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Clear all filtersAtlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Harry Stebbings, Scott Farquhar
Atlassian Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes discusses a strategic bet on multi-model AI adoption and "vibe coding" to empower non-technical employees while expanding the engineering workforce over the next five years. He outlines the longevity of the company's co-CEO dynamic with Scott Farquhar, which relies on a strict 60–80% operational overlap and a unique dispute resolution clause to navigate market volatility and uncertain AI monetization. Cannon-Brookes concludes by framing the organization's future around "creating rather than defending" to combat corporate entropy, urging a shift toward per-value pricing models as the industry faces a Cambrian explosion of new, yet unproven, AI business structures.
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Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
Martin and Vishal define Artificial General Intelligence as the capacity to generate entirely new scientific paradigms rather than merely interpolating within existing data manifolds, a capability they argue current Large Language Models lack despite their sophisticated Bayesian reasoning. They detail a formal Matrix Abstraction Model explaining how in-context learning functions as evidence-based posterior updates, while simultaneously critiquing the industry's reliance on prompt engineering and empirical scaling as insufficient for achieving recursive self-improvement or true innovation. The discussion concludes that a fundamental architectural leap beyond probability-based transformers is necessary to transition from generating "confident nonsense" to producing outputs that fall completely outside training distributions.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
From Crypto to CBDCs: Asia's Blueprint for Digital Finance | Asia Summit 2025
Angelina Kwan, Eric Anziani, Luke Boland, Melvin Deng, Tom Lee, Jaime Leverton
Asian financial hubs like Hong Kong and Singapore are rapidly transitioning from speculative crypto markets to robust institutional infrastructure driven by strategic public-private collaboration. Industry leaders from QCP, Reserve One, and Crypto.com highlighted the urgent need for consistent regulatory frameworks to facilitate the growth of digital asset treasuries, tokenized securities, and cross-border stablecoins. As major institutions integrate traditional finance with blockchain technology, the sector faces a consolidation phase where only well-governed entities capable of delivering real-world utility and liquidity will sustain long-term success.
- All-In Podcast1h 28m
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
Trump, Brad Gerstner, Jason, Friedberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks
A multilateral framework addressing the Israel-Hamas conflict, U.S. immigration enforcement in Chicago, and the $60 billion OpenAI-AMD semiconductor partnership dominated recent strategic discussions, featuring President Trump's two-phase peace plan and a contentious National Guard deployment. Panelists analyzed how geopolitical stability could unlock Middle Eastern oil monetization while evaluating the economic implications of Trump's ICE operations and the massive shift in AI capital expenditure toward energy capacity. Concurrent macroeconomic shifts, including a surge in gold prices driven by central bank diversification and the professionalization of Polymarket betting markets, further underscored the panel's focus on emerging global power structures and financial innovations.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 21m
“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane
The presentation argues that life likely arises universally from proton gradients in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, establishing carbon-based biochemistry through geochemical processes rather than random chemical accidents. It posits that the transition to complex eukaryotic life is a rare bottleneck caused by a singular endosymbiotic event, which necessitated the evolution of two sexes to maintain mitochondrial integrity and large genomes. While prokaryotic life is projected to be widespread across wet, rocky exoplanets, the extreme improbability of eukaryogenesis suggests that intelligent life remains exceptionally scarce in the universe.
- Milken Institute50 min
The Business of Sports: From Old School to Influence | Asia Summit 2025
Adam Heng, John Dykes, Derek Chang, Josh Empson, Deborah Mei, Jeff Wilbur
This panel analyzed the global sports industry's shift toward a $600 billion valuation driven by media rights dominance, strategic capital infusions by firms like Sixth Street, and the rapid "soccerization" of ownership structures. Speakers highlighted transformative demographic trends, including the Asian diaspora's influence on club valuation, the surge in women's sports viewership, and the integration of entertainment formats like Netflix's "Drive to Survive" to capture younger audiences. Ultimately, the discussion underscored a strategic pivot from traditional monopoly models to capitalistic frameworks that prioritize authentic fan experiences while addressing the significant under-monetization of female athletes.
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing
Jonathan Siddharth, Molly O'Shea
Turing, a profitable AI infrastructure firm valued at $2.2 billion, serves nine frontier labs by deploying a global network of four million engineers to generate expert data for training superintelligence models. The company distinguishes itself from traditional data labelers by combining smart human sourcing with proactive research to advance coding, reasoning, and multi-modality pillars while challenging the dominance of commodity data services. Facing a market where internet-based pre-training data is exhausted, Turing aims to capture a $30 trillion opportunity by replacing legacy consulting models with agentic systems that automate complex enterprise knowledge work.
- Milken Institute46 min
Smart Finance: The Intersection of AI, Technology, Talent, and Transformation | Asia Summit 2025
Krist Boo, Asilah Azil, Marcelo Claure, Andreas Kreuz
Global AI investment is surging toward $500 billion annually, yet a 95% failure rate persists as enterprises struggle to move beyond pilot programs, with only top performers like T-Mobile and K Health demonstrating significant commercial payback. While 47% of organizations report recent AI risk incidents, the primary barrier to value realization remains cultural resistance and workflow inertia rather than technology, necessitating CEO-led change management and governance models that treat agents as corporate citizens. As geopolitical dynamics force Southeast Asian nations like Singapore to adopt a multipolar strategy leveraging both US and Chinese strengths, the race for success now hinges on massive workforce reskilling and the strategic integration of human capital with autonomous systems.
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Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Sam Altman, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlines a strategic shift toward extreme vertical integration, establishing a massive global infrastructure stack to support research, consumer products, and hardware while securing partnerships with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle. The organization prioritizes scientific advancement and world model development, predicting that within two years AI systems will autonomously conduct complex research in physics and biology, though this rapid scaling necessitates new per-generation monetization models. Concurrently, Altman advocates for a measured regulatory approach focused only on superhuman capabilities to avoid stifling innovation, while emphasizing that the ultimate economic value of this infrastructure lies in the successful and gradual deployment of artificial general intelligence.
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Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
Kaz Nejatian, Alex Rampell, Erik Torenberg
CEO Kaz Nejatian is steering Opendoor away from its failed inventory-heavy iBuyer model toward a software marketplace aiming to control 10% of housing supply to disrupt traditional agent monopolies through 1% commissions. Following a strategic pivot triggered by the "triple whammy" of Zillow's competition, rising interest rates, and capital pullback, the company now operates in every U.S. market with features like Dallas' seven-day return window to build high-frequency demand. The ultimate vision is to internalize the entire real estate transaction chain by bundling financing and insurance, thereby reducing friction and delivering net value to consumers while avoiding the pitfalls of operating as a low-frequency asset-holding business.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth
Andrew Feldman, Harry Stebbings
Cerebras Systems secured its largest-ever funding round led by Fidelity to accelerate wafer-scale chip manufacturing and expand US data center capacity ahead of a future IPO. The company leverages its unique hardware to address critical memory bandwidth bottlenecks while navigating an unpredictable global market characterized by exponential demand growth and intense talent competition. Despite significant infrastructure challenges and geopolitical headwinds, the firm reports substantial revenue from the UAE and maintains confidence that its technology will drive future productivity gains by reorganizing economic workflows rather than simply replacing existing tools.
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The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Dan Filgate frames the U.S.-China competition not as a race with a definitive winner, but as a complex synthesis where American strengths in wealth creation and intellectual property must balance against China's engineering-driven capacity for infrastructure and manufacturing. The analysis highlights critical frictions between the U.S. "lawyer culture," which often paralyzes industrial progress through legal hurdles, and China's ability to enforce large-scale goals despite systemic human rights concerns and IP vulnerabilities. Ultimately, the dialogue urges the United States to avoid complacency by adopting more functional industrial policies that prioritize physical production and logistical efficiency rather than rigid legalistic processes.
CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity
Andy Lowery, Joshua Steinman, Molly O'Shea
Epirus and Galvanic founder Joshua Steinman outline a strategic pivot toward countering autonomous drone swarms and industrial cyberattacks by leveraging U.S. dominance in phased array and gallium nitride technologies. Epirus is deploying second-generation Force Field Generators ready for Army testing, while Galvanic deploys AI-driven software to protect critical operational technology infrastructure from pre-positioned state-sponsored malware. Together, these initiatives address a national security imperative by reindustrializing domestic supply chains for high-powered components and automating the detection of physical threats that traditional IT security measures cannot stop.
Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech
Molly O'Shea, Eric Allison, Filip Aronshtein, Steve Simoni
The Reindustrialize 2024 summit in Detroit highlighted strategic capital infusions and operational expansions by key players such as Joby Aviation, Dirac, and Allen Control Systems to address critical gaps in the American industrial base. Joby Aviation secured further funding and strategic partnerships to advance its FAA-certified eVTOL air taxi program, while Dirac deployed AI-driven software to automate manufacturing instructions and preserve tribal knowledge, and Allen Control Systems raised capital to scale its "Bullfrog" kinetic defense turret for drone warfare. Collectively, these developments reflect a broader industry urgency to reverse offshoring trends, reintegrate vertically controlled supply chains, and deploy domestic manufacturing solutions amidst evolving geopolitical and technological pressures.
- All-In Podcast1h 30m
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
Friedberg, Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks
Electronic Arts is being taken private in a historic $55 billion transaction valued at $210 per share, driven by a consortium led by the Saudi Public Investment Fund and Silver Lake. The deal aims to shield the company from gaming gatekeepers like Microsoft and Sony while leveraging AI integration to optimize operations and create independent distribution channels. Concurrent discussions analyze the broader implications for the private equity sector, the strategic shift toward open-source AI models, and the urgent need for federal preemption to avoid a fragmented state-by-state regulatory landscape.