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Quantum’s Not Coming — It’s Already Hiring AI

Jensen Huang just admitted he was wrong about quantum. Now he says every supercomputer will soon include a QPU. Blink, and your “data center” becomes an AI factory for digital twins and robots.

Read Less, Know More: Launching Futurwise to Conquer Information Overload

We don’t lack content, we lack curation. The leaders of tomorrow will be those who can think clearly amid the chaos. The leaders will be those who use Futurwise to read less, but know more.

Amsterdam’s AI Welfare Dream Just Became a Nightmare

Amsterdam thought AI could end welfare bias. Instead, it proved algorithms can discriminate faster, and with greater confidence.

TikTok’s Newest Influencers Aren’t Even Human

Human influencers, beware, TikTok just launched AI influencers who don’t need lunch breaks or paychecks.

Nvidia Just Bottled the Climate

We finally have a digital twin of Earth with five-kilometer precision, and our first instinct is to help insurance companies raise premiums faster.

Synthetic Minds | IBM's Starling and the Robot Delivery Man

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers IBM’s quantum breakthrough that could outpace supercomputers by 2029, OpenAI’s privacy nightmare, humanoid couriers, deepfakes hijacking trust, and AI models bluffing as thinkers. Plus: why ethics as code still fails when your bot writes haikus about firing you.

The Death of the Click: How AI Just Erased Journalism’s Business Model

Google didn’t just change how we search, it's quietly vaporising the internet’s biggest business model, and the collapse has already begun.

Forget Neural Nets—Axiom Wants to Build Digital Brains

Large language models talk a good game, but they can’t think on their feet, this new AI architecture might finally teach machines to act like they mean it.

IBM Just Cracked Quantum Computing. Are You Ready?

Quantum computing was once science fiction—but IBM just claimed it solved quantum’s biggest bottleneck: fault tolerance. IBM's new quantum computer, Starling, promises a leap from today’s fragile prototypes to robust, large-scale quantum machines by 2029.

Alexa, Drop the Package—And Walk Away Slowly

If you still think the robot apocalypse starts with lasers, you haven’t met Amazon’s latest delivery driver. It is polite, electric, and built to replace you.