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Martin Picard's Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
Columbia researcher Martin Picard proposes that mitochondria — the cell's energy factories — are the missing link between biology, health, and conscious experience.
Extremophiles: Life at the Edge of Earth's Limits
From Ethiopia's acid lakes to Antarctica's frozen deserts, extremophiles reveal life's remarkable adaptability and offer clues to biology's outer limits.
The State of Simulation for Physical AI in 2026
A comprehensive look at how simulation engines like Isaac Sim, MuJoCo Warp, and Newton are enabling the next generation of embodied AI systems.
AGI Is Not Multimodal: Why Embodiment Must Come First
A researcher argues that multimodal scale maximalism will not yield human-level AGI, and that intelligence must be grounded in embodiment and environmental interaction rather than stitched-together modalities.
After Orthogonality: Why Rational AI Should Not Have Goals
A philosophical essay argues that rational human action is not goal-directed but practice-directed, and that aligning AI with human flourishing requires eudaimonic rationality rather than consequentialist optimization.
Best Open Speech Recognition Models in 2026: A Field Guide to ASR
Open ASR is no longer a Whisper monoculture. In 2026, a 2B Apache 2.0 model can beat what closed APIs charged for 18 months ago. The real decision is procurement, not research.
54% of Enterprises Have Already Had an AI Agent Security Incident
A VentureBeat survey finds that over half of enterprises have experienced an AI agent security incident or near-miss, yet most still share credentials and only a third isolate high-risk agents.
Enterprises Are Buying AI Infrastructure Faster Than They Can See What It Costs
A new VentureBeat survey of 107 enterprises reveals a compute gap: firms invest aggressively in AI infrastructure while lacking visibility into costs, with 83% reporting GPU utilization at 50% or below.
Headlamp's Kubeflow Plugin Surfaces ML Workloads in Plain Kubernetes
A new Headlamp plugin reads Kubeflow's custom resources from the Kubernetes API, giving operators Pod-level visibility without leaving a general-purpose UI.
Writing a Custom Prometheus Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes
Kubernetes sees CPU and memory natively. For everything else, write a Prometheus exporter in Go, containerize it, and wire it up with a ServiceMonitor.
Agentic AI Guardrails: A CISO Panel Without the Corporate Theater
A CISO panel at Docker unpacks how enterprises can run agentic AI safely. Sandboxes, MCP gateways, and supply chain discipline separate progress from incidents.
Runtime Enforcement, Not Runtime Advice, for AI Agents
Runtime enforcement replaces advisory policy for AI agents. Containers, identity controls, and tool gateways turn governance from a wish into a system.