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 to demystify the “AI strategy”…

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 am joined by a true…

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 act on the world.

Jack…

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 the era where AI was…

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,” once a fringe conspiracy whispered…

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 like science fiction than a…

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 perspective on how the U.S.…

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 simple YouTube math videos to…

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 value of autonomous agents…

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 pivot: we must move past…

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 mandate: the “Human-in-the-loop” is no…

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 for it, and could…

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 where AI acts as the…