Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
20VC host Harry Stebbings is joined by Jason Calacanis and Rory O'Driscoll to discuss Anthropic's IPO filing and Cognition's $26B valuation, debating whether trillion-dollar outcomes are warping VC psychology while warning that AI compute costs are forcing enterprises to choose between token budgets and human headcount.
President Trump signed a watered-down executive order requiring voluntary disclosure of AI models 30 days before release, marking a stark reversal from his administration's initial deregulatory stance after cybersecurity warnings from Anthropic, Microsoft, and JPMorgan triggered an internal White House battle between libertarian advisors and national security officials.
Psychiatry is shifting from outdated chemical imbalance theories to circuit-based interventions, where Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and psychedelics offer rapid, durable relief for depression and PTSD by physically rewiring specific brain networks rather than correcting permanent deficits.
Development economist Ritam Chaurey explains how Indian firms navigate rigid labor regulations by substituting permanent workers with contract labor or exiting formality entirely, revealing that post-1991 liberalization exposed labor laws as the primary binding constraint on manufacturing growth while creating complex, often ambiguous effects on firm productivity and worker welfare.
Tommy Robinson argues that rapid demographic transformation driven by mass immigration has eroded British identity and community cohesion, creating segregated enclaves where Islamic theological doctrines prevent integration and generate value conflicts that threaten social stability.
Legendary trading author Jack Schwager analyzes the S&P 500's record rally, explaining why he remains technically bullish but with extreme caution due to historically high valuations and potential exhaustion levels near 7850, emphasizing tight risk management over market predictions.
Jeremy Howard argues that AI coding tools risk trapping developers in addictive 'dark flow' states that diminish psychological well-being, drawing on Self-Determination Theory to advocate for intentional AI use that augments human mastery and autonomy rather than outsourcing complexity.
Ali Behrouz presents Nested Learning, a biologically-inspired architecture enabling genuine continual learning through multi-frequency parameter updates and offline memory consolidation, potentially bridging the gap between current LLMs and human-like adaptive intelligence.
Despite surging fertilizer prices from the Strait of Hormuz closure and trade tariffs, expert Bruce Sherrick confirms northern hemisphere farmers secured most inputs before the disruption, deferring major supply risks to the southern hemisphere's upcoming planting season if maritime constraints persist.
A rare Ebola strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 250 people with over 1,100 suspected cases, spreading undetected for 2-3 months due to US aid cuts, militia-controlled terrain, and a lack of vaccines or testing kits, while healthcare workers face violent community backlash fueled by conspiracy theories and traditional burial customs.
Satya Nadella outlines a vision where AI success depends on ecosystem strategies over single-model dominance, enabling every company to build 'frontier intelligence' through proprietary evaluation datasets (private evals) and multimodal harnesses that allow them to hill-climb on their unique data without vendor lock-in.
Georgetown professor Glory Liu explores the 'reception history' of Adam Smith in America, explaining how the gap between Smith's original 18th-century intentions and his subsequent cultural impact offers essential lessons for interpreting historical texts amid the 250th anniversaries of both 'The Wealth of Nations' and the Declaration of Independence.