3 takeaways from the GZERO Media #GlobalStage interview with the World Bank's Sangbu Kim: 1️⃣ AI’s impact on jobs is not uniform around the world. 2️⃣ The biggest opportunity is productivity, especially in essential services. 3️⃣ The future workforce needs more than AI skills. https://ow.ly/EAwG50ZoBHI

Yoshua Bengio calls on governments to "wake up" from the 2026 #AIforGood Global Summit, Tech is moving faster than our ability to govern it for the benefit of everyone & most underestimate the changes AI could bring for good and bad. Watch the full GZERO Media interview: https://ow.ly/QmFw50Zol6X

Check out this IISD summary of the 2026 SDG Report, released during the opening of last week's #HLPF. It finds only 36% of targets with data are on track, while data now cover nearly every SDG indicator, up from half in 2015. https://ow.ly/hpGE50ZnS84

"It's not always about what AI could do, but it's what AI should do." Watch Frederic Werner's introduction to the 2026 #AIforGood Global Summit. https://ow.ly/UWSS50Zn74f

The most important form of AI agency isn’t artificial—it’s human. Watch the powerful opening keynote at the #AIforGood Global Summit from Doreen Bogdan-Martin. Thank you ITU for keeping humanity at the center of the conversation. https://ow.ly/MnaJ50Zn0K2

For founders building for the first #AI generation, the bar is agency: computational thinking, ethics, creativity, data awareness, media literacy, and the confidence to question automation. https://ow.ly/go8E50Zk2Vi #AIforGood

American philanthropy topped $600 billion in 2025

2 shocks are reshaping the global economy at once: energy disruption and AI acceleration. At the Milken Institute Global Conference session on the global economic outlook, business and finance leaders offered their constructive views of what comes next. https://ow.ly/F2NI50Z2SIA

In a truly fascinating panel at the 2026 Milken Institute Global Conference session, Amy Webb, Tristan Harris, Suzanne DiBianca, and https://ow.ly/UrXV50Z2Q1l offered their views on AI and humanity. Watch the full conversation: https://ow.ly/H4bg50Z2Q1r

Serena Williams has invested in 16 unicorns, but the lesson she shared at the Milken Institute Global Conference was not about picking winners. It was about who gets to write the check. Watch the full conversation: https://ow.ly/wRkU50Z2PcH

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how terribly expensive it is to be poor. This line framed a candid conversation about what philanthropy can actually fix at the Milken Institute 2026 Global Conference. 4 leading funders shared what works. https://ow.ly/GMIH50Z2FYF

Hope is not optimism. As Milken Institute's Melissa Stevens put it to open this #MIGlobal 2026 panel, hope is being in the driver's seat. These philanthropy leaders unpacked what that demands right now. https://ow.ly/1FJx50Z2tOA #Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting

The Milken Institute Global Conference assembled a panel of CEOs (Lowe's, Patagonia, Carhartt, KIND, Chobani) who have built purpose into the operational and financial core of their companies to discuss making strategic calls that prioritize principles alongside profit. https://ow.ly/Y9ee50Z2sLO

Recent polling from JUST Capital asked the public to rank priorities rather than express vague sentiment. Americans put safety, human oversight, and data privacy at the top, and ranked AI's promise to advance health, education, and engineering above workforce disruption. https://ow.ly/54Mu50YYrN5

MIE 2026 National Conference kicks off in Atlanta today. This ImpactAlpha article by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is a fitting introduction to the importance of impact investing to economic progress in the US South. https://ow.ly/yNpX50YQMI3 #MissionInvest2026 #ImpactInvesting

What if the problem isn’t that women farmers lack resilience, but that systems refuse to recognize the resilience they’re already building? That question helped set the tone for the #SkollWF 2026 session “Women Grow Our Future.” https://ow.ly/32LJ50YQnqa

Patient mistrust is not a barrier to overcome. It is expertise to learn from. That reframe anchored "Trust as Global Health Infrastructure" at the #SkollWF 2026. Learn more: https://ow.ly/T4oM50YQlwG

Who’s freedom is today’s AI serving? Kate Kallot posed this question at #SkollWF 2026. She is the founder of Amini, an AI infrastructure company working to ensure the Global South doesn't just consume the #AI revolution but leads it. Watch her presentation: https://ow.ly/36pr50YPIVg

At #SkollWF, Heather Gerken of Ford Foundation, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli of The ONE Campaign, and Raj Kumar of Devex explored what it means to lead when the assumptions behind aid, democracy, and global cooperation are shifting. https://web.cvent.com/event/1e71ddc4-8253-4ac8-8092-0cf48d5fc247/summary

At this week's #SkollWF Opening Plenary, Noubar Afeyan, Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, sat down with Trevor Noah for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of human, machine, and natural intelligence. Log in to watch recorded sessions: https://ow.ly/pX0y50YPlww

What does it really take to build AI that works for everyone? #SkollWF 2026 brought together builders who are doing exactly that. - Trust is the real infrastructure. - Communities must design their own knowledge systems. - Data curators are not an afterthought. https://ow.ly/HQmU50YP7ak

What does it actually take to turn a girl's education into economic power? At #SkollWF 2026, four leaders who are doing this work at scale gave us their candid, grounded answers. Girls' education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet, but only if we do it right: https://ow.ly/G55S50YON2r

At the 2026 #SkollWF, the session on innovative funding approaches proposed that we have enough capital. The problem is where it sits and what we believe about where it can go. Are we reforming existing capital markets or building something new? https://ow.ly/la5a50YOM4y

#SkollWF 2026 began with a conversation between Wawira Njiru founder of Food4Education and Trevor Noah who reminded us #socent is not just about vision. It is about systems, discipline, and dignity. Watch the full recording: https://web.cvent.com/event/1e71ddc4-8253-4ac8-8092-0cf48d5fc247/summary

Opening Plenary of #SkollWF 2026 starting now. Watch live: https://ow.ly/3eIB50YO45e

What does it mean to truly disrupt #philanthropy rather than just weather disruption? That was the question at this morning's #SkollWF session. The panel brought together different organizations and a striking degree of shared conviction about what needs to change. https://ow.ly/2Zhw50YO1OQ

Catch up on excellent coverage of the 2026 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings and Capital Summit from Devex https://ow.ly/PBW850YMS6u

Another amazing TED Talk from a first-time speaker. Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and CEO of the nonprofit Freedom Reads, which is building hundreds of libraries inside prisons. “You find what you look for.” https://tedlive.ted.com/webcasts/ted2026

The Khan TED Institute, announced yesterday at TED2026, is a joint venture between Khan Academy, TED, and ETS that could reshape who gets access to high-quality higher education. This model bets that rigorous, affordable, AI-era education can close that gap at scale. https://ow.ly/z45k50YK4SC

TED 2026 speaker Felix Brooks-church of Sanku, a social enterprise that fights hidden hunger through a simple, scalable technology of fortifying flour with essential micronutrients. https://tedlive.ted.com/