You can’t predict the future, but you can build the fitness to respond to it. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your leadership team can notice and anticipate change and respond. Hence mind candy — an information stream to help you and your team think about what’s next.
Digital twins: Heritable Ag combines AI, genomics and environmental data to slash R&D timelines
Digital twins for crops, AI-driven gene discovery, and how combining AI, genomics, and high-resolution environmental data could dramatically compress R&D timelines in crop development.
How To Ensure Digital Twins Deliver Real Business Value
Digital twins are changing how organizations model, monitor and optimize real-world systems, from factory floors to supply chains and built environments. But while pilot programs can spark early enthusiasm, turning those efforts into measurable business value takes clear goals, strong data and a practical starting point.
How Digital Twins Power AI Cities
While digital twins are widely used across industries, their true value in an AI City lies in their collective impact. Urban systems, from infrastructure and transportation to healthcare, manufacturing, and public safety, are deeply interconnected. By integrating digital twin technologies across these domains, cities can create a unified, data-driven ecosystem that enables holistic planning, predictive governance, and coordinated decision-making.
https://press.asus.com/blog/how-digital-twins-power-ai-cities/
Prompt for leadership team
If we could digitally twin one process or environment in our business to simulate decisions before committing capital — what would it be, and do we have the data to make it real?
The other prompts
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence
Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness. Also available as a board briefing.
CyberOne humanoid robot’s hand mimics human sweat glands for thermal management
The robot uses artificial sweating to cool the powerful motors.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/xiaomi-cyberone-humanoid-robotic-hand
How electric vehicles could back up the power system
EVs could serve as a vast network of mobile batteries, storing excess energy and feeding it back into the grid when demand surges.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-electric-vehicles-power.html
Five Ways Quantum Technology Could Shape Everyday Life
Medicine, QIoT, optimisation, ultra secure, and QAI.
https://singularityhub.com/2026/04/03/five-ways-quantum-technology-could-shape-everyday-life/
Why Everything We Know About Management Is Wrong
Firms tend to create more value when they:
- Prioritize customer delight over short-term profits.
- Build autonomous networks over rigid hierarchies.
- Embrace adaptive mindsets over mechanistic processes
The future of humanoid robots when entering the 6G era
6G technology not only accelerates connection but also helps robots communicate and learn continuously, opening up a smarter automation era.
https://news.laodong.vn/cong-nghe/tuong-lai-robot-hinh-nguoi-khi-buoc-vao-ky-nguyen-6g-1680409.ldo
China’s rifle-toting robot dogs operate like swarm platform, can transform modern warfare
China’s multiple robot dogs recently operated as one using shared “brain”, according to a report. Operating like drone swarms, these robots conducted complex tasks during simulated urban clearing operation.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-robot-dogs-with-rifles-operate-like-one
Mini quantum battery charges a million times faster than it discharges
To put that into perspective, that’s like a phone taking 30 minutes to charge fully and then lasting for over 100 years. Another illustration is an 11-day-lasting battery that charges in one second.
https://newatlas.com/energy/proof-of-concept-quantum-battery/
