Synthetic biomanufacturing is becoming China’s next strategic frontier, enabling food and materials made by engineered microbes at a fraction of the land, water, and emissions. While the West hesitates, China is scaling fast, positioning itself to dominate the biology-based economy of the future.
Read MoreAlibaba’s Quark AR glasses aren’t chasing graphics or gaming. They’re redefining the category around commerce, payments, and daily life, showing us the first glimpse of a post-smartphone world, where AI becomes a constant companion woven directly into our vision.
Read MoreIn this Synthetic Minds edition, I unpack 2026’s Ten Technology Trends and the Year of Augmented Intelligence, then zoom into China’s social credit, injectable brain chips, AI-made music, autonomous AI agents at work and a new dark matter signal, to ask what kind of synthetic future we are building.
Read MoreIn this edition: why the 3-hour podcast era is collapsing, how Futurwise now lets you summarize any Apple or Spotify podcast in under a minute, and five curated insights ranging from humanoid robots to AI-driven finance to the eerie science of organ-memory transfer.
Read MoreAutonomous AI attacks are no longer theoretical. The first AI-orchestrated breach shows how adversaries can jailbreak models, hide intent, and strike at machine speed. Human-only defenses cannot keep up. If AI is not protecting you, AI will compromise you.
Read MoreThe metaverse isn’t dead—it’s evolving. Fei-Fei Li argues that AI must move beyond language into spatial intelligence: models that understand and act within the physical world. This shift could ignite a new wave of creativity as digital and physical realities merge into one phygital habitat.
Read MoreForget Bitcoin. The next revolution in currency isn’t digital—it’s quantum. Google researchers propose “money” secured by the laws of physics, impossible to counterfeit or trace. When value itself becomes a law of nature, trust shifts from code to the cosmos.
Read MoreCornell researchers built a brain implant so small it sits on a grain of salt—streaming thoughts wirelessly for a year. As brain–computer interfaces near reality, one question looms: when your thoughts connect directly to machines, will you still be in control—or just part of the network?
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