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🔮 Exponential View #557: Starlink, Iran & abundance; AI’s exploration deficit; AGI vibes, aliens, Merge Labs & regulating companions++

A briefing on AI and exponential technologies

Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren
Jan 20, 2026
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This post originally appeared in Exponential View.

“In corrupt or dysfunctional systems, power usually flows from dependency, not from legitimacy. When hardware breaks that dependency, only legitimacy…

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