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The Models We’re Not Allowed to Have
This week a leading lab widened access to a system it once called too dangerous to release. The story isn’t...
Agents Without Principals
AI systems are already signing contracts, executing transactions, and committing resources. The legal infrastructure has not moved to meet them....
The Gap Between the Pledge and the Position
Gulf sovereign capital does not need a summit to deploy. The announcement is the diplomatic event. The investment is the...
The Body in the Room
The humanoid form factor answers the question of whether a robot can enter a human workplace. It does not answer...
Quantum Goes Public
A wave of quantum-computing IPOs has arrived years before the technology is useful. That is the story.
What AlphaFold Actually Changed
Four years after DeepMind solved protein structure prediction, the field has had time to assess the claim. The tool has...
AI’s Power Bill
The capability story has been told without its electricity story. The second is the constraint that decides what is buildable.
Capability Was Never the Bottleneck
The 2026 AI Index reports a sharp gain in agent capability. The deployment data tells a different and more important...
What the first RCT of AI in cancer screening has actually shown
The MASAI trial has now reported its primary endpoint. The result is positive, narrow, and instructive — about what AI...
The case against reading benchmark scores as capability
Frontier language models have risen very rapidly on most published benchmarks. It does not follow that capability has risen at...
Reasoning Is Not Intelligence
The new generation of AI models produces longer inference chains. That this constitutes reasoning in any philosophically meaningful sense is...
What the Beijing half-marathon actually proved — the unexcited version
A humanoid robot ran 21 kilometres in under 51 minutes. The engineering is impressive. The claims attached to it require...
8 tech and science events worth attending in 2026. Ranked by signal, not scale.
The tech conference circuit has a noise problem. Most events optimise for attendance, vendor exposure, and networking volume. The events...
GDP is rising. The workers who used to drive it are not.
The standard economic metrics for assessing the AI transition were not designed for a transition in which the cognitive layer...
AI made experienced developers 20% slower. Here is what that means.
The productivity case for AI in professional environments has been made emphatically. A 2026 study found the opposite effect for...
Your data from 2025 will be readable in 2035. That is not a metaphor.
The quantum threat to encryption is routinely described as a future problem. The most consequential attack vector is already operational....
Quantum Computing Will break the Lock Everyone Forgot to Replace
Quantum computing will not just break encryption. It will break the assumption of privacy that the entire digital world is...
