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George Tsimpilis
Founder & Engineer at Mental Bound · agentic AI systems
George Tsimpilis is the founder and lead engineer of Mental Bound — a digital engineering studio he started in Athens. His work focuses on production AI systems: agentic automation, RAG pipelines, document intelligence, and embedded AI features.
Trained in Computer Science, George has spent over a decade designing and shipping full-stack software — from cloud infrastructure and data platforms to intelligent web applications. Since 2023 his focus has been agentic engineering: systems that don't just respond, but reason, plan, and act inside production workflows.
He writes and edits the Mental Bound Signals page and glossary personally, with research support from Anthropic Claude. Topics range from open-source AI infrastructure to commentary on the people and companies shaping modern AI.
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Articles by George
How to set up Claude Cowork on Mac or Windows
Claude Cowork turns Claude's desktop app into an agent that works inside a folder. The safe setup, the plan you need, and the Linux catch.
Anthropic's finance agents: what EU fintechs can adopt now
Anthropic shipped ten finance agent templates in May 2026. Which fit EU fintech work today, and which land in high-risk AI Act territory.
Attention Is All You Need: the paper that built modern AI
A 2017 Google paper introduced self-attention and quietly redesigned every modern language model. What it did, and why it still matters.
Solarpunk and the AI era
Why solarpunk's grounded optimism — technology in harmony with nature and community — is the counter-narrative AI needs.
MiroFish: predicting the future with swarm intelligence
An open-source multi-agent engine that builds parallel digital worlds — thousands of agents — to forecast policy impact and social dynamics.
Tokens: the new utility bill
As AI becomes infrastructure, token consumption becomes the metered cost of intelligence — a new line item with new divides.
NVIDIA teases NemoClaw ahead of GTC 2026
NVIDIA teased NemoClaw, a multi-agent orchestration platform, days before the GTC 2026 keynote. The bet: orchestration over bigger models.
Perplexity Computer: the age of the digital worker
Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 frontier models into a digital worker that ships finished outcomes. What it means for IT and engineering.
Why every business will run on AI
AI integration is moving from competitive advantage to baseline expectation. Where it lands first, and why waiting compounds the cost.
Anthropic holds its red lines with the Pentagon
Anthropic refused the Pentagon's demand for unrestricted Claude access. Two red lines — mass surveillance and autonomous weapons — set a precedent.
The Pentagon–Anthropic standoff: what's at stake
The Pentagon's 'all lawful purposes' mandate forces Anthropic to choose between safety principles and its defense contract. The precedent matters.
OpenClaw: the open-source AI assistant that started as a weekend hack
How Peter Steinberger's WhatsApp relay script became a 100,000-star movement — and what it says about the future of personal AI.
OpenAI: the company that sparked the AI revolution
From nonprofit research lab to the most influential AI company in the world — OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the decade that changed everything.
Gemini: Google's bid to own the AI era
Natively multimodal models, a million-token context window, and distribution across billions of users — Google's most serious AI effort yet.
Anthropic: the safety-first company behind Claude
The company that believes it may be building one of the most dangerous technologies in history — and presses forward anyway, deliberately.
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