Thanks to the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence, interest in the Singularity is rising, which is why this week's "Media 3.0" features a conversation with Singularity University's chief marketer Venus Ranieri, who explains, it's mission is not just helping people and companies understand the role of AI, but a host of new and emerging "exponential technologies."

A grade of 45 might not seem gold star-worthy by old school human standards, but that's how Grok chose to illustrate this column when I interviewed it about rumors that soon-to-be released Grok 4 scored as high as 45% on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), which is a super complex, mathematically-oriented test for measuring the intelligence of AIs.