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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs10 min
European opportunities
Goldman Sachs' John Story highlights a divergence in global markets where European equities, particularly banks, have surged over 30% in dollar terms against stretched U.S. valuations, while currency dynamics continue to significantly influence earnings growth. The discussion emphasizes a dual strategy of holding U.S. tech for growth alongside European financials for value, despite looming risks from the July 9th tariff deadline and geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. Investor behavior is shifting back toward domestic European assets for the first time since the Ukraine invasion, driven by wide dispersion within regional indices that enhances opportunities for long/short alpha strategies.
- Dwarkesh Patel2h 28m
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
This analysis characterizes the U.S.-China rivalry as a strategic competition driven by Beijing's state-directed technological mobilization rather than a traditional Cold War containment dynamic. While China leverages massive industrial subsidies and energy capacity to achieve supply-chain dominance and AI hardware leadership, the system faces significant constraints from debt overhang and a domestic demand deficit that hinder per capita growth. Ultimately, the assessment argues that U.S. efforts to build an exclusive anti-China bloc are economically unviable given China's deep global integration, suggesting that future stability depends on establishing terms of coexistence and maintaining crisis communication channels.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Investing in Ukraine's Future | Global Conference 2025
Gillian Tett, Philip Bennett, Xavier Bettel, Wladimir Klitschko, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Yuriy Vitrenko
Panelists project a realistic three-year timeline for a peace deal, noting that Russia currently holds the initiative on ceasefire negotiations while Ukraine leverages its strengthened drone production. Key figures including Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and former Naftogaz CEO Yuri Vitrenko confirmed a U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal that aims to secure investment and serve as a precursor to an armistice, though legal complexities regarding Russian frozen assets remain a significant hurdle. Simultaneously, Nobel laureate Alla Aleksandr warned of impending impunity if war crimes are not prosecuted through a Special Tribunal, while the EBRD outlined a strategy to scale reconstruction investments to billions annually despite total costs estimated at $700 billion.
- All-In Podcast45 min
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
Tony Robbins, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, David Sacks
Tony Robbins leverages a synthesis of clinical research, physiological optimization, and strategic leadership frameworks to help individuals and organizations rewire unhelpful patterns and achieve sustainable high performance. His methods, which include the Stanford-validated "Date with Destiny" program and the RPM strategy, have demonstrated significant reductions in depression symptoms and a return to pre-pandemic corporate engagement levels. Beyond personal development, Robbins channels this expertise into large-scale philanthropic "moon shots," including a global commitment to feed 100 billion people and eliminate human trafficking, while personally managing his own longevity through advanced regenerative medicine.
- a16z15 min
Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Vanta illustrates a go-to-market evolution where tightly integrated sales and marketing teams leverage specialized AI tools to enrich data and drive real-time, personalized engagement across dynamic web experiences. By replacing monolithic platforms with orchestrated multi-tool ecosystems, the company utilizes conversational AI and proprietary data strategies to enhance speed while maintaining the human trust essential for long-term defensibility. This approach projects a future workforce where CMOs act as system orchestrators and deep specialists replace generalists, ensuring high-stakes workflows retain necessary human oversight amidst rising automation.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever?
Rory O'Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings, Garrett
Meta paid $14.8 billion to acquire 49% non-voting control of Scale AI while returning nearly the full amount to existing investors via a special dividend, effectively allowing CEO Alex Wang to move to Meta and shifting the competitive landscape for rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The transaction, viewed primarily as a strategic talent acquisition and market signal, leaves Scale AI with diminished assets while triggering immediate demand surges as competitors seek alternative data providers. Concurrently, the deal highlights broader trends in the AI sector, including OpenAI's new Pentagon contract and rising forecasts for Chinese model dominance, all occurring amidst a resurgent IPO market featuring successful listings like Chime and imminent filings from Databricks.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 28m
DEBATE: Feminist Women Vs Non-Feminist Women
Deborah Frances-White, Louise Perry, Erica Komisar
Panelists including Erica Komisar, Louise O'Connell, and Deborah critique modern feminism for promoting hedonism and institutional daycare, arguing these trends have triggered a mental health crisis, collapsing birth rates, and the alienation of young men into the "Manosphere." The discussion contrasts "maternal feminism," which elevates motherhood, against second-wave ideologies that devalued traditional caregiving, highlighting biological needs for consistent attachment in early childhood and the harmful effects of the sexual revolution's illusion of consequence-free intimacy. To address these divergences, the speakers propose policy shifts such as single-income family subsidies and educational reforms that respect neurodevelopmental differences, warning that continued demographic decline could empower conservative rivals while urging progressives to avoid fueling anti-feminist narratives.
- Y Combinator40 min
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
The presentation outlines the evolution of software from human-written code to neural network weights and finally to natural language prompts, establishing Large Language Models as a new operating system layer. It details the current infrastructure challenges, cognitive limitations such as hallucination and memory loss, and the strategic shift toward "partial autonomy" systems that maintain human oversight through granular verification loops. Ultimately, the industry faces a transitional decade requiring developers to rewrite existing codebases for agent interaction while managing new risks associated with centralized intelligence infrastructure.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Is a US fiscal crisis ahead?
Kenneth Rogoff, Niall Ferguson, Allison Nathan, Ken Rogoff, Neil Ferguson
Economists Ken Rogoff and Niall Ferguson argue that the United States faces an unsustainable fiscal trajectory driven by rising global interest rates and a critical threshold where sovereign debt servicing costs have surpassed defense spending. They warn that without political reforms or productivity breakthroughs from artificial intelligence, the nation risks a rapid financial crisis involving inflation or a permanent erosion of the dollar's reserve currency status. This convergence of historical parallels and modern geopolitical fragmentation suggests the U.S. must navigate a difficult choice between austerity, higher inflation, or diminished global influence within the coming years.
- Milken Institute59 min
Energy Transition to Energy Addition | Global Conference 2025
Daniel Yergin, Mohammad Abunayyan, Mohamed Al Hammadi, Ana Cabral Gardner, Amos Hochstein, Vineet Mittal
A high-level panel of energy leaders and policymakers warns that global energy discourse has pivoted from "transition" to "addition" as AI-driven demand accelerates, exposing critical bottlenecks in grid infrastructure and supply chain resilience. Key figures from the US, Middle East, India, and mining sectors agree that meeting these surging needs requires a diversified portfolio combining nuclear baseload, natural gas, and renewables while avoiding a "race to the bottom" in critical mineral standards. Strategic outcomes emphasize immediate investment in grid modernization, off-grid data center solutions, and an "alliance network" to decouple from single-source dependencies without triggering geopolitical isolation.
- Y Combinator1h 1m
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China
Meta has committed to investing over $14 billion in Scale AI, valuing the company at $29 billion while appointing Alexander Wang to lead its new AI superintelligence lab. Under Wang's direction, Scale is pivoting from its origins in data labeling to building agentic workflows for enterprise and government sectors, leveraging proprietary data and specialized fine-tuned models to differentiate in a fragmented market. The partnership aims to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and develop military applications like the Thunderforge system, positioning the company to manage a future economy where human operators oversee swarms of autonomous AI agents.
- a16z54 min
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
Erik Torenberg, Steven Sinofsky
Tim Cook led Apple's strategic shift to Chinese manufacturing in the 1990s, creating a high-precision supply chain ecosystem that enabled the creation of premium devices like the iPhone while fostering advanced local capabilities now utilized by global competitors like BYD. Facing rising geopolitical risks and supply chain fragilities exposed by the pandemic, Apple is now diversifying production to India while maintaining a distinct AI strategy that prioritizes privacy and edge integration over first-mover speed. Experts warn that future hardware production may return to the U.S. through high-automation facilities, yet unresolved intellectual property tensions and regulatory fragmentation in AI remain critical challenges for global technological development.
- Milken Institute49 min
Author Talk: Kevin Kwan, "Lies and Weddings" | Global Conference 2025
Kevin Kwan, Curtis S. Chin, Chris Tucker, Tiana, John Panatti
Author Kevin Kwan returns to the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss his latest novel, *Lies in Weddings*, which uses a family drama format to critique intergenerational wealth inequality and racial stereotypes. Kwan outlines the stalled progress of the *Crazy Rich Asians* film sequels while detailing the active development of an HBO Max series, a Broadway musical, and new film adaptations of his other works. He concludes by advocating for underrepresented creators to own production infrastructure to sustain diverse storytelling and shares insights on his upcoming film projects and new literary directions.
- Milken Institute21 min
Part 1: A Conversation with The Carlyle Group's David M. Rubenstein | Global Conference 2025
David M. Rubenstein, Melissa Stevens
Jefferson Exchange co-founder Jeffrey Rubenstein addresses the critical threats facing U.S. philanthropy, including politicized historical preservation, potential tax policy changes, and declining civic literacy. He advocates for redefining the sector by honoring the percentage of wealth given rather than absolute sums, promoting in-person historical engagement to counter a crisis where nearly all states fail citizenship tests. Furthermore, Rubenstein highlights the strategic value of soft power assets like pandas while emphasizing that the upcoming 250th anniversary should prioritize deep constitutional understanding over superficial celebration.
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders
Paul Klein IV, John, Bucky Moore, Turner Novak, Jeff Lawson, Patrick Collison, Guillermo Rauch, Molly
BrowserBase has secured a $40 million Series B funding round led by Notable Capital to expand its infrastructure platform that enables AI to control web browsers at scale. This investment, which brings the company's total capital to $67.5 million just 15 months after its founding, supports the launch of the "Director.ai" agent builder and a rapid team expansion from 25 to 50 employees. With a customer base now exceeding 1,000 entities and a product strategy focused on bridging the gap between legacy web systems and AI automation, the company aims to dominate the infrastructure layer for autonomous agents.