A $25 billion judgment against Meta puts a price on misleading privacy promises. With 15% annual interest attached, New Mexico raises the stakes of enforcement. But will financial pressure translate into verifiable user control—and what can Europe learn?
With nearly 900 artworks on display, Canada’s World of Threads Festival reveals the extraordinary diversity of contemporary fibre art. Through the eyes of Dutch artist Denise Buisman Pilger, Beyond the Thread explores artistic discovery, material experimentation and the increasingly fluid boundaries between craftsmanship and fine art.
Wall Street is becoming more selective about the price of technological promise. Delayed IPOs raise five questions about valuations, investor expectations, shareholder exits and the balance between financial discipline and the capital required to build tomorrow’s businesses.
America’s infrastructure cycle is becoming too complex for simple bank lending. Through Karen Fang and Bank of America, Altair Media examines how public and private capital are being combined to finance data centres, energy systems, grids and the physical economy behind AI.
As AI becomes more physical, Wall Street’s role is changing with it. Through Ted Pick and Morgan Stanley, Altair Media examines how financing is shifting from individual transactions towards the capital structures needed to build America’s next industrial cycle.
America’s next growth cycle is becoming more physical. AI, energy and industry require vast amounts of long-term capital. Through five influential figures, Altair Media examines how American finance is adapting to an economy built increasingly around infrastructure.
Lightmatter’s Passage L20 CPX points to a deeper shift in AI infrastructure. As compute scales, photonics is moving beyond performance breakthroughs toward standardized interfaces, interoperable components and the industrial architecture required to connect ever-larger AI systems.
Imperfection is not necessarily error or failure. Through the work of Denise Buisman Pilger, The Human Hand explores how irregularities, material uncertainty and artistic judgement can preserve the traces of time, process and human decision-making within a work of art.
As digital and AI-generated representations become almost limitless, physical objects may acquire new meaning. Through the work of Denise Buisman Pilger, The Return of Material Culture explores materiality, provenance and the growing value of things that actually exist.
As AI expands from software into physical infrastructure, electricity is becoming a strategic constraint. Nvidia’s backing of OpenAI’s Ohio campus reveals a deeper shift: compute, energy, grids and capital are beginning to converge into one industrial system.
