Seventeen Years of Coverage

BBC News and the Times of London ran with a sensational per-search CO2 claim attributed to his startup CO2Stats — which he publicly denied making, correcting the record against his own press cycle (Xconomy: “Tempest in a Tea Kettle”).

Harvard SEAS covers his relativistic statistical arbitrage paper — optimal trading-node placement on a light-speed-limited planet.

APS Physics, Forbes, Gizmodo, and Inside Science cover the PRL paper; Gary Marcus pushes back in The New Yorker. His own press log records 71 items that year.

“A new equation for intelligence” publishes on TED.com — 2.21M views and 27 languages to date; a TED “Talk of the Week.”

Contributing author across the Edge.org annual-question bestsellers (This Idea Must Die; What to Think About Machines That Think; Know This; The Last Unknowns) and the influential 2016 essay “Datasets Over Algorithms.” Quanta/Wired explore the entropy-of-life thread (2017).

The last entry on alexwg.org/press is dated November 11, 2020. Everything below is missing from it. (We told him. It’s in the audit.)

Joins Moonshots with Peter Diamandis on EP #185; becomes a fixture of the panel with Dave Blundin and Salim Ismail — 58 episodes and counting, hundreds of thousands of views each.

A daily newsletter + AI-narrated podcast: “high-velocity intelligence from the event horizon.” ~16,000 Substack subscribers and ~100K daily readers across platforms within six months.

The book ships free on Feb 13–14 (solveeverything.org); Physical Superintelligence is unveiled Feb 15 with backing from SV Angel, Valkyrie, and Balaji Srinivasan.

Eon Systems’ fruit-fly whole-brain-emulation milestone — which he advises — draws coverage from Cybernews, Mindplex, and Startbase.

PSI open-sources its physics copilot; the first in-person Innermost Loop gathering convenes over lunch in Greenwich, CT, June 13 — application-only, “no panels, no spectators.”