The Boldest Ideas of 2025 — And What’s in Store for 2026

Bold Names

The Wall Street Journal

Technology

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this special episode, Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims revisit some of their favorite moments from the first year of Bold Names. We look back on conversations with guests including Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the explosive growth of AI and the complexities of the U.S.-China trade war. Then, Mims and Higgins flip the script to interview each other about the technological breakthroughs and geopolitical shifts that defined 2025 — and ask if the AI industry is heading toward a bubble burst next year. Plus, we answer your questions. To watch the video version of this episode, visit our WSJ Podcasts YouTube channel or the video page of WSJ.com. Check Out Past Episodes: How Microsoft’s AI Chief Defines ‘Humanist Super Intelligence’ This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next? Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at [email protected]. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Read Christopher Mims’s Keywords column. Read Tim Higgins’s column. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	It feels as we're coming out of the year that there's big concerns that maybe the AI boom
0:36.1	is going to turn into an AI bubble.
0:38.2	What do you think?
0:39.4	I think that financially we are cooked.
0:45.9	Buckle up.
0:51.4	Here we are at the end of the first calendar year of bold names.
0:55.4	We're going to do something a little different today instead of talking to one of those big bold names, one of those big juicy names.
1:00.9	You're so accustomed to hearing from, from us at least.
1:03.7	We're going to talk to each other.
1:05.0	We're going to talk about bold ideas.
1:07.2	What we thought was big in 2025 and what we think is going to be big in 2026.
1:12.0	Yeah, we've got some great clips for you.
1:15.2	We're going to discuss them from the year that was.
1:18.0	We're also going to make some predictions for 2026,
1:20.8	and then we're going to answer some reader questions.
1:23.4	That's right, but first, let's take a look at the year in review.
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