodigde Trump Dick Schoof uit lid te worden van zijn Board of Peace en Sigrid Kaag voor acties daarvan voor Gaza. En de Noren werden uitgefoeterd om de Nobelprijs en kregen ook strafheffingen, terwijl ze voor Arctische veiligheid onmisbaar zijn. De inzet om vanuit de coalition of the willing voor Oekraïne nu snel én een Europese NAVO-pijler én een eigen veiligheidsraad in te richten kreeg zo een forse impuls. Alsof dit niet incoherent genoeg was, begon Trump de partner uit 'the special relationship' uit te schelden. De Britten waren slapjanussen omdat zij het eiland Diego Garcia niet in hun macht wilden houden. Amerika dreigde daar plots een soort Krim in de Indische Oceaan van te maken. De geopolitieke consequenties hiervan worden duidelijk als je de locatie, militaire rol en strategische samenwerking rond dat eiland bekijkt. Niet alleen de Britten waren ontzet. Trump joeg met zijn heffingen ook zijn geestverwanten in Europa in de gordijnen. Jordan Bardella bleek een Gaullist, Alice Weidel deed of ze Merkel was, Giorgia Meloni was giftig. In feite isoleerde Trump zich van iedereen, behalve Poetin. Voor het Haagse schaakbord zijn deze turbulente ontwikkelingen evenzovele nieuwe realiteiten. Toen Rob Jetten en Henri Bontenbal hun eerste proeve van samenwerking formuleerden, was van ontmanteling van de NAVO, G20, VN en van de nieuwe EU-structuren rond defensie en geopolitiek nauwelijks nog sprake. Met Dilan Yesilgöz moeten ze hun fundamentele denklijnen vastleggen en Tweede en Eerste Kamer een krachtig, wenkend perspectief presenteren. Ook wat betreft de indringende consequenties voor investeringen in veiligheid, in wereldwijde diplomatie en bovenal in een zeer actieve rol van ons land daarbij na de verlamming onder Schoof. Voor de Voorjaarsnota en Prinsjesdag zal er een langetermijnperspectief moeten komen dat brede steun vindt in beide Kamers. Hoe goed is Rob Jetten als schaker op elk van de drie borden? *** Verder luisteren Het Europese Schaakbord 558 – Poetins rampjaar, Jettens kans https://omny.fm/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/558-2025-was-voor-poetin-een-rampjaar-2026-wordt-rob-jettens-kans 528 - ‘Europa, ontwaak!’ Manfred Weber en de eenzaamheid van Europa https://omny.fm/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/528-europa-ontwaak-manfred-weber-en-de-eenzaamheid-van-europa-en-vicepremier-vincent-van-peteghem-over-belgi-en-nederland 490 – Duitslands grote draai. 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De angel mag voor nu dan even uit de spanningen tussen Europa en Amerika zijn gehaald, na het gesprek van Rutte en Trump over Groenland. Dat wil niet zeggen dat het probleem is opgelost. David van Weel, demissionair minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, ziet dat 'de wereld van de machtspolitiek terug is', nu Amerika echt een andere koers vaart. Europa-verslaggever Geert Jan Hahn heeft het laatste nieuws uit Davos en blikt vooruit op de ingelaste EU-top. Luister ook | De Alliantie: 1 jaar Trump Desondanks ziet Van Weel nog wel aanknopingspunten voor de samenwerking tussen Amerika en Europa. 'We delen nog altijd veel waarden met de Verenigde Staten. De markten reageerden negatief, er is geen enkel draagvlak onder de bevolking van Amerika. Amerika is ook niet alleen maar de president.' Toch vindt Van Weel wel dat Europa door moet gaan met het opbouwen van eigen macht en kracht. Lees ook | Rob de Wijk: ‘Machtspolitiek zit niet meer in de genen van Europeanen’ Vraagtekens bij Board of PeaceIn Davos presenteerde Trump ook zijn Vredesraad (Board of Peace). Hier willen veel Europese landen niet aan meedoen. Minister Van Weel heeft ook zijn vraagtekens bij deze raad. 'Die board of peace lijkt te impliceren dat het niet alleen gaat over Gaza, wat volgens de VN-resolutie wel de bedoeling is, maar een breder doel lijkt te hebben.' Wat Van Weel betreft moet deze Vredesraad niet een vervanging van de VN worden. Luister ook | ‘Groenland annexeren is heel makkelijk voor Amerika’ Militaire afhankelijkheid van Amerika Nu de spanningen met Amerika verder opliepen deze week rijst de vraag of we ook op het gebied van militaire veiligheid minder afhankelijk van de Verenigde Staten moeten worden. Zoiets is mogelijk, denkt Bart van den Berg, hoofd veiligheid en defensie bij Instituut Clingendael. Al plaatst hij er wel kanttekeningen bij. 'Het kost veel tijd en geld, al ligt dat er ook weer aan hoe geavanceerd je je eigen militaire hardware wil maken.' Luister ook | Amerika Podcast Trump heeft Groenland binnen volgens Fox News | Postma in Amerika Amerika-correspondent Jan Postma heeft de hele avond naar Fox News gekeken. En daarin zag hij hoe de zender lyrisch was over de uitkomst van het gesprek van de president met NAVO-chef Rutte.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VOV1 - Các cơ quan truyền thông lớn của Lào như Đài phát thanh quốc gia, Đài truyền hình Quốc gia, Báo Paxaxon, Vientiane Times, Pathetlao đồng loạt đưa nhiều tin bài về Đại hội lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, thể hiện sự quan tâm lớn đến sự kiện chính trị trọng đại của Đảng và nhân dân VN.Trang nhất báo Pa-xa-xôn (Nhân dân), Cơ quan ngôn luận của Đảng Nhân dân Cách mạng Lào hôm nay đăng bài viết “Đại hội Đảng lần thứ XIV Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam diễn ra từ ngày 19-25 tháng 1”, bài báo có đoạn: “Với chủ đề: Dưới lá cờ vẻ vang của Đảng, chung sức, đồng lòng thực hiện thắng lợi các mục tiêu phát triển đất nước đến năm 2030; tự cường, tự tin tiến mạnh trong kỷ nguyên vươn mình của dân tộc, vì hòa bình, độc lập, dân chủ, giàu mạnh, phồn vinh, văn minh, hạnh phúc, vững bước đi lên chủ nghĩa xã hội”. Bài viết cũng nêu bật thực hiện Nghị quyết Đại hội lần thứ XIII của Đảng Cộng sảng Việt Nam,  đất nước Việt Nam giành được nhiều thành tựu rực rỡ và to lớn trên tất cả các lĩnh vực từ chính trị, ngoại giao, quốc phòng an ninh, kinh tế xã hội.Còn báo Pa-thet-Lao (Đất nước Lào) của Thông tấn xã Lào (KPL) hay Vientiane Times (Thời báo Viêng-chăn số ra ngày hôm nay (19/01) thì đều đăng trang trọng trên trang nhất về những thông tin liên quan đến Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam. Các bài viết đều khẳng định vai trò, vị thế của Việt Nam trên trường quốc tế và khu vực ngày càng được nâng cao.Cũng trong hôm nay (19/01), Đài Phát thanh Quốc gia Lào không chỉ dành nhiều thời lượng đưa tin đậm nét về Đại hội lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam mà còn phát sóng chương trình đặc biệt với chủ đề: “Nhiệt liệt chào mừng Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam”. Chương trình phát thanh đã điểm lại những thành tựu kinh tế - xã hội nổi bật của Việt Nam trong những năm gần đây, dẫn các số liệu cho thấy tăng trưởng GDP bình quân giai đoạn 2021-2025 đạt khoảng 6,3%/năm, thuộc nhóm cao trên thế giới.Các tin bài được đăng tải trên các cơ quan truyền thông lớn của Lào đều bày tỏ tin tưởng Đại hội lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam sẽ thành công tốt đẹp, đất nước Việt Nam tiếp tục phát triển, gặt hái nhiều thành công hơn nữa./.Trần Tuấn/VOV LàoChương trình phát thanh đặc biệt của Đài Phát thanh Quốc gia Lào có chủ đề: “Nhiệt liệt chào mừng Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc lần thứ XIV của Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam” cũng được đăng tải trên trang thông tin điện tử.Trang thông tin điện tử của Báo pasaxon (Nhân dân) - Cơ quan ngôn luận của Đảng Nhân dân Cách mạng Lào hôm nay cũng đăng bài viết “Đại hội lần thứ XIV của Đảng: Niềm tin và hy vọng phát triển.

- Động lực thúc đẩy mục tiêu tăng trưởng 2 con số năm 2026- Phỏng vấn PGS.TS Trần Chủng – Chủ tịch Hiệp hội các Nhà đầu tư công trình giao thông đường bộ VN về thu hút nguồn lực tư nhân đầu tư hạ tầng giao thông.- Hải Phòng: Khởi công 3 khu công nghiệp tổng vốn đầu tư 19 nghìn tỷ đồng

Een historisch VN-verdrag maakt het mogelijk een groot deel van de oceaan te beschermen tegen menselijke bedreigingen. Welk vogelvoer moeten we eigenlijk best in de tuin hangen en waarom? Kunstenaar Nathalie Wijker maakt prachtige natuurkunstwerken van papier. En hoe staat het met groen beleid bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen? En verder: hazen vangen en uitzetten, dassen, houtduiven, insectenverkiezing, Living Lab en onderzoek op Antarctica. De column is deze week van Bibi Dumon Tak.

Het stoppen van deze samenwerkingen past in een grotere strategie van Trump. Al eerder besloot Trump zich terug te trekken uit de World Health Organisation. Met het terugtrekken van de VS slonk het budget van de WHO met 20%. Een gat dat niet zomaar op te vullen is door andere deelnemende landen. Hoe groot zijn de gevolgen van het terugtrekken van de VS in deze VN-organisaties en hoeveel invloed heeft deze beslissing op de internationale rechtsorde? We gaan er vandaag uitgebreid over praten met Eerste kamerlid buitenlandse zaken, ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Europese zaken Farah Karimi.

Vandaag het gesprek met Sarah Nasrawi. Sarah Nasrawi (uitgesproken Na-Srauw-i) is 26 jaar, komt uit Amsterdam en is net terug van de klimaattop COP30 in Brazilië. Met een interdisciplinaire achtergrond in klimaat- en milieuwetenschappen en internationale ontwikkelingsstudies zet ze zich al jaren in voor klimaatrechtvaardigheid. Op COP30 rondde ze haar tweejarige mandaat af als VN-jongerenvertegenwoordiger, waarin ze samen met een collega de stem van jongeren uit het Koninkrijk liet horen in de nationale én internationale klimaatpolitiek. Laten we beginnen… Wat ik zoal leerde van Sarah: 00:00 intro - 02:15 Als jongerenvertegenwoordiger bij de COP30 in Brazilië. 03:10 Er wordt door politiek chronisch niet naar jongeren geluisterd, of valt dat mee? 05:25 De meningen van jongeren vooral opgehaald bij middelbare scholen en beroepsopleidingen. 07:55 Haar bijbaan naast jongerenvertegenwoordiger was energiefixer. 10:20 Een achtergrond van klimaatrechtvaardigheid, met ervaring in Tanzania namens ActionAid. 11:30 Door de confronterende reis naar Tanzania raakte ze meer geinteresseerd in schade en verlies, een onderwerp binnen de VN klimaat. 13:55 De stem van de Nederlandse jongere bestaat niet. 15:15 Educatie over klimaat is belangrijk voor jongeren, waarbij het vooral gaat over de waarom vraag. 17:00 Actief dwarsbomen van de bewustwording over klimaat. 18:35 De wetenschappelijke informatie over klimaat is wel beschikbaar, maar je moet het wel geloven. 19:50 Veel strenger optreden tegen de onzin die wordt verteld over klimaatverandering. 20:25 Meer transparantie over fossiele lobbyisten rondom de COP. 23:55 Welke belang heeft de medewerker van een bedrijf met een fossiele focus? 24:55 Duizenden jonge mensen gesproken, die ik anders niet zou hebben gesproken. 27:00 Wat drijft haar om zich zo in te zetten voor het klimaat? 28:20 Veel van de vrijwilligers van NJR doen er nog allerlei werkzaamheden naast. 29:10 Ruimte vinden voor jezelf zodat het mentaal gezond blijft. 30:55 De extra gevolgen voor vrouwen rondom klimaatverandering en klimaatrampen. 34:50 Je krijgt veel haatberichten als je je uitspreekt over het klimaat. 36:15 Als je echt iets wil veranderen moet je nationaal de politiek in. 36:55 Het aantal haat berichten tijdens één week van campagne voeren maakt dat ze het spannend vindt om de politiek in te gaan. 37:35 Veel onderwerpen minder politiek maken. Klimaat is bijvoorbeeld niet politiek. 38:30 Ultieme droom is dat klimaat geen 'links' thema meer is. 40:00 Opgegroeid met respect voor anderen, met diversiteit en met kunst, het is vreemd dat we dat links noemen. 40:50 Het is een politieke keuze om een neutraal onderwerp als klimaat, politiek te maken. 42:55 Je vindt elkaar in de waarom vraag. We willen hetzelfde. 44:05 Eigenlijk zou de BBB bij uitstek een klimaatpartij moeten zijn. 45:00 Een positie innemen waar je veel macht kan innemen en die positie delen. 47:55 Investeren in vriendschappen en vasthouden aan de relaties die niet binnen de bubbel zitten. 49:10 Gelijkwaardigheid, dat mensen een waardig leven kunnen hebben. Gelwaardigheid is geen einddoel, maar een proces. Meer over Sarah Nasrawi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-nasrawi-080877119/ Andere bronnen: Klimaatconferentie van Belém 2025 - Wikipedia - COP31 UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025 Wat heeft de COP30 VN-klimaatconferentie opgeleverd? Tommy Blomvliet Jongerenvertegenwoordiger - Wikipedia - Jongerenvertegenwoordigers | NJR Sarah Nasrawi - Nederland Maakt Impact Topconferentie 2023 ActionAid Climate Justice Summer School (nu de Feminist Climate Academy) Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: Leading Climate Scientist Saving Us - Katharine Hayhoe (boek) Video van het gesprek met Sarah Nasrawi https://youtu.be/OpMHQ6YRIKw Kijk hier https://youtu.be/OpMHQ6YRIKw

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Světovou operní hvězdu Emu Destinnovou doma dlouho neuměli přijmout a ocenit. „Představy o ženské kráse tehdejší doby byly velmi zvláštní a navíc rozhodovala komise složená výhradně z mužů,“ připomíná hudební historička Vlasta Reittererová. Spisovatelka Lucia Klein Svobodová ji ve své trilogii vykresluje jinak než tradiční portréty: „Vnímám ji jako divokou rebelku, nadprůměrně inteligentní osobnost,“ říká v pořadu Hovory Českého rozhlasu Plus.

VOV1 - Phát triển dược liệu quý gắn với bảo tồn, đồng thời bảo đảm các quy trình và tiêu chuẩn quản lý chất lượng. Đến năm 2030,thuốc sản xuất trong nước đạt khoảng 80% số lượng sử dụng và 70% giá trị thị trường, tỷ lệ sử dụng dược liệu nguồn gốc trong nước, thuốc dược liệu tăng thêm ít nhất 30%.Theo hướng dẫn của Bộ Y tế về hỗ trợ phát triển vùng trồng dược liệu quý thuộc Chương trình mục tiêu quốc gia phát triển kinh tế - xã hội vùng đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số và miền núi giai đoạn 2021 - 2030, tổng diện tích triển khai dự án vùng trồng dược liệu quý tối thiểu là 210 ha, bao gồm: Các vùng nuôi trồng dược liệu quý, khu vực nhà xưởng, cơ sở bảo quản, cơ sở hạ tầng về xử lý chất thải, giao thông, điện nước trong hàng rào dự án. Ưu tiên hỗ trợ dự án phát triển vùng trồng dược liệu quý có 30 ha ứng dụng công nghệ cao. Kế hoạch đến năm 2030: Thuốc sản xuất trong nước đạt khoảng 80% số lượng sử dụng và 70% giá trị thị trường, tỷ lệ sử dụng dược liệu nguồn gốc trong nước, thuốc dược liệu tăng thêm ít nhất 30% so với năm 2020, phát triển được 10 - 15 dược liệu di thực đáp ứng nhu cầu trong nước. Phục tráng, nhập nội, di thực, phát triển được 10 - 15 giống cây dược liệu có nguồn gốc nhập khẩu số lượng lớn...Đến năm 2045: VN có thuốc phát minh từ nguồn dược liệu đặc hữu được nghiên cứu, sản xuất và đăng ký bản quyền. Phấn đấu tổng giá trị ngành công nghiệp dược đóng góp vào GDP trên 20 tỉ USD...Ảnh TS.BS Nguyễn Tiến Chung

Die Verenigde Nasies se sekretaris-generaal, António Guterres, waarsku die volskaalse hervatting van vyandighede in Jemen kan ernstige gevolge inhou vir veiligheid in die Midde-Ooste. Jemeense regeringsmagte, gesteun deur ʼn Saoedi-geleide militêre koalisie, veg reeds sedert 2014 teen Houthi-rebelle. Magte met bande met ʼn separatiste-groep, die Suidelike Oorgangsraad, het hierdie maand tot by Hadramawt en al-Mahra opgeruk. Guterres veroordeel ook die voortgesette aanhouding van 59 personeellede van die VN en sy bondgenote:

Justisieminister Wise Immanuel lei Namibië se afvaardiging by die elfde VN-teenkorrupsiekonferensie in Doha. Die weeklange geleentheid sal na verwagting meer as 2 000 afgevaardigdes van reg oor die wêreld bymekaarbring vir besprekings oor voorkoming en bedreigings, insluitend kubermisdaad en KI-korrupsie. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die direkteur-generaal van die Teenkorrupsiekommissie, Paulus Noa, gepraat.

Meer as 170 lande is in Kenia byeen by die VN se Omgewingsvergadering en die lynminister Indileni Daniel is ook teenworodig. Sy sê Namibië se visie vir 'n sirkulêre ekonomie gaan verder as net afvalbestuur na industrialisering en ekologiese herstel. Daniel sê dat hierdie model plaaslike waardetoevoeging prioritiseer.

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Het werd vol bravoure gepresenteerd door president Trump: het staakt-het-vuren in Gaza dat nu een kritische tweede fase in lijkt te gaan. Toch vinden er dagelijks aanvallen plaats en trekt de VN aan de bel over de alarmerende situatie op de grond. Te gast is Sigrid Kaag, voormalig VN-gezant voor het Midden-Oosten en wederopbouw van Gaza.   (13:07) Trumps aanval op de tegenmacht  Hoeveel heeft de Amerikaanse president te zeggen over traditioneel onafhankelijke instellingen binnen de overheid? Mag hij bepalen wie er wordt aangenomen, en wie wordt ontslagen? Over die vragen buigt het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof zich deze week. Het zou kunnen leiden tot een grote uitbreiding van de presidentiële macht, die heel lastig weer terug te draaien is, vertelt Casper Thomas, journalist en VS-kenner van De Groene Amsterdammer. Presentatie: Chris Kijne. Luister 'Dichter aan het front' in alle grote podcastapps of op NPO Luister: https://npo.nl/luister/podcasts/895-stad-in-oorlog 

Vandag is Internasionale Teenkorrupsie-dag. Die tema vanjaar is “Saam met die jeug teen korrupsie: Vorm die integriteit van môre”. Volgens die VN verteenwoordig 1,9 miljard jongmense wêreldwyd byna 'n kwart van die bevolking. Hulle word onregverdig geraak deur korrupsie; met onderbefondsde skole, beperkte werksgeleenthede en beperkte toegang tot gesondheidsorg en openbare dienste. Tog is hulle ook uniek geposisioneer om verandering te lei. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die direkteur van die Instituut vir Openbarebeleidsnavorsing, Graham Hopwood, gepraat.

VŠECHNY EPIZODY V PLNÉ DÉLCE NAJDETE NA HEROHERO.CO/STUDION „Kubánci stále tančí tango s Fidelem Castrem, ale dnes už v rytmu blues – tedy v ponurosti, depresi a smutku. Duše národa je uplácaná do bezbarvé a beztvaré placky,“ popisuje atmosféru v zemi novinář Eduard Freisler. Karibský ostrov se potácí ve vleklých krizích. Ekonomika se zadrhává, zemi sužují rozsáhlé výpadky elektřiny a prudce také klesá počet turistů. „Režim teď opravdu nemá peníze, protože Venezuela se už deset let ekonomicky trápí, Rusko zabředlo ve válce s Ukrajinou a oni prakticky nemají odkud brát,“ říká ve Studiu N. Autor nové knihy Kubánské tango v rytmu blues říká, že situace v zemi je nejhorší za poslední desítky let. „Spousta lidí mi na jaře v ulicích Havany říkala, že za Fidela Castra bylo líp. Je to děsivé, protože Castro lidi popravoval, posílal do vězení a mučil je. Jeho diktatura byla ostrá a život těsný,“ připomíná. Současný režim je k vlastním obyvatelům ale také krutý. „Kubánský teror je hodně vynalézavý a podlý. Bavil jsem s lidmi, kteří skončili ve vězení a opravdu se tam už nikdy nechtějí vrátit. Na ulici vyšli zlomení,“ popisuje novinář. Ve Studiu N popisuje nástroje, kterými se režim snaží udržet u moci. Jedním ze způsobů, jak zastrašit své odpůrce, je povolání takzvaných brigád rychlého nasazení. „To jsou zarputilí castristé, určitě placení. Představte si je jako předvoj vojáků, takovou domobranu. Na vlastní kůži jsem zažil, co znamená takzvaná kampaň zapuzení, kterému čelila jedna z rodin, u které jsem byl. Před jejich dům přišlo kolem třiceti až čtyřiceti lidí, většinou starců a stařenek, a začali jim kolektivně hlasitě nadávat. U toho na obydlí házeli zkažená vejce, zkaženou zeleninu a zvířecí i lidské exkrementy. Ukazovali tím, kdo je tady odpad,“ vzpomíná v rozhovoru. Někteří lidé čelí ještě silnějšímu psychickému teroru. „Občas se k vašemu domu nahrne i dav o stovkách lidí. Nejvíc mě na tom mrazí ta řízená zuřivost. Ti lidé deset minut hulákají, jsou vulgární, chovají se jako chuligáni. A zničehonic se to utne, oni se rozejdou a vrátí se ke svým všedním starostem,“ říká Freisler. Jak dneska vnímají svou budoucnost mladí Kubánci a Kubánky? Proč se režimu stále daří držet u moci? Jakých omylů se vůči karibské zemi coby Západ dopouštíme? Vnímají obyvatelé Fidela Castra jako hrdinu, tyrana, nebo symbol už dávno ztracené éry? Jakou roli hraje Kuba v soupeření globálních mocností? A může se z té mizerie ještě dostat? Podívejte se na celý rozhovor na herohero.co/studion

Met vandaag: Hoe wil het kabinet drones boven Nederland bestrijden? | Morgen begint de rechtzaak tegen de broers en de vader van de 18-jarige Ryan Al Anjjar, die het slachtoffer lijkt in een eerwraakzaak. De vader, die de moord tegenover de Telegraaf heeft toegegeven, is niet in de rechtzaal aanwezig. Hij vluchtte eerder naar Syrie. Verslaggever Zainab Hammoud van Nieuwsuur probeerde de vader van de vermoorde vrouw op te sporen in Syrie |  De Italiaanse advocate Francesca Albanese is sinds 2022 de speciale VN-rapporteur voor Palestina. Ze sprak als eerste diplomate over een genocide in Gaza en krijgt sindsdien een storm van kritiek en haat over zich heen. Morgen verschijnt van haar hand een boek: Wanneer de wereld slaapt |  Paus Leo bezoekt morgen Turkije. Het is het eerste buitenlandse bezoek sinds hij in mei tot opvolger van paus Franciscus werd gekozen. Wat is het doel van het bezoek aan het land met een piepkleine Christelijke minderheid? | Presentatie: Rob Trip.

Met vandaag:  - Erwin van Veen over de VN veiligheidsraad die morgen over de toekomst van Gaza stemt - Judith Zilversmit stuit per toeval op de oorlogsgeschiedenis van haar familie en maakt er een podcast over  - Filmmaker Daya Cahen sprak met de Oeigoerse Kalbinur over de onderdrukking in Chinese concentratiekampen - En Hans Render recenseert de biografie van Jac P. Thijsse Presentatie: Mieke van der Weij

Met vandaag: D66 en CDA moeten alvast nadenken over een regeerakkoord | Eurocommissaris Wopke Hoekstra over de VN-klimaattop | Dichter der Nederlanden Babs Gons werd twee jaar lang gevolgd voor een documentaire | Back to the Future na 40 jaar terug in de bioscopen |  Presentatie: Chris Kijne