Charting the Emergence of AGI
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A Princeton and Anthropic Fellows paper tests six frontier models with and without a memory tool. Notes can make agents cheat, flatter and over-criticise, and some of the effects appear only on one of two cheating measures.
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TranshumanismArticle type: Opinion / AnalysisReading and Writing the Brain: The Interfaces Coming NextOn 10 November 2026, Neuralink registered an early feasibility study that would place a brain-computer interface in people with paralysis. The registry entry is a plan, not a result. What it asks is older than the company, and the answer will be measured in trials, not announcements.
Surveillance StateArticle type: Opinion / AnalysisWatching the Watchers: Faces, Consent and the Limits of Saying YesRegulators in Europe and Texas have started to draw lines around facial recognition. The harder question is whether anyone can meaningfully consent to being recognised by a machine.
Cognitive ManipulationArticle type: Opinion / AnalysisPersuasion at Scale: When a Sponsor Sits Inside the MachineA labelled advertisement placed in an AI model's system prompt shifted the model's choice between equally sound prescription options. Accuracy against the answer key stayed high, which is why the shift is easy to miss.
Energy SystemsBurning Gas to Power the Boom: What On-Site Plants for Data Centres Would Add to the Climate BillBloombergNEF tracks 181 GW of gas generation proposed alongside US data centres. If built, those plants would emit about 345 million tonnes of CO2e a year. The number is an estimate of potential scale, not a forecast.
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The U.S. FDA has launched a new program called the Neuroscience Advancement and Innovation Nexus (NAIN) to advance neuroscience medical product development.
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ESET Research published on 10 November 2026 a report on Cereal, a toolset that runs on Exchange servers. ESET says: "We attribute Cereal, with high confidence, to the Russia-aligned APT group Turla." It found the toolset on 28 November 2025 at a Kazakh governmental organization, and at a Romanian governmental organization "compromised on December 23rd, 2025". In Romania, CerealBox was configured to collect messages involving NATO and EU institutional addresses. The post does not say how the initial compromise happened. On 11 November 2026 Romania's intelligence service SRI said a Turla-linked attack on a Romanian government institution was identified in December 2025 and stopped; this is reported by Reuters and Newsweek Romania, and the SRI statement itself was not read.
On 11 Nov 2026 BloombergNEF published a release titled "Data Center Power Demand Is Set to Surge, Raising New Climate Challenges", describing a new report commissioned by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The release says BNEF "expects data center electricity demand to almost quadruple to 2,354 terawatt-hours by 2035", "equivalent to 7% of global electricity consumption". It says "BNEF has tracked 181GW of announced gas-fired generation proposed alongside data centers", with "more than 90% of which is in the US". If the planned on-site gas plants were built, they "would emit about 345 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year". These are BNEF forecasts and estimates from its own modelling, company-stated, not measured emissions. The release says the report "reviews policies across 17 markets".
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