Weekly top stories on human-AI partnerships, BCIs, cognitive enhancement, and tools for thought.
Intelligence Augmentation
Executive Summary This week's intelligence-augmentation lens snaps into focus around three converging themes. First, the operating model of AI-augmented knowledge work moved from anecdote to instrumentation: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index, drawn from trillions of Microsoft 365 signals and 20,000 surveyed AI users, frames the
Intelligence Augmentation
Executive Summary This week's intelligence augmentation landscape coalesced around a clear pattern: the field is shifting from demos and productivity claims toward operational frameworks, economic models, and clinical evidence that quantify the costs as well as the benefits of human-AI collaboration. On the brain-computer interface frontier, the FDA
Intelligence Augmentation
Executive Summary The week's intelligence-augmentation literature converges on a single uncomfortable theme: the naive form of AI assistance — simply dropping a copilot into a knowledge worker's path — is producing measurably uneven results, and the field is finally instrumenting why. Two preprints out of arXiv this week
Intelligence Augmentation
Executive Summary This week's intelligence augmentation landscape crystallizes around a single organizing principle: the gap between what human-AI partnerships can theoretically deliver and what they actually deliver is closing faster in some domains than others -- and the instrumentation to understand why is finally catching up. The most