Essential Technology

Searching for X-Lab-Shaped Bottlenecks in Quantum Interconnect and Integrated Photonics

What’s already being built, what we’re unsure about, and where the FRO-shaped gaps might actually be

May 29 • Adam Marblestone and Anastasia Gamick

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NSF Just Did Something Important

And so can you: how to reach out to Convergent about X-Labs

May 18 • Anastasia Gamick and Adam Marblestone

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April 2026

Introducing Meridial and Echo Labs

Launching Two New FROs in the UK

Apr 21 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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February 2026

Our Responses to the NSF Tech Labs RFI

Metascience, AI, biotech, and more

Feb 23 • Mary Wang, Anastasia Gamick, and Adam Marblestone

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The evolution of CHI-FRO

Three principles from an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming

Feb 18 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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January 2026

Announcing Merge Labs

A neurotech FRO takes root

Jan 15 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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December 2025

What is the future missing?

A video portrait from 2025 + happy holidays from our team to you and yours

Dec 24, 2025 • Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick, and Joseph Fridman

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The Future of Focused Research Organizations:

Working with Convergent on the NSF Tech Labs Initiative

Dec 16, 2025 • Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick, and Joseph Fridman

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November 2025

Securing Critical Components of Cyberphysical Systems

Bridging foundational capability gaps to spur an AI resilience renaissance, a follow-up

Nov 14, 2025 • Evan Miyazono, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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Advancing Foundational Cyber-resilience

AI technology could spur a resilience renaissance; we just need to mind the gaps

Nov 14, 2025 • Evan Miyazono, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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October 2025

Forging new institutions and alliances for metascience

A Metascience 2025 keynote address

Oct 2, 2025 • Anastasia Gamick and Joseph Fridman

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September 2025

Inside the UK FRO Founder Residency with ARIA

a big step forward in how we source and incubate new FRO projects

Sep 16, 2025 • Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick, Mary Wang, Joseph Fridman, and Janelle Tam

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