At Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center, the “Open to Debate” podcast convened an audience of students, journalists, and policy thinkers to dissect one of the defining questions of our era: Should the U.S. government break up Big Tech?

On stage were four heavyweight voices: Bharat Ramamurti and Matt Stoller arguing Yes, that concentrated tech power threatens competition, democracy, and innovation, and Jennifer Huddleston and Geoffrey Manne arguing No, that Big Tech’s…
Continue Reading Tech Titans or Tyrants: Should the U.S. Government Break up Big Tech?

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Robert Bench, CEO and Cofounder of Radius Technology Systems, brought a bold and nuanced vision of the future to EmTechMIT, sparking the kind of dialogue that strikes at the core of technological progress: how do we truly enable an internet where value can be transferred as fluidly as information? Bench’s breadth of experience, which includes roles at…
Continue Reading The Internet of Value: Rethinking Digital Transactions at EmTechMIT

For nearly three decades, a ghost has haunted the infrastructure of the World Wide Web. Buried deep within the hyper-text transfer protocol, the very language browsers and servers use to speak to one another, sat a reserved, unused status code. You know 200 (OK). You definitely know 404 (Not Found) and probably 500 (Internal Server Error). But between the “Forbidden”…
Continue Reading x402

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: In recent years, enterprise R&D in biotechnology has been fundamentally reshaped by the rise of artificial intelligence. At EmTechMIT, Chief Business & Legal Officer Sarah Korman of Isomorphic Labs (ISO), the Alphabet-backed spinout from Google’s DeepMind, offered a behind-the-scenes look at how AI is accelerating the design and development of novel medicines, and why this convergence is…
Continue Reading AI at the Speed of Enterprise R&D: Isomorphic Labs and the Future of Drug Discovery

Recently, gold hit multiple all-time highs in its valuation.  Gold prices have risen recently due to a combination of factors, including geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and strong demand from central banks and individual investors. 

But now…Gold has a new vehicle for people onboard it into their portfolios, Blockchain. Today I am very curious to hear more about why this might…
Continue Reading Digital Gold Rush: Tokenizing the Oldest Asset on Earth with Curt Hopkins

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: The scientific method, observation, hypothesis, and experiment, has fueled centuries of breakthroughs, but Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli believes it’s time to leave trial-and-error behind. At EmTechMIT, the MIT professor and cofounder of Lila Sciences cast a vision for “scientific super intelligence,” driven by a new fusion of artificial intelligence and experimental science. “Our ambition,” he began, “is to achieve…
Continue Reading The End of Trial-and-Error Science: Gomez-Bombarelli on AI’s Transformative Impact

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: At the MIT Media Lab, few voices blend data science, social theory, and design for human agency as fluently as Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. His talk at EmTechMIT, titled “The Power of Choice,” was not about the power of technology itself, but about how to realign it around the individual. Pentland offered a refreshing counterpoint to dystopian…
Continue Reading The Power of Choice: Rethinking Agency in the Age of AI

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a mathematician, robo-engineer, and blockchain pioneer walk into a room, today’s guest is the punchline. Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, brings a background spanning competitive coding, Wall Street, and even self-driving cars to the world of blockchain innovation.​

We’ll dig into how Arthur’s science chops helped architect Tezos, a platform that doesn’t just ride…
Continue Reading Inside Tezos: The Mathematician Rewriting Blockchain’s Rules with Arthur Breitman

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Camille Carlton began with a chilling observation: “Many people find it easy and some satisfying to engage in ongoing relationships with AI. This development has ramifications for our psychological and social health that we’re just beginning to unravel.” Carlton, a policy advocate at the Center for Humane Technology, addressed not only the technical landscape of conversational agents…
Continue Reading The Changing Face of Friendship – The Race to AI Intimacy

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Brian O’Kelley, a pivotal figure in digital advertising since the early 2000s, opened his talk by observing that the very fabric of internet advertising is undergoing a seismic transformation as AI accelerates the death of traditional web channels. “Advertising is not going away anytime soon but the Web is already on its way out as a way…
Continue Reading Building Customer Trust through AI

EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Sudheesh Nair, Cofounder & CEO of TinyFish, opened his talk with a bold premise: AI agents are approaching a pivotal transformation, ready to change the very shape of the Internet by evolving from simple assistants to fully capable “associates”, collaborators and actors that handle real-world tasks across domains like hospitality, commerce, and transportation.

He highlighted a core…
Continue Reading From AI Assistants to Associates 

Cardano is the 10th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, sitting around 22.5 Billion dollars. That’s quite a number given its ICO raised approximately $62 million from 2015-2017 at a price of $0.0024. Cardano is part of what I call the old guard of cryptocurrencies launched after Ethereum, by Charles Hoskinson, which launched the era of smart contracts. Much has…
Continue Reading Cardano and the Evolution of Trust in Web3 Finance with Frederik Gregaard