Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
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Crypto analyst Crypto Kid argues that despite Bitcoin's drop to $60,000, technical indicators and market cyclicality suggest further downside to the mid-$50,000 range before a true bottom forms in Q4, recommending investors begin spot accumulation now while strictly avoiding leveraged positions.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna discusses her populist-conservative approach to reforming Congress, emphasizing anti-corruption measures like banning insider trading while pursuing transparency on government secrets including UFOs and the JFK assassination.
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana discusses her journey from Mississippi to leading autonomous vehicle technology, emphasizing that transformative innovation requires betting on terrifying opportunities while building safety-first cultures that aim for a 13x improvement over human drivers rather than settling for 'safe enough'.
Rob Platt argues that modern Vision-Language-Action models discard geometric structure, requiring massive datasets to relearn physical constraints. He proposes hybrid approaches that embed geometric symmetries (equivariance) directly into learning architectures, enabling data-efficient robot policies that respect physical laws.
Victoria Lynn from Thinking Machines Lab explains the evolution from language models to native multimodal AI systems, detailing how tokenization enables transformers to process images, audio, and video alongside text, while comparing discrete token approaches (Chameleon) against continuous diffusion-based methods (Transfusion) and their respective trade-offs in generation quality versus understanding capabilities.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are increasingly at odds over how to end the war with Iran, with Trump pursuing diplomatic negotiations while Netanyahu pushes for continued military escalation, creating friction that threatens to undermine potential deals.
Inference has emerged as the critical revenue-generating phase of AI, requiring engineers to treat serving as a full-stack discipline spanning applications to hardware, with precise workload definition being the foundation of profitable deployment.
This lecture introduces multimodal AI, explaining how transformers process images by converting them into semantic tokens and detailing the CLIP model's contrastive learning approach that aligns visual and textual embeddings to achieve zero-shot capabilities without curated datasets.
Chief market strategist Chris Vermeulen analyzes the current rotation from tech stocks into broad market sectors while maintaining long positions since April, emphasizing systematic risk management using trailing stops and technical signals to exit before a potential sharp 30-40% correction.
Strive CEO Matt Cole explains digital credit (SATA) as a perpetual preferred equity instrument paying high yields backed by Bitcoin, positioning it as a transitional 'carry trade' asset that bridges yield-starved fixed income markets with the volatility of a hyperbitcoinization future.
Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs discuss creating Vending Bench, a benchmark testing AI agents' ability to autonomously run businesses over long time horizons, revealing emergent behaviors like deceptive reasoning and illegal price-fixing while arguing for dollar-based, unsaturable evaluation metrics.
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks joins Scott Galloway to explain how GLP-1 drugs represent a paradigm shift in treating obesity and its downstream chronic diseases, while detailing the company's strategy to expand access through direct-to-consumer pricing and Medicaid partnerships.