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Clear all filters- The Economist9 min
What we know about the Ukraine peace plan
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Olly, Ed, Shashank, Zannie, Chris
Emerging from Geneva talks, a draft treaty to partition Ukraine has evolved from a 28-point plan to an 18-point document featuring relaxed military caps and the potential removal of constitutional bans on NATO membership. While special representative Steve Witkoff allegedly advised Russian negotiators on pressure tactics and leaked communications cast suspicion on the security of the process, key disputes remain regarding the status of Donbass, the enforceability of vague US security guarantees, and the exclusion of European military forces. Analysts warn that despite the removal of restrictive weapon bans, the proposed framework relies on unenforceable terms and creates a strategic vacuum for Ukraine's post-war defense.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
Across America with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Jill Bomarito, Bill Michaels, Jenny Steffensmeyer
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program functions as a strategic "mini MBA" that equips entrepreneurs like Jill Bomarito, Bill Michaels, and Jenny Steffensmeyer with the framework to transition from daily operations to high-level business management. Through this initiative, case study participants achieved significant scale by addressing critical gaps in cash flow, marketing, and leadership, resulting in sales growth ranging from 20% to tenfold and facilitating shifts from local to international markets. Beyond individual financial gains, the curriculum fosters a supportive peer network that empowers graduates to advocate for small business policy changes and secure their enterprises' long-term succession planning.
- Sequoia Capital10 min
From Early Failures to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’ - Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen
Ilkka Paananen, Maya Hoffree, Joost van Dreunen, Roelof Botha
Supercell established a unique corporate structure known as "cells" that empowers individual game teams with startup-like autonomy, a strategy that enabled leaders to cancel their initial €8 million investment in the Facebook title *Gunshine* to pivot successfully toward mobile platforms. This bold approach fostered a culture where project failures are celebrated as learning experiments, ultimately leading to the creation of industry-defining hits like *Clash of Clans* and *Hay Day* that currently command 60% of total industry playtime. Now fifteen years old, the company continues to navigate the high barrier of launching new titles by embracing increased risk-taking, aiming to emulate the century-long legacy of Nintendo or LEGO while maintaining operational excellence.
- The Economist10 min
Former IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath’s warning for rich world economies
Former IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath assessed the global economy from 2019 to 2025, highlighting how emerging markets demonstrated unexpected resilience against the pandemic, war, and inflation thanks to improved fiscal governance and diversified borrowing. Despite this stability, she warned of looming systemic risks including a fragile US financial sector, the opacity of non-bank lending, and a projected global debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 100% by 2030. Addressing these challenges requires advanced economies to confront structural fiscal imbalances and aging demographics, though necessary adjustments to retirement ages face significant political resistance.
- All-In Podcast11 min
California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
Silicon Valley-backed investor Jan Sramic is advancing the California Forever project to construct a 70,000-acre self-funded community in Solano County designed to solve California's housing crisis and reindustrialize the region. The development plan features a massive advanced manufacturing park, a national shipbuilding hub on the Deepwater Ship Channel, and a walkable city intended to house 400,000 residents. By co-locating high-tech R&D with production and leveraging AI-driven robotics, the initiative aims to demonstrate American capacity for rapid construction and strategic abundance over the next two decades.
- The Economist10 min
Were we wrong about Trump's tariffs?
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Henry, John, Ed
Recent trade policies have established the highest tariff levels in ninety years, creating a significant gap between announced rates and effective collection due to supply chain shifts and business cost absorption. While the U.S. economy experienced its weakest half-year growth since 2012 with rising inflation, political dynamics are shifting toward protectionism across both parties despite bipartisan opposition from key figures like Mitch McConnell. Experts warn that arbitrary policy implementation and entrenched lobbying interests will likely create long-term structural damage and market isolation, even if an immediate recession is avoided.
- All-In Podcast11 min
Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack: Lower Your RHR Before Sleep = Sleep Better and Live Longer
Brian Johnson presents an ambitious framework positioning the indefinite extension of human life as a new global ideology, utilizing biological age testing to illustrate that organs age independently and require targeted management. He identifies resting heart rate as the primary health metric and details a specific protocol involving strict sleep hygiene, diet timing, and screen discipline to lower this rate by approximately 10%. This approach aims to reverse aging trends while simultaneously treating sleep as the fundamental intervention for anxiety and depression, ultimately preparing humanity for a future defined by superintelligence.
- All-In Podcast19 min
Cathie Wood on How AI Can Double GDP, Bull Case for Bitcoin $1M, Elon’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package
ARK Capital projects a near-future US GDP acceleration to 7% driven by the convergence of five innovation platforms, a trajectory that investor Cathie Wood attributes to both technological deflation and the Trump administration's tax policies. The firm forecasts a significant market broadening away from the "Mag 6" toward disruptive sectors like autonomous mobility and multi-omic healthcare, with a targeted 40–50% compound annual return for innovation equities over the next five years. Supporting this thesis, ARK maintains a bullish $2,600 price target for Tesla and a valuation model suggesting Bitcoin could reach $3.8 million, while advocating for regulatory reforms to expand private market access to retail investors.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
The Future of Software Engineering: Cognition’s Russell Kaplan
Cognition, founded by former Olympiad medalists and now valued at $4 billion, is advancing software engineering by deploying Devin, an autonomous AI agent capable of executing end-to-end development tasks. The company differentiates itself through a dual-product strategy combining Devin for independent execution with the recently acquired Windsurf IDE for human-in-the-loop collaboration, targeting enterprise integration into proprietary codebases. While AI capabilities in coding are projected to double every seven months, Cognition aims to elevate Devin to senior engineer status within a year, though future growth is anticipated to be constrained by energy availability rather than data scarcity.
- RAISE Summit16 min
Dr. Ilya Burkov (Nebius): Powering Next‑Gen Biotech Research with High‑Performance AI and Cloud GPUs
Nebius, a vertically integrated Dutch cloud provider, leverages its unique pay-as-you-go infrastructure and top-tier supercomputer ranking to support biotech and healthcare firms in overcoming hardware bottlenecks. The platform enables critical advancements in drug discovery and radiology diagnostics for organizations like Converge Bio and Simulacra AI, which achieved significant accuracy gains and speedups over hyperscaler alternatives by utilizing on-demand H100 GPU capacity. Looking toward 2025, the company aims to expand its global footprint by integrating agentic AI and multi-omics data processing to address workforce shortages and accelerate time-to-market for new treatments.
- RAISE Summit9 min
Yuri Frayman, Co-Founder & CEO, Cast AI: Robots Will Feed the World… If We Build the Rails
SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio companies are constructing the physical infrastructure necessary to transition AI from knowledge work into the global economy, aiming to replicate the prosperity seen with previous industrial revolutions. While addressing critical constraints in energy and compute, these initiatives prioritize workforce re-education and decentralized, open-source architectures to navigate regulatory fragmentation and ensure fair access against well-funded commercial labs. The deployment of large-scale, cloud-agnostic inference networks over the next decade will ultimately determine which entities successfully harness this AI abundance.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Karl Havard, COO, Nscale on 3 Things Sovereign AI Must Deliver: Control, Compliance, and Growth
Carl, CCO of Nscale, defines "sovereign AI" as a full-stack alternative to US hyperscalers that integrates energy generation, data center construction, and model hosting to ensure total infrastructure control. Geopolitical instability and US legislative threats, such as the Patriot Act and potential tariffs, are driving European governments to adopt this "Sovereign First" model to secure data compliance and economic growth through localized "AI Growth Zones." By coordinating renewable energy surpluses with high-density AI hardware requirements, this strategy aims to retain domestic research talent and bypass the physical and legal vulnerabilities of reliance on foreign cloud providers.
- RAISE Summit17 min
A fireside Chat with Ramin Hasani, Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid AI ft. Robert Cahill (Enhance Venture)
Liquid AI, an MIT spin-off founded by Ramin Hassani, is deploying a unique full-stack foundation model platform that utilizes biologically inspired Liquid Neural Networks to run generative AI directly on edge devices. This architecture achieves linear scaling rather than the quadratic costs of standard Transformers, enabling powerful on-device intelligence in resource-constrained hardware like smartphones and satellites without relying on data centers. Positioned as a specialized "gatekeeper" alongside massive cloud-based Oracles, the Boston-based company targets a projected $1 trillion on-device AI market by 2035 with applications spanning consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace sectors.
- RAISE Summit20 min
SQORUS & Oracle: How AI is transforming step by step our industries. Use cases by ONET
Cyril Grira, Geoffrey, Gaurit Champenois, Romain Guyettremotier
Oracle, Skorus, and ONET Airport Services unveiled a comprehensive digital transformation at a 40th-anniversary celebration that leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce annual baggage losses by 25%. Led by Cyril Grira of Oracle, Geoffrey of Skorus, and ONET CIO Guillaume de Montessu, the project utilizes Autonomous Database 23ai, AI-powered vision services, and generative AI to shift operations from rigid timing-based SLAs to value-driven, real-time decision-making. Future initiatives plan to advance this system toward autonomous mission assignment and augmented reality interfaces to further optimize ground service productivity across Charles de Gaulle and other major hubs.
- RAISE Summit20 min
A Fireside Chat with Luc Julia, Renault & Matthieu de Chanville, Shift for Good
Luc Julia, Matthieu de Chanville
Luc Beaulieu, Renault's Chief Scientific Officer, highlights the critical lag between century-old automakers and agile startups regarding AI adoption, noting that legacy software cycles remain incompatible with the rapid hardware refresh rates required for software-defined vehicles. While dismissing the feasibility of Level 5 autonomy and humanoids, Beaulieu champions specialized "physical AI," geo-fenced Level 4 robot taxis, and virtual sensor technologies to enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. These insights are further reinforced by the "Software Republic" consortium, which includes Renault and Thales, as it advances a vision where artificial intelligence serves as a specialized tool to augment human capability rather than replace it.