Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
NPR security correspondents analyze the third assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, examining suspect Cole Allen's background and motives while debating whether the Secret Service response constituted a security success or systemic failure.
Anjney Midha frames the current AI landscape as 'the great transition,' where industrial-scale model training meets a complete restructuring of the eight-layer infrastructure stack, while arguing that relationships and obsessions remain the ultimate asymmetric advantages for founders against entrenched incumbents.
This lecture introduces scaling laws as predictive power-law relationships that enable practitioners to optimize language model training on small budgets and confidently extrapolate performance to million-dollar large-scale runs, while tracing these empirical patterns back to classical machine learning theory and sample complexity research from the 1990s.
Ian Bremmer analyzes the widening rift between UAE and Saudi Arabia following the former's shock OPEC exit, while explaining how Iran's unexpected military resilience has trapped the Trump administration in a war with no viable exit strategy despite mounting domestic pressure and fraying alliances.
Chris Vermeulen warns a devastating market correction is inevitable long-term but remains aggressively long equities short-term based purely on bullish technical signals and money flows, demonstrating a disciplined price-following strategy that ignores macro news noise.
A researcher from Physical Intelligence argues that while robots now excel at short, dexterous tasks, true utility requires long-horizon autonomy for complex jobs like cleaning apartments or assembling server racks. The talk introduces MEM (Multiscale Embodied Memory), a system that uses compressed visual and linguistic memory to solve the latency and distribution shift problems that have historically prevented robots from tracking progress over extended time periods.
Former Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai argues that Canada's resource sector is primed for explosive growth amid $4,600 gold prices and a 180-degree federal policy reversal, despite the Bank of Canada remaining the only G7 nation with zero gold reserves and facing 15-year permitting bottlenecks.
John Collison and Emily Sans present Stripe's economic data revealing a surge in AI-driven business dynamism, debunking myths about a K-shaped recovery while showing how solopreneurs scale faster than ever and commerce shifts toward autonomous agents.
Joe Rogan and Ari Shaffir discuss Ari's seven-month South American travels, share intense stories about unregulated psychedelic experiences revealing human nature, and explore Texas's groundbreaking $100 million Ibogaine initiative for treating addiction and veteran PTSD.
Brent Johnson argues that despite narratives of US decline, America's military dominance remains unmatched and the Iran conflict reinforces global dollar demand through swap lines, while the shift to an "America First" foreign policy marks the end of the globalization era.
Google DeepMind engineers Thor Schaeff and Philipp Schmid demonstrate building conversational agents using the new Gemini Interactions API, a unified interface that supports both direct model inference and complex autonomous agents like Deep Research with server-side state management and asynchronous execution.
The video explores how AI agents—rather than humans—will increasingly select LLMs and software vendors, fundamentally disrupting enterprise software valuations and competitive moats, while also covering OpenAI's recent stumbles, Anthropic's $45B raise, and Thoma Bravo's $5.1B Medallia loss.