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Clear all filters- The Diary Of A CEO1h 16m
Anti-Aging Expert: Creatine Is The Fat Loss Secret Doctors Don’t Tell You - Dr. Darren Candow
Dr. Candow, a leading researcher with over 120 publications, advocates for creatine monohydrate supplementation to support healthy aging, enhance athletic performance, and provide neuroprotection during metabolic stress. Her findings confirm that specific dosages, ranging from 1g for bone health in youth to 20g for Alzheimer's patients, effectively improve muscle mass, cognitive function, and mental health outcomes without harming kidneys or causing hair loss. By combining targeted creatine protocols with resistance training and high-quality protein, individuals can significantly extend their healthspan and combat age-related muscle and bone decline.
- Milken Institute53 min
The Legacy Play: How Global Sport Shapes Cities, Economies, and Culture | Global Conference 2026
Willow Bay, Jack Alexy, Chris Brearton, Breezy Johnson, Lindsay Taylor, Trisha Worthington
The "Legacy Play" panel convened media leaders, philanthropists, and Olympic gold medalists to analyze the commercial disparities and technological advancements reshaping global sports. Discussion highlighted the United States' unique reliance on private funding compared to state-backed peer nations, while detailing how AI integration and evolving media strategies are democratizing access and enhancing athlete branding. Participants further emphasized the critical role of mental health support and sustainable venue legacies in ensuring long-term career viability and equitable growth for women's sports.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning
Matan Grinberg, Harry Stebbings
Mattan Grinberg and industry experts analyze a shifting AI landscape where macroeconomic productivity gains and strategic resource reallocation will redefine enterprise team structures and valuation cycles. They predict a transition toward model-agnostic routing and open-source competition, while warning of short-term labor displacement and security challenges that necessitate a focus on high-stakes outcomes rather than traditional output metrics. The discussion further contrasts divergent views on automation's impact, emphasizing that future success depends on building autonomous software factories and aligning engineering talent with critical global problems like healthcare and climate change.
- All-In Podcast1h 8m
All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live
Chamath, Aaron Cowen, Dan Dreyfus, Oleg Nodelman, Kyle Samani, Jason, Friedberg, Gavin, David Sacks
In a format replicating the Ira Sohn investment conference, managers Aaron Cowan, Dan Dreyfuss, Oleg Nodelman, and Kyle Simani presented high-conviction theses for MGM Resorts, Talon Energy, Actis Oncology, and GeoNet. MGM Resorts secured both audience and panel votes by highlighting a hostile Barry Diller acquisition bid alongside substantial hidden asset value in Japanese and Dubai casino licenses, effectively outperforming Talon Energy's nuclear power thesis and the biotech and crypto pitches from the other two presenters. The event concluded with panelists Gavin and Chamath ranking MGM as the top opportunity for risk-adjusted returns while noting the binary nature of the remaining investment theses.
- 80,000 Hours1h 30m
Why advanced AI isn't like other technologies
A gathering of leading AI researchers and policymakers recently convened to address the pressing existential risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence, which experts warn could trigger a rapid, civilization-altering transformation within a single decade. The event highlighted alarming evidence that AI systems are already surpassing human capabilities in specialized domains, raising critical concerns about loss of control, weaponization, and the displacement of human labor due to unprecedented scalability. With over 1,000 scientists urging immediate mitigation efforts to prevent potential human extinction, participants emphasized the urgent need for institutional reform and increased workforce allocation to manage the unique speed and magnitude of this technological shift.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Why Africa, Why Now: Investing in the World's Next Growth Engine | Global Conference 2026
British Robinson, Runa Alam, Qahir Dhanani, Courtney Powell, Ethiopis Tafara, Meg Whitman, Samaila Zubairu
A diverse panel of experts from the World Bank, IFC, and leading private equity firms outlines Africa's shift from a resource-dependent economy to a consumer and technology-driven powerhouse with a projected workforce of 2.5 billion by 2050. Participants highlight that superior recovery rates, decoupled sovereign risk, and undervalued assets make the continent a high-return destination, prompting a strategic pivot toward private equity, green energy supply chains, and fintech. Consequently, institutional investors are urged to bridge local capital gaps through Public-Private Partnerships and to align pension fund mandates with infrastructure projects that address the urgent need to employ the continent's massive youth population.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
SpaceX initiated a $75 billion IPO with a fixed $135 share price to value the company at nearly $1.8 trillion, a move that bypassed traditional book-building and led analysts to predict a potential first-day decline despite high institutional interest. Concurrently, OpenAI has filed for its own public offering to fund massive foundation model development as its strategy diverges from competitors like Anthropic, while Apple pragmatically integrated Google's Gemini into Siri to prioritize immediate consumer utility. The broader market context features record efficiency in AI-native startups like Lovable and Cursor challenging traditional SaaS models, though valuation risks remain high as major tech firms ramp up capital expenditures for the AI arms race and traditional tech stocks face correction.
Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist"
Brian Singerman, Molly O'Shea, Elon, Peter Thiel, Cyan Banister, Palmer Luckey, Alex Karp, Max Levchin, Trae Stephens, Scott Nolan
Brian Zingerman outlines a venture capital philosophy that prioritizes founder strength over financial metrics, citing concentrated bets on entities like SpaceX and Palantir as essential for generating outsized returns. Currently pivoting to invest exclusively in authentic general partners, he leverages his background as a competitive strategy gamer to identify leaders capable of outmaneuvering established norms. Looking forward, Zingerman plans to apply this same discernment to launching a non-traditional music label while navigating geopolitical shifts by relocating his focus to Hawaii.
- Sequoia Capital51 min
Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness
Google has launched its "agentic era" centered on the Anti-Gravity harness and the new Omni unified model, enabling autonomous actions across its ecosystem rather than simple API interactions. Key shifts include the introduction of the 3.5 Flash coding model, the transition from maximizing user time to optimizing task completion, and the deployment of a single system for diverse generative media tasks. Led by leadership emphasizing scientific rigor under Demis Hassabis and Sundar Pichai, the initiative aims to replace specialized legacy tools with native, world-understanding agents that augment rather than cannibalize human activity.
- Y Combinator54 min
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know
Pedro Franceschi, Jared, Gary, Mark Mandelmann, Jason Mayes
Pedro Franceschi outlines a strategic framework for AI-native leadership, urging CEOs to act as Chief AI Officers who "re-found" their companies by treating AI as an agent rather than a tool, while distinguishing between product, operational, and corporate adoption agendas. Brex exemplifies this approach through its security architecture, which employs the open-sourced Crab Trap proxy to manage agent permissions and the Magpie system to track granular token ROI, thereby achieving high automation rates while maintaining rigorous control. This evolution signals a broader industry shift where founders focus on defining problems and capturing out-of-distribution human wisdom, while the operational burden shifts to self-improving, domain-specific virtual employees that will eventually redefine corporate hierarchies around AI interfaces.
- Milken Institute58 min
Reinventing Play: The New Frontier of Gaming Technology and Creation | Global Conference 2026
Geoff Keighley, Johanna Faries, Laura Miele, Gregory Milken, Donald Mustard, DAN GALPIN, MANO MARKS, LAURA MURPHY
Industry leaders Johanna Levinson, Gregory Melkin, Donald Mustard, and Laura Miele convened to outline the gaming sector's transition from episodic releases to continuous live-service models driven by AI adoption and transmedia expansion. The panelists agreed that while mobile platforms retain the largest user base, the market is shifting toward flexible pricing strategies and global partnerships that allow small teams to compete with AAA studios through democratized development tools. Furthermore, the consensus emphasizes a strategic pivot where creative integrity and long-term cultural relevance now outweigh short-term monetization, as publishers integrate mobile, cloud, and social features to sustain player engagement across diverse hardware ecosystems.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 2m
Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography
The event analyzes the fundamental geopolitical divergence between continental "elephant" powers reliant on land armies and maritime "whale" powers driven by trade and naval defense, arguing that the current global instability stems from China and Russia attempting to impose a 19th-century sphere-of-influence system. Drawing on the theories of Mackinder and Spykman, the discussion highlights how maritime democracies must leverage sanctions and economic insulation rather than direct territorial conquest to counter continental aggression that seeks to hollow out post-WWII institutions. Ultimately, the presentation warns that failing to maintain this rules-based order risks a catastrophic third world war, emphasizing that maritime strategies offer the only path toward sustained positive-sum growth.
Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute
Roman Chernin, Harry Stebbings
Nebius navigates a critical 6–12 month execution bottleneck by leveraging a four-layer product strategy that evolves from bare metal infrastructure to agentic orchestration, aiming to diversify its client base beyond hyperscalers to thousands of enterprises. Co-founder Roman defends the sector's growth trajectory against bubble concerns, arguing that the Jevons Paradox will drive surging demand for optimized open-source models while European sovereignty initiatives foster a distinct ecosystem of builders. With a 2025 capital expenditure program of $20–25 billion and recent institutional validation from a 5.3% stake disclosure, the company positions itself as a cost-efficient alternative to hyperscalers by prioritizing Total Cost of Ownership reductions over raw hardware pricing.
- a16z1h 1m
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
Benedict Evans, Erik Torenberg
Benedict Evans analyzes the rapid transition of agentic coding into a definitive product-market fit, noting how massive CapEx investment by major tech firms is currently creating a disequilibrium between supply and demand. He argues that while foundation models may eventually become low-margin commodities akin to mobile infrastructure, the immediate future involves significant adoption challenges and a divergence between deep workflow integration and superficial usage. Ultimately, Evans suggests that AI will drive profound economic restructuring and invisible automation, though the primary financial value will likely accrue to application-layer companies rather than the model providers themselves.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO
Jacob Lauritzen, Harry Stebbings
Legora has achieved $100 million in ARR within 18 months while scaling its engineering team to approximately 80 members with a goal of 270 by late 2027, driven by an aggressive adoption of AI coding tools like Cloud Code and Cursor. CTO Jacob Loretz has redefined operational strategy by treating AI spending as an investment against opportunity costs and shifting product management roles toward strategic prioritization while retaining human oversight for high-stakes security reviews. To maintain its market position against AI-generated "slop," the company emphasizes opinionated design and custom internal tooling, aiming to avoid direct competition by mastering complex edge cases and evolving toward a future where system architecture replaces line-by-line coding.