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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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