This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 This is the connection between your gut and the soil – We rely on healthy soil for most of the food we eat but there’s a less well-known fact about soil. It’s a key source of micro-organisms that are crucial for gut health. These help regulate our health, hormones, mood and even our memory.
1:57 AI gives parents and caregivers paid leave – PaidLeave.ai was designed for caregivers in New York. The state offers up to $13,019 a year to care for a child, ill family member, or yourself. But every year, millions of dollars go unclaimed because time-poor claimants get lost in a forest of information and often give up. Users can ask PaidLeave.AI about their eligibility for financial support and PaidLeave.ai responds with a clear action plan emailed to their inbox.
3:29 These clothes are dyed using bacteria – The process uses a special microbe which secretes a pigment as it grows. The hue depends on the pH of its medium so designers can tweak it to produce a navy blue or a vibrant pink. Through synthetic biology, they could expand the palette even wider. Faber Futures is the company behind the process.
5:01 This company makes zero emissions cement – CemVision recycles by-products from mining and steel instead of quarrying virgin limestone. This means its kilns use less energy. They’re also heated renewably. Cement is the second-most consumed ingredient on the planet after water. It’s also a major contributor to global warming.
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,World Economic Forum,WEF,Davos,politics,finance,economy,news,leadership,democracy,education,technology,tech,AI,automation,work,future,world news,economist,world,forum,economic,world news today,worldeconomicforum,switzerland,external affairs minister,globalization,robotics,bloomberg,Davos Agenda,G5NLaBH2yHI,UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, Society, channel_UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, video_G5NLaBH2yHI,From vulnerabilities associated with autonomous decision-making to AI-powered attacks, rapid advances in AI agents can pose novel threats to organizations and society.
What responsibility-based strategies must businesses adopt to leverage AI agents effectively while minimizing emerging cybersecurity risks?
This is the full audio from a discussion hosted at the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 13 November, 2024. The video is available to Forum digital subscribers here: https://toplink.weforum.org/event-mode/a0PTG0000004wNC2AY/sessions/a0WTG000000TESb2AO/defending-the-digital-mind-the-emerging-challenges-of-ai-agents
Speakers:
Grant Waterfall, Partner, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Germany; Leader, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PwC
Hoda Al Khzaimi, Director, Centre for Cybersecurity, New York University Abu Dhabi
Matan Getz, Chief Executive Officer, Aim Security
Nic Chavez, Chief Information Security Officer, Datastax
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How will emerging geopolitical trends shape the global landscape in 2025 and what strategies can nations and businesses adopt to navigate these complexities?
This session analyses the key geopolitical challenges and opportunities expected in the coming year and explores the implications for global stability.
This is the full audio from a discussion recorded at the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 22 November, 2024 for the World Economic Forum’s partners and digital members. To become a digital member, please visit: https://www.weforum.org/join-us/individuals/ or if your organization is already a Partner of the Forum, sign up for free using your company email domain.
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Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Suzanne Maloney, Vice President; Director of the Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institution
Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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0:14 Wind turbine repurposed into home – It’s built from the control box of a Vattenfall turbine which stood in an Austrian wind farm for 20 years. Most wind farm nacelles today are much larger. But a team from architecture collective Superuse Studios, working with Blade-Made, chose one of the smallest to prove that the concept of a tiny turbine home could work.
1:57 Robot makes its conducting debut – The 3-armed robot performed in a concert in Germany, leading the specially written Semiconductor’s Masterpiece. The piece features 3 wildly diverging time signatures. The orchestra’s artistic director says the robot is not intended to replace humans but to perform complex music too difficult for a person to conduct.
3:41 Europe’s largest Marine Protected Area – It covers almost 300,000 km2 of the ocean floor and encompasses several vulnerable marine ecosystems. Half the new MPA is fully protected, meaning no fishing or extractive activities are allowed. While the other half is highly protected which restricts activities like fishing.
6:41 4 ways to maximize cybersecurity – Cyber insecurity is one of the biggest risks facing the world. As technology evolves and spreads, cyber resilience becomes more important than ever. Cyber resilience is an organization’s ability to minimize the impact of significant cyber incidents on its primary goals and objectives.
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0:15 AI robot zaps weeds while saving crops – It’s called Concentrated Light Autonomous Weeding and Scouting or CLAWS for short. CLAWS uses AI-powered image processing to identify the crops, then targets weeds around the crop with blasts of concentrated light. This gets rid of unwanted intruders without damaging either crops or soil.
1:52 5 ways bioeconomy affects daily living – The bioeconomy uses renewable resources from land or sea to produce food, energy, and other resources. It focuses on leveraging nature's processes and products to create sustainable economic outputs. The bioeconomy is already a part of our daily lives, influencing various sectors and industries.
6:08 Iceland sees benefit of a 4-day work week – The Nordic nation of 380,000 is rolling out a new way of working. Between 2020 and 2022, 51% of Iceland’s workers accepted an offer of shorter hours, such as a 4-day week for no loss of pay. The shift has had a positive impact on work-life balance and personal stress, new research shows.
8:17 Restored Amazon ecosystems beat logging – Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance is fighting to safeguard 35 million hectares of rainforest through a collaboration between 30 Indigenous nations of the Amazon basin. There’s an economic case for protecting the Amazon, says Atossa Soltani, Director of Global Strategy, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance.
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,1,Advancing women's employment could add $12 trillion to global GDP and boost some countries' economic output by as much as 35%.
Against a backdrop of stalling progress globally, how can economies, businesses and capital markets tackle gender gaps to unlock new pathways for inclusive and sustainable growth?
This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC24) on June 25, 2024, linked to the ongoing work of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Parity Sprint (https://www.globalgenderparitysprint.org/home) . You can watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2024/sessions/when-parity-means-growth/
Speakers:
William Warshauer, President and Chief Executive Officer, TechnoServe
Tian Wei, Host, World Insight with Tian Wei, China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Nurul Izzah Anwar, Chairperson, Social & Economic Research Initiative
Liu Qian, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Wusawa Advisory, Inc
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Global Gender Gap Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/
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,1,This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 This is the connection between your gut and the soil – We rely on healthy soil for most of the food we eat but there’s a less well-known fact about soil. It’s a key source of micro-organisms that are crucial for gut health. These help regulate our health, hormones, mood and even our memory.
1:57 AI gives parents and caregivers paid leave – PaidLeave.ai was designed for caregivers in New York. The state offers up to $13,019 a year to care for a child, ill family member, or yourself. But every year, millions of dollars go unclaimed because time-poor claimants get lost in a forest of information and often give up. Users can ask PaidLeave.AI about their eligibility for financial support and PaidLeave.ai responds with a clear action plan emailed to their inbox.
3:29 These clothes are dyed using bacteria – The process uses a special microbe which secretes a pigment as it grows. The hue depends on the pH of its medium so designers can tweak it to produce a navy blue or a vibrant pink. Through synthetic biology, they could expand the palette even wider. Faber Futures is the company behind the process.
5:01 This company makes zero emissions cement – CemVision recycles by-products from mining and steel instead of quarrying virgin limestone. This means its kilns use less energy. They’re also heated renewably. Cement is the second-most consumed ingredient on the planet after water. It’s also a major contributor to global warming.
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