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Original Thought Leadership Content By Greg Kahn and Emerging Tech Experts.

Listen Up: Adweek's TechMagic Podcast with Cathy Hackl
By Greg Kahn
My appearance on the podcast TechMagic, hosted by my good friend, Cathy Hackl, just landed. Take a listen. Here are just a few items we covered…

The OpenAI Saga: What Comes Next?
By Greg Kahn
“OpenAI’s rivals this week raced to capitalize on the turmoil engulfing the artificial intelligence powerhouse, targeting its customers with incentives to switch to their platforms,” wrote the WSJ’s Belle Lin on Monday.

Defining Content In the AI Age 🧑🏾💻
By Greg Kahn
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping industries and redefining human experiences in ways we can barely keep up with. Part of the difficulty has to do with the nature of content. The primary way we perceive anything is through the creating, the sharing, the receiving of content. And content is one of the main things caught up in the endless conversations spiraling around AI.

The White House Takes Its First Step Towards Generative AI: What The Guidelines Mean for Startups, Investors, and Brands
By Greg Kahn
Back in May, an article on the ability of generative artificial intelligence to fool banks and even relatives by copying a person’s voice and facial features set off alarms about the excitement over the rapid rise of ChatGPT and the rush of investment into startups in the space.

OpenAI’s DevDay Puts Even Greater Power In AI Users’ Hands, Voices, And Minds
By Greg Kahn
Another week, another major OpenAI advancement. Actually, the parent of ChatGPT had a slew of advancements at its first DevDay event. Anyone of these would count as major news. So let’s break it down.

Hollywood Must Diversify Its Business Model Now — Here’s How
By Greg Kahn
Hollywood studios and streaming giants such as Netflix are facing a series of unsettling challenges that no amount of blockbuster movies and bingeworthy series can address.

AI and The Metaverse on Other Stages
By Greg Kahn
I’ve been fully immersed in the conference season these days. I had an enlightening Fireside Chat at The Economist Metaverse Summit on Oct. 10, where I appeared with Kirthiga Reddy, co-founder & CEO of Virtualness (full disclosure: one of my advisory clients) and Adi Abili, Head of web3 at AB InBev, a dinner I hosted provided a deeper discussion about “What’s Next?”

The Late Show With GenAI: A Panel Discussion With Stephen Colbert
By Greg Kahn
Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve our quality of life and expand access to knowledge or will AI create a future driven by disinformation and economic displacement that generates a collective upheaval of the status quo?

Merch at the Movies
By Greg Kahn
Taylor Swift is showing cinema operators a new era for revenue sourcing — are they watching?

Gen AI Leaders, It’s Time to Learn the Lessons from IoT Hype
By Greg Kahn
After years of industry conferences heralding the “Year of Mobile,” talk in 2012 and 2013 was about how IoT was soon going to be everywhere. The space was already attracting a surge of startups, venture capital investments, and a lot of talk.

Expert Voices - Call for Voices
By Greg Kahn
I am thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new content series — and I would be honored to have you as a contributor.

Join Me at VidCon For a Deep Dive Into the Future of the Creator Economy
By Greg Kahn
On Friday afternoon, I’ll be moderating a panel at VidCon titled, "The Growth Outlook Part II: The Next 100 Billion?"

Arm’s IPO Could Have Broad Reach
By Greg Kahn
Computer chip designer Arm’s upcoming IPO is likely to have a significant impact on tech stocks. It could even (don’t excuse the pun) offer a shot in the arm for companies that have been pulling back on their IPO plans.

CEO Talk : AI Surges, Lending Remains Uncertain, Sustainability Takes a Hit
By Greg Kahn
Just checked out the latest "What CEOs talked about" report based on Q2/2023 earnings calls. Here are some of the trends that stuck out at me…

Climate Week: Exploring the Business Solutions and Opportunities
By Greg Kahn
The big, two-part question for investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, brands, and media attending this year’s Climate Week NYC (Sept. 17-24) sessions is this: what is the role for business in addressing the challenges of a rapidly warning world — and where are the specific opportunities right now?

Is Apple’s Vision Pro Production Hampered By Fractured Globalization?
By Greg Kahn
As it prepares for 2024’s introduction of its Vision Pro spatial computing headset, Apple's vaunted global supply chain management approach may encounter some significant obstacles due to increasing geopolitical tensions and technology restrictions.

What Is Corporate Venture Capital and Why Is it Rising?
By Greg Kahn
In the ever-evolving landscape of investment, a powerful trend has emerged: the ascendancy of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC).

Apple Watch Goes Back to School
By Greg Kahn
The marketing reinvention of the Apple Watch deserves its own college course (if there isn’t one already).

911’s Emergency Upgrade
By Greg Kahn
We’re so used to our connected devices automatically updating with regularity, we tend to take their continuous functionality for granted.

PayPal's PYUSD Stablecoin Launch and its Regulatory Implications
By Greg Kahn
PayPal's recent announcement of its native stablecoin, PYUSD, has sparked both excitement and, naturally enough, regulatory concerns.
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