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Clear all filtersAndrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's
Cerebrus has secured a landmark partnership with OpenAI valued at over $20 billion to address the severe shortage of AI infrastructure caused by data center construction lagging behind compute demand. The company employs a co-design strategy to overhaul traditional power and cooling architectures while urging industry participants to diversify chip suppliers to avoid single-vendor lock-in. This surge in hardware innovation, marked by Cerebrus's recent IPO creating 1,000 millionaires, is expected to drive breakthroughs in cancer research, autonomous safety, and personalized education within the next quarter-century.
- Y Combinator31 min
YC's Head of Design Shows You How To Design With AI
Eve Bouffard, Aaron Epstein, Ev Bufar
Designer Ev Bufar utilizes a voice-first workflow with tools like Aqua, Conductor, and Paper.design to rapidly produce high-fidelity assets for diverse projects, including the Paxyl transcript analyzer and the Soda Zine. Her recent work at Startup School demonstrates an agent-driven production model that generated visual identities for 6,000 attendees through custom shaders and automated speaker assets, while Paxyl analyzes coding agent interactions to reveal developer patterns. By prioritizing massive context density and disposable internal models, Bufar accelerates the design iteration cycle to handle complex branding and interactive web experiences that explicitly cater to both human users and AI agents.
- Y Combinator32 min
Solving the Blank Canvas Problem: Gusto's AI Co-Founder
Launched in just ten weeks by a five-person team including co-founder Eddie Kim, Gusto Co-founder is a new AI product that transforms Gusto's payroll and HR data into proactive, agent-based automations for small businesses. The platform has already onboarded 500 paying customers by replacing traditional dashboards with text-based interfaces that execute complex workflows, such as full payroll processing, weather-based customer notifications, and tax credit application. This initiative validates a strategic pivot toward becoming a proactive business partner capable of lowering entry barriers for new entrepreneurs while automating compliance and growth opportunities through a "vibe coding" development methodology.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
How Will AI Impact the Labor Market?
Daron Acemoglu, Neil Thompson, Joseph Briggs, Allison Nathan
Experts from Goldman Sachs and MIT project that while AI will displace tens of millions of U.S. workers over the next decade through significant labor reallocation, the unemployment rate is expected to rise by less than one percentage point annually as new job creation offsets automation. The consensus indicates a gradual transition driven by integration barriers rather than sudden mass layoffs, though disagreement persists regarding short-term net employment impacts depending on whether firms prioritize replacing or complementing human labor. Recorded in June 2026, these forecasts highlight that the trajectory of inequality and total job levels will ultimately depend on whether AI development focuses on automating routine cognitive tasks or augmenting high-value human expertise.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Strengthening the Navy SEAL Community Amid Geopolitical Shifts
Vanya Kasanof, Keith Davids, Robin King
Rear Admiral Keith Davids and Robin King discussed the strategic evolution of Naval Special Warfare toward maritime dominance and the Navy SEAL Foundation's expanded mission to support operators facing traumatic brain injuries and mental health challenges. The dialogue highlighted how technological democratization now threatens naval forces through low-cost drone warfare, necessitating a shift where special operations lead joint efforts in cyberspace while the Foundation leverages its agile structure to address invisible wounds through active listening. With Goldman Sachs joining their efforts, these leaders aim to deepen community engagement to ensure families remain resilient so that service members can maintain laser focus on their missions.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
The Future of Industrial AI with Honeywell Technologies Chairman and CEO Vimal Kapur
Honeywell is executing a strategic split into three public entities—Honeywell Aerospace, Solstice Advanced Materials, and a residual company led by CEO Vimal Kapoor—to eliminate corporate complexity and unlock value through pure-play exposure. This transformation is underpinned by a robust automation business model generating mid-single-digit growth via capital and operations spend, while simultaneously deploying "Physical AI" agentic systems to augment human decision-making in industrial settings. The company also anticipates a near-term inflection point for quantum computing utility within two to three years, all while streamlining its post-separation governance to focus exclusively on portfolio strategy and talent management.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Emma Grede on Building Iconic Brands and the Inspiration Behind 'Start with Yourself'
Entrepreneur Emma Greed challenges conventional views on networking and work-life balance, advocating instead for resilience built on professional excellence and the acceptance of life's fluctuating "seasons." In her book *Start With Yourself*, she urges leaders to discard the "self-made" myth, embrace strict trade-offs based on core principles, and prioritize financial fluency to navigate AI-driven disruption. By promoting a mindset that separates personal identity from risk outcomes and values team assembly over individual heroics, Greed offers a pragmatic roadmap for sustainable success and equitable power acquisition.
- Y Combinator41 min
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It
Mark Pincus identifies the current era as a third computing revolution driven by AI agents capable of acting as trusted peers, with a predicted consumer revolution expected by 2029 as inference costs plummet. He outlines a "Proven Better New" product framework and a "squandering" R&D strategy that encourages founders to leverage high-current compute costs to build infrastructure for a future of unlimited intelligence. Pincus argues that while the market gap between technological possibility and affordability remains an "abyss," the window to establish generational businesses is now, provided leaders maintain "Founder Mode" and apply backward design thinking.
- Sequoia Capital45 min
Memory and Continual Learning: Engram's Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin
Dan Biderman, Jessy Lin, Sonya Huang, Shaun Maguire
Ngram addresses the scalability and cognitive limitations of current retrieval-augmented generation by training custom, continually learning models directly within workspace environments. This approach utilizes adapter fine-tuning to internalize organizational knowledge into model weights, reducing inference token consumption by a factor of 100 while enabling true intuition rather than static fact retrieval. By shifting the focus from pre-training generic AI to perpetual, private adaptation, the platform aims to create personalized neural interfaces that evolve alongside a team's data.
- Bank of America21 min
America at 250 – Innovation, Market Leadership and the Power of Compounding
Presented on June 16, 2026, this analysis details the United States' 150-year economic dominance, driven by superior corporate earnings growth, a $1 trillion annual R&D investment, and the dollar's enduring role as the primary global reserve currency. The report challenges the traditional 60-40 portfolio strategy by demonstrating the historical lack of consistent negative correlation between U.S. equities and long-term Treasury bonds, which have often moved in tandem during recent market cycles. Ultimately, the discussion underscores structural advantages in governance and innovation efficiency that sustain U.S. outperformance despite the current challenges posed by an overvalued currency and global reindustrialization trends.
- a16z42 min
The New Media Advantage with Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen
Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, Gaby Goldberg
The event details a fundamental shift from restricted legacy media to an offense-oriented, direct-to-audience strategy where founders must prioritize the "person as brand" over corporate abstraction. Speakers argue that traditional journalistic gatekeeping is obsolete, urging executives to adopt an "outside-in" narrative framework that links their companies to macro-trends like geopolitics and supply chain crises, as exemplified by Alex Karp and Ryan Peterson. To succeed, founders are advised to reject scripted media training in favor of authentic, polarizing communication and to build teams skilled in long-form storytelling rather than traditional public relations.
- Y Combinator43 min
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here
Bryant Chou, Jared, Diana, Mark Mandelmann, Francesc Campoy Flores
Co-founded by ex-Webflow leader Bryant Cho, Ploy is an AI-driven platform that reconstructs and modernizes websites while autonomously managing marketing operations through a curated design system. The technology replicates the output of a three-to-five-person engineering team, processing complex tasks like SEO optimization and data auditing in seconds rather than weeks. Currently adopted by 12% of the Y Combinator batch, the tool democratizes high-level growth strategies by integrating with over 50 business tools to function as a unified, AI-optimized company brain.
Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI
Gabe Pereyra, Niko Grupen, Molly O'Shea
Harvey Labs launched the open-source Legal Agent Benchmark (Lab) to evaluate AI performance on specialized legal tasks using synthetic data validated by human lawyers, replacing generic QA with rigorous, task-specific unit tests. Initial findings reveal a fragmented market where no single model dominates all domains, prompting a strategic shift toward diverse model routing and post-training open-weight solutions to navigate cost-quality tradeoffs. While usage has reached 13 trillion tokens, the industry now prioritizes organizational intelligence and billing transparency over raw capability, driven by the need to resolve conflict-of-interest risks and optimize complex agent workflows.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Maverick Capital Co-CIOs on Finding the AI Winners
Ben Silver, David Tykocinski, Tony Pasquariello
Maverick Capital co-chief investment officers Ben Silver and David Tykoczynski discuss their complementary investment philosophies and a holistic risk management framework designed to navigate complex market dynamics. The discussion highlights strategic shifts in the artificial intelligence sector toward application-layer value while identifying significant undervalued opportunities in the healthcare equipment space driven by reshoring trends. Both executives also address structural risks in the geopolitical landscape and emphasize the long-term transformative potential of AI despite near-term valuation volatility.
Brian Armstrong: "We're Bringing Every Asset Class On Chain"
Brian Armstrong, Cat Ferdon, Molly Abraham, Jesse Pollak
Coinbase is accelerating its shift toward an agentic economy by launching tokenized U.S. stocks, a unified liquidity exchange, and new AI infrastructure like the Coinbase MCP protocol to enable autonomous financial transactions. CEO Brian Armstrong and leadership team emphasize that the company is leveraging AI to optimize costs and operational velocity, projecting that AI agents will soon outnumber human employees while driving the company's "Everything Exchange" strategy. Simultaneously, the firm is solidifying its regulatory compliance stance for tokenized assets and positioning its Base blockchain as the primary infrastructure for both AI agents and real-world asset trading.