Many of us have heard the term “superintelligence” or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It represents the next generation (whenever that arrives) of AI. The expectation is that AI will progress to became an all-knowing, all-fixing entity that cures diseases and solves society’s ills. Until recently, there was consensus. The major players, Google, OpenAI, and the rest, were marching toward the same destination: a singular, omnipotent mega-brain. A scarce resource, gated behind an API for those willing to pay. Fork That Enter Meta, or more accurately, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta was following the same path, but they’ve reassessed. Their version of AGI

Did you ever watch The Terminator and at some point reassure yourself that the T-800 was cool but not gonna happen in your lifetime? Yeah, well, about that… In late 2025, the Chinese military deployed UBTECH’s Walker S2 Robot on the border with Vietnam. This wasn’t a pilot project or a tech demo; it was a scaled rollout of a paradigm shift in border security, and probably much more. The objective behind these robots is part of China’s “Smart Customs” and Military-Civil Fusion initiative, where algorithmic enforcement supplements human authority. If that sounds worrying, it’s because it is. The blurring

Have you ever looked at a product online and told yourself you will sleep on it, only to see the price hiked up the next time you check? Whilst that may have just been a sad and annoying coincidence, it was most probably algorithmic pricing (AP) doing its thing, and it is a shady side of modern sales. The sad truth about AP is that it appears to be used by many of today’s online brands as it promises to maximise the price paid by the customer. Think of it as a form of automated price gouging, which is a

Silicon Valley has a brute-force problem. For years, the strategy has been simple: buy more chips, burn more cash, and build bigger data centers. It is the “bigger is better” era of AI. But while proprietary labs in the West are spending billions to squeeze out tiny improvements, a counter-movement from Hangzhou is dismantling that entire myth. DeepSeek is not just building models; they are rewriting the rules of the game to bypass the hardware moats that Silicon Valley thought were impenetrable. The Architecture of Ingenuity On 31 December 2025, DeepSeek released a framework called Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC). To the

As of now, Global GDP growth remains at a modest 3.1 – 3.2% according to the IMF and World Bank. However, some expert opinions such as from Golman Sachs and McKinsey, estimate that AI could increase global GDP 7% or $7 Trillion over the next ten years. Hidden within the data, the microeconomic landscape is undergoing radical, tech driven reorganisation. The question is, who are looking likely to be the winners and losers of this tectonic shift and what does it mean for the average person. The Journey So Far In 2024, US private investment into AI reached $109.1 Billion,