Artificial Intelligence, Science & Society
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From Numbers to Meaning: How LLM Semantic Sensors Could Change Financial Intelligence
Markets do not move on numbers alone. Prices react to regulation, narratives, weather, geopolitics, corporate decisions, and human behavior—information that often appears first as language. What happens when quantitative models learn to listen to that world as well as…
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The Fly Brain That Became Software
A fruit fly’s nervous system has been reconstructed as data, converted into executable neural models, and placed inside virtual worlds—from Minecraft to experimental digital avatars. This article follows that path from electron microscopy and connectomics to spiking simulations, embodiment,…
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The Algorithmic Battlefield: How Networked Warfare Is Rewriting Modern Conflict
Modern warfare is being transformed not by any single weapon, but by the integration of sensors, artificial intelligence, communications, cyber operations, autonomous systems, space assets, logistics, and industrial production into increasingly connected combat networks. From kill webs and drones…
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Who Is Afraid of the Odds?
Ten days after Flávio Bolsonaro overtook Lula for the first time on Polymarket, Brazil blocked Polymarket, Kalshi, and other prediction-market platforms. The official justification was regulatory: according to the government, these contracts functioned as unauthorized bets. Months later, however,…
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Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Autonomous UAVs have moved from experimental systems to a central role in contemporary warfare. From inexpensive FPV drones and fiber-optic systems to long-range Shaheds and AI-assisted platforms capable of maintaining target tracking after communications are lost, they are changing…
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When Machines Learned to Bluff
Poker taught machines something chess could not: how to act when reality is hidden. From Polaris and Pluribus to AlphaGo and the Chinese Room, this is the story of how AI learned to bluff—and why the disturbing question today…
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Better Than Us Revisited — When AI Enters the Family
*Better Than Us* feels more relevant in 2026 than it did in 2018. As AI moves toward humanoid robots, physical agency and domestic environments, Arisa raises a sharper question: what happens when an intelligent machine becomes not just useful,…
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When the World Refuses to Stay Still: From Restless Bandits to Adaptive Intelligence
Much of artificial intelligence is still built as if the world were obliged to wait for the algorithm. It is not: patients deteriorate, markets change regime, users alter their preferences, machines degrade, and opportunities disappear while other decisions are…
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Fuck Your Dreams: The Day BH and the Earth Stood Still
Belo Horizonte grinds to a halt as connected cars go haywire and the future sold on easy installments begins to burn in the middle of the street. Amid system failures, fires, disinformation, and chaos, an old diesel pickup, a…
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137: The Number Physics Still Cannot Explain
Why 137? Physics can measure the fine-structure constant with astonishing precision and explain how it shapes atoms, electromagnetism, and even the energy scale of matter. What it still cannot explain is why nature chose this value at all. From…
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