Category: Agentic AI
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Meet Your New Digital Sidekick: AI Agents Take the Wheel
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Yash Kumar and Reiichiro Nakano from OpenAI discussed the evolution and impact of AI agents-particularly OpenAI’s Operator-on digital interaction. Their conversation highlighted the technological progress, challenges, and future directions of AI agents as they move from simple chatbots to sophisticated digital assistants capable of performing complex, real-world tasks on behalf…
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Tailor-Made Intelligence: From Off-the-Rack to Runway-Ready AI
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Waseem AlShikh, CTO and co-founder of Writer, took the EmTech AI 2025 stage to share the remarkable story behind one of enterprise AI’s fastest-growing platforms. Writer’s journey began with a simple but powerful idea: AI should be practical, efficient, and tailored to the specific needs of each business. Founded in 2020,…
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Control, Context, and Code: Windsurf’s Quiet Revolution in Developer Tools
Ever wonder what happens when the future of software meets the sharpest minds in AI—right as acquisition rumors swirl? At the AI+ Expo in Washington, DC, I sat down with Anshul Ramachandran, founding team member at Windsurf (formerly Codeium), just as whispers of an OpenAI buyout electrified the halls. Ramachandran’s resume reads like a Silicon Valley power map—Caltech…
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Code Red: Eric Schmidt’s (ex-CEO Google) AI Alarm and the New World Disorder
At the AI+ Expo in Washington, Dr. Eric Schmidt didn’t mince words about the crossroads humanity faces. With the air of a seasoned technologist—and the urgency of someone who’s seen too many sci-fi movies turn into documentaries—he mapped out a future where artificial intelligence is both the world’s greatest opportunity and its most unpredictable threat.…
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Tokenizing Trust: Sunny Lu (VeChain) and the Future of Real-World Blockchain
Toronto, Canada – Consensus 2025: Sunny Lu’s journey from IT executive to blockchain visionary is a remarkable story of foresight, innovation, and relentless pursuit of real-world impact. As the founder and CEO of VeChain, Sunny has become one of the most influential early entrants in the crypto space, recognized for pioneering the application of blockchain technology…
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Toronto Takes Consensus: Tech, Tokens, and Tim Hortons
Toronto, Canada – Consensus 2025: If you’d told me back in 2017, as I elbowed my way through the early Consensus NYC crowds at the Hilton in Mid-town, that I’d one day be writing about this event from the heart of Toronto’s birthplace of Ethereum, I’d have said, they better have copious amounts of poutine…
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Autonomous Agents: When AI Wallets Outnumber Humans
Dubai, UAE, Token 2049: Industry leaders Ben Zhou (Bybit), Jansen Teng (Virtuals Protocol), Lia Muller Pena (BitGPT), and Alex Svanevik (Nasen) explored the rapidly evolving world of AI-driven wallets and autonomous agents in crypto. The conversation opened with the idea that AI wallets are quickly becoming more than just digital storage-they’re evolving into autonomous agents…
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ElizaOS & the Age of AI Agents: A Conversation with Shaw Walters
Toronto, Canada – Consensus 2025: It was a privilege to sit down with Shaw Walters of Eliza Labs today. Shaw Walters stands as one of the most influential pioneers at the intersection of artificial intelligence and decentralized finance. As the founder of Eliza Labs and the creator of ElizaOS—formerly known as ai16z, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed…
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Clause Encounters: How AI Is Rewriting the Legal Playbook with Eleanor Lightbody and Graham Sills
MIT EmTechAI – Cambridge MA: I had the opportunity to catch-up with a pioneer in the legal AI Agentic space on how their platform works and what the future holds for AI with contract and litigation work across the legal practice. This conversation is with Eleanor Lightbody, CEO and Dr. Graham Sills, Co-Founder and Director of AI…
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Hacks, Stacks, and Ledger Acts: Securing Crypto in the Age of AI with Sebastien Badault
Just above the din of crowd and with flood lights in full effect at Token 2049 in Dubai, UAE I met with Ledger’s Vice President of Enterprise, Sebastien Badault. We spoke about enterprise security for digital assets. He said the high-profile $1.4 billion hack of crypto exchange Bybit in 2024 was an alarm bell for the…
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200 Years Forward: Radical Change, AI, and the New Human Blueprint with Steve Fisher
This was an incredibly interesting conversation with Steve Fisher design futurist, entrepreneur, and podcaster – co-author of SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence with Dr. Ja-Naé Duane. In SUPERSHIFTS, Steve and Ja-Nae give an overview of how we are at the end of one 200-year arc and embarking on another.…
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How do you prove someone is human?… with Terence Kwok
Today we discuss how emerging technology will help better verify that someone is who they say they are. It’s no easy task. Humanity Protocol, founded by Terence Kwok, is a decentralized, privacy-first digital identity blockchain, which has launch of Humanity Foundation, an initiative to advance decentralized identity technology and foster global adoption of Proof of…
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Vibe Coding Is Here
The time has come. Vibe coding is the new “thang” in the world of app development, and pretty much anyone can participate. Anyone can create disruptive apps in moments. I’ve been pushing the narrative of platforms and low-code, no-code solutions for many years. This next phase is mind-bending. Every day I encounter a new AI…
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Agentic AI: The Next Frontier in Blockchain and Crypto
This is a primer for a presentation I will be giving in Davos. As we venture into 2025, a new technological paradigm is emerging at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain: Agentic AI. This groundbreaking development promises to revolutionize how we interact with digital systems, particularly in the realm of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance.…