AI artist Mick Mahler has a counterintuitive take: the more powerful the machines get, the less the technology actually matters. Showing delightful examples of his own art, from jazz-playing spiders to a Kafka-inspired beetle film, he explains how you can use new technology to serve your vision (not replace it). (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 10, 2025)

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I tested the Oura Ring 5 for two months to see if its smaller design lives up to the hype and whether it’s worth the higher price.

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0:00 Introduction & Why Wearables Fail
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A tsunami of entrepreneurship is coming and VCs who don’t expand their networks are going to miss out. NVIDIA’s global venture capital alliances and partnerships lead Sydney Sykes joins Isabelle Johannessen on this week’s Build Mode: