The explosion of artificial intelligence is no longer just a software revolution; it is rapidly becoming an industrial and infrastructural challenge of unprecedented scale. At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit in Washington, DC, Associate Editor Frances Stead Sellers sat down with two leaders at the absolute forefront of this energy
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Policy Push: Navigating the Politics and Power of the AI Era
If hardware and software are the engines of the artificial intelligence revolution, government policy is the track they run on. Without the right permitting, infrastructure investments, and regulatory frameworks, even the most advanced technological breakthroughs will stall.
At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit, Dan Merica, Co-Anchor of the Early Brief,…
The Power of Water: AI’s Hidden Thirst and the Quest for Liquid Efficiency
When we discuss the infrastructural demands of the artificial intelligence boom, the conversation almost immediately defaults to the electrical grid. We talk in gigawatts and megawatt-hours. But behind every headline about AI’s power hunger lies an equally critical, yet vastly under-discussed, resource challenge: water.
At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit,…
Open to Debate: Will AI Make Work Obsolete?
Preface: This is my report out about what these debaters said at John Hopkins tonight. I will author a recap of what is most likely going to happen in this space soon, based on my over ten years hands-on with the tech and my weekly meetings with CEOs and technologists from around the world.
At…
Is Vibe Coding Dead? The 2026 Shift to Inference-Driven Development with Nicolas Genest
Could 2026 mark the end of “vibe coding” as we know it? Welcome back to Tech Snippets Today. In this episode, we sit down with Nicolas Genest, Founder and CEO of CodeBoxx, to explore the rapidly shifting landscape of AI software development.
Over the past year, generating applications with natural language prompts has exploded in…
Survive, Reset, Thrive: A Strategic Playbook for Volatile Times with Dr. Rebecca Homkes
If we’ve learned anything recently, it’s that disruption is here to stay. While we cannot always predict the next pivotal shift—whether it’s a market crash or the sudden rise of agentic AI—we can learn to make decisions that allow us to adapt and outperform the competition.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr.…
Blockchain and AI Synergized for Smarter Finance
Davos, Switzerland: QuantumFAI Conference
The panel on “Blockchain AI for Trusted Identity, Data Integrity, and Smarter Finance” provided a compelling look into the practical convergence of two of the most transformative technologies of our time. Moderated by Guido Schmitz-Krummacher, the discussion featured insights from Sandy Carter of Unstoppable, futurist Joseph Raczynski, Panos Skliamis of SPIN…
Meta, AI is a Group Sport
Davos, Switzerland: Axios House
Of all the strategic moves in the tech world, Meta’s appointment of Dina Powell McCormack as President and Vice Chairman is one of the most telling. From a technologist’s perspective, her session at Davos felt less like a product roadmap and more like the unveiling of a new, and arguably more…
A Call for Clean Water with Matt Damon
Davos, Switzerland: Axios House
With all the pitches one expects to hear amidst the rarefied air of Davos, a business plan from Jason Bourne probably isn’t one of them. Yet, there on stage was Matt Damon, alongside his co-founder Gary White, not to promote a film, but to deconstruct a global crisis with the precision…
Beyond the Chatbot: AI’s Physical Reckoning
Davos, Switzerland: Session from The Washington Post House
For the past few years, the narrative around artificial intelligence has been one of ethereal magic. Models spun text from prompts, conjured images from imagination, and lived inside our browsers. But as the dust settles at the 2026 World Economic Forum, a new, more grounded conversation has…