2023-03 → Present
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Future Shock maps the accelerating trajectory of artificial intelligence — across models, compute, robotics, research, and open source. Updated daily. No hype. No financial advice. Just the signal.
Six Tracking Axes
The dimensions of accelerationModel Capability
Benchmarks, multimodal, agents, context windows, tool use
Compute & Chips
GPU releases, FLOPs/dollar, training clusters, energy
Robotics
Humanoid milestones, autonomous deployments, LLM-driven demos
Research Velocity
arXiv publication rate, breakthrough papers, citation velocity
Open Source
GitHub commit velocity, AI co-authored code, framework growth
Policy
Government action, regulation, defense, trade, AI governance
Latest Signals
Updated dailyAlibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5 Omni: A Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, Video, and Realtime Interaction
Alibaba releases Qwen3.5-Omni, an omnimodal AI model handling text, audio, video, voice cloning, real-time web search, and 10-hour audio processing. Available on HuggingFace with live demo. Claims to beat Gemini on audio benchmarks. [Editorial: Genuinely new omnimodal variant in the Qwen3.5 family. Staleness flag overridden — Feb 2026 coverage was for base Qwen3.5, this Omni variant is new. Single secondary source (MarkTechPost) but verified via HuggingFace and Decrypt.]
Mark Zuckerberg is doing content moderation again
Meta’s CEO said he didn't want to be the speech police. Then he texted Elon Musk
AI Self EVOLUTION (Meta Harness)
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A Convex Route to Thermomechanics: Learning Internal Energy and Dissipation
We present a physics-based neural network framework for the discovery of constitutive models in fully coupled thermomechanics. In contrast to classical formulations based on the Helmholtz energy, we adopt the internal energy and a dissipation potential as primary constitutive functions, expressed in...
Binary Decisions in DAOs: Accountability and Belief Aggregation via Linear Opinion Pools
We study binary decision-making in governance councils of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), where experts choose between two alternatives on behalf of the organization. We introduce an information structure model for such councils and formalize desired properties in blockchain governanc...
Fast Large-Scale Model-Based Iterative Tomography via Exploiting Mathematical Structure, Hierarchical Optimization, Smart Initialization, and Distributed GPU Computing
Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) is important because direct methods, such as Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) can introduce significant noise and artifacts in sparse-angle tomography, especially for time-evolving samples. Although MBIR produces high-quality reconstructions through prior-in...
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