The betting on a fusion-powered future is heating up with Google's deal to purchase 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth Fusion Systems planned fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Rick Needham, chief commercial officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, who struck the deal with the tech giant, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks, and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure: Leveraging Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems," co-authored with Thomas Cellucci. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Wind Harvest, a Davis, California-based company, has a technology (which actually dates back to the ancient Persians) that can capture the turbulent wind that flows nearer to the ground between ridges. The company's CEO, Kevin Wolf, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the company's vertical axis wind turbines.
Jaime Alemán is a lawyer, a businessman, and a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States, but mostly he wants to be known as an adventurer. Recently, was part of the Blue Origin NS-32 crew and he talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his passion for travel and being the first person in space to have visited all the countries on Earth.
Dan Raviv, author, podcaster, and a former CBS News correspondent talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III (who was a CBS News colleague), about his new book, his podcasts, and broadcast journalism in the time of social media.
Roland Trope, partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP, has concerns about Apple's asking users to opt-in for their emails to be sampled for training its generative AI model, Apple Intelligence. Trope, who has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has pointers for consumers, and those in his profession, about the risks and challenges of generative AI. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Imagine a new cancer treatment that also can make people younger. Then imagine therapies that can slow, halt or even reverse age-related disease progression in humans and animals. Dr. Jason R. Williams. founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and R. Rex Parris, co-founder of ReParris, a regenerative medicine company, discuss their here-and-now medical treatments and therapies with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
In this episode, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III dug into their broadcasting pasts -- including BBC, ITN, CBS, PBS and NPR -- to offer a way forward for public broadcasting, after President Trump targets funding.
AI is fast becoming the essential technology in the electricity sector for cybersecurity, weather prediction, wildfire vulnerability assessment, grid risk reduction and other things. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss AI's potential in the sector with Ron Schoff, Director of R&D at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and Chris Ritter, Division Director of Scientific Computing & AI at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Lee Rainie, an author, a former Pew researcher and now the head of Elon University's Center for Imagining the Digital Future, discusses the findings -- many quite surprising -- from a recent Elon survey on the adoption of AI and its impacts. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell II host.
Americans treasure their freedom of expression. But at this time, that jewel of our society is losing its glimmer -- as is the truth -- at a rapid rate. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect freedom of expression in America and worldwide. Its director of the Journalism and Disinformation program, Tim Richardson, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Austin entrepreneur Kevin Koym began his career with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Now, as CEO and Founder of Tech Ranch Austin, Koym is on a mission to support pioneering entrepreneurs in Mexico and other countries to gain access to the markets, resources, and relationships so that they may solve local problems with global insight. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO and founder of OMNY Health, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the medical community's response to President Trump's drastic cuts on medical research at NIH, and their impact here and abroad.
Steven Hendrix, who was the highest-ranking USAID official at the State Department, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his work with USAID and how its loss will cost America.
Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, discusses the new realities in journalism and their impact with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.
Lawrence Jones is a global man. He was born and raised in Liberia, attended college in Sweden, and has just been inducted into the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. As the Edison Electric Institute's senior vice president of international programs, he runs an annual global electrification forum that crosses industry sectors, from AI to fashion to water."Electricity makes all these things happen, " he tells Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III in this episode.
In the run-up to his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump has been showing his wild hand, from not ruling out military action to take Greenland and the Panama Canal to making Canada the 51st state to getting rid of windmills. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how Trump's strategy is impacting the nation and the world.
Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.
A Look Back at 2024 with an Eye on 2025
Vilas Dhar, president and trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell II about the foundation's work and its global aspirations for AI.
David Derigiotis, an insurance expert and TED talker, is an AI enthusiast. But he is also a realist about the hurdles ahead for the development of this exciting technology. For example, backdoors and privacy. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Marvin Kalb, author, professor and a legend in broadcasting, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the early 1960s, when he was Moscow correspondent for CBS News, and the confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, and President John F. Kennedy. It was "a different Russia," also the title of his new book, than the Putin-era one -- in which Putin, unlike Khrushchev, regularly turns his back on the West. Kalb also talks about the peril to...
James Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Securities Investment Banking, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the role "new safer and more robust" nuclear technologies might play for baseload, low-carbon electricity and to help the United States retain it leadership in fission. He also discusses the need for natural gas in the nation's energy mix.