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No.344 — Major AI copyright case in the US ⊗ Toolkit for applied strategic foresight ⊗ The Anthropic Economic Index ⊗ The Forest Speaks
No.343 — Archigram keeps the dream alive ⊗ The META Trending Trends ⊗ AI to revolutionise fundamental physics ⊗ Inventing the Renaissance
No.342 — Hypernormalisation ⊗ Getting to know futures studies ⊗ DeepSeek reader ⊗ Chinese fusion power generation
DeepSeek is exploding onto the AI scene and already having a massive impact on AI labs, investors, business models, forecasts, and more. Here’s your overview and reading list.
No.341 — A Newspaper from a (Near) Future ⊗ The global struggle over how to regulate AI ⊗ These homes withstood the LA fires
No.340 — Artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world ⊗ How AI uncovers new ways to tackle difficult diseases ⊗ Libraries positively impact community health and well-being
No.339 — Did OpenAI just solve abstract reasoning? ⊗ Kind and wicked learning environments ⊗ Foresight Timeline ⊗ DeepSeek outpaces tech giants
No.338 — Without you, Patchwork is nothing ⊗ The rise of frictionless conformity ⊗ Science journalism becomes plain old journalism ⊗ Deliberate oxymorons ⊗ Trespassing for the Common Good
Dispatch — From Anhedonia to the Whisky War, 24 things I learned this year. Shamelessly copying Tom Whitwell’s 52 things and falling short.
No.337 — The alchemy that powers the modern world ⊗ Building A Circular Future ⊗ Open Source AI year in review 2024
No.336 — Rhizomatic thinking to unlock new ideas ⊗ USV built an AI brain ⊗ Trippy worm ooze ⊗ A new golden age of discovery
No.335 — Intertextuality ⊗ Low-carbon tech needs much fewer materials ⊗ You exist in the long context ⊗ Plastic-eating insect discovered
No.334 — Amulets against the spirits of the age ⊗ On distortion ⊗ Build your own commissioner ⊗ Liquid AI
