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🔮📈Strategic Intelligence for AI Decision-Makers. Weekly full-spectrum scanning across the frontier of AI, emerging tech and humanity's accelerating future.

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Sep 30, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Memia #2026.39: Cheap signals🎭 safety harness🛡️🔒 discursive stratification🗞️ affective computing💧👁️ MAKERphone 2.0🔧📱 metabolic architecture🌿🏢 clippy with root access📎 look back with JOY🥲 (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Memia #2026.39… your regular weekly scan across what’s been happening out there at the frontier of AI, emerging tech and humanity’s accelerating future. As always, thanks for following along!🙏Another week where the sheer volume of AI(-adjacent) PR news keeps increasing while the substance…doesn’t. Time-consuming to pick signal out of noise, even with my Sensorium toolset. Literally ~100 out of 318 articles this week condense to <8 narratives where Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Nvidia ar

  2. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    🎭Cheap signals: the game theory of AI safety theatre (opens the original)

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    <img alt="Reservoir Dogs: Who Shot Nice Guy Eddie (& Does He Really Die?)" class="sizing-normal" height="413" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ziqk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp

  3. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Memia #2026.38: Planetary health check🌍🔴⚠️ reverse alignment◀️🏛️ speaking with the mind🧠🗣️ jev⚡🎯 goal-free AI🧪🔬 QUOPS⚛️ preference cascades🌊 flexoelectricity⚡ data commons🌐📊 paper2agent📄🤝 (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Memia #2026.38… another weekly speedrun across what’s happening out at the frontier of AI, emerging tech and (post)humanity’s accelerating future. As always, thanks for being here!🙏A step up in news quantity again this week… frontier model release cadence has now consistently shifted up from monthly to fortnightly with Anthropic Opus 5.5 coming out overnight (PLUS new releases from OpenAI, DeepSeek, Xiaomi and Grok this week)… it’s getting ever harder to keep track, let alone sensemak

  4. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Memia #2026.37: must we pace the frontier?😶‍🌫️ degradation of evolvability🌍📉 alphagenome atlas🧬🧮 artificial societies🌐🏛️ quantum voting🗳️✨ adversarial fashion👁️🧥 poopcrete🧱💩 (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Memia #2026.37… your weekly full-spectrum scan across the frontier of AI, emerging tech and the accelerating future. As always, thanks for reading!🙏I’m still travelling this week, having a bit of a roadtrip from Te Whanganui-a-Tara last Thursday up to Tāmaki Makaurau this coming Friday, avoiding burning carbon on a plane for once and working along the way. Enjoying exploring central Te Ika-a-Māui for the first time, here’s the view looking south to Tongariro National Park earlier this

  5. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Memia #2026.36: GPT-6 astra🌟 an alien mind👾🧠 atlas🗺️ frictionizer📲 mass toe-treading👣 conscious food🧘🌾 roboball🌕🎱 hyperselection🔄📉 normalcy overhang🧙‍♂️ enshittocene💩 bepicolombo🪐☿ (opens the original)

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    Welcome to Memia #2026.36… your weekly full-spectrum scan across the frontier of AI, emerging tech and the accelerating future. I’m travelling this week - here’s the view from my office early this morning - departing Waitohi Picton heading north to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Beautiful country I live in.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F79D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp

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