Politico February 28, 2025
Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in 5 Questions. This week we interviewed Howie Xu, chief AI and innovation officer at Gen Digital, the cybersecurity software company formerly known as Symantec. Howie discussed why he thinks the IT world needs to prepare for a stampede of coding assistants and the scientific discoveries they could unlock, why government is still necessary to boost scientific innovation, and why DeepSeek’s shocking achievement should have been priced into the market.
What’s one underrated big idea?
The AI-native coding agent. I know this might seem counterintuitive, because there is a lot of buzz around AI-powered coding agents right now, but I firmly believe their true impact is vastly underrated.
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