Two developments landed this week that, taken together, say more about where technology governance needs to go than either does alone. OpenAI disclosed that its new model, Astra, Read more →
Published on human-continuity.org — AI & Ethics Briefing, July 2026 If you weren’t watching quantum computing closely, this past week would have been a good one to start. Read more →
IBM, Oak Ridge, and Cleveland Clinic used quantum computers to model materials for fusion reactors this month — a small, concrete example of quantum computing solving a real problem, not just clearing a benchmark.
Five stories, one pattern: AI as a property of the physical world it inhabits. Coevolution, not as metaphor — as literal mechanism. Closing essay · 2 June 2026 Read more →
The cryptographic substrate of digital civilisation is on a known retirement schedule. The question is who is in the room when the standards are set. U.S. National Institute Read more →
When quantum methods get embedded inside the everyday toolchain of engineers, the social meaning of the technology changes overnight. Quantinuum + bp · Quantinuum + Synopsys · 19–20 Read more →
Eighty years after ENIAC, a Penn lab demonstrates all-light switching at four quadrillionths of a joule — and the redistribution-of-power case for photonic AI. University of Pennsylvania · Read more →
Five universities, a quiet refusal of the prevailing tempo, and a wager on the quantum-AI hybrid future of scientific discovery. Google Quantum AI & Google.org · 11 May Read more →
A Stanford team has published the first credible signal that quantum infrastructure could one day belong to publics, not only to platforms. Stanford University · Nature Communications · Read more →
In the last weeks of May 2026, four announcements quietly redrew the map of what AI will become. None of them is the news you have been told Read more →