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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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How AI and Robots Help with E-Waste Recycling
Technology is coming to solve a problem it has created itself: AI expert Greg Ameyugo explains how robots can automate many steps of a tricky process.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

Radical Innovation: “I’m Not Giving You Money So You Can Succeed”
Astro Teller, head of Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory, tells DLD why world-changing ideas world must beat the odds of failure – again and again, in the most efficient way.Read the Article - Art & Design

“We Need Stories that Show Human Capacity for Action”
Harvard professor Martin Puchner describes how ancient links between literature and environmentalism offer insights for a better future.Read the Article - Life & Science

Turning Cancer Against Itself
Californian startup Earli aims to outsmart one of the world’s deadliest diseases by combining biology, engineering and software. CEO Cyriac Roeding shares details with DLD.Read the Article
“As technologists and as digital leaders, we have a responsibility to use our technology for good.”
“Software has eaten the world, and now it’s AI’s turn. AI is now eating software.”
“As a physician, I was trained to analyze the pulse and the vital signs. How are the vital signs of Mother Earth today? We have to move from personal health to planetary health.”
“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 bigger the change that’s possible, the less we’ll understand it. And the less we’re even able to conceive of what would happen.”
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