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Top 10 AI Entrepreneurs Making an Impact in 2025 from MSN In a world where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries at lightning speed, some entrepreneurs aren’t just keeping pace, they’re setting the standard. These are the innovators building smarter systems, solving real-world problems, and quietly defining the future of business,…
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SCSP Summit Dispatch: Securing the Future in the Age of Agentic Intelligence
The technological landscape is shifting beneath our feet, moving from a period of digital assistance to an era of Agentic AI, systems capable of not just processing information, but executing complex goals with minimal human intervention. At the recent Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) session, “AI and The Future of…
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Henry “Hank” Paulson Jr. on Mutually Assured Economic Disruption: The New Baseline for US-China Relations
At the Semafor World Economy summit, held during the pivotal World Bank & IMF Spring Meetings, Henry “Hank” Paulson Jr., former U.S. Treasury Secretary and one of the world’s most seasoned China diplomats, offered a masterclass in “realist” geopolitics. He was questioned by the Co-founder and CEO of Semafor, Justin…
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The Maverick Era: Inside the DIA’s (Defense Intelligence Agency) Digital Insurgency
At the recent Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) summit, the air in the room shifted from theoretical policy to operational urgency. The catalyst? Major General Robert Kinney, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). For a technologist, Kinney’s briefing was a masterclass in bureaucratic disruption. He didn’t…
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The AI Sieve and the Drone Epidemic: Lessons from the Israeli Battlespace
At the recent Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) summit, the focus shifted from domestic policy to the jagged edges of active conflict. Dr. Eyal Hulata, former Israeli National Security Advisor and former head of the Mossad’s technology division, joined Michael Allen of Beacon Global Strategies for a session that was…
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Kraken CEO on the Synthetic Frontier: Crypto, Capital, and the Architecture of Trust
At the Semafor World Economy summit, nestled within the broader discussions of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, the “Future of Capitalism” session took a sharp turn into the digital deep end. Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO of Kraken, sat down with Semafor’s Rohan Goswami to dissect a global financial landscape…
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Cybersecurity Update: Vibe Coding vs. Verified Code – Can AI Fix the Mess it Created… with Eran Kinsbruner
In the history of software development, we have never seen a gap widen as quickly as the one between the speed of creation and the speed of assurance. We have entered the era of ‘Machine-Speed Development,’ where AI isn’t just assisting coders—it’s becoming the coder. But as large language models…
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The Institutionalization of Trust: Crypto, Credit, and the Future of Capitalism
At the Semafor World Economy summit, the “Future of Capitalism” session offered a visceral look at the growing pains of a financial system in mid-transition. Featuring Anthony Scaramucci (SkyBridge Capital) and Jenny Johnson (CEO of Franklin Templeton), the discussion moved beyond the “if” of digital assets to the “how” of…
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The Common Plumbing: Andrea Orcel’s Bull Case for a Convergent Europe
At the Semafor World Economy summit, held during the high-level World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, the “Future of Global Finance” took a decidedly Continental turn. While the morning headlines focused on U.S. inflation and Middle Eastern volatility, Andrea Orcel, CEO of UniCredit SpA, sat down with Thorold Barker to…
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The Fragile Equilibrium: George Walker CEO at Neuberger Berman, Perspective on the Economy
The digital ticker at the bottom of my workspace doesn’t just track price action anymore; it tracks the wild whacky trends of geopolitics. Listening to George Walker and Shelly Banjo discuss the state of play, I am struck by the paradox of our current era. We are living through a…
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Architecting Life: Authoring the Future of Species with Dr. Adrian Woolfson
Many moons ago, in 2015 I began my talks/presentations and writings about exponential technology and how this could lead to a world of abundance. Examples I once referenced included devices with which you could communicate with dogs and whales, saving data to DNA, namely tree DNA; living to 125 and…
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Navigating the Energy Shock: Ken Griffin of Citadel on Geopolitics and the American Brand
At the Semafor World Economy summit, held during the high-stakes World Bank & IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., the atmosphere was charged with a mix of fiscal caution and geopolitical anxiety. Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO of Citadel, took the stage for a candid discussion on “The Future of…
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The “And” Economy: Dubai’s Resilience in the Eye of the Geopolitical Storm
At the Semafor World Economy summit, held during the high-stakes World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, a distinct narrative of resilience emerged from the Middle East. While the headlines of 2026 have been dominated by the kinetic escalation between the U.S. and Iran, H.E. Hadi Badri, CEO of the Dubai…
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The Backbone of the Agentic Economy: Building Intelligent Enterprises
At the Semafor World Economy summit, the “Building Intelligent Enterprises” session cut through the usual AI hype with a dose of pragmatic operational reality. While the morning sessions at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings focused on macro-fiscal policy, this panel, featuring Kunal Kapoor (CEO of Morningstar) and Woodsen…
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The Cognitive Industrial Revolution: Reid Hoffman on Building Intelligent Enterprises
At the Semafor World Economy summit, held amidst the pivotal World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, the conversation shifted from global fiscal policy to the silicon-fueled engine driving the next era of productivity. Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, and a central architect of the current AI boom, sat down…
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The End of the App Era: How Agentic AI is Rebuilding the Smartphone with Div Garg
For over a decade, our digital lives have been lived in silos, opening one app to check a flight, another to pay a friend, and a third to send a message. But we are entering a new era where the ‘app’ as we know it is becoming invisible. Today, I…
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Anthropic’s Jack Clark, on The Architecture of Intelligence – When Models Break the Sandbox
At the recent Semafor World Economy summit, held against the backdrop of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, the air was thick with a new kind of systemic risk. This wasn’t about subprime mortgages or sovereign debt; it was about Agentic AI, models that don’t just answer questions, but…
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The Agentic Evolution: Autonomous Finance is Here with Anant Kale
In my time as a technologist and futurist, I’ve seen plenty of disruptions. In the past that’s code for a slightly faster spreadsheet. But today, we are talking about a shift that feels less like a software update and more like a biological evolution of the enterprise. We’ve moved past…
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The Synthetic Mirror – Reclaiming Trust in the Age of the Dead Internet Through Cryptographic Proofs
For decades, we viewed the internet as the ultimate frontier of human connection, a vast, digital nervous system connecting billions of minds. We believed that more content meant more knowledge, and more connectivity meant more truth. But as we stand in 2026, the mirror has cracked. The “Dead Internet Theory,”…
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The Quantum Cryptographic Singularity: 2026’s “Checkmate” Moment
If you’ve spent the last decade in the blockchain space, you’ve likely been lulled into a comfortable sense of “Quantum Procrastination.” The prevailing wisdom was that a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) was a “2040-something” problem, a massive engineering hurdle requiring tens of millions of physical qubits that felt more…
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The “Asterisk” of Optimism: Navigating the AI Economic Transition
The rapid ascent of generative AI has moved the conversation from Silicon Valley boardrooms to the halls of Congress with unprecedented speed. At the recent Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+Education conference in Washington, D.C., Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sat down with Jenilee Keefe Singer to provide a candid, technologist-adjacent…
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Scaling Mastery: How Sal Khan is Architecting the Future of AI-Driven Education
The halls of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+Education conference in Washington, DC, were buzzing with a distinct mix of urgency and optimism. Nowhere was this more palpable than during the fireside chat with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy. As a technologist, watching Khan’s evolution from producing…
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Agentic AI in Action: How Simplifai is Disrupting the Insurance Industry with Artem Gonchakov
I’ve been discussing Agentic AI for some time now. It started off more in theory then it got very practical with a recent podcast about Agent platforms. Today we have a real example of Agentic AI in practice in the insurance industry. Artem leads a company that is proving the…
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Preparing Every Student for an AI-Powered Future
The rapid onset of generative AI has left the American education system in a state of “reactive whiplash.” At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, DC, a panel featuring Alex Kotran (CEO of AiEDU), Dr. Christina Grant (Executive Director at Harvard’s CEPR), and moderator Eva Doug explored a critical…
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Degrees of Separation: Why Your AI is Only as Smart as Your Curiosity
This session from the SCSP AI+Education conference offers a compelling look at how the bedrock of our labor and education systems is shifting from static credentials to dynamic capabilities. As a technologist, reading between the lines of the dialogue between LinkedIn’s Catlin O’Neill and Microsoft’s Allyson Knox reveals a clear…
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KYA: Why Your AI Agent Needs a Digital ID to Spend Your Money with Chandler Fang
Since late 2024, I have been yammering on to whomever will listen, at parties, dog parks, grocery store lines, about one of the most important areas of our future, Agentic AI. We are rapidly entering a new era where the assistant doesn’t just suggest the flight; it books it, pays…
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The Death of Seat Time: How AI is Reclaiming the Human Element in Education
At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, DC, the air was thick with the usual policy jargon until Dr. Tasha Arnold, Head of Alpha Schools, took the stage. For a technologist, her message was a refreshing departure from the “AI will replace us” trope. Instead, she presented a vision…
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States, AI, and Workforce Competitiveness: Rewiring the American Dream
The dawn of the AI era isn’t just a technological shift; it is a profound economic and social disruption that requires a fundamental “rewiring” of the American workforce. At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, D.C., a compelling panel titled “States, AI, and Workforce Competitiveness” brought together former Governors…
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The Backbone of DeFi: How RedStone Scales Data Across 110+ Blockchains with Marcin Kazmierczak
Blockchains are incredible for security and transparency, but by design, they are isolated. They cannot inherently communicate with the outside world or with each other. Without a reliable bridge, smart contracts are essentially flying blind. Oracles – one of my favorite topics going back to 2017 – because of my…
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Innovation Era: Powering the AI Age
The explosion of artificial intelligence is no longer just a software revolution; it is rapidly becoming an industrial and infrastructural challenge of unprecedented scale. At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit in Washington, DC, Associate Editor Frances Stead Sellers sat down with two leaders at the…
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Policy Push: Navigating the Politics and Power of the AI Era
If hardware and software are the engines of the artificial intelligence revolution, government policy is the track they run on. Without the right permitting, infrastructure investments, and regulatory frameworks, even the most advanced technological breakthroughs will stall. At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit, Dan Merica,…
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Agentic AI: The Tokenized Future – Inside Nansen with Alex Svanevik
The world of finance is undergoing a metamorphosis so bizarre that not even Franz Kafka could have dreamt it up. We are watching the convergence of retail and institutional trading become entirely automated, driven by Agentic AI, and increasingly tokenized. Having just returned from speaking at Davos on this very…
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The Power of Water: AI’s Hidden Thirst and the Quest for Liquid Efficiency
When we discuss the infrastructural demands of the artificial intelligence boom, the conversation almost immediately defaults to the electrical grid. We talk in gigawatts and megawatt-hours. But behind every headline about AI’s power hunger lies an equally critical, yet vastly under-discussed, resource challenge: water. At The Washington Post’s Building America:…
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Open to Debate: Will AI Make Work Obsolete?
Preface: This is my report out about what these debaters said at John Hopkins tonight. I will author a recap of what is most likely going to happen in this space soon, based on my over ten years hands-on with the tech and my weekly meetings with CEOs and technologists…
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Steering the Algorithm: Leadership in the Age of Motion with Louisa Loran
In a world where algorithms can predict market shifts in milliseconds and supply chains are becoming autonomous, the role of human leadership is paradoxically becoming more critical, not less. Today, we aren’t just discussing ‘digital transformation’ as a buzzword; we are looking at the anatomy of how legacy giants pivot…
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Is Vibe Coding Dead? The 2026 Shift to Inference-Driven Development with Nicolas Genest
Could 2026 mark the end of “vibe coding” as we know it? Welcome back to Tech Snippets Today. In this episode, we sit down with Nicolas Genest, Founder and CEO of CodeBoxx, to explore the rapidly shifting landscape of AI software development. Over the past year, generating applications with natural…
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Survive, Reset, Thrive: A Strategic Playbook for Volatile Times with Dr. Rebecca Homkes
If we’ve learned anything recently, it’s that disruption is here to stay. While we cannot always predict the next pivotal shift—whether it’s a market crash or the sudden rise of agentic AI—we can learn to make decisions that allow us to adapt and outperform the competition. In this episode, I…
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Blockchain and AI Synergized for Smarter Finance
Davos, Switzerland: QuantumFAI Conference The panel on “Blockchain AI for Trusted Identity, Data Integrity, and Smarter Finance” provided a compelling look into the practical convergence of two of the most transformative technologies of our time. Moderated by Guido Schmitz-Krummacher, the discussion featured insights from Sandy Carter of Unstoppable, futurist Joseph…
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Meta, AI is a Group Sport
Davos, Switzerland: Axios House Of all the strategic moves in the tech world, Meta’s appointment of Dina Powell McCormack as President and Vice Chairman is one of the most telling. From a technologist’s perspective, her session at Davos felt less like a product roadmap and more like the unveiling of…
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Hands-on: The Age of the Autonomous Agent – Testing OpenClaw
We are witnessing a quiet but profound shift in how we interact with machine intelligence. For years, the paradigm has been transactional: we prompt, the model replies. We wait. We prompt again. But the friction of that loop is dissolving. I’ve been spending time with OpenClaw, a piece of technology…
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A Call for Clean Water with Matt Damon
Davos, Switzerland: Axios House With all the pitches one expects to hear amidst the rarefied air of Davos, a business plan from Jason Bourne probably isn’t one of them. Yet, there on stage was Matt Damon, alongside his co-founder Gary White, not to promote a film, but to deconstruct a…
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Beyond the Chatbot: AI’s Physical Reckoning
Davos, Switzerland: Session from The Washington Post House For the past few years, the narrative around artificial intelligence has been one of ethereal magic. Models spun text from prompts, conjured images from imagination, and lived inside our browsers. But as the dust settles at the 2026 World Economic Forum, a…
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Silk Way TV Channel Guest Appearance on AI
I’m happy to have been invited onto the Silk Way TV Channel to discuss AI on their “New Time” segment. Broadcasting in six languages — English, Kazakh, Russian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, and Turkish — and reaching audiences in more than 118 countries worldwide, Silk Way TV serves as a news channel…
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The System is Broken: Scaramucci’s Political Diagnosis
Davos, Switzerland: Monaco Day, during the World Economic Forum You expect certain things from a talk by Anthony Scaramucci. You expect unfiltered opinions, sharp-witted analysis, and maybe a few headline-grabbing quotes about his eleven days in the Trump White House. What you might not expect is a masterclass on the…
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Inside Davos: Walking the World’s Most Exclusive Street at the World Economic Forum
Ever wondered what it’s actually like on the ground at the World Economic Forum? In this Davos 2026 vlog, I walk the famous Promenade to show you the corporate pavilions, the security, and how the conference really works for attendees. I go through all of the most important details about…
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The Convergence: Where Immutable Ledgers Meet Intelligent Engines
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I will be putting boots on the snowy ground in Switzerland next week for Davos Innovation Week. It is a privilege to join global leaders and forward-thinkers in such an inspiring setting to tackle the biggest technological challenges of our era. On January…
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Davos Dispatches: 12 Practical Tips for Surviving the World Economic Forum
I am incredibly fortunate to be heading back to Davos this year for the week of the World Economic Forum. It is the most unique convergence of ideas, industries, and individuals I have seen compared to any conference I have been to, now 600+. This year, my schedule is shaping…
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2025: The Year in Review
The Year the Future Became the Default Setting If 2024 was the year we all started talking to machines, 2025 was the year they, as agents, started talking back. More importantly, my agents kindly worked for me. Looking back at the last twelve months from my desk today, I feel…
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Inside Cisco’s AI Playbook: Austin Lin on AgenticOps, Meraki, and the Future of Network Management
Today’s discussion will explore the rapid evolution of technology, spanning hardware, software, and the pivotal race toward rapidly evolving AI, and what these changes mean for organizations – and everyday users alike. We may dive into the balance between open source and proprietary innovation, and unveil how Cisco is driving…
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Blockchain Association Policy Summit: So It Begins – Big Banks’ War on Crypto
Blockchain Association Policy Summit 2025, Washington, DC: The title of this session could’ve been lifted straight from a sci‑fi screenplay: “So It Begins: Big Banks’ War on Crypto.” But as moderator Lindsay Fraser, Chief Policy Officer at the Blockchain Association, reminded the audience, this was no fiction. Traditional financial institutions, fortified by regulatory…
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Commissioner Hester Peirce: Update on the SEC Crypto Task Force
Blockchain Association Policy Summit 2025, Washington, DC: Commissioner Hester Peirce of the SEC was interviewed by moderator Marta Belcher of Filecoin. This conversation was framed around a clear break from “regulation by enforcement” toward a more rules‑first, experimentation‑friendly approach to digital assets. Peirce describes the SEC’s new Crypto Task Force…