Exploring the frontiers of computing, networking, and knowledge systems to build infrastructure that empowers humanity.
Juan Benet Podcast launches with Max Hodak on neurotech, brain interfaces, Fast R&D, and more.
Builders redefining privacy and sovereignty — where control of data, identity, and computation is real, not just promised. Highlights from the teams working at the frontier of digital human rights.
Attestation could follow TLS's path: standardize trust signals, clarify roles, and mature tooling. A look at what it would take for remote attestation to become infrastructure-grade.
Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination. Themes included TEEs, MPC, and the next generation of private computation.
Exploring how crypto incentives and decentralized infrastructure can accelerate embodied AI and robotics — and why open coordination matters for the next wave of physical AI.
Reflecting on Protocol Labs' 2024 impact across neurotech, digital human rights, AI, and economies — and the vision for 2025 and beyond.
A deep dive into neurotechnology's potential to reshape treatment of brain disorders, augment human cognition, and accelerate our understanding of the brain. Why Protocol Labs is investing in this frontier.
At a crossroads of technological capability and institutional inadequacy, Protocol Labs articulates its mission: building the infrastructure for a more open, equitable, and resilient internet.
Juan Benet speaks with Jacques Carolan, a founding Programme Director at ARIA, about getting breakthrough brain treatments to everyone, how ambitious science programs can accelerate neurotechnology, and what it takes to move hard neurotech ideas toward patient impact.
Juan Benet speaks with Ben Rapoport of Precision Neuroscience about treating paralysis, building scalable brain-computer-interface platforms, and how high-quality neural data can transform both clinical care and computational neuroscience.
Juan Benet speaks with Max Hodak of Science Corporation about restoring sight with retinal implants, biohybrid neural interfaces that grow neurons on silicon, the Science BCI ecosystem, and paths toward expanding human intelligence.
AI was trained on us. How do we value data and pay the people who create it? David Dao, co-founder and Chief Scientist of GainForest, unpacks data valuation, Shapley values as a mechanism for attributing data contributions, and how a green data marketplace could fund conservation while improving AI training pipelines.
Evan Miyazono, founder and CEO of Atlas Computing, discusses how US and Chinese approaches to AI regulation are diverging and what that means for global AI safety. While the US moves toward a largely unregulated model, China requires mandatory evaluations for large-scale AI training runs. The conversation explores hard rules versus flexible governance, what rigorous AI evaluations actually look like, and where the greatest systemic risks lie.
Bolton Bailey, a researcher specializing in post-quantum cryptography, explains how Grover's algorithm could enable a quantum-powered miner to dominate the Bitcoin network, rewrite transaction history, and undermine its consensus mechanism — not by stealing private keys, but by breaking the proof-of-work foundation itself. A deep look at the timeline for quantum threats to cryptographic infrastructure and what post-quantum migration paths exist.
Timour Kosters, co-founder of Edge City, discusses why current institutions are too rigid to adapt to accelerating technological change and why humanity needs new frontiers to flourish. He explores designing governance systems from first principles, the role of experimental pop-up cities as living laboratories for new societal models, and how the world's leading scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs are using Edge Cities to prototype what comes next.
Keolu Fox, the first Native Hawaiian to earn a PhD in genome sciences, shares a visionary approach to technology inspired by Indigenous knowledge systems like the Hawaiian ahupuaʻa land management system. He applies the wisdom of circular, balanced systems perfected over generations to modern challenges including genome data sovereignty, sustainable data centers, Earth-friendly computation, and ensuring marginalized communities retain control over their own biological data.
Anastasia Gamick, co-founder and COO of Convergent Research, explains how Focused Research Organizations (FROs) address critical scientific and technological bottlenecks that fall between academic research and commercial markets. Examples include E11 Bio for neural mapping at scale and [C]Worthy for carbon sequestration tools. FROs are purpose-built, time-limited entities that can focus on groundbreaking infrastructure problems with long time horizons — work that neither a startup nor a university lab can sustain.