Imagine a world where every street in a city speaks a different language, uses a different currency, and has its own quirky set of toll booths. Welcome to the current state of blockchain—a sprawling metropolis of over 1,000 networks and 16 million cryptocurrencies, most of them abandoned vehicles rusting by the curb. Navigating this chaotic
Copyright, Creators, and Code: Who Wins the AI Gold Rush?
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of intellectual property, thrusting creators, tech companies, and legal experts into uncharted territory. In a lively session at EmTechAI 2025, Tyler Chou (“The Creators’ Attorney” and founder of Tyler Chou Law for Creators) and Amir Ghavi (Co-chair, Technology Transactions, Paul Hastings) tackled the thorniest
Guest Post: Location, Location, Location
Last fall the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed, as improvidently granted, the writ of certiorari in two pending securities lawsuits, including in the Meta Platforms/Facebook case (as discussed here). The Court’s dismissal of the writ of certiorari in the Facebook case had obvious implications for the immediate litigants in the case, as it
From Freakouts to Forecasts: How AI Is Changing the Game in Finance
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Andrew Lo, Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at MIT Sloan School of Management, offers a pragmatic and nuanced perspective on how AI-particularly large language models (LLMs)-is already transforming the financial sector and where its greatest business value lies today.
AI as a Financial Advisor: From Skepticism to Surprising
Non-GAAP Measures on the SEC Investor Advisory Committee Agenda
On May 29, 2025, the SEC announced that its Investor Advisory Committee will meet on June 5, 2025 and that one of the panels the committee will host is titled “Beyond the GAAP: Market Perspectives on Non-GAAP Financial Disclosures.” The meeting will be open to the public and webcast.
The meeting agenda provides details about
Guest Post: What is DEI?
In the following guest post, Sarah Abrams, Head of Claims Baleen Specialty, a division of Bowhead Specialty, takes a look at important questions that are arising in litigation challenging Trump administration acts with regard to “DEI” — including one judge’s question about what exactly DEI is. The administration’s answer to the question could
Turning AI into Measurable Business Value: Insights from Asha Sharma, Corporate Vice President, AI Platform, Microsoft
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Asha Sharma, Corporate Vice President of AI Platform at Microsoft, is no stranger to translating cutting-edge technology into products that scale. With a background spanning Messenger, Instagram Direct, and now overseeing Microsoft’s AI infrastructure and applications, Sharma shared her perspective on how AI is creating measurable value for businesses-and what’s
What About AI-Related Enforcement Under the Trump Administration?
Among the many executive orders launched at the outset of the current Trump administration was the January 23, 2025 Executive Order that declared the administration’s commitment to maintaining the U.S. at the “forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.” The Executive Order set out the administration’s commitment to removing policies and directives that “act as barriers
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
Banking on AI: How JPMorgan’s Policy Chief Sees the Future of Smart Regulation
Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Terah Lyons, currently the Global Head of AI & Data Policy at JPMorgan Chase, has spent her career shaping how governments and private sector organizations approach the governance and responsible use of artificial intelligence. With over a decade of experience spanning public service, nonprofit leadership, and now the financial sector,