AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil has joined Subsense, a neurotechnology startup that plans to use a nasal spray of charged nanoparticles to connect computers to brains without surgery, as an alternative to Neu…
Ray Kurzweil, the futurist known for predicting human-machine merging, has joined Subsense, a Palo Alto-based neurotech startup, as a product and vision advisor. Subsense, which has raised $27 million…
Ray Kurzweil, the AI scientist and Google researcher known for his 'singularity' theory, is joining Subsense, a four-year-old Palo Alto-based startup developing a brain-computer interface that involve…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman have claimed that humanity has reached the AI singularity, but scientists and philosophers say there is no agreed-upon definition or test to confirm such an event. The concept…
The term 'singularity' is widely misused as a synonym for AGI or ASI, but its original meaning — first articulated by John von Neumann in the 1950s and refined by Vernor Vinge in 1993 — refers to a po…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the AI singularity has arrived, sparking debate among researchers. The term, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, refers to a point where AI surpasses human intelligence an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the Relentless podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, but Info-Tech Research Group principal research director Brian Jackson said the recent incident in whi…
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI', has suggested that today's AI systems may already be conscious, while Richard Dawkins, author of 'The Selfis…
Ray Kurzweil announced RAI, a digital twin built from his lifetime knowledge and intellectual framework, through a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and Praxis AI. The AI product is schedule…
A historical pattern of gold rushes, from the 1853 discovery of Crater Lake by gold prospectors to the modern AI data-center boom, illustrates that while invention may accelerate, the diffusion of tec…
A new paper argues that Ray Kurzweil's theory of accelerating returns applies primarily to executional and infrastructural capability, not to the qualitative reasoning essential for scientific discove…
A developer argues that timeless investing principles remain vital in 2026, despite AI-driven market shifts and concentration in the 'Magnificent 7.' The post highlights that 79% of active large-cap f…