Life in the Singularity

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The Open-Source AI That’s Beating Google and OpenAI at Science
For years, the dream of artificial intelligence has been to do more than just write emails or generate images; it has been to accelerate human discovery…
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Matt McDonagh
Has Science Finally Separated Truth from Illusion?
Have you ever marveled as an artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Gemini meticulously explains its thought process, solving a complex problem…
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AI Amplifies Agency and Ambition
The new unicorn is not a company with a thousand employees, but a company with a handful of high-agency creative disciplined joyful warriors and an army…
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The Game Changed, China Did It, Again
A groundbreaking new algorithm is set to supercharge the development of artificial intelligence, promising to make training the world's most advanced AI…
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The Prophet and the Platform
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Two-Front War for the Soul of AI
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July 2025

Grok Heavy is Built Different
Grok Heavy feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s an AI that doesn't just answer questions; it solves problems with a unique multi-agent system.
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Context Engineering Dethrones Prompt Engineering
I spent the first part of my career on Wall Street, first in the I-banking grinder and then co-founding a hedge fund.
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Linear Thinkers vs. the Factorial Future
Meet Avi.
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Giving AI Agents Eyes, and the Ability Make Tools
AI is skyrocketing but not all capabilities are progressing at the same pace.
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I Like Big Brains
Of all the bets ever placed in the history of this planet, the wager on a creature like Homo sapiens was the longest of long shots.
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Twin Singularities: Bitcoin & AI
It all starts, as these things so often do, with a handful of nerds getting unreasonably excited about something no one else understands.
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Reflections from a Self-Evolving World
In the first part of this series, I laid out a blueprint for a grand plan.
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