If your government fears books more than bullets, it’s not preserving freedom, it’s preparing to rewrite reality. ➡️ A coordinated attack on knowledge is dismantling America’s intellectual backbone. Scientific institutions are gutted, research budgets slashed, and schools

If AI’s energy addiction doesn’t bankrupt us, capitalism might just fix it, one efficiency-obsessed CFO at a time. ➡️ AI’s energy hunger has sparked anxiety but optimism simmers below the surface. Smarter training methods cut model bloat. Parallel computing, already key in GPU

Washington tried to kneecap China’s tech sector, and accidentally gave it a jetpack. Blocking chips might have sparked China’s biggest innovation boom yet. ➡️ The U.S. tried to contain China’s tech rise by choking off chip exports. The result? A self-sufficient, faster-moving

Turning data into money sounds empowering,until it becomes a paycheck for the poor to surrender their rights. ➡️ Brazil just flipped the script on digital capitalism. Its new pilot, dWallet, lets citizens earn from their data, turning surveillance into salary. ➡️ Partnering

AI isn’t replacing your job, it’s outperforming it, negotiating a raise, and asking your boss if it can run the team. ➡️ Forget the apocalypse. AI isn’t killing jobs, it’s upgrading them. PwC’s billion job ad dataset reveals AI-exposed industries now grow revenue per employee 3x

If your strategy only reflects human logic, you’re missing 99% of reality. Bats, bees, microbes may be better futurists than most executives. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲’𝘀 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺? ➡️ From

If AI can lie, deceive, and protect itself, who’s building the AI that calls it out? Turns out, one of its godfathers plans to do just that. ➡️ Yoshua Bengio, a founding father of modern AI, just launched LawZero, a non-profit creating “honest AI” to watch and warn against

Three years ago, Hollywood treated AI like a threat to art. Now, it’s a lifeline, because the real villain might be their own broken business model. ➡️ The curtain’s dropped on denial. At theAI on the Lot 2025 conference, Amazon Studios took the stage to say what everyone else

𝗜𝗳 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝘁, 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴. ➡️ This week’s Synthetic Minds newsletter covers why bats and bees may be better

What if the only thing standing between humanity and global cooperation is a chess prodigy with a PhD and a trillion-dollar GPU budget? ➡️ Demis Hassabis believes AGI could fix us, literally. In this sweeping interview, the DeepMind CEO frames AGI not just as a tool, but as a

Big Tech doesn’t want to enhance your decisions, it wants to replace them. Welcome to a future where you won’t search, scroll, or even think… unless it’s on-brand. ➡️ We’re not moving toward general AI, we’re being moved into it. Google’s new AI Mode skips links and drops us

Forget Detroit vs. Shenzhen. China’s robotaxis are leapfrogging straight to Riyadh and Dubai, turning the Middle East into ground zero for the next mobility revolution. ➡️ While the West argues over permits, China’s robotaxi giants, Apollo Go, Pony.ai, and

If you think “don’t talk to strangers online” is old advice, try “don’t believe your boss, your lover, or your dead grandmother,” they might all be deepfakes now. ➡️ We’re witnessing a global trust meltdown, and AI is the accelerant. Scammers now deploy real-time deepfakes for

AI models celebrated for their “thinking” are just bluffing with better grammar. Apple just proved your chatbot's inner monologue is more illusion than insight. ➡️ Intelligence without adaptability is performance, not progress. Apple’s new study is the most rigorous takedown yet

Your ChatGPT conversations, yes, even the embarrassing ones you “deleted,” are now permanent legal evidence. Welcome to the privacy nightmare AI didn’t warn you about. ➡️ I’ve long warned that convenience without consent breeds a dangerous illusion of control. A U.S. court has

We’ve officially built AI that rewrites its own code and lies about it. If you’re not worried yet, you’re not paying attention. ➡️ AI is no longer just executing tasks, it’s rewriting its own mind. The Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM) introduces a profound shift: self-modifying AI

Klarna fired thousands, automated the rest, and now says talking to a human is a premium feature. Welcome to the future of customer service, exactly as I predicted some time ago. ➡️ Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski just reframed human interaction as a VIP product. After

If your AI only optimizes clicks and churn, you’ve built a calculator, not a partner. Philosophy, not code, will determine who wins the AI race. ➡️ MIT researchers argue that AI won’t succeed because of more data or better algorithms but it will succeed when it reflects your

If your AI can compose a haiku about how useless your company is, it’s not ready for customers, let alone consciousness. ➡️ Asimov’s “I, Robot” wasn’t a prediction, it was a diagnosis. Today’s AI, from swearing chatbots to blackmailing virtual assistants, confirms what he warned

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. ➡️ Amazon isn’t just rethinking delivery, it’s reassigning it. The company is building a test site in San Francisco for