Thought Leadership

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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?

By Greg Kahn

Taylor Swift is showing cinema operators a new era for revenue sourcing — are they watching?

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.

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.

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…

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?

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.

By Greg Kahn

In the ever-evolving landscape of investment, a powerful trend has emerged: the ascendancy of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC).

By Greg Kahn

We’re so used to our connected devices automatically updating with regularity, we tend to take their continuous functionality for granted.

By Greg Kahn

PayPal's recent announcement of its native stablecoin, PYUSD, has sparked both excitement and, naturally enough, regulatory concerns.

By Greg Kahn

I’m sure India immediately came to mind. And while April’s news that China ceded its long-held status as the world's most populous country to India makes the smartwatch milestone seem obvious, there’s a lot more to it than mere people numbers.

By Greg Kahn

When I turn my wrist to look at my Apple Watch, my eyes focus on health. What was initially positioned as an iPhone accessory, even a luxury fashion item, has become a device for monitoring our heart rates, blood oxygen levels, and exercise activity.

By Greg Kahn

Cola-Coca, the first major soft drink company, has another big first: it’s the earliest consumer packaged goods brand to have a global head of generative artificial intelligence.

By Greg Kahn

There aren’t many Superstar Tech and Media CEOs at the moment. But Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT parent OpenAI, certainly fits the bill.

By Greg Kahn

“Deepfakes” have represented one of the main fears consumers and tech watchdogs have cited for years about the advances of artificial intelligence.

By Greg Kahn

“We see a lot of potential in the U.S. market with EV infrastructure ... with the regulations to force EVs in major cities by 2035,” VinFast CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy told CNBC Squawk Box on the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker’s entry into the U.S.

By Greg Kahn

It has to be the rebrand of the decade: nearly nine months since taking Twitter private for $44 billion, Elon Musk has made good on his intention to rename Twitter to “X.” So what does “X” mean?

By Greg Kahn

July 2023 has been shaping up to the hottest month on record, according to scientists from NASA and other leading institutions.

By Greg Kahn

The electric future is the only road the automotive industry can take. But the driving growth of EVs is starting to slow down. So expect some shifts in where the growth and advances are expected to come from.

By Greg Kahn

Hollywood studios, writers, and actors are continuing to fight over an economic content landscape that doesn’t exist anymore. So it’s as perfect a time as any to look at the ancillary business models and the way startups are exploring opportunities in television.