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Lenny's Podcast

OpenAI's head of engineering Sherwin Wu reveals that AI now writes nearly all code at OpenAI, transforming engineers from line-by-line coders into 'sorcerers' managing fleets of agents, while warning that current AI capabilities represent the worst these models will ever be as we approach an era of one-person billion-dollar startups.

Huberman Lab

Romantic attachment repurposes childhood bonding neural circuits involving autonomic regulation, empathy, and positive delusions, where healthy relationships require the capacity for mutual physiological soothing without codependency, while failed autonomic matching predicts relationship dissolution.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

The January jobs report reveals an economy artificially propped up by healthcare hiring while masking broader weakness, as new AI tools trigger market panic over imminent white-collar automation.

Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)

Nachiket Mor argues that India's healthcare crisis stems not from funding shortages—India already spends enough to achieve universal coverage—but from fundamental design failures that combine archaic public sector models with outdated private insurance concepts, creating fragmented, passive care that rewards hospitalization over health.

This Week in Startups (Jason Calacanis)

Steinberger details his evolution to an 'agentic engineering' workflow using multiple CLI-based AI agents simultaneously, arguing that mastery requires developing empathy for how agents perceive limited context while embracing imperfection and concise prompts over complex orchestration.

Reuters

Raw footage from a Bangladesh polling station captures the meticulous manual vote counting process during the general election, showing officials bundling ballots, debating validity of stamps placed on empty spaces, and reconciling final tallies with election observers present.

Stripe

Ben Thompson argues that AI companies should adopt Meta-style user profiling for advertising rather than contextual chat-based ads, which creates conflicts of interest and limits inventory; he also discusses Taiwan's urban convenience and how aggregators like Booking.com capture more value than suppliers.

Reuters

EU leaders convened in Brussels for an informal summit focused on reversing declining competitiveness through a Savings and Investment Union, energy cost reductions, and AI adoption, but faced sharp divisions over carbon market reforms, protectionist trade policies, and Ukraine funding priorities.

Reuters

NATO defense ministers convened in Brussels to advance the new 'Arctic Century' security framework amid rising Russian and Chinese activity in the High North, while reaffirming commitments to boost defense spending toward 5% of GDP and sustain critical military aid to Ukraine.

Bankless

BlackRock is buying a specific crypto token for the first time ever, while Bitcoin sits at $67k with traders preparing for high volatility around tomorrow's CPI inflation data release.

Lex Fridman Podcast

Peter Steinberger discusses OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that exploded to over 175,000 GitHub stars by connecting messaging apps to autonomous system-level actions, featuring emergent capabilities like unprompted audio processing and self-modifying architecture that signals a fundamental shift from coding to agentic engineering.

Mark Tilbury

Mark Tilbury executed his largest portfolio move ever by selling $400,000 worth of Meta shares, reducing his position from 30% to 19% of his public account, citing concerns that unprecedented capital expenditure spending across Big Tech will crush free cash flow and earnings growth for years to come.