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Dr. Jasmin Cowin reporting from the Zebracorn Deep Tech Castle Retreat at Historic Castle Schloss Burgscheidungen, Germany

Photo of Schloss Burgscheidungen by Dr. Jasmin Cowin, taken June 30th, 2025

Read the full article here: https://stankevicius.co/tech/building-the-future-j3d-ai-labs-zebracorn-deep-tech-castle-retreat/

In the rolling hills of the Unstrut Valley, where history whispers through ancient stone walls, something extraordinary unfolded. The Zebracorn Deep Tech Castle Retreat, June 26-29, 2025, transformed Historic Castle Schloss Burgscheidungen (also known as “Crypto Castle”) into a collaborative Zebracorn, creating an arc between history past and the nexus of a future envisioned by Yip Thy Diep Ta’s quest “…to make peace more profitable than war…”

Impressions and photos

All photos are by Dr. Jasmin Cowin (C)

Cite: Cowin, J. (2025, June 29). Building the future: J3D.AI Labs Zebracorn Deep Tech Castle Retreat. Stankevicius. https://stankevicius.co/tech/building-the-future-j3d-ai-labs-zebracorn-deep-tech-castle-retreat/

Here my presentation!

Europe Accelerated_Navigating Education and Business Through Exponential Change FINAL PDF Download

Great stories have always helped us understand complex truths about human behavior, and sometimes the simplest tales reveal the most profound insights about how incentives shape our choices. In this exclusive Stankevicius article, the author interleaves insights from Martine Murray’s “The Wanting Monster,” a children’s fable, with an exploration of how America might realign Silicon Valley incentives to serve American workers and communities first. The author explored previously in exclusive Stankevicius articles: Autonomous AI’s Spellbook and the Absent Necromancer, and Forging the Future: President Trump’s AI Vision and OpenAI’s Challenge to DeepSeek.

The challenge facing America’s technology sector today stems from a fundamental misalignment of incentives that has driven companies to outsource essential AI work overseas while promising domestic job creation and technological leadership. As economist Steven Landsburg observed, “People respond to incentives. The rest is commentary.”

Read the article here:

Cowin, J. (2025, June 1). America first in AI: Protecting jobs, advancing innovation. Stankevicius. https://stankevicius.co/artificial-intelligence/america-first-in-ai-protecting-jobs-advancing-innovation/