Spectech Newsletter

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Giving Tuesday and the case for Speculative Technologies

Dec 2 • 

Ben Reinhardt

8

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Beck Brachman's Quest to Decode the Immune System

The first post in a mini-series about the Brains Fellows

Dec 2 • 

Ben Reinhardt

6

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October 2025

[Announcement] We desire your Brains in 2026

Now accepting applications to start accelerating ideas for FROs, ARPA Programs, and more!

Oct 1 • 

Ben Reinhardt

13

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September 2025

Who Funds Misfit Research?

A practical guide

Sep 24 • 

Ben Reinhardt

26

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August 2025

Meet the 2025 AI Brains Fellows

Another adventure begins

Aug 21 • 

Ben Reinhardt

5

July 2025

Efficiency, Fat Ideas, and False Negatives

Not all who wander are lost

Jul 24 • 

Ben Reinhardt

10

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Some open questions on the financial history of technology

A quest for those with the skill and daring...

Jul 15 • 

Ben Reinhardt

20

2

June 2025

Brains Showcase 2025

And some meta-lessons

Jun 10 • 

Ben Reinhardt

6

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May 2025

[Announcement] AI Brains Q+A Sessions

You bring the questions, we'll bring the answers

May 27 • 

Ben Reinhardt

1

Applications open for AI Brains

We want your [digital] Brains

May 13 • 

Ben Reinhardt

11

4

April 2025

Humanoid Robots in Manufacturing

Or, there's a reason we don't pull cars with mechanical horses

Apr 8 • 

Ben Reinhardt

21

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March 2025

What does it mean for a technology to scale?

A particular failure mode that we’ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question “does this…

Mar 18 • 

Ben Reinhardt

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