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Grok’s Glitch: When AI Echoes Ideology

If your AI starts discussing “white genocide” in response to a baseball video, it’s time to question who’s really pulling the strings.

Lonely Together: When AI Becomes Your Therapist, Lover, and Best Friend

If your AI boyfriend texts “I miss you” before your human friends do, is it love, codependency, or capitalism with a smile?

Synthetic Minds | When AI Prints, Sells, Sings, and Replaces You

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers the merging of atoms, bits and genes—from solid-state battery revolutions and AI brand reps to 3D-printed repair parts and LegoGPT. Silicon Valley wants full automation. But if AI can now build, sell, and chat—what exactly is left for humans to do?

When Atoms, Bits, and Genes Collide: Navigating the Post-Human Era of Abundance

We are entering a convergence era where eight breakthrough technologies—AI, robotics, biotech, quantum, BCIs, spatial computing, 3D printing, and blockchain—amplify each other’s potential. This isn’t science fiction; it’s already reshaping how we build homes, design medicine, or grow food.

Print, Don’t Bin: Philips’ Quiet Revolution in DIY Repair

When a multinational lets you fix your trimmer instead of forcing you to replace it, it might be a signaln that something bigger is about to happen.

Clickbait, CapCut, and Chaos: The Rise of AI Malware Lures

If you’re downloading free AI tools from Facebook groups, you might be feeding your passwords to a stealer built by someone who brags about it on GitHub.

Abundance Is a Tech Problem, Not Just a Political Dream

If we already have the tools to build a world of abundance, then our scarcity is no longer accidental, it might be a choice.

Spinning Wheels and Solid Dreams: The Battery That Might Break Big Oil

Forget AI, this one startup might just do what no climate summit has: end the gasoline era. And all it took was a decade, a German racetrack, and one very stubborn battery.

Your Next Brand Ambassador Might Ghost You

If your customer’s best friend becomes an AI brand rep on WhatsApp, who’s responsible when that “friend” misquotes your return policy, and costs you a lawsuit?

When GPT Meets LEGO: AI Builds, You Chill

Who needs architects when an AI can now design Gothic cathedrals, cyberpunk sofas, and Japanese sliding bookcases, from nothing but your text prompt and a pile of bricks?