Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Jensen Huang explains that AI progress is now driven by four simultaneous scaling laws (pre-training, post-training, test-time, and agentic), with synthetic data eliminating previous data scarcity concerns and making compute the sole limiting factor for intelligence growth.
The Trump administration is deploying thousands of US troops to the Middle East despite earlier denials, with military planners eyeing Car Island's oil facilities as a potential target, while experts warn that reopening the Strait of Hormuz would require a month-long complex operation involving minesweepers and air patrols that allies have not agreed to join.
Gold has crashed over 20% from its January highs near $5,600 to around $4,100 due to a perfect storm of Fed hawkishness, profit-taking, and the Iran war shutting down Dubai's physical gold trade, yet institutional investors remain bullish on long-term fundamentals.
The TED Idea Search in Chicago follows diverse speakers as they rehearse and deliver six-minute talks vying for a single spot on the main TED stage in Vancouver, revealing the rigorous coaching and vulnerable preparation required to transform personal passion into global impact.
Senator Cory Booker proposes the Keep Your Pay Act to make the first $75,000 of household income tax-free, funded by closing loopholes for the wealthy and raising corporate taxes, arguing this will restore faith in capitalism while requiring military spending cuts and immigration reform to address the deficit.
Jordan Peterson argues that human behavior is deeply shaped by biological imperatives to avoid dominance hierarchy bottoms and disease, proposing that psychological health requires rooting oneself in traditional archetypal structures rather than modern fragmented ideologies.
Derek Thompson explores how AI investment has created a 'two economies' phenomenon—where AI drives 70-80% of equity growth while the broader labor market stagnates—while warning that economists cannot yet isolate AI's true impact on employment, creating profound uncertainty about whether we face transformative innovation or a historic bubble.
Dave Smith and Joe Rogan examine Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's alleged financial conflicts regarding tariff trading and Epstein connections, while discussing systemic government corruption, AI governance, and video game addiction.
Anthropic is rapidly capturing enterprise AI spending from OpenAI due to superior coding models and consistent strategy, while OpenAI's internal inconsistency and strategic whiplash risk permanent lock-in losses; meanwhile, SpaceX advances its $2T valuation through massive vertical integration with the TerraB semiconductor fab.
Ted Oakley advises investors to maintain substantial liquidity (20-25% cash/short-term Treasuries) to navigate elevated S&P valuations and potential multiple compression, while positioning in overlooked sectors like energy and discounted precious metals royalty companies to capitalize on institutional neglect and volatility.
Balaji Srinivasan argues that America is fracturing into irreconcilable tribal subgroups while multiple technological and economic 'singularities' converge simultaneously, creating a force diagram where inflationary Keynesian debt systems collide with deflationary innovation and AI disruption to fundamentally reshape global civilization.
Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran explains India's pivot from free-market orthodoxy to 'strategic resilience,' advocating targeted indigenization to navigate weaponized global supply chains while warning that state-level welfare spending is crowding out critical capital and human capital formation.