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AI Just Learned to Write DNA—What Could Go Wrong?

What happens when AI starts writing genomes from scratch? Evo-2, the largest biological AI model ever, just did exactly that.

Agentic AI: The Intern That Won’t Take a Coffee Break

AI isn’t just assisting anymore, it’s deciding. Agentic AI is moving beyond chatbots and into real-world autonomy, running supply chains, adjusting financial trades, and even managing employees.

AI Won’t Level the Playing Field—It’ll Tilt It

AI was supposed to close the gap between the best and the rest. Instead, it’s creating an escalator for the elite, while everyone else is left scrambling for the stairs.

AI ‘Superpowers’ or Just a Super Search Engine?

Google’s new AI research assistant is being hyped as a game-changer for science, but so far, it hasn’t actually discovered anything new. If AI is supposed to accelerate breakthroughs, why is it just repackaging existing knowledge?

AI Is Aging—And Forgetting Like a Human

Your AI might be smarter than you today, but give it some time and it might start forgetting things just like your grandpa.

AI Is Eating the Web—And This Time, It’s Coming for Itself

AI is now feasting on its own leftovers. The question is: how long before it starves?

What if Scaling GPUs does not Bring us AGI?

Half a trillion dollars later, the AI industry is quietly admitting what some of us have suspected all along: scaling alone won’t get us to AGI. The “just add more GPUs” era is running out of steam.

Synthetic Minds | The Arrival of the Quantum Era

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers a major breakthrough in quantum computing, Musk’s AI-first government experiment, and Nokia’s lunar 4G network. From AI quietly shaping your thoughts to the enshittification of the internet, we explore the forces redefining our digital and physical world.

Your Most Important Customer Might Not Be Human

Forget about convincing people to buy your product. AI might be the one making the decision. If your brand isn’t optimized for AI-generated recommendations, you’re already losing customers you never even knew you had.

AI is Making Us Smarter—Or Just Better at Skimming?

If AI keeps thinking for us, will we forget how? Generative AI is reshaping knowledge work, but not in the way we hoped.

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