A new analysis quantifies what we’re losing in the pharmaceutical supply chain — and the data confirms something worse than dependence. It confirms a system designed to prevent its own repair.

Microsoft says the Frontier Firm is born. The real frontier is whether we can govern what we’re about to delegate.

In Titus and Platt’s SF novel, a colony of humans discovers horrifying secrets on their newly chosen planetary home after fleeing a dying Earth.

Responsible-by-design reframes legitimacy as something that is earned continuously, not bestowed once

The central principle is simple: governance intensity should scale with risk, not with rhetoric

When governance moves slower than system behavior, even well‑intentioned designs become dangerous

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Accelerationists vs. catastrophists in the decade defining convergence

Why personalized gene editing, genetic resurrections and embryo scoring made our list.

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Technology can be a powerful force for good. It can also be an enormous factory for harmful ideas. We tried to keep both of those things in mind when creating the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026.

Proportionality is how complex societies remain functional in the presence of uncertainty

Three stories; six parameters

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Intelligence on tap will rewire business. Every leader needs a new blueprint. The time to act is now. The question is: how will you adapt?

Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to…

Four ways to think about this year's reckoning

GPT-5 created novel wet lab protocol improvements, optimizing the efficiency of a molecular cloning protocol by 79x.

This former graduate student felt like a fish out of water—until she discovered her true passion

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Closing reflections on the series and the world that birthed it

The coming age of scientific superintelligence and the technologies that will make it possible

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I brought the science, and Sean brought the fiction. How a novel partnership built Synthetic Eden into a hard science fiction take on modern bioethics and genetic engineering.

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What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life

How specialized AI models are rewriting the code of cell identity and accelerating regenerative biology

From decoding life to redesigning society, the moonshots that chart our biological future

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At the frontier of technology, humanity is the experiment. The question now is, who is designing the experiment?

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On dire wolves, de-extinction, and the strange privilege of building what comes next

Today, an entire submission for a new gene therapy had been reviewed in under four hours

A primer on the growing importance of biotechnology in the 21st century intended to be a complement to the upcoming final report of the U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

The question isn’t whether fiction influences policy. It’s how consciously we use it.

As someone who sat on the National Academies’ study committee on AI and Biosecurity, I can tell you: the truth is neither so dire nor so utopian.

I have no doubt that mirror life will continue to be a topic of interest in synthetic biology and biosecurity circles. But I am not ready to buy into the panic just yet.

In a world of perfect control, an unlikely bond reveals the fragile humanity within the synthetic

AI-driven breakthroughs were piling up so fast it felt like we were racing toward some inevitable singularity where life itself would be programmable. Are we?

In a world where life is engineered and perfection is manufactured, what does it mean to be human?

As sequencing technologies unlock a wealth of biological data, a lack of standardization threatens to limit its potential—here’s why we must act now

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