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In late September, standing before the United Nations General Assembly, the President said the word "artificial" was the problem. "It makes it sound fake," he said, "and it is not fake." A week later, he signed an executive order: as of September 29, 2026, the federal government no longer says "artificial intelligence." It says "Super Intelligence." This week on AI Ascent, Dr. Jonathan Luckett asks the question that follows: if you rename something "super," does it become sup

Last week, a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship became one of the fastest-moving public health stories of 2026 — 11 cases, 3 deaths, passengers from 20+ countries, Americans quarantined in Nebraska. I wanted to understand it. So I built a tool to track it. Using Manus AI, I created a real-time interactive surveillance dashboard — a full chronological timeline of every event since February, animated live case counters, a plain-English explainer for general audiences,

🦠 This Week on the AI Ascent podcast with Dr. Jonathan Luckett: The Pandemic Engineering Challenge 🦠 Here's a chilling but crucial...