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Interop Tokyo 2026 · Voices from the Conference

Interop Tokyo 2026 · Voices from the Conference

Defending Truth, Building Trust: An Information Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age Professor Thomas Patterson — Harvard Kennedy School At Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Thomas Patterson warned that the gravest threat of the AI age is not any single deepfake, but the...

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an ultra-thin chip In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons — fundamental particles of light — hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of...

Operationalizing AI Ethics: From Principles to Practice

Operationalizing AI Ethics: From Principles to Practice

By Cansu Canca In the Shaping Futures section of this week’s BGF Weekly, we spotlight the influential article “Operationalizing AI Ethics Principles” by Dr. Cansu Canca, published in the Communications of the ACM. Dr. Canca addresses one of the most pressing...

Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next. Operator, an agent from OpenAI, can autonomously navigate a browser to order groceries or make dinner reservations. Systems like Claude Code and Cursor’s Chat feature...

Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing

Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing

By performing deep learning at the speed of light, this chip could give edge devices new capabilities for real-time data analysis. As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become...