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ABOUT MATTHEW GRIFFIN
Matthew Griffin, Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, international keynote speaker, and 15 times author of the hit “Codex of the Future” series, is a world leading authority on future related Disruption, Education, Geopolitics, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability, Technology and Trends. His clients include royalty, G7, G20, and G77 governments, and the world’s biggest brands.
MATT’S DAILY BLOG
Our future is being created today by the technologies we develop and the actions we take, and while it’s tempting to only focus on the big stuff sometimes it’s the smallest things that can make all the difference. This is why, through my blog, I cover every topic you can imagine and surface every insight, no matter how seemingly insignificant – because everything is connected.
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The decisions and technologies we are making today will all play a role in shaping what our future looks like – for better or worse. As a result our future is constantly evolving. Here you can see what we’re doing today to make our future tomorrow.
America’s biggest banks, led by JPMorgan and Bank of America, are building a tokenised deposit network to settle payments on a blockchain around the clock, their answer to the rise of stablecoins.
A new UN report warns that AI data centres will drink as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030, and that judging AI by carbon alone badly understates its true environmental cost.
With AI bills running far ahead of budgets, companies are turning to model routing, sending easy tasks to cheap models, in a shift that could squeeze the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic.
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says OpenAI’s next model is being designed by another model, a sign, he argues, that superintelligence is just two years away.
A senior UK minister has warned that AI-driven job losses could make the welfare state unaffordable within a decade, echoing Anthropic’s prediction of mass white-collar unemployment.
Polsia, an AI startup run by a single founder with no employees, has raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation by promising ‘AI that runs your company while you sleep’ — though sceptics question its revenue claims.
OpenAI says one of its general-purpose reasoning models has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, a result validated by mathematicians but one that still leaves the deeper problem unsolved.
Three solo founders — behind Daymaker, OpenClaw and Base44 — have turned Sam Altman’s ‘one-person company’ idea into reality, showing how AI tools now let individuals build and sell businesses at startling speed.
Researchers in Texas have created a graphene leaf tattoo that reads a plant’s moisture in real time and can act as an artificial synapse, raising the prospect of forests and fields that monitor fire and drought themselves.
An ETH Zurich team has built millions of stem-cell-infused injectable nanorobots that helped paralysed mice regain movement within weeks, hinting at a faster future route to repairing spinal injuries.
European researchers have combined millimeter-wave radar with machine learning to identify bees and wasps by their wingbeats, pointing to a non-destructive new way to monitor the pollinators that underpin global food supplies.
Sixteen researchers behind the Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union, warn that AI and tech-industry money threaten the values, autonomy and future of mathematical research.
Lloyds Bank has used IBM quantum hardware to successfully flag a money mule hidden in transaction data, an early sign quantum computing could sharpen banks’ fraud defences.
China Post has begun deploying RobotEra humanoid robots to sort parcels at a major Guangzhou mail hub, the latest sign of Beijing’s aggressive push to automate industrial work.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses the game of Go to argue that AI pushes humans to improve rather than simply replacing them, even as the future-of-work debate intensifies.
Young Chinese professionals fearing the “curse of 35” are using AI to launch one-person companies, backed by city subsidies aligned with Beijing’s tech self-reliance drive.
Worldline, ING and Mastercard have run Europe’s first live agentic payment, with an AI agent assembling a purchase the shopper still has to approve — showing agent-led buying can clear existing bank security and authorisation.
A Walmart-backed startup, Eko, is hand-building an “AI-ready” product catalogue — photographing millions of items from every angle — so AI shopping agents like ChatGPT and Gemini can describe and sell them accurately.
Uber has capped employees at $1,500 a month per agentic coding tool after blowing its entire annual AI budget in four months — a sharp signal that enterprise AI’s return on investment is still unproven.
Enterprise AI is so expensive that CFOs are blowing annual budgets in weeks, and AI leaders say firms now openly weigh buying tokens against hiring — with smarter model routing the main escape valve.
An Indian research team proposes pairing AI with two dozen brain structures so the system develops a personality, sleeps, dreams and eventually dies — a brain-mirroring route to AGI distinct from neuromorphic computing.
Elon Musk has unveiled AI1, SpaceX’s first orbital data-centre satellite — a 70-metre-wingspan craft carrying a Nvidia-class compute payload that SpaceX wants to mass-produce and fly off Earth’s power grid, days ahead of its IPO.
Multiverse Computing ran a pretrained Llama model through quantum circuit blocks on IBM’s 156-qubit machine and cut its perplexity while adding almost no parameters — the first end-to-end “quantum enhancement” of a production LLM.
Robinhood now lets customers spin up a dedicated account and wallet for AI agents that can analyse portfolios, place trades and — via a new virtual card — make payments, with human approval and spending limits in the loop.