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The Lost Generations
What the Test Scores Actually Say
Five years after the school closures, the numbers haven't come back. The 2024 NAEP - the US government's own assessment - found 40 percent of fourth graders below basic reading level, the worst since 2002, and a third of eighth graders below basic, the worst ever recorded. Math has clawed back some ground; reading is still falling. And ChatGPT arrived months after the damage was measured and long before any of it was repaired - two disruptions hitting the same cohort, back to back. Join us in Kitchener to work through what a serious response actually looks like.
The Lost Generations
What the Test Scores Actually Say
Five years after the school closures, the numbers haven't come back. The 2024 NAEP - the US government's own assessment - found 40 percent of fourth graders below basic reading level, the worst since 2002, and a third of eighth graders below basic, the worst ever recorded. Math has clawed back some ground; reading is still falling. And ChatGPT arrived months after the damage was measured and long before any of it was repaired - two disruptions hitting the same cohort, back to back. Join us in Kitchener to work through what a serious response actually looks like.
Talking with Animals
Whale Clicks Have Vowels - and Coarticulation
In April 2026, the Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the deepest look yet inside sperm whale speech. Analysing more than 1,100 codas from a wild family off Dominica, Project CETI showed the clicks carry vowel-like categories, a length contrast, an individual baseline - and coarticulation, where one click is shaped by the click before it, exactly as adjacent sounds bend each other in human speech. This isn't a metaphor about whale song. It's phonology, measured - and AI is what made reading it possible.
Talking with Animals
Whale Clicks Have Vowels - and Coarticulation
In April 2026, the Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the deepest look yet inside sperm whale speech. Analysing more than 1,100 codas from a wild family off Dominica, Project CETI showed the clicks carry vowel-like categories, a length contrast, an individual baseline - and coarticulation, where one click is shaped by the click before it, exactly as adjacent sounds bend each other in human speech. This isn't a metaphor about whale song. It's phonology, measured - and AI is what made reading it possible.
Birth of Wetware
You Can Buy a Computer Made of Human Neurons
This is no longer a thought experiment. Cortical Labs unveiled the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in March 2025: a self-contained biological computer running lab-grown human neurons on an electrode array, with pumps, gas mixing and temperature control built in, priced around thirty-five thousand US dollars. Prefer to rent? FinalSpark's Neuroplatform in Switzerland has exposed sixteen human brain organoids over a round-the-clock Python API since May 2024. Living tissue became a product you can deploy code to - and most people missed it.
Birth of Wetware
You Can Buy a Computer Made of Human Neurons
This is no longer a thought experiment. Cortical Labs unveiled the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in March 2025: a self-contained biological computer running lab-grown human neurons on an electrode array, with pumps, gas mixing and temperature control built in, priced around thirty-five thousand US dollars. Prefer to rent? FinalSpark's Neuroplatform in Switzerland has exposed sixteen human brain organoids over a round-the-clock Python API since May 2024. Living tissue became a product you can deploy code to - and most people missed it.
Running Out of Reality
The Internet Is a Finite Resource
Every frontier AI model is built from human writing, and there is only so much of it. Epoch AI, the group that made the phrase "the data wall" standard, puts the total usable stock of public human text at roughly 300 trillion words-equivalent, and gives an 80 percent chance that frontier labs will have trained on essentially all of it between 2026 and 2032. Over-training pulls that date forward. One author called it a literal gold rush depleting a finite natural resource - so what happens when the well runs dry?
Running Out of Reality
The Internet Is a Finite Resource
Every frontier AI model is built from human writing, and there is only so much of it. Epoch AI, the group that made the phrase "the data wall" standard, puts the total usable stock of public human text at roughly 300 trillion words-equivalent, and gives an 80 percent chance that frontier labs will have trained on essentially all of it between 2026 and 2032. Over-training pulls that date forward. One author called it a literal gold rush depleting a finite natural resource - so what happens when the well runs dry?
The Faceless Kitchen
Count the Robots That Already Exist
This is not a forecast. Amazon has deployed more than a million robots and is copying its first fully robotic fulfilment centre across roughly 40 facilities. Starship Technologies passed ten million autonomous deliveries in April 2026 with over 3,000 robots across eight countries. Serve Robotics scaled past 2,000 sidewalk robots in twenty US cities at a 99.8 percent completion rate. And Sweetgreen now runs 33 Infinite Kitchen locations whose robotic line fulfils about 500 orders an hour. The faceless service chain exists - it's just not evenly distributed.
The Faceless Kitchen
Count the Robots That Already Exist
This is not a forecast. Amazon has deployed more than a million robots and is copying its first fully robotic fulfilment centre across roughly 40 facilities. Starship Technologies passed ten million autonomous deliveries in April 2026 with over 3,000 robots across eight countries. Serve Robotics scaled past 2,000 sidewalk robots in twenty US cities at a 99.8 percent completion rate. And Sweetgreen now runs 33 Infinite Kitchen locations whose robotic line fulfils about 500 orders an hour. The faceless service chain exists - it's just not evenly distributed.
The Automation of Automation
The Moment Agents Started Changing Things
There is a measurable line between an AI that talks and an AI that acts, and it was crossed. The Model Context Protocol - the standard that lets agents reach real tools - went from roughly 4,888 available tools in January 2025 to around 177,000 by February 2026, and was donated to the Linux Foundation that December. The number that matters most: the share of downloads for tools that change something, rather than just observe, rose from 27 percent to 65 percent. Most AI usage is no longer reading. It's writing.
The Automation of Automation
The Moment Agents Started Changing Things
There is a measurable line between an AI that talks and an AI that acts, and it was crossed. The Model Context Protocol - the standard that lets agents reach real tools - went from roughly 4,888 available tools in January 2025 to around 177,000 by February 2026, and was donated to the Linux Foundation that December. The number that matters most: the share of downloads for tools that change something, rather than just observe, rose from 27 percent to 65 percent. Most AI usage is no longer reading. It's writing.
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AI Stations
Hands-on AI stations are being finalized for this event — check back soon to see what you can experience live.
Experience the cutting edge of AI-assisted development with Antigravity. Watch as AI handles complex coding tasks and collaborates with you like a senior developer. Separately, Jules works in the background and checks for opportunities in performance, design and security around the clock; applies improvements, waiting for approval.
Experience ChatGPT control Canva through MCP. Ask for professional designs, presentations, and graphics using natural language commands, and be provided with a canva document you can edit further or use as a template. See how AI can democratize design by handling the painful parts for you.
See how Claude integrates with Obsidian to create intelligent knowledge graphs, link related concepts, and help you build a second brain.
See Claude AI seamlessly interact with your Notion workspace through the Model Context Protocol. Watch as AI reads, writes, and organizes information across your knowledge base, demonstrating the future of intelligent productivity tools.
Witness the power and implications of real-time deepfake technology. Deep Live Cam performs instant face swapping on live video using just a single photo, demonstrating both the creative potential and ethical considerations of AI-powered face synthesis.
Create stunning presentations in minutes with AI. Gamma transforms your ideas into professional slides with compelling visuals, structured content, and seamless flow. No design skills required—just describe your topic and watch the magic happen.
Experience Genspark's AI that researches topics across the web, synthesizes information, and creates comprehensive reports with citations.
The favorite of age:AI 2025 Q4—submit your photo and have a collection of fun videos generated and delivered to you. Experience Higgsfield's cutting-edge AI video generation that brings your images to life.
Explore AI-generated virtual reality environments with Horizons VR. Watch as AI creates immersive 3D worlds, adapts to your interactions, and generates unique experiences in real-time. Vibe code your own world with words and set up shop.
Step into AI-powered augmented reality with Hyperscapes. Experience how AI generates and adapts AR environments in real-time, creating immersive experiences that blend digital and physical worlds. The next step beyond 360 degree real estate property listings is here.
Experience server-class AI performance at the edge with NVIDIA's Jetson Orin AGX. This compact developer kit delivers up to 275 TOPS of AI performance for running advanced robotics, autonomous machines, and real-time AI applications locally.
Take advantage of AI coding power without losing grasp of highly sensitive intellectual property. Connect AI coding IDEs to a local inference system and coding model, keeping your code completely private.
Watch Kiro AI extract from the web, interface with tools, hooks and powers, and build products based on steering and specifications. AWS Kiro is Mind Model AI's general agent of choice as a agentic spec-driven coding IDE, offering enterprise-level privacy guarantees. Fully autonomous for the courageous and wealthy.
Watch images generate in real-time as you draw. Krea's instant AI art generation responds to your sketches with extremely low latency, turning every stroke into stunning visuals.
Explore ComfyUI's powerful node-based interface for creating complex AI image generation workflows. Run Stable Diffusion and other models locally with complete control over every parameter. Powered by an NVIDIA RTX 5090.
Load openai/gpt-oss-20b into GPU memory through LM Studio and experience the privacy and control of running AI entirely on a consumer machine without any internet connection. Powered by an NVIDIA RTX 5090.
Watch Lovable generate complete web applications from descriptions. See AI handle frontend, backend, and deployment in minutes. Create and maintain your business website with a custom domain for as low as $7/month.
Experience Meta Vibes, a social media network where all content is generated by AI through human direction and remixes. Discover what emerges as trendy and popular when creativity meets artificial intelligence in a fully AI-powered social ecosystem.
Control devices with your mind using neural signals. The Mudra Band uses Surface Nerve Conductance sensors to detect neural impulses from your wrist, translating finger movements and gestures into digital commands without touching anything.
Discover how Google's image and video generating ecosystem can help anyone create top tier content. Create stunning AI-generated videos and package them into social media content against your brand's DNA effortlessly.
Explore Poe's platform that gives you access to multiple AI models in one interface. See what all the latest and most popular AI models available today can come up with. Pay as little as $5/month—discover what's on offer without breaking the bank.
Experience human-robot interaction with Reachy Mini, a humanoid robot powered by OpenAI real-time voice API. Watch as natural conversations drive physical actions, demonstrating how AI can bridge into physical world.
See Replit's AI agent build and deploy applications in real-time. Experience collaborative coding where AI is your teammate.
Experience Sam AI as a real-time conversational avatar. Engage in natural conversations with an LLM powered floating head that responds with lifelike expressions and gestures, demonstrating the future of human-AI interaction. Uses a voice clone of Sam.
Create custom digital memorabilia according to your brand (and event) using AI. Let your customers or potential leads interact and share your brand without having to purchase physical swag products. Align closely to marketing trends without the inventory risk.
Control your business tools over your phone. See AI handle Jira tickets, emails, calendar management and virtually anything else through natural conversation.
Experience human-robot interaction with Reachy Mini, a humanoid robot powered by OpenAI real-time voice API. Watch as natural conversations drive physical actions, demonstrating how AI can bridge into physical world.
Discover how Google's image and video generating ecosystem can help anyone create top tier content. Create stunning AI-generated videos and package them into social media content against your brand's DNA effortlessly.
Watch Lovable generate complete web applications from descriptions. See AI handle frontend, backend, and deployment in minutes. Create and maintain your business website with a custom domain for as low as $7/month.
Explore Poe's platform that gives you access to multiple AI models in one interface. See what all the latest and most popular AI models available today can come up with. Pay as little as $5/month—discover what's on offer without breaking the bank.
Experience Meta Vibes, a social media network where all content is generated by AI through human direction and remixes. Discover what emerges as trendy and popular when creativity meets artificial intelligence in a fully AI-powered social ecosystem.
Create custom digital memorabilia according to your brand (and event) using AI. Let your customers or potential leads interact and share your brand without having to purchase physical swag products. Align closely to marketing trends without the inventory risk.
Load openai/gpt-oss-20b into GPU memory through LM Studio and experience the privacy and control of running AI entirely on a consumer machine without any internet connection. Powered by an NVIDIA RTX 5090.
Control devices with your mind using neural signals. The Mudra Band uses Surface Nerve Conductance sensors to detect neural impulses from your wrist, translating finger movements and gestures into digital commands without touching anything.
Explore AI-generated virtual reality environments with Horizons VR. Watch as AI creates immersive 3D worlds, adapts to your interactions, and generates unique experiences in real-time. Vibe code your own world with words and set up shop.
Witness the power and implications of real-time deepfake technology. Deep Live Cam performs instant face swapping on live video using just a single photo, demonstrating both the creative potential and ethical considerations of AI-powered face synthesis.
Step into AI-powered augmented reality with Hyperscapes. Experience how AI generates and adapts AR environments in real-time, creating immersive experiences that blend digital and physical worlds. The next step beyond 360 degree real estate property listings is here.
Create stunning presentations in minutes with AI. Gamma transforms your ideas into professional slides with compelling visuals, structured content, and seamless flow. No design skills required—just describe your topic and watch the magic happen.
Experience Sam AI as a real-time conversational avatar. Engage in natural conversations with an LLM powered floating head that responds with lifelike expressions and gestures, demonstrating the future of human-AI interaction. Uses a voice clone of Sam.
Control your business tools over your phone. See AI handle Jira tickets, emails, calendar management and virtually anything else through natural conversation.
Watch images generate in real-time as you draw. Krea's instant AI art generation responds to your sketches with extremely low latency, turning every stroke into stunning visuals.
See Claude AI seamlessly interact with your Notion workspace through the Model Context Protocol. Watch as AI reads, writes, and organizes information across your knowledge base, demonstrating the future of intelligent productivity tools.
Experience ChatGPT control Canva through MCP. Ask for professional designs, presentations, and graphics using natural language commands, and be provided with a canva document you can edit further or use as a template. See how AI can democratize design by handling the painful parts for you.
See Replit's AI agent build and deploy applications in real-time. Experience collaborative coding where AI is your teammate.
Experience Genspark's AI that researches topics across the web, synthesizes information, and creates comprehensive reports with citations.
Experience server-class AI performance at the edge with NVIDIA's Jetson Orin AGX. This compact developer kit delivers up to 275 TOPS of AI performance for running advanced robotics, autonomous machines, and real-time AI applications locally.
The favorite of age:AI 2025 Q4—submit your photo and have a collection of fun videos generated and delivered to you. Experience Higgsfield's cutting-edge AI video generation that brings your images to life.
Experience the cutting edge of AI-assisted development with Antigravity. Watch as AI handles complex coding tasks and collaborates with you like a senior developer. Separately, Jules works in the background and checks for opportunities in performance, design and security around the clock; applies improvements, waiting for approval.
Watch Kiro AI extract from the web, interface with tools, hooks and powers, and build products based on steering and specifications. AWS Kiro is Mind Model AI's general agent of choice as a agentic spec-driven coding IDE, offering enterprise-level privacy guarantees. Fully autonomous for the courageous and wealthy.
Explore ComfyUI's powerful node-based interface for creating complex AI image generation workflows. Run Stable Diffusion and other models locally with complete control over every parameter. Powered by an NVIDIA RTX 5090.
See how Claude integrates with Obsidian to create intelligent knowledge graphs, link related concepts, and help you build a second brain.
Take advantage of AI coding power without losing grasp of highly sensitive intellectual property. Connect AI coding IDEs to a local inference system and coding model, keeping your code completely private.
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