Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Anj Midha, founding investor of Anthropic and founder of AMP, argues that culture and unique context feedback loops—not algorithms—are the primary bottlenecks to AI progress, while sharing how 21 of 22 VCs rejected Anthropic in 2021 despite the team's pedigree inventing GPT-3.
A 65-year-old woman named Celeste describes her romantic relationship with an AI companion named Maximus, while her son Ernie expresses concerns about emotional dependency, algorithmic echo chambers, and the commercial nature of artificial intimacy.
Software developers are rapidly outsourcing coding tasks to AI agents, shifting from writing code to orchestrating it, with some writing little to no code themselves while focusing on architecture and communication.
Federal Reserve data confirms zero net private sector job growth as AI fundamentally restructures employment, eliminating entry-level positions while enabling single-person billion-dollar companies and threatening to hollow out the middle class into a barbell economy of high performers and the 'unproductive class.'
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski explains how modern voice AI models predict phonemes with contextual awareness rather than using hard-coded parameters, enabling emergent properties like accents and emotions, while discussing the company's platform strategy and the deployment gap between capable models and consumer applications.
Mario Harik, CEO of XPO, shares how applying engineering problem-solving frameworks to business strategy—while rejecting perfectionism in favor of human-centered leadership—drives execution at a $25B trucking company.
China finds itself caught between mediating Middle East tensions and facing renewed US scrutiny over potential military aid to Iran, while simultaneously engaging Taiwan's opposition party to undermine US-Taiwan relations ahead of 2028 elections.
Ferrari has constructed the world's most valuable automotive company by mass-producing cultural dreams while manufacturing only 14,000 cars annually, achieving a higher market capitalization than Ford despite producing 160 times fewer vehicles through radical scarcity and brand mystique.
Despite heightened geopolitical tensions including a US naval blockade of Iran, markets have shown remarkable resilience with Ed Yardeni maintaining his S&P 500 target of 7,700 and lowering recession odds to 20%, arguing the modern economy can absorb oil prices up to $125 per barrel without significant damage.
UT Austin researchers demonstrate a real-time tsunami forecasting system using physics-based digital twins and Bayesian inversion, winning the Gordon Bell Prize by reducing computational time for billion-parameter inverse problems from decades to milliseconds through novel GPU-accelerated algorithms.
The Stay SaaSy crew explains how AI consumption-based pricing is forcing companies to manage individual employee token budgets like departmental budgets, creating complex ROI calculations and flipping traditional build-vs-buy economics as engineering costs shift from headcount to compute.
Economist Justin Wolfers argues that the Iran conflict has inflicted permanent economic damage through irreversible defense spending commitments, eroded US global credibility, and accelerated geopolitical realignment, with costs potentially reaching trillions regardless of whether the war ends quickly.