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Clear all filtersSemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI
Dylan Patel, Qasar Younis, Apoorv Agrawal, Arvind Jain, Ariel Cohen, CJ Desai, Gil Feig, Nikhil Benesch, Barak Kaufman, Max Junestrand, Marc Boroditsky, Laura Diorio, Kasser, Mark
RAISE Paris marked a decisive industry shift from speculative hype to enterprise-grade cost reconciliation, as buyers now demand clear ROI and physical AI adoption outpaces volatile large language model growth. Key figures including Applied Intuition's Kasser and analysts from Altimeter Research warned of an impending market bust driven by unsustainable spending, while companies like Navan and TurboPuffer demonstrated new economic models focused on profitability and reduced inference costs. The event concluded with a consensus that success requires resilient multi-model strategies, robust data layers, and a global expansion mindset to navigate rising hardware prices and geopolitical energy constraints.
AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI
Max Cook, Matan Grinberg, Pim de Witte, Philip Johnston, Mark Papermaster, Rodrigo Liang, Ramin Hasani, Robin Rombach, Chris Madden, Henri Delahaye, Molly, Philippe, Thomas
At the RAISE Summit, industry leaders like Max Cook and Matan outlined a decisive shift toward agentic AI ecosystems that replace traditional interfaces with natural language and naturalize the routing between frontier and open-source models based on latency and cost. Concurrently, hardware giants such as SambaNova and StarCloud announced billion-dollar investments and space-based compute strategies to overcome power constraints and enable efficient inference on edge devices. This convergence of sovereign AI initiatives, supply chain scaling, and automated software engineering marks a global transition where enterprises treat AI as a deployed product rather than a research tool.
- Bank of America19 min
Global Rates & FX Views: Japan’s GPIF, Fed and ECB
Ralf Preusser, Sphia Salim, Meghan Swiber, Shusuke Yamada, Megan Zweiber, Sia Saleem
Speculation regarding Finance Minister Katayama's support for the GPIF to increase Japanese financial asset holdings has sparked market anticipation of a potential 5% reallocation from foreign to domestic bonds, which could inject roughly 21 trillion yen into the JGB market. This hypothetical shift is projected to exert significant pressure on European government bonds, particularly in France, Spain, and Italy, by triggering an estimated €37 billion in sales that could alter relative value dynamics. Concurrently, the event analysis suggests that while this reallocation presents a modest headwind for US Treasury demand, global central bank strategies remain focused on anticipated September rate hikes for the Fed and ECB before a projected cycle of meaningful cuts begins in 2027.
- Stanford Online49 min
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Applications, AI in Life Sciences
Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Apoorv Agrawal, Eric Abrams, Josh
Chai Discovery and Anthropic are establishing a new drug discovery paradigm by serving as tool providers that convert biological engineering from a trial-and-error art into a scalable, AI-driven discipline. By integrating large language models with wet-lab validation, these firms aim to compress the traditional ten-year development cycle into five years while democratizing research capabilities for individual scientists. The convergence of these technologies, supported by massive data generation and strategic partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies, positions AI-native infrastructure as the critical lever for the United States to compete globally in biotech.
- Goldman Sachs12 min
How Earnings, Volatility, and AI Capex Are Affecting US Markets
Amid a high earnings bar and $6 trillion in projected AI infrastructure capital demands, the market faces divergent pressures between rising single-stock volatility and muted index fluctuations. Goldman Sachs addresses these tensions by recommending specific trades that exploit anomalous option pricing, such as single-stock collars and highly leveraged downside protection on the S&P 500. These strategies aim to capitalize on compressed index volatility while preparing investors for imminent catalysts including the July PCE inflation print and the Federal Reserve's upcoming FOMC meeting.
- Milken Institute57 min
The Future of Decision Intelligence | Global Conference 2026
Dan Primack, Stephanie Guild, Paul Liberman, Brian Quintenz
Former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, Robinhood CIO Steph Gild, and DraftKings President Paul Lieberman discussed how regulated prediction markets like Kalshi aggregate disaggregated information into high-frequency sentiment signals that surpass traditional polling and institutional research. The panelists distinguished these federally licensed derivatives from unregulated gambling by highlighting their role in price discovery, the use of real capital to reduce emotional bias, and robust surveillance systems that deter insider trading. Looking ahead, the speakers anticipate expanding contract categories into corporate earnings and geopolitical events while maintaining that these tools serve as complementary data points for investment portfolios rather than sole decision-making authorities.
- InstituteofTrading6 min
The Presentations You've Been Waiting For
Scheduled for September 12, the ITPM London Super Conference brings together founder Anton Creel and six senior mentors to guide retail traders toward long-term consistency through a business model framework and specific strategies for market conditions in 2026 and 2027. Featuring high-level performance records ranging from 360% to 900% returns, the curriculum includes exclusive sessions on macroeconomic outlooks, AI-driven trade generation, and the habit formation required to build wealth from zero. Admission to this all-inclusive event, which offers a VIP breakfast with Creel and detailed trade ideas, is positioned as a critical opportunity for traders seeking to replace speculation with structured, winning methodologies.
- Sequoia Capital2 min
Why "Tokens Aren't Fungible" - Anthropic's Angela Jiang
The organization is transitioning its strategic focus from knowledge retrieval to an execution layer powered by Cloud Managed Agents, which enables AI systems to string together tasks and edit files across multiple systems. This infrastructure serves as the foundation for a forthcoming coordination layer that will introduce strategies as a meta harness to orchestrate complex workflows through specialized token roles. The roadmap outlines a sequential evolution moving from the current execution capabilities toward this higher-level abstraction where high-level intent guides composed, autonomous systems.
- All-In Podcast52 min
The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Eleven Labs reported $600 million in annual recurring revenue with zero attrition among its founding staff, while Legor achieved $150 million in direct sales by replacing hourly billing with AI-driven transaction models in the legal sector. These companies illustrate a market shift where specialized AI agents handle complex tasks like voice restoration and legal analysis, respectively, without relying solely on general-purpose frontier models. By embedding engineers directly into product teams and utilizing narrow, fine-tuned systems, both firms prioritize security, data quality, and rapid deployment over traditional scaling methods.
- Bank of America27 min
MOU-nting inflation concerns
Mark Cabana, Svia Salim, Stephen Junot, Megan Swiber
Bank of America Global Rate Strategy analysts project three additional Federal Reserve rate hikes this year, driven by sticky core inflation and geopolitical tensions that have pushed European yields to post-2008 highs amid robust demand from life insurers. While BofA forecasts a temporary inflationary spike from World Cup-related spending in June, the bank anticipates the ECB and BOE will remain responsive to oil-driven risks with the Fed shifting from a cutting bias to a hold or hike stance. Consequently, the firm advises clients to maintain an underweight position across the yield curve, particularly at the front end, to mitigate the potential for further rate increases in the coming months.
Andrew 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.
- Milken Institute54 min
The Next Era of Health | Global Conference 2026
Esther Krofah, Robert Bradway, Nancy Brown, Alicia Jackson, Myechia Minter-Jordan, Dipen Parekh
Addressing a critical demographic tipping point and a $1 trillion caregiver gap, stakeholders including AARP, ARPA-H, and the American Heart Association are reforming U.S. healthcare to bridge the divide between technological innovation and clinical delivery. Initiatives range from deploying agentic AI to extend cardiovascular prevention to counties lacking specialists, to accelerating long-term care research through new regulatory pathways and a target reduction of drug discovery timelines to under five years. Concurrently, global competition drives a strategic pivot toward genomic integration and value-based models, with specific commitments to reduce Lipoprotein(a) levels by 95% and establish federal tax credits for the nation's 63 million caregivers.
- Milken Institute56 min
Asia-Pacific Overtures: Investment Returns Through Diversification | Global Conference 2026
Laura Deal Lacey, Michael DeSombre, David Elia, Jacqueline Poh, Pandu Sjahrir, Lu Yin
The event convened U.S. policymakers, Singaporean ecosystem builders, and major sovereign wealth managers from Australia and Indonesia to align trade, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence strategies across the Indo-Pacific. Participants detailed a coordinated shift toward removing non-tariff barriers, deploying over $2 billion in targeted foreign assistance, and establishing regional AI stacks to counter Chinese technological dominance. Discussions highlighted a broader trend where pension funds and state actors are bifurcating portfolios between traditional commodities and frontier technologies while accelerating cross-border energy and digital infrastructure projects to sustain long-term regional growth.
- Milken Institute27 min
The American Dream at 250 | Global Conference 2026
Jon Clifton, Michael Milken, Anousheh Ansari, Giselle Fernandez, Sanjay Gupta
The Center for the American Dream Initiatives hosted a panel featuring Iranian-born astronaut Sanooch, journalist Giselle Fernandez, and surgeon Sanjay Gupta to highlight how immigrant resilience and access to opportunity fuel the national narrative. Drawing on personal histories and data showing that immigrants view the dream as most thriving despite falling institutional trust, the speakers argued that collective optimism is essential to overcoming domestic polarization. The event further unveiled an interactive, AI-enhanced mural honoring 68 immigrants, reinforcing the thesis that the United States continues to be the primary global destination for those seeking to build a future.
- The Economist9 min
Why America is stepping away from the institutions it built | The Economist
U.S. foreign policy is undergoing a structural shift from values-based engagement to a transactional approach, driven by a bipartisan consensus that the post-World War II order has failed to deliver sufficient economic returns or strategic advantages. Former President Trump's 2015 platform catalyzed this pivot by framing the abandonment of multilateral institutions as a correction to decades of free-riding, leading to increased reliance on tariffs and coercive trade rather than traditional alliances. Experts project three potential futures for this realignment: a renegotiated U.S. hegemony, a fragmented status quo, or a chaotic descent into systemic collapse triggered by unchecked military coercion.