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Stop Calling It a Hackathon. The Caltech Mathathon Is Just Free Labor for Big AI.

📅 September 7, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

The Caltech Mathathon is billed as the first hackathon for research-level math, but beneath the prestige lies a darker reality. Elite mathematicians are spending 40 hours babysitting LLM outputs, acting as cheap validation labor for frontier AI labs. It’s not a contest of human discovery; it’s a crowdsourced QA experiment.

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Silent Texting Is Coming. And It’s Only the Beginning.

📅 July 3, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Caltech’s ultrasound brain decoding proves we can read intentions without surgery. The medical benefits are huge, but the real disruption will hit consumer tech: silent texting, subconscious advertising, and a new privacy crisis. This article argues we need ‘sovereignty of thought’ before the genie is fully out of the bottle.

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