Author: Doctor JR
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The Friday Download: AI Panic, Smart Assistants, and the Week Tech Lost Its Chill (February 6, 2026)
Reading Time: < 1 minute – AI panics Wall Street, Siri gets smarter, deepfakes get creepier—and somehow you still leave this episode smarter than when you arrived.
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Reading Time: 17 minutes – How Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI cracked a 50-year biological puzzle, earned a Nobel Prize, and is now accelerating drug discovery for 3M researchers.
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Reading Time: 17 minutes- How a 1973 British report by mathematician James Lighthill devastated AI funding and sent the field into a decade-long ice age we’re still learning from.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute – Doctor JR breaks down the 2026 “Agent Leap,” Meta’s AI Glasses grants, and the race to define machine consciousness in 5 minutes.
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Reading Time: 15 minutes – AI discovered 300+ exoplanets humans missed & predicted 200M protein structures. The revolution in scientific discovery is here—and it’s just beginning.
