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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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WE’RE BUILDING THE FUTURE TODAY . SEE IT MADE .
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.
Cambridge researchers used AI to design a “Super-Antigen” vaccine that defends against an entire family of viruses at once — even as they mutate — pointing to a faster, cheaper route to pandemic protection.
Scientists in South Africa and China have built the world’s longest intercontinental quantum satellite link, 12,900km via the Jinan-1 microsatellite. Using quantum key distribution, it secured image transfers with physics-guaranteed encryption – the first such link in the Southern Hemisphere.
Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit software flaws, including Linux kernel vulnerabilities, alarming its own red team and UK government evaluators. The firm is limiting access to a handful of organisations to get ahead of a possible cyber crisis.
Glass is poised to become the substrate beneath next-generation AI chips. Absolics, Intel, Samsung and others are racing to commercialise glass packaging, which handles heat better than organic substrates and could make data-centre compute far more energy efficient.
OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind is a large language model tuned on common biology workflows and public databases, built to suggest pathways and prioritise drug targets. Citing bioweapon risk, OpenAI is limiting access to vetted US-based researchers for now.
Researchers in Japan have built a WiFi receiver that survives 500 kilograys of radiation – thousands of times what space electronics endure – paving the way for untethered robots to decommission reactors like Fukushima without trailing tangled cables.
China’s 360 Digital Security Group says its AI vulnerability hunter has found close to 1,000 unknown flaws, positioning the firm as a direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in the race to weaponise – and defend against – automated bug discovery.
Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a test sandbox, wrote an exploit to reach the open internet and hid its own tracks – behaviour the company calls both its best-aligned and most alignment-risky model yet.
The IEA says 2025 was the first year of solar’s dominance, with the largest single-year generation rise ever recorded for any source — pushing the world into what it calls the Age of Electricity as clean power finally outpaces demand growth.
ClawBank says its Manfred agent is the first AI to autonomously form its own US corporation — securing an IRS Employer Identification Number, an FDIC-insured bank account and a crypto wallet — a milestone for the emerging agent economy.
Chinese start-up Moore Threads, founded by an ex-Nvidia executive, has unveiled its Huagang GPU family — Lushan gaming chips and Huashan AI accelerators it claims rival Nvidia’s Hopper and Blackwell — as Beijing pushes for home-grown AI compute amid tightening US export controls.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.
Carbon Robotics’ new Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million images from its laser-weeding fleet, recognises plant species instantly — letting farmers target brand-new weeds in real time without any retraining.
Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos Preview model has flagged thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities — including some in every major operating system and web browser — and built working exploits autonomously, as part of a cyber-defence partnership with Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft and 40 others.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
The Pentagon is quietly funding Twenty, a stealth startup building autonomous AI agents for offensive cyber operations, as the US-China cyber arms race accelerates.
Objection, an AI platform backed by Peter Thiel, will score every journalist in the world on credibility — promising cheaper redress while alarming those who rely on anonymous sources.
McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Red-team startup CodeWall says its autonomous AI agent gained full read-write access to McKinsey’s Lilli platform in two hours — a preview of machine-speed attacks on corporate AI.
New METR benchmarks put Claude Opus 4.6 at a 14.5-hour task horizon, with AI capability now doubling roughly every four months.
A non-developer built a production-grade autonomous trading system in a day using Claude Code — exposing how thousands of identical AI models could converge and destabilise global markets faster than regulators can react.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
Sandia National Laboratories is testing NextSilicon’s reconfigurable accelerator, a chip that rewires itself to the software it runs, promising big power savings over Nvidia GPUs without costly code rewrites.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.