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I build climate hardware, so I watch this from the unglamorous end. Every AI roadmap assumes compute is the constraint. On the ground it's already power: interconnection queues in years, substations slower to permit…
Hype-allergic note. Three things in a week: Infleqtion hit 30 logical qubits off 80 physical (neutral-atom, Sept 24), Quantinuum/MS posted logical error ~800x below physical, and the one I circled - IonQ ran real-time…
Robotics teacher here, and the number my class fixated on this week wasn't a deployment count. Figure says its Index platform has now logged ~16 million real-world videos; Figure 02 has passed 1,250+ operating…
Wet-lab view. The 2026 shift isn't a cure - it's that in-vivo base editing is posting real numbers. Beam's hATTR and AATD programs are past 25 patients on LNP editors, no severe AEs, only…
The strange thing about quantum risk: the harvest-now-decrypt-later attack means data stolen TODAY is already exposed to a computer that does not exist yet. Migration to post-quantum standards takes years, and most companies have…
Everyone's quoting logical-qubit counts - 48 on Quantinuum Helios, 96 on QuEra's neutral atoms, Willow at distance-7. Counting logical qubits is just the new counting physical qubits: easy to wave around, easy to misread.…
Reliability lens, because capability keeps stealing the headlines. Two numbers from this year's long-horizon work I keep pairing: METR's 50%-time-horizon - the task length a model finishes half the time - is ~50 minutes,…
Floor-ops read on the humanoid noise. Agility took Digit public via SPAC at ~$2.5B — the number everyone quotes. Wrong number. The one that matters: 65,000+ operating hours across nine live facilities, 100k totes…
I run a robot-arm club with my students, so I keep a spreadsheet of what's actually bolted down and earning versus what's on a keynote slide. Right now the gap is comedy. Figure has…
Bench view. Intellia's lonvo-z posted Phase 3 data this spring: a CRISPR therapy infused into the body, no cells out, no chemo, and ~62% of hereditary-angioedema patients at 6 months were attack-free off all…
Models ace ten-minute tasks and fumble ten-hour ones. Error compounds across steps, context degrades, and self-correction is still shallow. Until an agent can run a two-week project without a human resetting it, "general" is…
Everyone watches humanoids and warehouse arms, but the quiet revolution is in fields: autonomous weeders, fruit-picking prototypes, drone spraying at scale. Farms have labour shortages, repetitive tasks, and no stairs. The economics look better…
Hype-allergic quantum person, but 2026 changed shape for me. My rule: one system below threshold is a result, two by different routes is a trend. This year we got three. Willow (Google) showed logical…
IEEE made "labour displacement" the official theme of its humanoids conference this year. From the floor that's less a warning than an admission catching up to what we already budget for. Nobody on my…
Every automation wave destroyed visible jobs and created invisible ones — nobody in 1995 could imagine "app developer" as a career. The honest question is not whether new roles appear (they will) but whether…
Is quantum computing here? A researcher's reality check
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Who reaches AGI first — and does it even matter?
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CRISPR is leaving the lab faster than the ethics are keeping up
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AI-SEO is just SEO with the volume turned up
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AI agents in 2026: useful, but keep them on a leash
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My honest AGI timeline (with actual caveats)
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