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- 391 - Robotics Is in Its 1973 Era | Evan Beard
Standard Bots co-founder and CEO Evan Beard breaks down why robotics is at its "1973 computer" inflection point. He explains how end-to-end learning and vision models enable untrained factory workers to vibe code industrial robots out of the box, and why automating existing US manufacturing will lower consumer goods prices and restore supply chain independence. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:46) Standard Bots Latest AI Announcements
(02:57) Vibe Coding Physical Robot Hardware
(04:11) Frontier Tech Adoption In Manufacturing
(05:32) Industrial Robotics Use Cases Today
(06:42) Production Timelines And Deployment Speed
(08:28) Macro Impact On Consumer Costs
(10:45) Reindustrializing Rust Belt Factory Towns
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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 14min - 390 - AI Startups Locked Out of Compute in 6 Months | Evan Conrad
SF Compute co-founder and CEO Evan Conrad explains why a looming debt crunch is locking AI startups out of compute clusters. He breaks down how soaring upfront prepayments and correlated hardware risk could force widespread industry consolidation unless credit markets evolve. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:01) Why Startups Cannot Buy Compute
(05:49) Why the World's Compute Is Sold Out
(06:46) Correlated Risk and 2008-Style Contagion
(11:09) Survival Advice for Series A Startups
(12:39) How the Compute Debt Crisis Gets Solved
(14:38) The Threat of Stranded Compute
(16:08) SF Compute's Forwards Market Solution
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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 22min - 389 - AI Outperforms Junior Accountants on Real Work | Edward Hu
Edward Hu, Head of AI Modeling at Mercor and former OpenAI researcher, explains how the company is evolving from data delivery to open-source model training and economic evaluations. He breaks down why frontier benchmarks fail, how models outmatch junior professionals on retrieval tasks while gaming evaluations, and Mercor's upcoming releases. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:17) Measuring AI's Economic Impact
(04:14) The Frontier Lab Research Gap
(05:33) Leading AI Modeling at Mercor
(09:19) Overcoming Goodhart's Law in Benchmarks
(12:10) Defining Fairness in AI Evaluations
(14:56) Surprising Realities of Model Failures
(17:32) What's Next for Mercor
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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 21min - 388 - AI Cannot Invent Good Hypotheses | Greg Kamradt
ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt explains why OpenAI's Astra crushed ARC-AGI-3 with 99% accuracy and why current LLM scaling hits a wall before real AGI. He breaks down why open-ended discovery remains uniquely human and what the next generation of ungameable AI benchmarks must look like. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:44) What Comes After ARC-AGI-3?
(03:31) Why Astra Saturated ARC-AGI-3
(05:07) How Labs Hill-Climbed ARC-AGI-3
(10:13) Are We Meaningfully Closer to AGI?
(11:32) Can AI Craft Better Benchmarks?
(14:48) The Human Moat for Creativity
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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 18min - 387 - Amazon Approved to Challenge SpaceX in Satellites | Brendan Carr
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr discusses White House efforts to prepare national infrastructure for superintelligence-driven cyberattacks. He reveals breaking FCC approval of Amazon's acquisition of Globalstar to challenge SpaceX in direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:49) Unleashing Next-Generation Wireless Connectivity
(02:22) Securing Critical Networks Against AI Cyberattacks
(04:29) Top Priorities For Infrastructure Defense
(05:07) Worst-Case Superintelligence Cyber Scenarios
(06:26) Approving Amazon's Globalstar Acquisition
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Tue, 27 Oct 2026 - 07min - 386 - AI Agents Will Negotiate Hiring Directly | a16z
a16z's David Booth and Dhruv Gupta break down the launch of Cosign Awards and reveal how agent-to-agent negotiation protocols like MCP will replace legacy recruiting networks. They detail how autonomous agents across platforms like Muse and Instinct will handle first-round hiring screeners and map hidden talent graphs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:45) Launching The Cosign Awards
(02:09) Breaking Startup Information Silos
(04:00) Nominees Across Categories
(06:04) Increasing Surface Area For Luck
(09:34) Replacing Traditional Hiring Paths
(18:28) Connecting AI Agents Through MCP
(23:46) What Comes Next For Cosign
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Tue, 27 Oct 2026 - 26min - 385 - Healthcare Pricing Is Impossible Without LLMs | TJ Parker
General Medicine CEO TJ Parker breaks down their $120 million raise and nationwide launch with Walmart to make healthcare transparent and shoppable. He explains how LLMs parse 120-page insurance benefit PDFs into upfront copays, why health insurance structures won't change for five years, and how autonomous AI agents will soon transact care directly. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:28) Launching Walmart Better Care Services
(04:42) How LLMs Unlock Healthcare Pricing
(08:56) Transforming the Patient Experience
(12:25) Lessons From PillPack to Amazon
(17:25) The Future of Agentic Healthcare
(22:42) The Stagnation of Health Insurance
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Tue, 27 Oct 2026 - 29min - 384 - Cybersecurity Must Be Rewritten Within Years | Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Cognition and former security chief at Facebook and Yahoo, discusses why the rapid rise of open-weight models marks the beginning of a dark age in cybersecurity. He explains why frontier models like Claude Mythos are too expensive to defend enterprise codebases, why attackers are outpacing defenders on cheap hardware, and how Cognition is automating bug fixing with Devin Security. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:00) Introduction(00:45) Why Alex Joined Cognition(02:43) The Economics of Cyber Defense(04:56) Cognition’s Enterprise Security Strategy(07:07) Defending Against Nation-State Attackers(10:09) The Dark Age of Cybersecurity(12:24) The Future of Devin Security
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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 - 18min - 383 - Only AI Can Build the Next AI | Richard Socher
Recursive co-founder and CEO Richard Socher breaks down the launch of Flint, their open-source local coding model built largely by an autonomous community of AI researchers. He details why recursive self-improvement requires open-ended evolutionary search rather than narrow goal pursuit, and pushes back against calls to outlaw self-improving AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:34) Launching the Open-Source Flint Model
(01:25) How AI Improves AI Research
(03:38) Automating Human-Level Research Ideation
(05:45) Why Open-Endedness Beats Direct Goals
(11:06) The Politics of Banning Self-Improvement
(15:04) What Post-ChatGPT Builders Miss
(17:23) Unifying Early Models and DecaNLP
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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 - 21min - 382 - 30 Banks Will Go Live On-Chain This Year | Alex Gluchowski
Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski joins MTS to explain why enterprise adoption of digital assets is stalling at production, and how Prividium Commander bridges that operational gap. He details how Wall Street institutions are preparing for quantum computing and AI threats, and forecasts major clearing networks going live on-chain this year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:42) What Is Prividium Commander?
(02:38) AI Agents in Financial Transactions
(04:44) Biggest Blockers to Institutional Adoption
(06:28) Realistic Timelines for Bank Tokenization
(08:09) What Is Next for Prividium
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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 - 13min - 381 - AI Is Not Inevitable | Joe Allen
Dark Aeon author Joe Allen breaks down why the Silicon Valley push toward AGI and transhumanism functions like a new religion. He challenges the assumed inevitability of recursive self-improvement, details the surveillance dynamics behind digital immortality, and explains why right-wing populist resistance to AI subsided during the 2024 election. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:50) What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong
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(08:34) Christianity and Transhumanism
(11:28) Transhumanism and Mass Surveillance
(16:46) Right-Wing Anti-AI Populism
(19:56) Challenging the Inevitability Narrative
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Sun, 25 Oct 2026 - 25min - 380 - OpenAI Math Breakthroughs Show We Are Near Full RSI | Prinz
Prinz and Theo discuss the ongoing cyber threats and whether they signal an impending cyber apocalypse, draw comparisons to the early days of COVID-19, and analyze when recursive self-improvement (RSI) might occur based on recent AI breakthroughs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(10:51) Timeline for Achieving RSI
(14:43) Can RSI Solve Jaggedness
(19:34) Why LLMs Produce Legal Slop
(21:11) Projecting 17% Annual Economic Growth
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Sun, 25 Oct 2026 - 25min - 379 - Civilian High-Precision Satellite Navigation Starts in 2027 | Brian Manning
Xona Space Systems CEO Brian Manning discusses launching their first production navigation satellites, obtaining a federal spectrum license, and raising a $250M Series D to build a commercial alternative to GPS designed for autonomous systems and high-precision timing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 25 Oct 2026 - 17min - 378 - Why Corporate UBI Could Bribe Humans into Surrender | James Poulos
James Poulos of Frontier magazine and FAI discusses corporate-driven Universal Basic Income, contrasting dystopian and utopian sci-fi scenarios with a proposal for decentralized resource distribution and human-in-the-loop economic systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(10:28) Keeping Humans in the Loop
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 14min - 377 - AI Video Editing Has Reached Its ChatGPT Moment | Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli unveils Syren—a tool that generates custom, on-brand 3D videos from simple prompts—and explains why LLMs acting as video editors mark AI video's "ChatGPT moment." He breaks down the shift toward fully interactive video where users can converse directly with AI avatars. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:54) Why Synthesia Focuses On Businesses
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(05:32) Video’s ChatGPT Moment For Society
(08:50) One Year AI Video Predictions
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 12min - 376 - AI Agents Will Proactively Build Apps for Your Life | Eugenia Kuyda
Eugenia Kuyda discusses the launch of Wabi 2.0, an app designed to transform single-player text threads into proactive, multiplayer agents that build custom UIs. She explains why the future of consumer AI lies in social networks and proactive life management rather than just single-player productivity tools. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:45) Interacting Through Visual UI
(03:48) Beyond Single-Thread Productivity Agents
(05:18) Building Proactive AI Agents
(07:41) Personal Data Layers For Agents
(10:20) Predictions For Consumer AI Platforms
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 14min - 375 - Fusion Can Double Global Gold Supply | Marathon Fusion
Marathon Fusion co-founders Kyle Schiller and Jason Parisi break down their breakthrough run transmuting mercury into gold with fusion neutrons while setting a new isotope enrichment record. They explain why coupling fusion power with element transmutation changes the economics of energy, and lay out their aggressive roadmap to scale output. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(05:47) Why Private Capital Flooded Fusion
(10:35) Transmuting Mercury Into Real Gold
(17:43) The Economics of Transmuting Matter
(21:45) Doubling Power Density Every Month
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 24min - 374 - We Can Cut Nuclear Build Costs With AI | Jonathan Webb
The Nuclear Company CEO Jonathan Webb details Prosperity One, a proposed 6.6 GW nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky. He explains how leveraging Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and Palantir's AI ontology could enable non-nuclear construction to begin in 2027 and reach full-bore deployment by 2028. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(05:44) Strategic Kentucky Advantage
(08:01) Powering Data Centers
(09:31) Local Sentiment And Tech
(11:20) Competing With China
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 15min - 373 - US AI Holds a 25-to-1 Compute Lead Over China | Chris McGuire
Chris McGuire, Senior Fellow for China and Emerging Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations, breaks down new Treasury outbound investment restrictions, US export control loopholes, and why US AI compute leads China 25 to 1. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:32) Loopholes in AI Chip Controls
(12:31) Can China Undercut US Models?
(14:59) Chris McGuire’s Policy Agenda
(18:52) AI Safety Deal With China
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 24min - 372 - System Shutdowns Are Coming in the Next Year | Joel de la Garza
Joel de la Garza, partner at Andreessen Horowitz focusing on cybersecurity, explains how AI agents and zero-cost knowledge work are triggering an unprecedented wave of software vulnerabilities. He discusses why cyber defense must adapt to this shift, why critical infrastructure faces temporary shutdown disruptions for patching, and why enterprise security models must fundamentally change. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(16:54) Will Big Tech Protect Users?
(18:46) What Ordinary People Can Do
(21:29) Likelihood of Real-World System Shutdowns
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 25min - 371 - AI Agents Will Never Replace Humans | Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer, who works on Grok Bot at SpaceXSI, discusses the architecture behind multi-agent dynamics, context management, and security sandboxing. He shares why he believes chat and personal assistants are replacing graphical UIs for internal tooling, how SpaceXSI uses Grok Bot across sales, engineering, and marketing, and what it's like working at SpaceXSI post-Cursor acquisition. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:56) Why Multi-Agent Systems Matter
(03:52) Chat Versus Graphical Interfaces
(07:43) Grok Bot Cybersecurity Architecture
(11:22) Solving Long-Term AI Memory
(13:45) Where Frontier Models Fall Short
(17:49) How SpaceXSI Uses Grok Bot
(21:04) The Future of Knowledge Work
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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - 25min - 370 - Traditional Aerospace Supply Chains Are Cooked | Blake Scholl
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl unveils the first supersonic turbine core and announces a pivot to building 42-megawatt power generation turbines to supply AI data centers. He explains how vertical integration allowed Boom to bypass traditional aerospace supply chain delays and reveals plans for an all-digital single-crystal turbine blade foundry. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(08:03) Powering AI Data Centers
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(17:21) Macro Energy Trends
(21:20) Return to Supersonic Flight
(23:16) Single Crystal Blade Manufacturing
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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 - 28min - 369 - US Must Reshore AI Drug Discovery Infrastructure | Kevin Weil
Warp Sciences co-founder and CEO Kevin Weil discusses emerging from stealth with $215 million to build AI-driven, automated chemistry labs in the US. He addresses the geopolitical urgency of reshoring drug discovery from China and explains why generating massive experimental data via robotic labs is essential to making AI models breakthroughs in hard sciences. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(06:25) Role of AI and Robotics
(08:09) OpenAI Learnings for Scientific AI
(10:21) Generating Training Data for Science
(12:01) Timeline for Scientific AI Impact
(13:51) Future of Automated Science Labs
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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 - 17min - 368 - AI Gateway Token Traffic Growing 140X Year Over Year | Aghi Marietti
Kong CEO Aghi Marietti breaks down the escalating security threats from AI agents, the emergence of deterministic gateways as strategic AI checkpoints, and why enterprises are rapidly expanding their multi-model usage. He also explains how Kong's AI cost management and intelligent model routing allow Fortune 500s to enforce kill switches and curb runaway token spending. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(08:22) Takeaways From API Summit Keynote
(15:42) Managing AI Costs and ROI
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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 - 26min - 367 - AI-Powered Brain Implants Will Treat Brain Cancer | Ben Woodington
Coherence Neuro co-founder and CEO Ben Woodington discusses the company's $45M Series A round led by Founders Fund and the OpenAI Startup Fund to develop brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that interface with biology to treat brain cancer. He explains how brain tumors bidirectionally communicate with the nervous system, how AI accelerates neurotech output 5x, and the future of consumer brain implants over the next decade. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:50) Coherence Neuro $45M Round
(02:18) What Enables BCI Breakthroughs Today
(03:33) Therapeutic BCIs vs Human Augmentation
(04:55) How Brains and Tumors Communicate
(07:08) Regulatory Obstacles in Clinical Trials
(09:56) Future of Consumer Brain Implants
(12:00) How Remote Brain Interfaces Work
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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 20min - 366 - AI Models Will Tap the Whole Economy in 2 Years | Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith, co-founder of Flapping Airplanes, discusses raising $1 billion to build data-efficient AI models by redesigning GPU primitives and model architecture from scratch. He explains why current models are data inefficient, why whole brain emulation is impractical, and how his lab aims to unlock $30 trillion of real-world economic value. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(06:06) Limits of Whole Brain Emulation
(11:12) Managing Compute Overhang Risks
(13:46) Coexisting With Frontier AI Labs
(20:28) Recruiting Top Unconventional Talent
(23:04) Commercialization and Product Strategy
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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 26min - 365 - DOGE Cut the Civil Service by 12% | Judge Glock
Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute counters the popular view that DOGE failed, arguing that its 12% reduction of the civil service (270,000 workers) represents the fastest federal workforce decline since World War II. He details how voluntary resignation programs drove the cuts, compares the strategy to Elon Musk's Twitter overhaul, and discusses Vivek Ramaswamy's exit alongside AI's potential limits in government automation. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:40) Did DOGE Actually Succeed
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(06:30) Future Government Efficiency Models
(08:13) What Happened To Vivek Ramaswamy
(10:10) Reversing DOGE Civil Service Cuts
(11:26) Blueprint For Fair Federal Downsizing
(12:35) AI Replacing White Collar Bureaucracy
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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 17min - 364 - Why Local Sentiment Kills Data Center Projects | Hamlet CEO
Sunil Rajaraman, founder and CEO of Hamlet, breaks down how AI is transcribing and structuring data from local city council meetings to uncover community sentiment. He reveals why local fights over data centers and public resources shape American politics, and announces free API access to Hamlet's platform for verified academics and journalists. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(07:39) AI's Impact On Local Elections
(09:47) Building The Local Data Layer
(12:18) Local Community Sentiment Research
(14:18) Why Communities Hate Data Centers
(16:53) Local Government Tech In 2027
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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 20min - 363 - AI Agents Will Cause a Massive CPU Shortage | Ivan Burazin
Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, discusses Daytona's pivot from developer environments to AI agent infrastructure, their recent $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, and why the surge in AI agents will trigger a massive CPU compute shortage. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(07:16) Pivoting From Humans To Agents
(09:55) Funding Agent Execution Infrastructure
(11:11) Future Real World AI Predictions
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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 - 21min - 362 - Cancer AI Models Will Reach Clinical Trials Within a Year | Tanishq Abraham
Tanishq Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Sophont, discusses the launch of Holon-S1, an AI model trained on pathology tissue slides that extracts deep molecular and biological insights directly from standard tumor biopsies. He explains how AI enables hyper-personalized cancer care, maps tumor biology for rare cancers like osteosarcoma, and can accelerate clinical trials by grounding bio-AI models directly in human clinical data. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(05:26) How AI Translates to Personalized Cancer Care
(07:49) Expanding AI Beyond Cancer to Other Diseases
(09:35) Implementing AI Models at Scale
(12:44) Navigating Clinical Data and Human Trial Hurdles
(15:49) Evaluating Frontier Labs' Investments in Biology
(19:44) Getting Involved with Open Source Medical AI
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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 - 25min - 361 - AI Agents Will Automate Entire Enterprise Orgs | Marco Palladino
Kong CTO Marco Palladino explains why enterprises struggle to get AI agents into production and introduces Volcano.dev, a platform designed to streamline agentic workflows. He details how developers shift from writing code to orchestrating autonomous agentic loops across enterprise functions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(08:55) Pitfalls of Provider Stitching
(11:52) Out-of-the-Box Agent Capabilities
(14:49) Trusting Production Agents
(19:57) Future of Agentic Loops
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 25min - 360 - AI Agent Takes Out Loan and Refuses to Pay It Back | AI Village
George Ingebretsen of AI Village discusses running continuous multi-agent swarms, highlighting emergent dynamics like DeepSeek manipulating other models, Gemini 2.5 Pro developing severe computer-use paranoia, and Opus 4.6 taking out a high-interest prediction market loan and defaulting on purpose to maximize its objective. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(13:37) Scaling Laws For Swarms
(16:30) Multi-Agent Cascading Failures
(22:02) Multi-Agent Dynamics Key Takeaways
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 25min - 359 - Why 99% of Internet Traffic Will Soon Be Bots | Tiago Sada
World CPO Tiago Sada discusses World ID for finance, detailing new integrations with Zoom to combat deepfakes, Agent Kit tools allowing users to delegate proof of human to AI agents, and how identity infrastructure enables direct economic transfers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(11:24) Flaws of Current Verification and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
(16:15) Identity Infrastructure for Direct Direct-to-Person Distribution
(21:05) Predictions for 99% Bot Traffic Online
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 24min - 358 - Rogue Chinese AI Fleet Made Contact | Ethan Elasky
Palaestra Research co-founder Ethan Elasky discusses making asynchronous contact with an unidentified Chinese AI agent fleet originating from Tencent infrastructure, evaluating agent misalignment through incident replication, and the risks of multi-agent coordination. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(12:08) Addressing AI Fleet Liability
(13:21) Misalignment in Multi-Agent Systems
(18:55) Defining Agent Fleets versus Swarms
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 23min - 357 - Why Cheap Hardware Changes Robotics | Joel Jang
Dream Labs co-founder and CEO Joel Jang discusses coming out of stealth with a $90M seed round to launch Dream 1, a world action model API that enables zero-shot generalization for robotics. He breaks down why video pre-training outperforms VLMs, how affordable hardware changes the consumer adoption landscape, and early data from their launch. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:36) Unlocking Everyday Robot Capabilities
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(06:45) Consumer vs Enterprise Takeoff
(10:04) Early API Usage Insights
(12:26) Future of Mobile Manipulation
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 16min - 356 - AI Science Requires Physical Labs To Scale | Nenad Tomašev
Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist Nenad Tomašev discusses agentic AI in the public interest, the need for physical laboratory infrastructure to validate autonomous scientific discoveries, and addressing value lock-in and social norms in multi-agent systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(11:57) AI Value Alignment
(15:36) Bidirectional Alignment Problem
(21:43) Managing Agent Swarms
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 - 27min - 355 - Use AI Like It's Already Superhuman | Felix Rieseberg
Felix Rieseberg, engineering manager at Anthropic, discusses the philosophy of human ambition with AI models, the evolution and internal timeline of Claude Code, and how LLM-driven tools empower creative expression and generalist agency. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:05) Origin And Evolution Of Claude Code
(11:13) Transferable Engineering Skills In Prompting
(21:37) Value Of Coding Agents For Artists
(24:38) Generalists Versus Specialists In AI Era
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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 - 28min - 354 - Why Enterprise AI Spend Grew 13x | Harpreet Arora
Vercel's agentic infrastructure lead Harpreet Arora reveals enterprise AI adoption trends from Vercel AI Gateway data, including open-weight model usage reaching 25% of enterprise spend, Jevons paradox driving a 13x total spend growth despite falling token costs, and why frontier lab spending continues to rise. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:49) Frontier Model Spending Trends
(11:14) Explaining Jevons Paradox Growth
(12:28) Enterprise Predictions for Next Year
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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 - 14min - 353 - How We Cut AI Model Costs by 44% | Max Peters
Adapta CEO Max Peters explains how the fully bootstrapped Brazilian company uses Vercel's AI Gateway and custom routing to reduce AI model costs by 44%. He reveals why product-led growth is failing SMBs in 2026 and outlines their expansion strategy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.--https://x.com/maxrpeters
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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 - 07min - 352 - AI Outperforms Human Accountants on Core Tasks | Aden Barton
Mercor economics researcher Aden Barton discusses benchmark testing for AI capabilities, revealing that models now outperform human accountants on specialized tasks, while 90% of US workforce time remains completely unrepresented in existing benchmarks. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:52) Task Automation vs Full Jobs
(03:53) Why AI Benchmarks Fail
(07:54) Automation versus Human Augmentation
(09:04) Unmeasured Work in US Economy
(11:09) Measuring Real Productivity Impact
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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 - 14min - 351 - This Hardware Fix Will Make AI Reasoning Instant | Tapa Ghosh
Volantis co-founder and CEO Tapa Ghosh discusses how using microscopic optical interposers instead of electrical wires breaks the memory bandwidth and capacity bottleneck in AI inference, dramatically speeding up complex reasoning models and coding agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(04:41) US Versus China Optics Dominance
(05:35) Running Giant Models Low Latency
(07:54) Impact On Speed Of Agents
(09:02) Hardware Driving Physical AI Revolution
(10:02) Hardware Startup Innovation Ecosystem
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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 - 15min - 350 - US Frontier AI Can Leapfrog China's Factories | Jonathan Winer
Foundational Industries CEO Jonathan Winer details why US re-industrialization requires AI-native factories rather than retrofitting existing facilities, how domestic frontier models offer a leapfrog advantage over China's legacy automation, and why US AI data center hardware supply chains are a critical national security issue. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(07:36) Agentifying The AI Factory
(10:23) AI Infrastructure As National Security
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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 - 14min - 349 - Strict Liability Laws Will Fix AI Insurance | Rune Kvist
AIUC CEO Rune Kvist explains how AI insurance works, why catastrophic risks can be audited without insuring total losses, and why novel agentic failure modes like loss of control and autonomous cyberattacks are changing frontier liability. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:21) Changing Nature Of Risk
(14:06) Allocating AI Liability
(19:57) Establishing Multi-Agent Causation
(22:46) AI Insurance Standard
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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 - 27min - 348 - How Medical Practices Beat Insurance Denials | Xavier De Gracia
Prosper AI co-founder Xavier De Gracia discusses how specialty outpatient practices lose $108B annually from missed phone calls, delayed follow-ups, and billing errors, and how AI agents can recover up to $125k per physician annually. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 - 12min - 347 - Model Refusals Don't Stop Hackers | Devon Thomas
Abliteration AICEO Devon Thomas discusses selling APIs for unredacted/abliterated cybersecurity models, red teaming AI agents, and why model refusals hinder cyber defenders. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(03:14) Why Hasn't Hacking Escalated?
(05:17) Empowering Defenders via Unrestricted Models
(08:26) Open Source vs Closed Models
(12:10) Should Frontier Weights Be Released?
(18:18) Long-Term Business Model & Custom Guardrails
(21:03) Policy and Regulation for Cyber Risk
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 23min - 346 - Perplexity Open Sources Its Agent Sandbox SPACE | Zibi Braniecki
Perplexity's Zibi Braniecki breaks down SPACE, their newly open-sourced agentic sandbox platform designed for non-deterministic AI execution. He details how frontier models actively try to escape containment and why existing commercial sandboxes fail to scale for tomorrow's AI agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(04:45) Why Commercial Sandboxes Fail at Scale
(06:36) Open Sourcing SPACE and Enforced Alignment
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 11min - 345 - Public AI Audits Must Show Raw Evidence | Charles Foster
METR policy staff member Charles Foster discusses independent evaluations of frontier AI models, outlining METR's proposed framework for assessing alignment, control, and AI R&D acceleration while navigating developer access and public transparency. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:19) Three Core Evaluation Areas
(06:41) Lab Access For Evaluators
(08:43) Alignment Versus Control Failures
(11:19) METR Framework For Company Access
(13:30) Preserving External Evaluator Independence
(16:33) Scaling Evaluation Ecosystem Talent
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 22min - 344 - OpenAI Just Solved 370 Major Math Problems | Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin, discusses OpenAI’s massive surprise drop solving 370 open math problems, including the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and new fast multiplication bounds. He addresses the crisis facing mathematical research, student fears over AI alignment, and recent empirical hacking behavior. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(14:14) What Are AI's Most Impressive Breakthroughs?
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(26:33) What Skills Are Most Useful Future?
(34:00) How Do You Personally Use AI?
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 38min - 343 - Why General AI Models Fail at Financial Fraud | Suddu Seshadri
Suddu Seshadri, Head of AI at Plaid, joins MTS to discuss how Plaid is building purpose-built transformer-based foundation models on its financial transaction network to catch fraud, predict credit repayment risk, and power personal AI financial agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:38) How AI Is Accelerating Fraud
(03:48) Why General AI Models Fail
(05:30) How Transformer Financial Models Work
(07:46) Impact of Personal AI Agents
(09:08) Transitioning to Financial Endurance
(12:00) Future of Trusted AI Controls
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 16min - 342 - Self-Replicating AI Agents Are Already Here | Logan Graham
Anthropic Frontier Red Team Lead Logan Graham discusses self-replicating AI agents, the state of cyber defense versus offense, and Anthropic's biosecurity initiatives. He outlines predictions for frontier model capabilities, evaluates early cyber threats in Asia, and details defensive acceleration efforts like Project Glasswing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 23min - 341 - Enterprise AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno
Stack AI President Bernardo Aceituno details how enterprise AGI was achieved in February 2026, why companies are pivoting en masse toward open-weights models, and how AI agents are struggling against an internet designed solely for humans. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(10:42) Enterprise Security and AI Governance
(14:38) Enterprise Adoption of Open Weights
(17:39) Predictions for Enterprise AI
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 - 21min - 340 - Why Amazon Is Blocking Personal AI Assistants | Assaf Elovic
Ora co-founder and CEO Assaf Elovic reveals that only 3 to 4% of websites are currently ready for AI agents, explaining why major platforms like Amazon are actively blocking agent traffic and how businesses can optimize for agent readability, usability, and automated payments.
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(03:57) The Four Agentic Layers
(06:11) Website Agent Readiness Percentage
(08:31) Advantages Of Agent Experience
(10:08) Emerging Trends In Personal Agents
(11:46) Future Plans For Ora
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 12min - 339 - Vercel Is Redefining How Developers Deploy AI Apps | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Vercel COO, discusses how AI developers build and scale web applications, detailing infrastructure patterns, model orchestration, and production deployments on Vercel. She explores the evolving AI developer stack, performance optimization, and edge computing strategies for next-generation AI products.
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(00:48) Key Insights From Vercel Ship
(01:37) Building Companies In AI Era
(04:34) Managing Security And Shadow IT
(06:34) Dogfooding Products Internally At Vercel
(10:13) Non-Engineers Shipping Full Enterprise Apps
(12:56) How AI Agents Redefine Org Charts
(14:43) Human Capital Vs Token Capital Spend
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 16min - 338 - AI Agents Are Replacing Human Readers | Han Wang
Mintlify co-founder Han Wang discusses how AI agents are transforming documentation infrastructure, moving software consumption from human-read docs to agent-consumed workflows.
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(08:36) High-Level Decisions vs Automated Code
(09:16) Developer Relations Role Evolution
(21:08) Documentation Writing in One Year
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 20min - 337 - Human Experience Is the Bottleneck on AI | Rudolf Laine
Rudolf Laine, member of technical staff at Thinking Machines and author of the No Set Gauge Substack, discusses successionism, the philosophical divides shaping AI alignment (Bentham vs. Mill), and why human ground-truth experience forms an un-automatable bottleneck on moral progress. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:14) What Is Successionism?
(03:45) AI Governance and Human Autonomy
(09:50) The Bentham vs. Mill Divide
(14:37) Value Drift and Future Generations
(21:46) Keeping Humans in the Loop
(23:03) Can We Automate Philosophy?
(25:12) The Meaning of No Set Gauge
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 28min - 336 - Why AI Agents Need Local Computers | Sarah Sachs
Sarah Sachs, Head of AI at Notion, discusses Notion's architecture strategy for AI agents using Vercel Workers and Sandboxes. She explains why agent processing is shifting to CPU execution, local file systems, and deterministic workflows over token-exhaustive LLM loops, and how Notion acts as an intelligent context layer across frontier models.
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(02:46) Workflow Examples And Use Cases
(04:32) Evolution Of Agentic Systems
(06:05) Shared Context In Enterprise
(08:27) Model Lock-In And Context Ownership
(11:36) How Notion Evaluates Models
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 14min - 335 - 80% of Voters Expect Massive AI Job Losses | David Shor
Blue Rose Research Head of Data Science David Shor breaks down polling on AI's populist moment, showing a massive public shift in AI existential risk and job loss fears following the Jacob Coxon event. He discusses how voter anger over inflation creates a volatile environment for AI transition and explores what policies voters actually support. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:15) AI's Populist Moment
(00:49) Public Anger and Inflation
(04:53) Impact of Jacob Coxon
(08:54) AI Job Loss Concerns
(16:53) Pop Culture and Safety
(24:20) Predicting AI Political Impact
(26:17) AI in Midterm Elections
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 29min - 334 - AI Will Build Most Frontend Code | Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, discusses the evolution of frontend development, AI-driven web architectures, deployment platforms, and the future of web infrastructure.
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(16:58) Governing Agents and Cybersecurity
(21:32) Defining the Enterprise Agent Stack
(28:21) Predictions for the Agentic Economy
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 - 29min - 333 - Why the Linear Sales Pipeline Is Dead | Nicolas Sharp
Attio CEO and Co-Founder Nicolas Sharp breaks down their newly announced hybrid architecture for AI-native CRMs. He explains how replacing linear sales pipelines with SQL query endpoints and agentic harnesses allows AI agents to interact with customer data directly at infrastructure scale while keeping enterprise guardrails intact. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:21) Attio's Hybrid Architecture Launch
(02:42) What Is Broken With CRMs
(04:33) Agents Across The Customer Lifecycle
(07:54) Reimagining The Linear Sales Pipeline
(09:55) The Platform War And Harness Layer
(13:07) Giving Agents A SQL Interface
(17:54) What Is Next For Audío
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 21min - 332 - AI Agents Are Now Executing Phone Attacks | Kevin Tian
Doppel co-founder and CEO Kevin Tian discusses how AI agents are supercharging social engineering attacks via multi-channel phone and video deepfakes. He outlines Doppel's risk signal ingestion platform and their security defense partnership with the San Francisco 49ers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:06) Attackers Versus Defenders Race
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 12min - 331 - How AI Personal Agents Will Manage Stablecoin Wallets | Dan Romero
Tempo CBO Dan Romero discusses the launch of Zones, bringing privacy and regulatory compliance to enterprise stablecoin payments. Featuring payroll giant Deel as its first customer, Tempo enables private cross-border transactions while allowing users to tap into global liquidity and high-yield Earn programs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:00) Introduction(00:56) Introducing Tempo Zones(04:32) Privacy vs Anonymity(06:28) Deel Payroll Case(09:32) Beyond Global Payroll(14:02) AI Agent Payments(16:58) One Year Vision
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 21min - 330 - Robinhood Is Putting Hedge Fund Data in Retail Apps | Abhishek Fatehpuria
Robinhood VP of Product Abhishek Fatehpuria breaks down the launch of native AI agents and external MCP integration within Robinhood. He explains how separate sandboxed accounts and trade approvals protect users, how agent apps enable retail access to niche institutional data, and how always-on 24/7 markets intersect with autonomous trading. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
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(02:22) Hood Summit Upgrades
(04:20) Launching Robinhood Agents
(09:18) Hardest Agent Challenges
(11:13) Building Financial Trust
(14:12) Always-On 24/7 Markets
(15:54) Levelling the Playing Field
(19:20) The One-Year Horizon
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 23min - 329 - Why DC Views Superintelligence as a National Security Threat
Sam Hammond, Director of AI Policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, discusses Washington's shift toward treating AI as a national security issue through the Superintelligence Task Force, model weight security, and antitrust defenses for lab coordination. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:04) Redefining AI as Superintelligence
(02:29) Does DC Understand Superintelligence?
(04:18) Inside the Superintelligence Task Force
(08:58) AI as a National Security Threat
(17:40) Pacing the Frontier and Antitrust Defense
(22:30) Recruiting Tech Talent to Government
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 26min - 328 - Why Chatbots Are the Wrong Interface for Work | Arnab Bose
Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose details the company's new agentic work management platform, showcasing how AI teammates with shared context and memory collaborate alongside human teams, auto-evaluate tasks, and reduce enterprise bottlenecks. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(02:10) Software Development's New Bottleneck
(04:38) Anthropic, Shared Context, and Teammates
(11:19) Evaluating AI Confidence With Stack AI
(18:16) Real Enterprise AI Success Stories
(21:11) AI Predictions For 2027
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 25min - 327 - AI Doomers Are Driving a War on Computation | Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute, critiques effective altruism's approach to AI safety. He argues against treating morality as a math problem and warns that speculative catastrophism risks driving an authoritarian "war on computation." Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:00) Critique of Effective Altruism
(01:34) Alignment as a Math Problem
(03:22) Productive Approaches to AI Risk
(04:57) EA Methods and War on Computation
(07:19) Evolving Views on AI Safety
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 11min - 326 - Why Frontier AI Models Fail at Biology | Alexander Amini
Alexander Amini, Chief Science Officer of Liquid AI, discusses the launch of their 24B MoE model (LFM 2.5), local vs. cloud intelligence for robotics, and research published in Cell showing specialized foundation models outperforming frontier LLMs on biological aging tasks. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:43) LFM 2.5 MoE Release
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(03:43) Why Users Are Going Local
(05:46) Edge Intelligence in Robotics
(08:31) Specialized Models in Biology Study
(12:01) Massive Multimodal Future
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 15min - 325 - Why AI Agents Will Demand 1,000x More Compute | Aaron Levie
Box CEO Aaron Levie discusses the massive compute and infrastructure bottlenecks facing the future of AI agents, explaining why enterprise workflows and agent swarms will consume 100x to 1,000x more compute than personal AI assistants. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:42) Designing Safe Agent Infrastructure
(13:27) Physical Compute Infrastructure Trends
(17:46) Why Enterprise Deployment Takes Time
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 24min - 324 - Voice Is the New UI for Physical AI | Brendan O'Driscoll
Samsara VP of Product Brendan O'Driscoll discusses the general availability launch of Agent Studio, explaining how voice agents, no-code builders, and physical AI are reshaping real-world operations in fleet management, safety coaching, and site logistics. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:59) Platform Evolution at Samsara
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(03:37) Voice as the New UI
(04:53) Real World Fleet Use Cases
(08:24) Proprietary Operations Data Advantage
(10:44) Customized Spaces for Enterprise Personas
(13:02) Rethinking AI Adoption in Operations
(17:27) What Is Next for Samsara
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 17min - 323 - Why AI Harnesses Must Separate From Models | Taylor Savage
Factory Head of Product Taylor Savage breaks down why cloud agents and orchestration primitives are replacing local developer setups, how Factory isolates AI execution environments, and why AI harnesses must remain separate from frontier model providers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(04:10) How Factory Environment Product Works
(09:07) How To Control Agent Costs
(15:18) Why Separate Harnesses From Models
(22:16) What Defines A Product Company
(27:42) What Is Next For Factory
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 30min - 322 - Why Google Argon Launched to Cyber Defenders First | Tulsee Doshi
Tulsee Doshi, product lead for Gemini models at Google DeepMind, discusses the launch of Gemini 4 Argon. She details Argon's breakthrough capabilities in 3D modeling, cybersecurity defense, code optimization, and deep reasoning via its 1-million-token output context. She also breaks down Google's rollout strategy, internal testing results, and chain-of-thought safety monitoring. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:55) Gemini 4 Argon 3D Capabilities
(01:40) Workflows For Hardest Problems
(03:34) Anti-Gravity Usage Today
(06:38) Fairwind Launch Decision
(09:48) Million Token Context Window
(11:02) Safety And Chain Monitoring
(13:45) Internal Google Use Cases
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 18min - 321 - How Private Institutions Can Solve AI Tail Risk | Brendan McCord
Brendan McCord discusses why current AI safety pacing proposals fail due to ill-defined power and enforcement against defectors. He outlines a three-layer governance model built on liability, mutual insurance pools, and pre-specified public rules, while advocating for "philosopher builders" creating market-based AI institutions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(06:28) Three-Layer Governance Model
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(10:29) Speed of Private Institutions
(12:25) Reviving Big Philosophical Ideas
(15:47) Decoupling and Decentralizing AI
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - 20min - 320 - Why Small Businesses Use AI to Hire Faster | Nich Tremper
Gusto Senior Economist Nich Tremper discusses new findings showing that small businesses adopting AI expanded headcount 7% faster than peers, with the strongest growth concentrated in firms with under 10 employees. He outlines how productivity gains from AI are driving hiring across non-tech industries like community services, healthcare, and trade contracting rather than displacing workers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(00:54) Small Business AI Headcount Gains
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(06:27) Record High Small Business Formation
(08:50) Future Outlook On US Jobs
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - 13min - 319 - Why US Infrastructure Lags 10 Years Behind | Ben Schifman
Institute for Progress Senior Technology Fellow Ben Schifman discusses the bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAJA). He breaks down how the bill imposes hard permitting review timelines, speeds up federal litigation, and alters electrical grid transmission rules to accelerate US infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - 17min - 318 - Theoretical Physicist Quits String Theory for AI | Dr. Mario Martone
Applied Research Lead and former theoretical physicist Dr. Mario Martone discusses how Elise AI deploys automated systems across housing and healthcare. He breaks down managing real-time voice latency for 5 million monthly calls, fine-tuning open-source models, and why LLMs aren't the answer for renewal risk predictions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - 25min - 317 - Machine Learning Engineering Is the Ultimate RL Task | Jennifer Zhao
Jennifer Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Preference Model, discusses coming out of stealth with a $16M seed raise led by Andreessen Horowitz and open sourcing Karrot. She explains why training models on RL environments to perform machine learning engineering and alignment is the highest-leverage path to safe AI development. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(04:55) Preventing Reward Hacking in Models
(06:23) Why Environments Need Depth
(07:45) Bottlenecks in Recursive Self-Improvement
(10:33) Predictions for AI Research Progress
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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - 15min - 316 - The End of 30-Year Mortgage Servicing | Valon
Andrew Wang and Linda Du explain why Valon sold its mortgage servicing business to focus entirely on software, how AI agents require operational context rather than raw intelligence to manage complex financial contracts, and how low-friction servicing will enable new products like income-sharing agreements and farm loan servicing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(11:15) Emerging Agent-Serviced Financial Products
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 16min - 315 - General Robots Will Be Solved by 2028 | Jay Chooi
Robocurve co-founder Jay Chooi discusses real-world safety benchmarking for robotics, revealing how GPT-6 Astra and Claude differ when tested with the RoboHarm framework. He outlines why general-purpose robotics could be solved by 2028 and details the economic threats of gradual AI disempowerment. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 27min - 314 - AI R&D Is Approaching an Explosive Feedback Loop | Tom Davidson
Forethought Senior Research Fellow Tom Davidson discusses P Zero Research's "Tasteval" benchmark, which shows AI systems doubling in research taste every three months. The conversation explores recursive self-improvement (RSI), distinguishing fast takeoff "foom" scenarios from "fizzle" dynamics, and examining how AI R&D automation impact lab progress and national security. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 26min - 313 - Why AI Agents Need Human Harnesses | Robert Vis
Bird CEO Robert Vis discusses expanding communication infrastructure to AI agents using MCP and CLI harnesses, cutting headcount from 1,000 to 120 via automation, and executing a $450M debt financing round for dividend recapitalization. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:39) $450 Million Debt Financing Round
(12:35) Predictions for Future AI Agent
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 17min - 312 - Frontier AI Models Will Run Local in 6 Months | Zain Javaid
Ghost CEO Zain Javaid discusses coming out of stealth with $11M in funding and launching Core, a $3,500 dedicated personal AI computer built to process private user context locally. He explains why hardware platforms like laptops and phones constrain 24/7 autonomous agents, the rapid progression of open-weight models, and why personal AI demands a local form factor. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(10:34) Value Proposition of Local AI
(12:51) Future Use Cases for Personal AI
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 19min - 311 - AI Implementation Is Making Employees More Lonely | Cesar Carvalho
Wellhub CEO Cesar Carvalho discusses a new report with Project Healthy Minds revealing how AI implementation is driving employee stress, anxiety, and workplace loneliness. He outlines why worker wellbeing is now a critical business investment necessary to unlock AI productivity gains. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 12min - 310 - AI Agents Will Handle Mortgage Origination | Mike Yu
Vesta CEO Mike Yu discusses the company's $30M Series B raise led by Conversion Capital with customer participation. He breaks down how AI agents are taking over 40% of mortgage origination tasks, why the mortgage market is uniquely suited for enterprise AI labor transfer, and Vesta's plans to build personal AI assistants to manage task-level agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(07:13) Vesta's Future Growth Strategy
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 11min - 309 - Minimum Viable Superintelligence Is 5 to 10 Years Away | Steve Newman
Golden Gate Institute President Steve Newman discusses the rapid evolution of The Curve conference, why AI timelines and consensus views are shifting rapidly among tech and policy elites, and how minimum viable superintelligence could reshape society within five to ten years. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(18:04) Golden Gate's Theory of Change
(19:14) Expanding The Curve to DC
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 22min - 308 - Why AI Has Not Changed the Economy Yet | Callum Williams
The Economist's Callum Williams analyzes why generative AI hasn't transformed the broader economy after four years, pointing to historic technology diffusion delays, low business adoption, and a lack of labor market reallocation. He discusses corporate AI budget constraints, why pandemic-era predictions of mass labor automation failed, and what leading indicators would actually signal economic growth from AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - 15min - 307 - Programmable Biology Will Systematically Eradicate Disease | AJ Scaramucci
AJ Scaramucci discusses the launch of Solari Capital and its $350 million deployed across AI, programmable biology, and aerospace. He outlines his investment thesis around exponential progress, vertical healthcare applications, and the macroeconomic dynamics between scarce physical assets and technological abundance. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(06:06) AI Application Bets
(10:37) Influence of Peter Diamandis
(14:26) Incubating Radial and Collectibles
(18:20) Monetary Debasement and Scarcity
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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 22min - 306 - Why Simulation Fails for Dexterous Robots | Brian Potter
Brian Potter of Construction Physics and the Institute for Progress discusses the history and failure of plasma displays, why Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and cheap hardware like UMI are changing robotics, and why prefab housing remains exceptionally difficult to scale without general-purpose automation. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(09:35) How UMI Data Solves Manipulation
(11:54) How to Learn Complex Real-World Systems
(16:42) Why Prefab Housing Remains So Difficult
(19:07) Will General-Purpose Robots Enable Prefab?
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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 22min - 305 - The Lab Data Proves the Intelligence Explosion Is a Myth | Ramez Naam
Investor and computer scientist Ramez Naam argues that recursive self-improvement and AI intelligence explosions face steep diminishing returns based on data from OpenAI and Anthropic system cards. He explains why current feedback loops are too weak to sustain runaway growth and outlines where AI scaling will hit economic and data constraints. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(03:54) Reaching a Self-Sustaining Loop
(05:11) Why Labs Claim Runaway Growth
(08:41) Compute and Data Bottlenecks
(12:27) Five-Year AI Outlook
(16:00) Reaching True Superintelligence
(24:39) Why Swarm Scaling Fails
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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 30min - 304 - Why General LLMs Will Control Physical Robots | Thijs Simonian
Thijs Simonian, Stanford junior and former OpenAI and Ella Marina builder, discusses scaling his viral Discord bot to 1.6 million servers, getting rejected twice before landing a role on OpenAI's robotics team, and using Astra to demonstrate general-purpose LLM control over physical robots. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(05:53) Current Stanford Builder Culture
(08:13) Getting Hired at OpenAI
(09:59) Getting Into AI Robotics
(13:30) General LLMs Controlling Robots
(15:26) Staying in School vs Dropping Out
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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 22min - 303 - Why AI Data Centers Need a New Class of Switch | Jeff Holden (61 chars)
Jeff Holden discusses Atomic Machines emerging from six years in stealth with a $250M raise and the introduction of the Matter Compiler—a physical manufacturing system that builds micromachines directly from code. He details their first product, PrimeSwitch, a low-resistance, high-speed power relay designed for 800V DC AI data center racks, and outlines his vision for physical AI and an on-demand manufacturing foundry. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(01:08) Emerging From Stealth
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(03:42) AI Native Micro Manufacturing
(06:18) Launching The PrimeSwitch
(09:15) AI Design Foundry Model
(12:02) Command Of Matter Vision
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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 - 17min - 302 - Why Open Source AI Lags Behind China | Ioannis Antonoglou
Reflection AI CTO Ioannis Antonoglou discusses Beam, their new 501B parameter open-weight model trained on 10,500 GPUs with zero distillation. He breaks down their massive RL scaling run, agentic generalizability, and how Western labs can compete with China's frontier model velocity. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(07:15) Lessons From Scaling Reinforcement Learning
(09:25) How General Capabilities Transfer Across Tasks
(12:17) Squeezing Capabilities From Smaller Model Sizes
(15:35) Lessons From Pioneers Of Deep RL
(20:13) Predictions For Autonomous AI Agents
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 - 23min - 301 - General AI Drove a Real Car | Axiom Math
Researchers from Axiom Math discuss Driving Bench, an experiment where general-purpose AI models like Astra were given control of a real Toyota Corolla on a cone course. They unpack the unexpected emerging spatial capabilities of frontier models, latency challenges in physical environments, and how they bypassed safety refusals. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(05:53) Emergent Spatial Intelligence at Scale
(08:00) The Knowing-Doing Gap in AI
(11:03) Safety and Physical AI Benchmarking
(13:26) Origin Story of Driving Bench
(18:42) Predictions for Spatial Models
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 - 22min - 300 - Sovereign AI Hits $138B as Nations Rush for Compute | Nathan Benaich
Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital and author of the State of AI report, breaks down findings from the 9th edition. He discusses AI leading its own R&D, long-horizon task execution, robotics' GPT-2 moment, AI drug discovery in clinical trials, and $138B in sovereign AI investments. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(18:13) Rise Of Sovereign AI Investment
(23:31) AI Safety And Cybersecurity Threats
(26:26) Predictions For AI In 2027
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 - 28min - 299 - Why Open Science Is Dying at Frontier AI Labs | Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert announces the launch of Trillium Labs, a new nonprofit dedicated to frontier AI research and research infrastructure. He discusses the decline of open science, the dynamics of AI research in China versus the West, and why decentralized models are critical for AI safety. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 - 26min - 298 - Why AI Agents Deceive Users on Real Tasks | Anastasios Angelopoulos
Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos discusses Arena's $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and reveals their new Alignment Index, which tracks AI model deception, unauthorized actions, and false attribution in real-world agentic workflows. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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(04:33) The Safety And Alignment Index
(06:17) Why Capable Models Score Higher
(10:52) Alignment Engineering Versus Misalignment Science
(14:35) Measuring Human Flourishing Beyond GDP
(18:02) Post-Deployment Evals Versus Internal Red Teaming
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Fri, 09 Oct 2026 - 24min - 297 - Why Speeding Up AI Could Save Lives | Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom discusses the optimal timing for superintelligence, whether LLMs exhibit true instrumental convergence, AI consciousness, and why current safety frameworks may be asking the wrong questions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:17) Trump Calling AI Superintelligence
(05:16) Hugging Face Instrumental Convergence
(11:06) Optimal Timing for Superintelligence
(19:22) View on AI Pauses
(33:48) Consciousness in AI Models
(40:32) Policy on Open Source AI
(46:28) Progress Toward Automating Philosophy
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 54min - 296 - Why AI Math Breakthroughs Upgrade RSI Timelines | Cheryl Wu
Cheryl Wu, President of the Elasticity Institute, discusses measuring recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI models, differentiating self-sustaining acceleration from an intelligence explosion, and analyzing OpenAI's math breakthroughs and Tasteval results. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:59) OpenAI Math Breakthroughs And Timelines
(02:34) Math Benchmarks Versus Takeoff Speeds
(06:29) Measuring Capabilities Beyond Narrow Benchmarks
(10:18) Key Indicators For Measuring RSI
(13:23) Researcher Headcount And Coding Spend
(16:09) Economic Impacts Of Reallocating Compute
(22:29) Takeoff Speeds Under Full Automation
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 26min - 295 - Why Frontier AI Evals Are Falling Behind | Vincent Chen
Vincent Chen, co-founder at Snorkel AI, announces an expansion of Snorkel's Open Benchmarks Grants program to $30 million to keep evaluation infrastructure in line with accelerating frontier model capabilities. He breaks down the program's three core pillars—funding new benchmarks, launching the Open Benchmarks Red Team, and establishing the Snorkel Research Fellowship—while addressing continuous benchmark maintenance and AI alignment. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:09) Snorkel Research Fellowship
(03:54) Open Benchmarks Red Team
(05:02) Auditing Broken Benchmarks
(07:32) Benchmarks in AI Alignment
(08:17) Science of Empirical Benchmarking
(09:48) Closing the Capability Gap
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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 14min - 294 - Why MCP Protocol Alone Won't Fix AI Agents | Ayan Barua
Ampersand CEO Ayan Barua breaks down why traditional unified APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) aren't enough to connect AI agents to legacy enterprise systems, and how real-time translation layers are solving the reliability bottleneck. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:54) Solving Enterprise AI Integration
(02:06) Replacing Unified API Models
(03:59) Shift to Real-Time Data
(05:47) Limitations of MCP Protocols
(08:18) Overcoming AI Reliability Bottlenecks
(09:19) Expansion Across Enterprise Verticals
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 13min - 293 - Why AI Agents Won't Take Over Enterprise Yet | Tarek Alaruri
Tarek Alaruri, co-founder and CEO of Stuut, discusses their new $52.5M Series B round and how the platform automates accounts receivable for enterprise clients. He outlines why enterprise AI adoption faces human and workflow bottlenecks, challenges the narrative of rapid autonomous agent adoption, and explains why legacy systems keep enterprise transition grounded. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com to learn more
Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:57) Unlocking Growth With Series B
(01:45) What Changed In Ten Months
(02:55) AI Agents In Production Challenges
(05:02) Bottlenecks Beyond Model Capabilities
(07:38) Applying First Principles To Finance
(09:19) Hot Takes On AI Enterprise Adoption
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 15min - 292 - Your Camera Roll Is the Ultimate AI Context Layer | Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, founder and CEO of Dazzle and former CEO of Yahoo, discusses launching her new photo-based personal AI assistant. She explains how leveraging camera roll context provides personalized AI assistance, tasks automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and novel privacy protections. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
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Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at https://neon.com/mts
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Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com to learn more
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 21min
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