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Synthetic Minds | The Living Financial System
Five years ago, finance still behaved like a machine: batch cycles, human interpretation, and the comforting illusion of “oversight.” That era is over. We’ve built markets that don’t just execute—they adapt. And they do it faster than committees can meet.
Synthetic Minds | The Brain’s Save Button
Stowers researchers identified “Funes,” a chaperone that controls functional amyloid assembly linked to long-term memory. That flips Alzheimer’s logic: stop indiscriminate removal, start regulating protein states. Insurers now choose: fund destructive rescue, or constructive prevention.
Synthetic Minds | Intelligence Is Outrunning Governance
The coming decade won’t be defined by who builds the smartest models. It will be defined by whether humans, leaders, boards, governments, are willing to reclaim judgment when certainty disappears
Synthetic Minds | Data Is the New Highway System for National AI
The AI race won’t be decided by GPUs alone. It will be decided by who treats data as public infrastructure—open, interoperable, rights-cleared, and governed. The UK’s push to open national datasets is the clearest signal yet: build the roads, and innovation follows.
Synthetic Minds | The Post-Intelligence World
When machines can analyze, summarize, simulate, translate, and persuade better than any individual, intelligence stops being the bottleneck. It becomes ambient. Cheap. Infinite. In this post-intelligence world, trust, knowledge and judgement will become increasingly important.
Synthetic Minds | Davos Day 4: New Thinking or Social Whiplash
IMF: an AI job “tsunami” for youth. Davos: “jobs, jobs, jobs.” Cyber leaders: AI vulnerabilities are the top risk. Musk: robots outnumber humans. Day 4’s conclusion is brutal and simple, tomorrow’s disruption cannot be managed with yesterday’s thinking.
Synthetic Minds | Davos 2026: The End of Pretend, and the Start of AI Reality
Davos dropped the polite fiction: the world order is rupturing, alliances are stressed, and geopolitics now shapes AI governance and supply chains. AI is moving from pilots to measurable deployment, but value distribution and job disruption are unavoidable. Trust and resilience decide winners.
Synthetic Minds | Davos 2026: The Perfect Storm Becomes Policy
Davos 2026: Von der Leyen turns law into industrial strategy. Kande exposes the AI value gap. Nadella warns of a bubble. Amodei predicts job shock and fast software automation. Carney channels Havel: the old order isn’t coming back; middle powers must build coalitions and defend sovereignty.
Synthetic Minds | The Metaverse Didn't Die
The metaverse failed as a cartoon. It’s returning as infrastructure. AI, volumetric video, and spatial intelligence are turning immersive tech into something far more dangerous, and powerful, than virtual worlds: reality you can’t easily tell apart.
Synthetic Minds | The Battle for AI is Far from Over
AI policy is no longer a technical debate. It’s a geopolitical struggle over power, values, and human impact. As automation and robotics accelerate, the choices made in Washington, Brussels, and Beijing will define who leads, and who follows.