Explain to Shane

Explain to Shane

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How AI Is Shifting the Telecom Landscape (with Roger Entner)

As the increased use of artificial intelligence necessitates connectivity, it will continue to become inextricably linked to the digital network landscape. When people talk about artificial intelligence, they usually focus on algorithms, chips, or data centers. But there’s a less ...  Show more

CISA vs. CISA: How Cybersecurity Legislation Is Being Held Hostage by Politics (with Caitlin Clarke, Cristin Flynn Goodwin, and Jim Lewis)

One of the most important cybersecurity laws in the country quietly expired last October with no sign of reauthorization on the horizon. Instead, the conflation between the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has led ...  Show more

Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov)

How should we address the governance gap between central banks controlling money and the oversight of cryptocurrency? How can decentralized crypto networks and centralized monetary authorities collaborate? And what’s next for digital finance?

To explore these questions, ...

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Financial Data Upon Request (with Penny Lee)

Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act is the foundation of open banking in the United States—giving individuals the right to access and share their own financial data with services of their choice. This rule seeks to increase consumer control, encourage competition, and make it easi ...  Show more

When Portability and Social Media Meet (with Matt Reeder)

Bluesky Social is a social media app that was originally launched in 2019 on Twitter, before becoming an independent company in 2021. Bluesky’s mission is to offer a decentralized experience for users—where algorithms are not imposed on them, but they can choose their content pre ...  Show more