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23 February 2025

Who will win the global AI race? | Tom Friedman & Carme Artigas

AI is now the doorway to the next everything: politics, economy, society, civilisation.

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23 February 2025

Is deep sea mining the answer to net-zero? | Gerard Barron, Arunabha Ghosh

There's a race for the minerals and materials that will power our green future. Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, and Arunabha Ghosh

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23 February 2025

Why ageing is an engineering problem | Avi Roy, Elena Sergeeva

We all die. What if we didn’t have to? Longevity enterpreneur Avi Roy – Co-founder & CSO, Founders Health and Co-founder, London Longevity Club –

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23 February 2025

How data is triggering new Indian entrepreneurship | Kishore Biyani, Awais Ahmed

Kishore Biyani, Founder & CEO, Future Group, talks consumer, product, psyche. Social media as the new marketplace. And his new venture to create the brands of tomorrow.

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23 February 2025

Your brain is being tracked. Here’s how not to get mind-hacked | Nita Farahany

Our brains are in danger. L’Oreal is using brain sensing to personalise perfumes. Ikea is using neuro tech to pick which customers deserve to buy their limited-edition rugs.

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23 February 2025

An AI robot takes on 3 Bollywood directors & 1 maestro singer

Artistry vs. artificial intelligence: are we gaining a new tool or losing something that makes us human? 3 star filmmakers –

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23 February 2025

Next-gen weapons, techno-battlefields, new rules of conflict | Raj M. Shah

Lasers. Hypersonic missiles. Satellites. $500 drones destroying $10 million tanks. AI platforms creating kill lists.

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23 February 2025

We’re cracking whale language – by using AI | Giovanni Petri

Whales have the largest brains. 6x the size of humans. They live in clans. Babysit. Gather for birth.

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23 February 2025

Why the Ganga is pure. And why science says it will remain so | Pranay Lal

There's a surprising link between the Saharan desert and the Amazon. Trees are not the ultimate source of oxygen.

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23 February 2025

How video games can cure the attention crisis | ‪Adam Gazzaley

Our attention spans have dropped to 8 seconds. Lesser than a chimpanzee. Even an ostrich.

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