21 February 2026
Neeraj Ghaywan, director of Homebound, India’s official 2026 entry to the Academy Awards, and Masaan, presented at Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Creator of modern India’s socio-political cult classics.
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21 February 2026
India’s Chief Science Advisor Ajay Sood, a physicist turned strategist on devising India’s new playbook for defence leadership. Acquiring technology to increase national capability. Centring humans, and exploiting AI.
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21 February 2026
AI is not just code. It is human labor.
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21 February 2026
Karen Hao, TIME’s 100 most influential in AI and author of bestselling book Empire of AI has been in the trenches of dizzying AI development, deployment, controversies and speculation coming out of Silicon Valley.
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21 February 2026
Alana Goldweit is reimagining where and how humanity will live next. A senior leader at the globally renowned Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), she works at the frontier of extreme architecture: building cities in deserts, floating communities on oceans, and 3D-printed habitats on the moon.
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21 February 2026
If social media began a race for our attention, generative AI has kicked off a race for our emotions.
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21 February 2026
Megan Garcia, TIME’s 100 most influential in AI and mother of a 14-year-old teenager who committed suicide after developing a relationship with an AI chatbot, is on the frontline of critiquing companion chatbots and the rise of relational AI.
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21 February 2026
Yuta Lee, founder of Accelerated Bio, is at the forefront of breakthrough cell therapies for reversing biological age. Emil Kendziorra, founder of Tomorrow Bio, is a cryonics pioneer ‘deep-freezing’ humans for 10s, 100s of years.
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21 February 2026
AI can mimic musical prodigies, process entire genres and discographies and churn out music like a professional in minutes.
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21 February 2026
The amount of energy that the sun releases in one solar flare – emitted in a matter of minutes or hours – could easily meet our civilisation’s needs for 40,000 years.
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