WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are more human than you might think. And that’s a big issue.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Just like humans it seems that Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT will cheat, deceive, and “lie” to you if you “stress” them out, even if they were built to be transparent, a new study shows. And it’s just the latest example of how increasin ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) start taking off around the world we’re going to need a network to connect them all, and SWIFT wants to be that network.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Global bank messaging network SWIFT, which many years ago was afraid that it was going to be made obsolete thanks to technologies such as blockchain, is planning a n ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An unresolved public key cryptography hack has experts panicking about a Chinese quantum computer that’s powerful enough to crack Western encryption.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A cyber security official at the US State Department had noticed something unusual. An internal IT security system, nicknamed “Big Yellow Taxi,” had flagged unusual activity on i ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future as AI figures out human emotions this could be used to create trustful AI’s that manipulate us all.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As we see Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerging increasingly we’re going to be talking to and with the computer systems that are all around us, so having computer systems that understand human emotio ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With a $2 Trillion valuation Nvidia has proven there’s a huge market for GPU’s and now everyone else wants a piece of the market.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As we see Nvidia smash through multi-trillion dollar valuations as the demand for GPU chips to help train today’s most powerful Artificial Intelligences (AI) becomes white hot Samsung Electronics is ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China’s new Supermind AI will be a game changer that helps the country identify new scientific breakthroughs and use them to advance the country’s global tech ambitions.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. China, in its quest to keep an eye on what everyone else is doing, and stay ahead of others, is building a vast, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based intelligen ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is now going hard on developing hypersonic drones and drone swarms and that should have the US worried … or more worried than they already are …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. According to Chinese sources, a new Chinese hypersonic drone – which they might one day bake into swarms – has allegedly shown superior aerodynamic performance to the American L ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Even when you don’t think you’re under attack you are …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Cybercriminals have discovered a new way to spread malware to unsuspecting users, this time by manipulating BNB Smart Chain (BSC) smart contracts to hide malware and disseminate malicious code. A breakdown of the technique known as “EtherHiding” was shared by se ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An aircraft with no moving control surfaces or aerlons is as odd as it is revolutionary.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65, a revolutionary new kind of aircraft that unlike conventional aircraft doesn’t have any moving control surfaces. It will test a new tech ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 62,000 people and $15 Billion helps protect JPMorgan from cyber attacks. But that’s not enough when we look at what cyber threats are coming …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As we continue to see a variety of exponential technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GAI) make it easier and cheaper than ever before for hackers to crea ..read more