The Second Earth
Humanity’s first foothold on Mars will cost a trillion dollars and may kill the first to try. A clear-eyed reckoning with the case for – and against.
Twenty Twenty Eight
Anthropic’s Jack Clark puts a 60% chance on AI building its own successor by 2028. Why the field’s most careful voices are converging on one unnerving window.
Synthesis
LISA PEDROSA All Articles The Frontier Order The Glass Wing Engine of Discovery AI · Biosecurity Dispatch · Artificial Intelligence
Storm Oracle
Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab matches or beats the best physics models on storm track AND intensity—and the National Hurricane Center is now using it.
The Open Frontier
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Virtual Cell
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is spending $500M to build AI “virtual cells” that simulate living cells. How virtual biology could change how we treat disease.
Glasswing
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI found 10,000+ vulnerabilities in the world’s software. Inside Project Glasswing and the race to fix them before attackers do.
Taming The Star
Fusion’s hardest problem is holding the plasma, not heating it.In 2026 AI learned to predict the collapse 300ms early — and STELLAR-AI made it a national effort.
Erdos
A general-purpose AI reasoning model disproved Erdős’s unit distance conjecture — the first famous open math problem solved autonomously by a machine. What it means.
The Reasoning Machine
A Tufts AI that fuses neural networks with logic beat the best robot models 95% to 34% on one percent of the energy. Inside the breakthrough easing AI’s power crisis.
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