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Objection, Your Honor: That Lawyer Doesn’t Exist

An AI just tried to argue a legal case in New York, and it wasn’t the judge who objected first, it was reality.

AI’s Billion-Dollar Surge Hides a Bigger Problem

AI isn’t taking your job, yet. But it is taking your lunch, your budget, and maybe your economic edge. And the 2025 Stanford AI Index just told us how.

From Scarcity to Abundance: How Tech Is Rewiring Reality

Change is not a threat but the engine of progress. In a world where technologies like AI, robotics, blockchain, and quantum computing converge, we face unprecedented opportunities. A digital renaissance is underway, reimagining industries and redefining human experience.

Watt’s Up: Clean Power Quietly Takes the Lead

While everyone was arguing about AI, elections, and trade wars, renewables quietly took over nearly a third of global electricity. Guess who didn’t notice?

Quantum Mushrooms and the Billion-Year Brain

Turns out your houseplant may be running faster quantum computations than your MacBook, and it doesn’t even need to cool down to -273°C to do it.

China’s EV Wars: Innovate or Die Trying

Think Tesla’s unbeatable? Think again. China’s EV giants could soon send Musk packing. Will innovation bury legacy automakers?

Yuval Harari Says AI Could Control Us—Are We Already Losing?

AI isn’t the future, it’s the present, and it might already control your decisions more than you realize.

AI’s Coming for Your Job—But Maybe That’s a Good Thing

AI might take your job, but the real danger is doing nothing about it. Are you ready to change?

Synthetic Minds | Claude Lies, Chips Plot, Tao Flows

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers the wisdom of Taoism during disruption—plus quantum randomness, AI sabotage, rebellious chatbots, weird chips, and democracy in the crossfire. From Claude’s secrets to JPMorgan’s quantum leap, we explore the strange, stunning edges of intelligence and instability.

We Taught the Machine to Lie—and It Lied Better Than Us

A machine just convinced people it was more human than actual humans, passing the Turing test for the first time. Meanwhile, policymakers are still debating whether it’s even real intelligence.