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WIPO PCT publication week 28/2026 goes live

WIPO’s Patentscope published PCT publication week 28/2026 on 9 July, opening the latest batch of international patent applications for technology scouting.

#EU #EUwide #Patents #Technology #Commercialisation

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/resultWeeklyBrowse.jsf

Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026

* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE

* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence

* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials

#mwgic #2026 #Fusion #Commercialisation #LLNL

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/inertia-moves-to-commercialize-one-of-the-worlds-most-elaborate-science-experiments/

@euspa* says they have no idea about the #Ariane6 costs 🤔🙈 https://fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/275068-replytoaccdocrequest-2026-1_geschwaerzt/

Such as
• Standard launch costs for Ariane 6 (per variant)
• The launch price for #Amazon
• The amount of #subsidies 💰 per launch, including and excluding development costs

* "charged with advancing the #commercialisation and market uptake of #EU 🇪🇺 Space data and services" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_the_Space_Programme#Overview

#LaunchCost #Europe #Democracy #Transparency

A chunk of prime real estate inside public national parks
An emerging threat to some of the last wild places

"Australia is at the forefront of private tourism development inside national parks and reserves – the trend ... is changing the nature of the country’s protected natural places."

“What has happened, just in the last few years, is that particular individuals have been granted rights by the state national parks agencies to build lodges inside national parks...Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce."

"Nature is disappearing at the greatest rate in human history...Public land in wild places should never be handed over for private development." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/australia-national-parks-eco-toursim-glamping-lodges
#conservation #NPWS #NationalParks #biodiversity #wildlife #PublicGood #PrivateInfrastructure #TourismIndustry #tourism #resorts #commercialisation

"The commodification of knowledge and the commercialisation of the higher education sector hinder attempts to reduce inequity. The higher education system needs to transform to be more open and responsive to societal needs, offering the opportunity to increase knowledge equity."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#commodification #commercialisation

US cash, sponsored shirts and TV deals: how money took over English football
#Sport #Business #EnglishFootball #PremierLeague #FootballEconomics #Commercialisation #MediaPower #TVRights #Capitalism #FanCulture #USInfluence #Neoliberalism #FootballHistory
https://the-14.com/us-cash-sponsored-shirts-and-tv-deals-how-money-took-over-english-football/

The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises

" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626

Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation

Halloween trick-or-treating - a drive-through neighbourhood:

Spoiler: Driving and idling (fossil fuel combustion), plastic decoration, sugar 'treats' and traps for native wildlife.

Haunted by the spectre of climate disruption and the prospect of an uninhabitable biosphere they drive to event spaces turning neighbourhoods into drive-through (commercial) amusement parks for Halloween and Christmas.

* "People drive from miles and miles to participate in destination neighborhood festivities. The same kind of dynamic has long happened with Christmas.Halloween has gone from a primarily walking holiday to a driving holiday."
Where Have All the Trick-or-Treaters Gone on Halloween? Destination Neighborhoods >>
https://www.collegetowns.org/p/where-have-all-the-trick-or-treaters

* "Research suggests about 30 percent of birds' nests may include human-made materials, posing a risk to nestlings. Halloween in Australia coincides with bird nesting season and birds are often looking for nesting material at this time of year, so there is the potential for these types of decorations to have a bigger impact here than in North America and Europe." >>
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/10/21/halloween-in-australia-how-an-irish-tradition-became-a-uniquely-local-celebration.html

* Halloween on one Sydney street has grown so big it’s now sponsored
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/30/halloween-renwick-street-sydney-trick-or-treat-sponsored

* Australians will spend a record $500 million on Halloween this year despite the so called cost-of-living crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/halloween-australia-growth-displays-community-connection/105954120

#Halloween #plastic #decorations #pollution #sugar #cars #driving #CarBrain #DriveThrough #traffic #suburbia #neighbourhoods #BigBoxStores #walking #SocialMedia #commercialisation #festivities #Christmas #NativeWildlife #birds #entanglements #pollution #spectacle #culture #ClimateDisruption #NSW

Les Éditions ISTE viennent de publier « Marketing appliqué des bibliothèques et services d’information : dispositifs et évolutions »
https://cltr.blogspot.com/2025/10/marketing-bibliotheques-et-services.html
#livre #référence #marketing #bibliothèque #information #IA #commercialisation #publicité #communication #stratégie #culture #France #Québec

Currently in a fascinating set of talks about commercialisation - I’ve typically woken up now we are into the examples rather than the operational side. I nearly ended up in this world once, but it never quite happened…

My involvement now is to try to help ensure our postgraduate researchers hold onto IP and get supported in developing it where appropriate…

#commercialisation #ip #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Research #spinout

And I chatted to Jonathan Walker from Innovate UK about translating #robotics research into the commercial sector. 🤖

https://www.robottalk.org/2024/10/25/episode-95-jonathan-walker/ #Robots #Robotics #Commercialisation

#ESA budget 📆 2024 dedicated to #commercialisation : 1,4 % 📊 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/01/ESA_budget_by_domain_2024 🥜

Ads and the enshittification of AI

I disagree with Ed Zitron on a lot but I think this is spot on, with a real risk that OpenAI will enshittify their consumer-facing product before they even really get it working in a way that has broad appeal:

OpenAI is reportedly looking at ads as a means to narrow the gap between its revenues and losses. As I pointed out in Burst Damage, introducing an advertising revenue stream would require significant upfront investment, both in terms of technology and talent. OpenAI would need a way to target ads, and a team to sell advertising — or, instead, use a third-party ad network that would take a significant bite out of its revenue. 

It’s unclear how much OpenAI could charge advertisers, or what percentage of its reported 200 million weekly users have an ad-blocker installed. Or, for that matter, whether ads would provide a perverse incentive for OpenAI to enshittify an already unreliable product. 

Facebook and Google — as I’ve previously noted — have made their products manifestly worse in order to increase the amount of time people spend on their sites, and thus, the number of ads they see. In the case of Facebook, it buried your newsfeed under a deluge of AI-generated sludge and “recommended content.” Google, meanwhile, has progressively degraded the quality of its search results in order to increase the volume of queries it received as a means of making sure users saw more ads. 

OpenAI could, just as easily, fall into the same temptation. Most people who use ChatGPT are trying to accomplish a specific task — like writing a term paper, or researching a topic, or whatever — and then they leave. And so, the amount of ads they’d conceivably see each will undoubtedly be comparatively low compared to a social network or search engine. Would OpenAI try to get users to stick around longer — to write more prompts — by crippling the performance of its models? 

https://www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it/

#advertising #ChatGPT #commercialisation #edZitron #enshittification #openAI #platformCapitalism

I understand why they’re doing this but there should be some way to turn it off:

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/05/i-wish-anthropic-would-stop-trying-to-optimise-user-engagement-with-claude/

#anthropic #claude #commercialisation #SocialMedia #userEngagement

From Radical Graffiti FB page.

#urbanism #commercialisation #dontBuy

"The #EHDS would make physicians and other #medical professionals complicit in the forced #commercialisation and #monetisation of every aspect of your #health without ever asking for your #consent.

It would destroy the Hippocratic oath of #confidentiality by which every medical professional is supposed to be bound."

I wrote a thing for @euobserver the other day:

https://euobserver.com/opinion/156943

#Academia
“When I finished the talk, I thought all these older people would encourage me as a young researcher. But as I stepped off the podium, a bunch of them came up to me and said, ‘We don’t believe anything you just said’.”

Prof who went on to co-found Moderna (among 41 companies!!!) was told to ‘find another job’ after pitching drug delivery idea

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/moderna-co-founder-told-to-find-another-job-after-pitching-vaccine-delivery-idea

#Research #Spinouts #Commercialisation #Universities #BioTech #Innovation #Academics

Ancien #prototype de #trollomètre portable de Hans #Prumpleffer, abandonné avant sa #commercialisation à cause du déclin de #Usenet.