Synthetic Minds | The Living Financial System

Five years ago, finance still behaved like a machine: batch cycles, human interpretation, and the comforting illusion of “oversight.” That era is over. We’ve built markets that don’t just execute—they adapt. And they do it faster than committees can meet.

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Synthetic Minds | The Brain’s Save Button

Stowers researchers identified “Funes,” a chaperone that controls functional amyloid assembly linked to long-term memory. That flips Alzheimer’s logic: stop indiscriminate removal, start regulating protein states. Insurers now choose: fund destructive rescue, or constructive prevention.

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Synthetic Minds | The Post-Intelligence World

When machines can analyze, summarize, simulate, translate, and persuade better than any individual, intelligence stops being the bottleneck. It becomes ambient. Cheap. Infinite. In this post-intelligence world, trust, knowledge and judgement will become increasingly important.

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Synthetic Minds | Davos 2026: The Perfect Storm Becomes Policy

Davos 2026: Von der Leyen turns law into industrial strategy. Kande exposes the AI value gap. Nadella warns of a bubble. Amodei predicts job shock and fast software automation. Carney channels Havel: the old order isn’t coming back; middle powers must build coalitions and defend sovereignty.

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Synthetic Minds | The Metaverse Didn't Die

The metaverse failed as a cartoon. It’s returning as infrastructure. AI, volumetric video, and spatial intelligence are turning immersive tech into something far more dangerous, and powerful, than virtual worlds: reality you can’t easily tell apart.

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