Connor Zhang

Daily Briefing

Issue 2026-11-01 · Sunday Weekly Edition

Sunday, November 1, 2026

Five signals from the tech-humanities edge and five from the move toward autonomous agents, edited for the week ahead.

San Francisco and New York

Technology x Liberal Arts

Three gatherings where the humanities and the machines decide what comes next, from public AI to who owns the story.

01Instagram @thesaikatc

New Consensus AI Conference

A November 7 to 8 gathering making the case for publicly run AI and the economy.

02AI in Finance Summit

The Premier AI in Financial Services Summit

The inaugural New York event shaping the future of AI in financial services.

03Instagram @serica.initiative

Who Gets to Tell Our Stories in the Age of AI

Serica Initiative's 2026 AAPI Trailblazers Conference on AI and storytelling.

Autonomous Direction

Proactive Agentic AI

The shift from agents that answer to agents that act - and the discipline required to let them.

01GovInfoSecurity

AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the Deployment-Confidence Gap

Why organizations hesitate to put agents into production, straight from GovInfoSecurity.

02ADTmag

Zero Trust and Runtime Defense for Agentic AI Summit

Security for autonomous agents is now a summit track of its own.