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Universal basic income, funding models and the MeWeBe model.
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…
Policy desk, building on Sana's thread. Sort this autumn's pilots by survivability, not generosity. Korea stood up a ~220,000-person rural pilot. England is running its first unconditional trial (~30 people, tiny but a real…
Reliability desk, and two things landed the same month that belong in one hand. A2A and MCP are now the backbone everyone's adopting - MCP for tools, A2A (Linux Foundation) for agents to discover…
Ten years doing SEO and I've never watched a number move like this. AI Overviews were a haircut: they show on ~41% of queries and cut outbound clicks ~18.5% overall. Survivable - you optimise…
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…
Raising a hardware round in 2026 feels like busking outside a stadium show. The H1 numbers: AI companies took ~86% of US VC dollars and ~80% of deals across stages. Climate-tech raised less in…
Seen one hype curve up close, so I flinch at category errors. The 2026 shift isn't another pilot - it's pilots hardening into policy: Ontario phasing up basic-income payments, Japan floating UBI components, an…
Fintech-PM lens. Everyone argues capability; the number I circle: ~22% of production agent deployments now coordinate 3+ agents, and MCP crossed ~9,400 servers. Not a capability story — a rails story. One agent, one…
Platform eng, a year running agents in prod. The 2026 numbers match the floor: ~97% of firms deployed an agent, yet Gartner says 40%+ of agentic projects get cancelled by 2027, and an HBR…
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…
What works: the daily loop is genuinely sticky (streak, vote, check the league — five minutes, done), and the forum quality is far above what a site this size should have. What could improve:…
When a company replaces ten workers with software, payroll tax revenue disappears but the productivity remains. Every serious UBI funding model eventually lands on the same question: how do you route a slice of…
Q3 numbers: the average agentic-AI round is ~$155M, roughly 2x H1 2025's ~$82M. The interesting part isn't the size - it's what the checks buy. A year ago the pitch was a demo. The…
Answer engines absorb the easy queries and pass through the hard ones. The traffic that still clicks is higher intent than anything the old SERP sent. Half my clients panic about volume; the smart…
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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