The Future Investment Initiative's Board of Trustees appointed Her Royal Highness Dr. Maha bint Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as CEO on June 10. Dr. Al Saud is a physician, a researcher, and an institution-builder whose career has moved deliberately across healthcare, academia, and international diplomacy at the highest levels. She brings more than 25 years of leadership to a role that sits at the center of global capital allocation and policy formation. Most recently, she served as Vice President of External Relations and Advancement at Alfaisal University, where she strengthened the institu...Read More

On May 22, 2010, a man traded 10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John’s pizzas. Today, that transaction would be worth more than $700 million. The story has become part of internet history, reposted every year across crypto forums, X timelines and Reddit threads as Bitcoin Pizza Day. What started as an early transaction now functions like digital folklore. Crypto company Ballet leaned directly into that mythology recently with a limited-edition Bitcoin Pizza wallet tied to the anniversary. The stainless steel cold storage cards arrived packaged like collectibles. Some purchases included pizz...Read More

DataVault has moved from early-stage infrastructure into a company approaching multi-billion valuation territory within a compressed period. Its growth places it at the center of a shift in how data is understood, priced, and exchanged. In a recent interview, co-founder Nate Bradley described a system designed to convert data from an operational burden into a structured financial asset. The implications extend across enterprise balance sheets and into national economic systems. Bradley’s entry into this space did not begin in finance. He previously founded AudioEye, a digital accessi...Read More

Global capital isn’t retreating—it’s consolidating into fewer rooms, fewer players, and more controlled access. FII PRIORITY Miami 2026 opens as access to capital becomes more selective and more controlled.What was once visible is now increasingly gated.   As FII PRIORITY Miami begins March 25, confirmed participation from Donald Trump places economic diplomacy at the center of a tense global moment.Gathering sovereign wealth funds, policymakers, and institutional investors to determine how capital moves across regions. Geopolitical tension has not reduced parti...Read More

For decades, schools and workplaces rewarded consistency, speed and compliance. The model favored those who could follow instructions, meet uniform benchmarks and operate within predictable systems. That structure is now under pressure. A growing body of research across psychology, neuroscience and labor economics suggests that the traits once labeled as disruptive or inefficient are increasingly aligned with how work actually gets done. The claim that “the future belongs to the neurodivergent” is often overstated. What experts are observing is more precise. The modern economy is ...Read More

In 2023, during a presentation that circulated widely through technology policy circles, Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris and technologist Aza Raskin delivered a stark assessment of artificial intelligence and democracy. In their talk, Raskin suggested that the 2024 election cycle could become the “last human elec tion.” The phrase was less prediction than warning. Harris and Raskin argued that generative AI systems—capable of producing persuasive text, images, audio, and video on demand—were arriving faster than democratic institutions could adapt...Read More