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The genetic lottery is over, and yet no one is having kids. In the latest Forecast 2050 episode, @noor_siddiqui_, Founder & CEO of @OrchidInc, is building and envisioning a world where embryo screening and artificial wombs could become the default way humans reproduce in 25 years. We discuss: - The genetics revolution happening right now - Causes of plummeting birthrates - The moonshot nobody wants to fund: artificial wombs - Genetic enhancements to upgrade humanity - What goes wrong when old people run the world, and how to fix it Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Rolling the Dice No More: The Embryo Screening Revolution 05:27 Artificial Wombs Are the Tech Challenge of Our Time 07:47 Why Aren't We Having Kids? 17:03 The Broken Generational Contract 18:56 Nature Beats Out Nurture 21:45 AI & Genetic Technology Could Give Us Superhuman Powers 30:54 Noor’s Plan for 2050 37:10 What We Lose When Old People Run Everything Extended Show Notes & Transcript in the comments👇

If you email your consciousness to Mars do you die or is the copy still you? Will superintelligence gawk at us in human zoos or will they help uncover the meaning of life? Why the timeline to quantum secure your crypto was yesterday. Forecast 2050 - Episode II - Scott Aaronson Tom McCarthy and I got to speak with Scott at the most recent Q2B Silicon Valley to talk about how the next 25 years of quantum computing, AI, and cryptography will play out. We cover whether classical AI might eclipse quantum computing, how post-quantum cryptography will upend global security, and how superintelligence will factor into all of this. We also debate whether a quantum teleporter is a suicide machine and discussed how advanced AIs would help us uncover the fundamental nature of reality. Chapters 00:00 Intro 2:04 How AI & Quantum Computing Interact Today 10:36 Why Scott Thinks Classical Computing Might Outdate Quantum 18:24 We Must Prepare for the Post-Quantum World of 2050 27:43 Quantum Computing, Biology, and Consciousness 35:46 The Quantum Teleporter is a Suicide Machine 38:52 Superintelligence & The Ultimate Nature of Reality 45:00 The Battle Between Superintelligences Thanks to Q2B for helping us coordinate filming at the conference! Transcript & Show Notes in the comments👇

1/ Superconducting systems currently dominate on cycle time and control maturity, but they rely on 2D nearest-neighbor layouts. That works well for surface codes, but it creates scaling challenges: wiring density, routing overhead, and large physical-to-logical qubit ratios. 🧵

see you in paris next week for the @airstreet ai meetup! ft. @cyrildiagne of @bfl_ml, edouard of @GoogleDeepMind and yours truly on @stateofai updates! --> luma(dot)com/parisai

Whether you believe quantum computing is 2 years away, or 20 years away, it represents the biggest *existential* technical risk to Bitcoin and other digital assets. The prudent, conservative approach is to assume Q-Day is sooner rather than later, and to prepare accordingly.

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Project Eleven Raises $20M to Prepare Digital Asset Infrastructure for the Quantum Era Project Eleven, the leader in post-quantum security and migration for digital assets, today announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Fin Capital, Variant, Quantonation, Nebular, Formation, Lattice Fund, Satstreet Ventures, Nascent Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. The round comes as post-quantum cryptography becomes a planning priority for government and industry. Advances in quantum computing could eventually weaken elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), the public-key standard used by networks such as Bitcoin, prompting a staged transition across an ecosystem that secures more than $4 trillion in digital assets. Project Eleven is building the tools to make complex, multi-year migrations practical for networks and institutions, including readiness assessments, migration test environments, and deployment sequencing. “As quantum capabilities advance, the stakes couldn’t be higher. We can’t afford to ignore this existential risk posed to the digital asset ecosystem,” said Alex Pruden, CEO and Co-Founder of Project Eleven. “Trillions in value depend on these cryptographic assumptions. Networks like Bitcoin take years to upgrade because they’re governed cautiously by design. We’re focused on making the transition practical now, so the industry can migrate deliberately instead of improvising under pressure.” “Useful quantum computing is the biggest and most complex threat public blockchains have ever faced,” said Nic Carter, General Partner at Castle Island Ventures. “Project Eleven is building the practical bridge from research to real-world deployment.” Project Eleven is collaborating with the Solana Foundation and other leading protocols and Layer 1 ecosystems on post-quantum readiness planning and technical work. The company raised a $6 million seed round in June 2025 led by Variant and Quantonation, with participation from Castle Island Ventures, Nebular, and Formation. Project Eleven plans to unveil its next major product release in early 2026, adding capabilities for institutions, protocols, and end users looking to future-proof long-lived cryptographic systems. 🤝 @CastleIslandVC @nic_carter @cbventures @Fin_Capital_VC @variantfund @Quantonation @Nebularvc @formation_vc @lattice_fund @Satstreet @nascent @balajis 🤝 @apruden08 @conordeegan @graememoore @Dr_DAO_ @nuggimane 🤝

This morning, @axios broke the news: @aryahealth_ has raised an oversubscribed $18.2M Series A. This capital is fuel for accelerating our mission of using AI to bring humanity back to healthcare delivered across homes, communities, and screens. In a world obsessed with AI, we wanted to remind everyone that behind every algorithm, there are still people - the ones building it, and the ones it’s meant to help. So I asked my 9-year-old daughter Arya - the namesake behind the company - to help me tell the "human story". The story that somewhere along the way, we've made providers really busy with all the "chores" to be done around delivering distributed care. Forms. Portals. Calendars. Clicks. Text Reminders. Desperate phone calls. So busy that they don't have enough time-or resources-for what matters. Connecting deeply with those in need of care. And with those delivering care. We built Arya Health to fix that. Because the most urgent job for AI right now isn’t to become smarter than humans - it’s to make space for more humanity. And for that, it needs the best humans - the builders, dreamers, and doers who believe that technology should make people feel seen, not replaced. If you’re a provider and feel like busywork is keeping you from the humanity in care, please reach out. We'd love to help. If you're a builder and want to build AI with a focus on humanity, please reach out. We need you to move faster. -- Special gratitude to: 1/ @aikeho (@ACME ) for leading our Series A round, 2/ @byronling1 (@twelve_below), @Rosenrosen (@ridgevc) and many other early backers for doubling down on their conviction in Arya, 3/ @ColinEvans34598 (@OpenAI ) for seeing and backing our AI-powered vision, 4/ Industry leaders Fred Johnson, Chris Gerard, Sandra Bell and @guyfriedman for putting their trust in Arya as a customer, 5/ Melinda Phillips for hanging up her home care CEO gloves to come build the future with us, 6/ Arya's co-founder and CTO Arun for being the perfect yin to my yang, 7/ @FinnMurphy12 (@Nebularvc) for reminding me that it's my job to take big bets 8/ Joshua Rahn (Oceans) for reminding me that it's OK to be human 9/ @zachweinberg (Operator) for reminding me that it will take great pain, time and commitment to build the "next Flatiron Health" in NYC 10/ My partner in life Goksu Dogan for reminding me that if this was easy, anyone could do it... 11/ And my little Arya for reminding me every day that building a business is never "just business". It's personal. Especially in healthcare.

fun to close out the week on @tbpn with @jordihays @johncoogan chatting ai tings

Introducing ML-DSA-B, a variant of ML-DSA powered by BLAKE3 instead of SHAKE. Making use of BLAKE3's tree parallelism and SIMD-friendly design we see a speedup of up to 20% for signing, 30% for verification, and 60x for pre-hashing in initial benchmarks. From myself, @apruden08, @veorq, and @zooko

🪩The one and only @stateofai 2025 is live! 🪩 It’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our 8th annual report is the most comprehensive it's ever been, covering what you *need* to know about research, industry, politics, safety and our new usage data. My highlight reel:

On today’s show: – Altman teases “compute-intensive offerings” – McConaughey wants a private LLM – @john (Happy Dad) – @LauraDeming (Until) – @kimbal (Nova Sky Stories) – @shervin (Investor) – @StevenGlinert (Sphere Semi) – @ethanbarajas11 & @j_palmer00 (Icarus) – @awwstn (Howie)

An absolute pleasure hosting @philipjohnston to talk through @Starcloud_Inc1's plans for shifting heavy compute off-world. • Why orbital compute is the end-game • Building a 5GW data center in space • Radiation shielding H100s • The Era of Starship • Matrioshka brains

Today we launch Icarus Robotics. Backed by @Soma_Capital , Xtal, @Nebularvc , MTV, and angels like Charlie Songhurst and @TheOpenEyedMan. Huge thanks to our early team: @dim_anastasiou Iñigo, and @corentinartaud for making this real. The future of space is robotic.

if you're a terminally online venture capitalist this is the Ice Cube dropping 'No Vaseline' moment for nyc tech

When I was pondering a name for Nebular, the James Webb space telescope sent back its first images. Nebulae spotted light years away by a bunch of hexagonal mirrors floating in Earth's shadow - dust fusing to form stars. Felt like a good name. Needed a site & brand to match.

If you’re an early stage founder building in NYC, join @alumniventures, @DormRoomFund, & @Nebularvc for a Pre-Seed & Seed Builders Breakfast this Wednesday, July 9: lu.ma/ffse-builders-… Come grab a bagel, meet other founders, & VCs investing in the earliest stages!

Today we’re announcing a $6 million seed round at Project Eleven, to build a quantum-ready future for digital assets. The seed round was co-led by @variantfund and @Quantonation with participation from @CastleIslandVC, @Nebularvc, and @formation_vc. Why this matters: Quantum computers are racing toward the power to break today’s public-key cryptography. When that day comes, every unmigrated key could be at risk. Project Eleven’s mission is to ensure the industry is ready long before that moment arrives. This investment strengthens that mission, letting us grow our team and turn cutting-edge research into production-ready defences the digital-asset economy can rely on long before “Q-Day.” Thank you to all our investors for backing the mission.

Today, I'm excited to announce TWO milestones for us at Project 11 (@projecteleven) 💸 - We've raised $6M in a Seed financing led by @variantfund and @Quantonation 🚀 - We launched our first product: yellowpages Time to build to address crypto's existential crisis: quantum computing 👇