Smarter supply chains could hold the key to reducing the environmental impact of the AI boom Sustainability leaders across the globe are debating the paradox of AI. On one side, AI's environmental footprint is growing. But on the other side, AI is actively helping solve some of the most challenging real-world sustainability problems. AI’s benefits aren't just in increasing productivity within a business or automating processes; they're much bigger and more consequential. When AI is applied to…

Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive focused on building decentralized infrastructure for artificial intelligence. At 0G, he is leading the development of infrastructure designed to make AI more open, verifiable, and accessible. Heinrich also serves as Executive Chairman of ZeroStack Corp. and has been an instructor and mentor at Stanford University for more than a decade, contributing to programs spanning entrepreneurship…

You don't really need scientists to know that personal attractiveness opens doors, since you've likely been the victim or the beneficiary of this to some extent in your life; nor to discover that AI-generated faces tend to be more attractive than real people (for a variety of reasons, many involving human-made preferences and processes). Nonetheless, a related, new academic collaboration from the US caught my eye today, citing evidence that AI-generated beauty may be costing real people job…

Microsoft on October 19, 2026, announced new security capabilities in Project Perception and Microsoft 365 E7 that treat enterprise AI agents as potential insider threats, introducing Guardian Agents that supervise agent actions continuously and policy controls that adjust what each agent is allowed to do as its risk changes. Nadim Abdo, corporate vice president for identity and network access at Microsoft, wrote that AI agents are taking on a growing share of everyday work and often need…