The Super Intelligence News Report
Issue 21
Two futures, one timeline
Good morning. Bronson here. Peter Diamandis spent his week noticing that the same technology is walling some young people out of work and handing others a superpower, and he is right that both stories are true at once. Elsewhere the news is quieter: a ship that runs on batteries, a laptop meant to be built here, and a poverty line that keeps falling. Progress rarely arrives evenly. It does keep arriving.
Today in one minute
- Peter Diamandis sees the same AI splitting young workers into two futures: 511 job applications with no human reply, or unlimited tokens to rewrite Cisco.
- Alex Wissner-Gross reports that AI agents are now doing real mathematics, with two labs proving the same result on the same day.
- Anduril and Qualcomm unveiled BlueChip, a rugged American-assembled laptop aimed at the military, with orders planned for 2027.
- The world's largest battery-electric ship has started carrying passengers between Argentina and Uruguay.
- Global poverty fell again at every line, down from 36 percent under $3 a day in 2000 to about 10 percent in 2024.
- NASA picked a veteran test pilot, Troy Asher, to run its Armstrong Flight Research Center.
Education and society
AI is splitting young workers into two futures
Diamandis pairs two stories from the same week. A 22-year-old biology graduate applied for 511 jobs and got a rejection from an AI interviewer, while a 23-year-old in Kansas found his phone screen was an agent too. Against that, Cisco's president gave a 27-year-old engineer a two-person team and unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98 percent of the company's legacy code in 24 months. Diamandis, the father of two teenagers, argues the answer is entrepreneurship and giving young people the chance to do the impossible.
Source: Metatrends
AI models and agents
AI agents are doing real mathematics now
In his daily roundup, Alex Wissner-Gross notes that OpenAI and Anthropic each published a disproof of the exponential time hypothesis on the same day, that OpenAI added a proof tied to the Yang-Mills problem, and that an Axiom agent formalized the Enormous Theorem, flagging 34 deviations. He also reports biology moving at the same speed, with agents mining a brain CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes. His framing: the Singularity is arriving through institutions and paperwork, not one flashy launch.
Source: The Innermost Loop
Computing and chips
Anduril and Qualcomm want to build the laptop in America
Anduril and Qualcomm unveiled BlueChip, a rugged laptop line for government, defense and first responders, with working prototypes and orders planned for 2027. Qualcomm supplies Snapdragon X chips, board assembly is planned for Anduril's Arsenal-1 plant in Ohio, and roughly 90 percent of the prototype's component cost is US or allied sourced. Luckey says the first machine will cost about 20 percent more than a comparable Chinese-built PC and will not be fully domestic yet.
Source: Dealroom
Energy and climate
The largest electric ship starts passenger service
The China Zorrilla, a 130 metre ship built by Incat Tasmania for the operator Buquebus, has entered commercial passenger service on the River Plate between Buenos Aires and Colonia. It is the largest electric ship ever built and runs entirely on batteries, carrying up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles. Incat calls the maiden voyage a milestone for the global shipping industry.
Source: Human Progress
Abundance and progress
Poverty fell again at every line
Our World in Data reports that the share of the world's population living on less than $3 a day fell from 36 percent in 2000 to about 10 percent in 2024. Higher lines moved too: under $5 a day went from 57 to 25 percent, and under $10 a day from 74 to 53 percent. Human Progress highlighted the finding this week.
Source: Human Progress
Space
NASA taps a test pilot to run Armstrong
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman named Troy Asher director of the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot who joined NASA in 2008, had led the center's flight operations and had been acting director since March. He flew the X-56A, was lead test pilot for the SOFIA observatory, and set 25 world speed records in a B-1B during a 24-year Air Force career.
Source: NASA
One to watch
Education and society
Schmidt Sciences funds work on AI that goes well
Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, named its 2026 cohort of AI2050 fellows, and MIT News notes that five MIT faculty and two alumni are among them. The program, co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, funds research on beneficial AI and asks each fellow to work backward from a good 2050. This year's fellows include an economist studying algorithms and people, a mathematician working on training, and a political scientist designing ways to gather public input.
Source: MIT News
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