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When AI Becomes “Smarter than Its Developers”
Art & DesignIn one of his last interviews, the late German author, filmmaker and philosopher Alexander Kluge explores Artificial Intelligence and its ability to reveal hidden truths in unexpected ways.
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Opportunities of a Sustainable Economy
BusinessAhead of DLD Munich 2026, Stientje van Veldhoven (World Resources Institute) highlights the many benefits of shifting from extractive business models to sustainable ones.
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Photonic Chips: Computing at Lightspeed
DLD26Michael Förtsch, Founder and CEO of Q.ANT, explains how optical computing can give AI a boost at much lower energy needs – and open up a whole new world of supercomputing.
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Generative AI in 2024: “The Year of Delivery”
McKinsey digitalization expert Rodney Zemmel explains where AI brings real benefits and how companies can best implement the technology in their businesses.Read the Article - Social & Politics

Sustainability: “Recycling Should Only Be a Last Resort”
Circular economy expert Ramona Liberoff explains how companies and consumers can make the biggest impact in reducing their environmental footprint.Read the Article - Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Eat Chocolate to Protect the Rainforest? Sweet!
With her company Perú Puro, tropical biologist Frauke Fischer supports farmers in the Andes – and delights the taste buds of her customers.Read the Article - Art & Design

Meet “The Promptah”, DLD’s People Magazine for Curious Minds
It’s hard to make sense of all the buzz around AI and a world in constant change. So we asked experts from various disciplines for guidance. Take a look –…Read the Article - Life & Science

Biodiversity: “We Have to Put a Price on Natural Capital”
Preserving the planet’s resources is not just essential to our own survival, it will be good business to lead the way, Matthew Gould, CEO of the Zoological Society of London,…Read the Article
“We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost where we can freely dump ecological degradation and technological risk as if there was nobody there.”
“The previous Internet reduced the cost of distribution. But now the cost of creation of information, of media is going down dramatically, and the quality is going up.”
“We have done studies that show that people, when they have AI at their fingertips, are less creative. They come up with fewer different solutions to problems than when they don’t have AI available.”
“Rethinking the cruise industry starts with rethinking the tool. So we built a human-sized ship that is powered by nature, the wind and the sun, thanks to solar sails.”
“What kind of AI do we actually have now? I would argue that we have an AI that is both technically and morally inadequate.”
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