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Trust, Truth, and Democracy | Global Conference 2025
Sewell Chan, Max Boot, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Oliver Darcy, Kevin Merida, Jessica Yellin
In a panel featuring journalists such as Max Boot and Kevin Merida, experts analyzed the dual pressures of the Trump administration's legal warfare against the media and billionaire owners' conflicting business interests that threaten editorial independence. The discussion highlighted how algorithmic polarization and the decline of local news have eroded public trust to just 10%, forcing the industry to pivot from mass-reach reporting to collaborative, niche-focused strategies. To navigate this fragmented landscape, the group concluded that future solutions require non-profit structural support, rigorous journalism literacy education, and a strategic emphasis on tangible policy impacts rather than political spectacle.
- 80,000 Hours1h 12m
Don’t Believe OpenAI’s 'Nonprofit' Spin | Tyler Whitmer
On May 5th, OpenAI's leadership announced a proposed conversion from a Delaware LLC to a Public Benefit Corporation, a move critics argue will legally diminish the non-profit's ability to immediately halt unsafe AI releases. The restructuring shifts fiduciary duties to balance shareholder profits with public benefit and removes direct oversight by state Attorneys General, potentially exposing the entity to investor litigation that prioritizes financial gain over safety mandates. To preserve the organization's original mission, experts are urging the integration of the non-profit's Charter into the corporate Certificate of Incorporation and the retention of direct hiring and firing authority over the for-profit board.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t
SBF, Rory O'Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings
Venture capital dynamics have shifted toward extreme concentration and speed, with firms like Sequoia and Tiger Global prioritizing massive stakes in high-conviction AI winners such as OpenAI and Scale AI to offset broader portfolio losses. Simultaneously, corporate strategies are evolving from hyperbolic job replacement rhetoric to gradual operational integration, as companies like Microsoft and Klarna balance aggressive automation goals with the reality of retaining human oversight for complex tasks. This environment is characterized by a contraction in early-stage funding that demands hard traction, while retail access expands through new vehicles despite lingering risks regarding valuation bubbles and liquidity constraints.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 16m
Jeff Cavaliere: The TRUTH about Creatine! Melt Belly Fat With 1 Change!
Jeff Cavaliere argues that health is the prerequisite for all life assets, urging individuals to replace unreliable motivation with disciplined routines anchored in deep emotional drivers. He details a comprehensive approach to longevity that prioritizes mobility and stability exercises to prevent injury, alongside specific nutritional strategies to manage body composition while avoiding common pitfalls like hidden sugars. The discussion further covers practical protocols for sleep optimization, supplement usage, and the physiological risks of sedentary behavior to foster both physical resilience and mental clarity.
- Milken Institute59 min
A New Policy Environment for China | Global Conference 2025
Robin Hu, Fred Hu, Kevin Lu, Robert Rubin, Lu Zhang
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin joined a diverse panel to critique U.S. reliance on tariffs and structural decoupling while highlighting China's critical need to pivot from investment-led growth to domestic consumption. Discussing the high costs of current trade wars, the group identified inflation and supply chain disruptions as likely drivers for eventual negotiations, even as private equity leaders reorient strategies toward domestic markets and green technology. Ultimately, the dialogue concluded that sustainable resolution requires abandoning containment postures in favor of constructive engagement on shared challenges like AI governance and climate transition.
- Milken Institute21 min
A Conversation with Former First Lady of the United States Jill Biden | Global Conference 2025
At the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, Dr. Jill Biden and Esther Kroffa outlined the Women's Health Network's strategy to address historical data gaps and the $1 trillion global economic opportunity by shifting funding reliance to the private sector. The initiative targets critical breakthroughs in areas like endometriosis diagnostics and Alzheimer's care while deploying a digital platform and pooled investment fund to dismantle data silos and accelerate inclusive innovation. By reframing women's health as a universal business imperative rather than a niche category, the network aims to impact millions of lives globally by 2025 through enhanced research inclusion and strategic capital allocation.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
Equity risks and alts opportunities
David Kostin, Padi Raphael, Allison Nathan
The Professional Investor Forum gathered advisors managing $1.3 trillion to analyze a U.S. market recovering to pre-tariff levels despite a 50% recession probability, as first-quarter earnings beat expectations by 12% before new April policy shifts. Goldman Sachs forecasts a recession-free 2025 baseline, though participants anticipate earnings compression in the second quarter if tariffs are implemented. Consequently, investment strategies are pivoting toward private market allocations and equal-weighted indices to mitigate concentrated stock risk while managing capital flows repatriated from Europe and steady inflows from Asia.
- The Economist8 min
Why does Trump admire Saudi Arabia?
Trump, Rachana Shanbhogue, Jason
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has steered Saudi Arabia toward a foreign policy of regional stabilization and ambitious domestic social liberalization to secure the political foundation for his economic transformation agenda. While the kingdom has rapidly dismantled religious restrictions and positioned itself as a mediator in global conflicts, its effort to diversify away from oil through massive giga projects like Neom faces significant hurdles due to stubborn reliance on energy revenues and fiscal strain. Consequently, the regime's long-term stability remains precarious, hinging on its ability to successfully deliver economic prosperity to a young population while managing the risks of potential dissent and investor skepticism.
- Milken Institute38 min
A Conversation with US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent | Global Conference 2025
Scott Bessent, Richard Ditizio, Michael Milken
The 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference convened 1,000 speakers under the theme "Toward a Flourishing Future" to address critical resource gaps in health, connectivity, and global wealth distribution while urging for inclusive coalitions to bridge societal divides. Concurrently, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined the Trump administration's economic agenda, which prioritizes trade tariffs to boost domestic manufacturing, a "big beautiful bill" of tax cuts and deregulation, and an aggressive strategy to lower the federal deficit by 1% annually. The administration further signaled a shift toward "safe, sound, and smart" financial regulation, strategic partnerships with Ukraine, and a focus on maintaining U.S. dominance in AI and quantum computing to foster a "new golden age" of prosperity.
- Sequoia Capital20 min
Will Open Source AI Overtake Closed Models? Ft. Olama, Fireworks and Open Router
Jeff Morgan, Dmytro Dzhulgakov, Alex Atallah, Dima, Matthew Walkerman
Industry leaders from Ollama, Fireworks, and OpenRouter advocate for a balanced future where open-source and closed-source models each command 50% of inference tokens, driven by the strategic advantages of decentralized innovation and lower capital barriers. While current open adoption sits at 30%, panelists predict this share will expand as foundational models improve through reinforcement learning and enterprises prioritize ownership of proprietary fine-tuned artifacts. This shift relies critically on sustainable decentralized inference infrastructure to compete against the entrenched advantages of large, closed-source providers.
- Sequoia Capital32 min
OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
Sam Altman, Jens Nordvigsen, DAN GALPIN, SAM SACCONE
OpenAI has evolved from a 14-person research lab into a commercial powerhouse driven by the GPT-3 API and the viral ChatGPT platform, which now serves 500 million weekly active users. Under Sam Altman's leadership, the organization prioritizes high-impact small teams and a vision of becoming a personalized AI operating system while navigating a market where startups outpace legacy enterprises in agility. The company's roadmap emphasizes the transition from text-based assistants to autonomous agents by 2025, with future infrastructure expected to facilitate seamless agent-to-agent communication and eventual robotics applications.
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund
After closing a $26 million institutional fund with a 60/40 split of Fund of Funds and entrepreneur limited partners, Harry expanded his portfolio strategy to target 60 diverse companies while integrating Yash Doshi as a full-time operating partner. Drawing on over 350 prior angel investments and lessons from successes like TrueBill and the regret of rejecting Scale AI, Harry advocates for a "decahorn" hunting approach that prioritizes serial founders and accepts high valuations to preserve optionality. Looking forward, the fund is shifting allocations toward hard tech and AI while positioning Mercury for a $2.5 trillion integrated banking market, with plans to scale the portfolio to 150 companies and potentially lead seed rounds.
- 80,000 Hours1h 0m
The cases for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)
Benjamin Todd, Dominic Armstrong, Ben Cordell
Major AI leaders including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis have drastically compressed their projected timelines for Artificial General Intelligence to the 2026–2030 window, driven by breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, test-time compute, and agent scaffolding that outpace historical hardware growth. While scaling trajectories suggest GPT-6 size capabilities are affordable by 2028, the race faces critical bottlenecks in energy infrastructure, research talent, and funding that could stall progress before 2030 or trigger explosive economic acceleration if overcome. Experts now estimate a 50% probability of transformative AI emerging within a decade, making the next five years a decisive period for career adaptation and strategic planning.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 32m
AI AGENTS DEBATE: These Jobs Won't Exist In 24 Months!
Amjad Masad, Bret Weinstein, Daniel Priestley
A panel of experts identifies autonomous AI agents as a new, unpredictable species that is exponentially increasing operational duration and dismantling traditional economic moats. This rapid evolution threatens immediate displacement of both routine and high-skill professions while simultaneously enabling small teams to achieve massive leverage, creating a stark divide between those who can orchestrate AI swarms and those who cannot. As the technology outpaces global regulation, the consensus warns of a perilous "adaptive valley" marked by social inequality, existential risks like autonomous weapons, and a potential demographic collapse before humanity reaches a state of abundance.
- Sequoia Capital31 min
Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI
This presentation outlines the trajectory of deep learning from its 2012 scaling breakthroughs toward a future of multi-modal agents and physical robotics capable of performing thousands of tasks within two years. It details a converging industry landscape where a handful of foundational models drive a secondary ecosystem of efficient, specialized architectures supported by Google's upcoming Ironwood TPU generation and Pathways system. The discussion further projects how these advancements will revolutionize scientific discovery, democratize virtual engineering through junior-level AI assistants, and reshape economic structures via dynamic compute allocation.