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22 February 2026

Humans in the loop are a vulnerability

Precision targeting. Autonomous weapons. Data mapping from siloed sources.

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22 February 2026

A bag made of 99% air: It’s basically a cloud

It’s 2022. Paris Fashion Week. Bella Hadid stands on the runway in nude undergarments – and is spray painted with a liquid fiber that transforms into a dress. In 15 minutes. Live.

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22 February 2026

Fusion is the single most economically attractive energy source ever

Can the ultimate energy moonshot – nuclear fusion – also produce priceless materials in the process? At SYNAPSE, Marathon Fusion engineer and moonshot innovator Adam Rutkowski breaks down why energy is both humanity’s greatest enabler and its deepest constraint – driving climate change, geopolitical instability, and the explosive infrastructure demands of AI.

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22 February 2026

Tokenize assets. Democratize finance

Siddharth Shetty is reimagining finance – for the digital age. CEO of Finternet and a key architect of India Stack, he is part of the generation reimagining how value moves in the 21st century. From Aadhaar to UPI, India leapfrogged decades of financial evolution.

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22 February 2026

Music won’t just be heard. It will be experienced

Ty Roberts is an architect of music’s digital nervous system. Co-founder of Gracenote. Former CTO of Universal Music Group. The technologist who helped teach machines how to recognize, organize, and contextualize music long before streaming became inevitable.

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22 February 2026

Welcome to the new Middle Ages – a multipolar world with AI

Wars in the Middle East, Ukraine. Trump’s Tariffs redrawing trade maps. China’s growing dominance over tech and AI.

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22 February 2026

China has no intention to replace US as a global leader

China is the dragon in the room – and one of the hardest perspectives to hear from, especially from deep within China’s own strategic establishment.

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22 February 2026

It takes just a few tech leaders to put their foot down. To press pause

Silicon Valley veteran Karandeep Anand became CEO of Character.ai a few months after the company was sued for alleged chatbot harms by a grieving mother who lost her 14-year-old son to suicide.

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22 February 2026

A whale could soon represent itself in court

We don’t need to look for aliens to start communicating with another intelligent species. We can start right here on Earth.

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22 February 2026

The brain may measure transcendence. But it cannot contain it

For decades, science and spirituality have been treated as opposing ways of understanding reality. But what happens when they begin asking the same questions?

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