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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit20 min
Clara Chappaz - French Minister Delegate: Can France Overtake AI? Inside the French Vision
Building on eight years of pro-business reforms and a strategic focus on nuclear-powered compute infrastructure, France has secured its position as a global fifth in AI capability while launching the "Dare AI" initiative to bridge the gap between scientific excellence and public adoption. This €109 billion investment supports frugal model development and open-source principles, aiming to train 15 million citizens and equip 125 SMEs across sectors like healthcare and agriculture to overcome current deployment barriers. With key players including Mistral AI and OVH Cloud driving the ecosystem, the government is positioning the nation to define the next 24 months of the AI race through inclusive talent acquisition and targeted sector-specific innovation.
- All-In Podcast42 min
Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
Tulsi Gabbard, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Representative Tulsi Gabbard characterizes the "Russiagate" investigation as a politically manufactured narrative used to undermine President Trump, citing suppressed intelligence that initially found no Russian interference in the 2016 election. Her administration has initiated structural reforms within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to purge politicized elements and referred documented misconduct to the Department of Justice for legal accountability. Additionally, Gabbard supports targeted strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure and the designation of cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations to counter drug-fueled violence, while framing her political realignment as a return to constitutional fidelity and working-class advocacy.
Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround
Keith Rabois, Kaz Nejatian, Eric Jackson, Molly O'Shea
Amidst a stagnant real estate market plagued by high failure rates and rigid cost structures, Opendoor has installed a new leadership team led by former Shopify executive Kaz to execute a radical turnaround strategy. Activist investors and co-founder Eric Rue are driving a massive restructuring that aims to slash the workforce from 1,400 to roughly 200 employees while deploying artificial intelligence and novel financing tools to automate valuations and lower transaction barriers. This aggressive pivot seeks to transform the company into an instant home-buying platform capable of competing with automotive trade-in models, positioning the firm to capitalize on a market where only 3% of the sector has seen innovation in decades.
- All-In Podcast26 min
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Robinhood is capitalizing on a 400% market cap surge and record subscriber growth by pioneering the tokenization of private assets like OpenAI and SpaceX shares for European retail investors while expanding its prediction markets. CEO Vlad Tenev is leveraging a collaborative U.S. regulatory environment and the impending $130 trillion wealth transfer to advocate for relaxed accreditation standards that would allow broader access to sophisticated financial instruments. Simultaneously, Tenev leads Harmonic, an AI subsidiary achieving gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad, to solve critical software engineering issues regarding precision and verification.
- Milken Institute36 min
Coming In from the Cold: Espionage in Today's Geopolitics | Global Conference 2025
Simon Radford, Darrell Blocker, Anthony Camerino, Christo Grozev, Katherine Mulhern, Jill Popelka, Nick Schifrin, Alyssa
A panel of intelligence experts and security leaders detailed Russia's structural advantage in leveraging privatized, competitive state violence, contrasting this with Western reliance on defensive measures and open-source investigations to counteract such malign operations. The discussion highlighted how adversaries exploit digital footprints, social engineering, and internal employee threats to compromise corporate executives, necessitating a dual security strategy that combines attack-centric defenses with business-centric anomaly detection. Furthermore, the speakers advocated for closing Western financial loopholes to halt illicit capital flows from Africa and Asia, arguing that recovering these stolen assets offers a sustainable alternative to foreign aid for stabilizing global economies.
- All-In Podcast32 min
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis, Sir Demis Hassabis, Tucker, Mark Cuban, Paul Kinlan
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, recently honored with a Nobel Prize and knighthood for AlphaFold, outlined the organization's expansion into a 5,000-person engine room driving breakthroughs in AI, robotics, and scientific discovery. His recent presentation highlighted Genie 3's ability to generate interactive 3D worlds without manual physics coding, alongside strategic investments in a universal robotics operating system and drug discovery partnerships with pharmaceutical giants. Looking ahead, Hassabis predicts a robotics "wow moment" within two years and estimates that Artificial General Intelligence, currently hindered by a lack of intuitive creativity, remains 5 to 10 years away.
- Milken Institute44 min
Author Talk: Deepak Chopra, "Digital Dharma" | Global Conference 2025
Deepak Chopra, accompanied by his daughter Mallika Chopra, presents his new work *Digital Dharma*, framing artificial intelligence as a modern oracle that bridges biological evolution with a transcendental "cognitive revolution." The event outlines seven core principles for leveraging AI as a spiritual guide and health coach, while predicting a future where personalized medicine and gene editing redefine human longevity through a "digi-ceutical" era. The session culminates in the launch of a personalized multilingual AI platform and concludes with a meditation on shifting identity from the transient physical self to timeless awareness.
- Y Combinator42 min
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad, Chinat, Shivam, Sophia, Emma
Replit outlines a strategic pivot toward making software engineering obsolete by developing autonomous agents that operate within a robust, sandboxed cloud infrastructure capable of end-to-end testing and self-healing. This transition aims to shift software value from expensive SaaS applications to near-zero-cost, prompt-driven creation, enabling individuals to act as sovereign entities that assemble teams and deploy full-stack solutions instantly. By achieving near-full autonomy in the next agent generation, the platform intends to dismantle traditional corporate hierarchies in favor of on-demand, mission-based networks where human creativity complements agent-driven execution.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Amit Zavery & Scott Thomas: Pace vs Panic. Governance vs Chaos. How Companies Can Survive the AI Era
ServiceNow addresses the critical tension between accelerating AI adoption and maintaining rigorous governance by launching an AI Control Tower to track and manage autonomous agents within a centralized asset framework. Parallel to this, the company evolved its acquisition strategy to target deep-domain leaders like Logic.ai, integrating their specialized IP to solve complex orchestration problems while demonstrating that internal AI deployment can generate substantial value without reducing headcount. By generating $325 million in value through a hybrid human-digital workforce and achieving high call deflection rates, ServiceNow positions its "no-layoff" approach as a counter-narrative to industry trends driven by fear and cost-cutting.
- RAISE Summit37 min
RAISE Summit 2025: AI Infrastructure. Compute is the New Oil
Roman Chermin, Youssef El Manssouri, Shaun O'Meara, Stephen Balaban, Chase Lochmiller, Dylan Patel
The AI infrastructure sector is undergoing a paradigm shift from CPU-centric multi-tenant models to dedicated, high-density GPU environments, prompting NeoCloud providers to leverage rapid deployment speeds and sovereign strategies to challenge hyperscaler dominance. Leaders such as Sorrenti and Nebius are vertically integrating from energy sourcing and data center construction to advanced software virtualization, aiming to address Europe's compute deficit and mitigate enterprise switching barriers through specialized physical infrastructure. While market projections indicate that future revenue will eventually consolidate around model builders and sovereign entities controlling Artificial General Intelligence, the immediate landscape remains defined by a struggle for agility against entrenched ecosystem lock-in.
Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot
Ashlee Vance, Pete Shadbolt, Molly O'Shea
PsyQuantum distinguishes itself in the competitive quantum computing sector by pursuing a consistent strategy to build a one-million physical qubit machine capable of delivering thousands of error-corrected logical qubits. Founded by researchers from the UK and Australia, the company operates within Silicon Valley facilities using factory-scale manufacturing processes to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and commercial utility. Backed by extraordinary funding, PsyQuantum maintains a disciplined focus on fault-tolerance while providing transparent facility access to validate its progress toward the industry's estimated ten-to-twelve-year breakthrough timeline.
- a16z43 min
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
This analysis identifies exponential forces like Moore's Law and network effects as the primary value drivers that often overwhelm traditional product strategies, while noting that incumbents frequently fail to pivot against these shifts. In the current AI landscape, new entrants leverage externalized network effects and heavy capital intensity to build moats, shifting consumer habits toward premium subscriptions that treat software as a necessity alongside food and rent. The discussion further outlines emerging dynamics where open-source models face funding barriers, vibe coding decentralizes production, and the market moves from skeuomorphic interfaces toward undiscovered native interaction paradigms.
- All-In Podcast45 min
Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
Elon Musk, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Elon Musk outlined aggressive roadmaps for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot, which aims to achieve human-level dexterity and a $20,000 production cost through vertical integration, alongside a new AI5 chip and software update designed to make vehicles feel sentient by year-end. SpaceX targets full Starship reusability within the coming year using advanced heat shields and plans to acquire $17 billion in spectrum for direct-to-cell satellite connectivity, while xAI is expanding its training infrastructure to accelerate intelligence growth toward a Kardashev Type II scale. Strategic discussions also addressed a potential $1 trillion compensation package for Musk, the acquisition of X by xAI, the immediate launch of Tesla's public robo-taxi service, and a 25-year vision for establishing a self-sustaining human civilization on Mars.
- All-In Podcast40 min
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
Alex Karp, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Palantir CEO Alex Karp addressed record-breaking quarterly revenue exceeding $1 billion while defending the company's technological architecture and geopolitical stance against criticisms regarding mass surveillance and cultural values. Karp argued that Western societies risk societal dysfunction by abandoning meritocratic principles, asserting that Palantir's software is essential for secure border management, precise military operations in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and counteracting adversarial threats from China and criminal cartels. Emphasizing the firm's unique ontology and refusal to work with adversarial nations, the CEO urged builders to protect the cultural and industrial achievements that underpin modern Western stability.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
The Growth Playbook: Goldman Sachs’ Darren Cohen on Building a Growth Investing Platform
Darren Cohen, Michael Brandmeier
Darren Cohen, Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer of Goldman Sachs' Growth Equity platform, leverages his 25-year career spanning the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2021–2023 correction to apply a risk-focused, "peace of mind" driven investment philosophy. Cohen identifies AI integration in SaaS, engineering productivity tools, and healthcare technology as primary secular opportunities while predicting a near-term convergence of private and public valuations that will force late-stage software companies toward IPOs. His approach prioritizes building scalable operating platforms for founders and maintaining disciplined risk management to generate consistent returns as the market transitions from speculative excess to sustainable, value-driven growth.