Opinion Aug 29, 2026

It’s Not Slop. It’s Kudzu

Before you call AI music "slop," consider: recorded sound was once the devil's work. Now it's kudzu. Welcome to the end.

RU Sirius 14 min read

01 AGI Oct 1, 2026

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02 AI Oct 5, 2026

AI-assisted proof establishes new lower bound for Riemann zeta zeros on critical line

03 AI Oct 5, 2026

Google completes Project Suncatcher prototype launch for orbital AI compute

04 AI Sep 25, 2026

Chinese robotics startup Spirit AI predicts 2027 breakthrough for general-purpose robot intelligence

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Article Oct 2, 2026

Finding the Beneficial-Superintelligence Attractor

How to make Early-stage AGIs Evolve Into the Basin of the “Beneficial Superintelligence” Attractors?

Ben Goertzel 41 min read

AGI Oct 2, 2026

Distinction-Calculus: New Math for Minds That Can Fork, Merge and Morph

Ben Goertzel’s distinction calculus proposes mathematics for AI agents that split, merge and rewrite themselves, raising a central AGI question: how can changing minds preserve what matters?

Ben Goertzel 50 min read

Optical AI Screens 15 Videos for Deepfakes

MIT Study Challenges Assumptions About Shared AI Hiring Algorithms

Counterfactual Tests Expose Weak Spots in AI Reasoning

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Editor's choice Sep 29, 2026

NESS, the Neural-Symbolic Sandwich

A new direction for making transformers AGI-friendly—via judiciously mixing continuous symbolic program learning into open-weights transformers.

Ben Goertzel 43 min read

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AI

New AI system becomes world champion at Stratego

Researchers from MIT and several other universities have developed an AI called Ataraxos that defeated top human players at Stratego, a board game of hidden information that has long resisted AI mastery. The system achieved this using far less training data and computing power than previous attempts, and could help decision-makers in military, business, and cybersecurity settings.

Oct 1, 2026

Explainable AI Finds Cancer Clues in Tissue Patterns

AI Matches Bacteria With Viruses That Infect Them

Space

Quantum Space Secures Ground Support for Prime’s Planned 2027 Launch

Sep 30, 2026

NASA Tests Plastic–Dust Composite for Future Moon and Mars Manufacturing

SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for first time on 14th test flight

Robotics

Innodata Opens Motion-Capture Lab for Robot Training and Testing

Sep 30, 2026

AI Trains Microrobots to Navigate in Minutes

First Hydrogen Completes Modular Unmanned Ground Vehicle Build

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Technology Oct 2, 2026

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Physics-guided AI promises more reliable path to new materials

AI scientist at Swedish university generates and validates biological discoveries autonomously

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