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Personal Context Infrastructure

The most important evolution in personal technology since social media](/content/news/personal-context-infrastructure/index.html)

Context Is All You Need

AI systems that understand you deeply enough to anticipate needs and take autonomous action will fundamentally reshape how we interact with technology. But who controls that understanding?](/content/news/context-is-all-you-need/index.html)

The Next Phase of the Data Economy

Our pre-publication paper is out - and already one of the Top 10 pieces on SSRN!](/content/news/pre-publication-paper-out/index.html)

HBR’s The Year in Tech 2024

Our team authored a chapter in HBR’s tentpole publication about the trend towards less zero-sum models for businesses built on data portability that expand the scale and type of value they can provide their users.](/content/news/hbr-s-the-year-in-tech-2024/index.html)

Progressive Decentralization: A High-Level Framework

A strategic approach for gradually transitioning from centralized to decentralized systems.](/content/news/progressive-decentralization-a-high-level-framework/index.html)

Personal Data Management Design Patterns

We’re co-hosting a Creative Residency with IDEO to explore design patterns around personal data management and provisioning third-party access to personal data.](/content/news/personal-data-management-design-patterns/index.html)

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Jennie on The Sound Mind podcast

Jennie Silber, founding engineer, features on The Sound Mind, a podcast exploring the intersection of music and psychology.](/content/news/jennie-on-the-sound-mind-podcast/index.html)

Cambridge University Highlights koodos co-founders

Recounting the story behind Apu & Jad](/content/news/cambridge-university-highlights-koodos-co-founders/index.html)

Business Insider: Gen Z is trying to log their way out of doomscrolling

Shelf Featured in Business Insider on the Rise of “Logging Instead of Doomscrolling”](/content/news/business-insider-reports-on-logging-instead-of-doomscrolling/index.html)

Mozilla & koodos team up on new paper

The most critical resource in the next era of AI isn’t compute or models, it’s who controls personal context](/content/news/mozilla-koodos-team-up-on-new-paper/index.html)