Podcast PulseZ | Ep. 11: Artificial Intelligence – From neural networks to the future of jobs, with Dr. Răzvan Florian
Is Artificial Intelligence just a complex algorithm or a force that will completely redefine the way we live and work? In the debut episode of the PulseZ podcast, Anastasia Sucitu welcomes Dr. Răzvan Florian—a researcher with over 20 years of experience, AI consultant, and president of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology.
PulseZ | Ep. 19: The war in your feed: How does the daily scroll manipulate us? With Oleg Onea (Part III)
Your phone is the new battlefield, and information is the ammunition. 📱🛡️
Why Building a Personal Brand Online Is the Most Important Thing You Can Do Right Now
What does it actually take to build a personal brand that opens doors, attracts opportunities, and generates real income? In this episode, I break down what a personal brand truly is, why it matters more right now than ever before, and the five concrete steps you can take today to start building yours. From building in public to multiple revenue streams — this is the episode for every young entrepreneur and creator who is ready to stop waiting and start showing up
Scrolling Past Each Other: The Slow Death of Empathy
You open social media and start scrolling through stories. The first story is a friend’s vacation photo. The next one shows a natural disaster somewhere in the world. Then you stumble upon footage from a war zone, genocide, and many dead bodies. Before you even have time to process what you just saw, the next post appears, and you see another joke, meme, or an ordinary moment from someone’s day.
Al and the Future of Work: Replacement or Reinvention
Artificial intelligence is often imagined as a thinking machine, but in reality it is far closer to a powerful pattern-recognition tool trained on vast amounts of data. While many fear that AI will replace human work entirely, history suggests that new technologies usually transform jobs rather than eliminate them. Machines may excel at speed and analysis, yet qualities such as empathy, moral judgment, and lived experience remain uniquely human. The real challenge, therefore, is not whether AI will shape our future, but how we choose to use it.
Anemoia: nostalgia for the past or a cry for help?
Recently, it has become a common trend for teenagers to reminisce about how great it would be to live in a different time period. What has caused this feeling, and why? Might it be that the more times change, the more we wish to return to the past?
We Can’t All Be CEOs
With the European Commission proposing a new EU-wide framework to make it easier to start companies, entrepreneurship is becoming not just a trend, but a policy direction. Yet as more young people turn toward self-employment and startup culture, an important question emerges: what happens to the jobs that keep society functioning?
ASML: The Backbone of the Microchip Industry
Smartphones, cars, satellites, modern war drones (UAVs) – all of them run on microchips. But behind every advanced microchip lies a highly complex EUV lithography machine that prints patterns 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. These extraordinary game-changing machines are designed and manufactured exclusively by ASML.
