Jawad Ashraf, CEO of blockchain platform Vanar, examines what happens when A.I. assistants gain long-term memory without clear user ownership, arguing that today’s convenience-driven models leave individuals with little visibility or control over their own data. Ashraf makes the case for blockchain-based permissions as a practical way to return custody of A.I. memory to users and transform privacy from a promise into a verifiable right.
From cool downtown installations to historic museum presentations, this year’s lineup of shows spans emerging voices, institutional retrospectives and public interventions.
A new Gates Foundation–OpenAI partnership aims to bring A.I. tools to 1,000 clinics across Africa.
“Futurity is not a fixed horizon but a collective invitation: to envision alternate realities, to remember that neither social conflict nor environmental degradation are inevitable,” she told Observer.
Robin Williams' son and mental health advocate Zak Williams is advising Headlamp Health to bring precision medicine and better outcomes to psychiatry.
Ryan memorializes the mundane and the mortal in her engaging sculptural portraits of all things kitschy, immutable and abject.
From wine country hideaways to beachfront retreats and snowy mountain inns, these stays turn Valentine’s Day into a proper escape.
Speaking in Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says A.I. chip sales to China pose security risks that outweigh economic gains.
German startup Parloa raises $350 million at a $3 billion valuation to build and manage fleets of A.I. agents for enterprise customer service.
Morocco’s contemporary art landscape has emerged as one of the most compelling in North Africa, blending deep-rooted traditions with bold experimentation.
Eugenia Mykuliak, founder and executive director of B2PRIME Group, examines why liquidity risk has become one of the most underestimated threats facing modern portfolios. Mykuliak argues that recent U.S. bank failures and tightening global capital conditions expose a deeper flaw in how liquidity is modeled, monitored and assumed. In an era of persistent volatility, she makes the case that liquidity must be treated as the foundation of portfolio resilience.
