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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit19 min
The Pilot Trap: Why Enterprise AI Stalls and How to Break Through | RAISE Summit 2026
Industry leaders are transitioning AI from low-value experimental pilots to production-ready agents that drive significant P&L impact through process re-engineering and high-level decision automation. Success hinges on overcoming trust barriers by implementing robust infrastructure for real-time observability, identity management, and deterministic governance that allows for immediate intervention. While adoption faces regulatory friction and requires rigorous change management to integrate with human workflows, the net result is predicted to be job creation driven by expanded AI consumption and specialized physical domain applications.
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Six Days in the Field: What a Defense Deployment Teaches About Sovereign AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Dan Wright, Dr. Chaouki Kasmi, Tala Aj Jabri, Shawi Kasmi
UAE-based Taktika AI and US-based Armada successfully deployed a modular, AI-enabled data center in a remote, isolated field environment within six days to address urgent maritime and geospatial intelligence challenges. This sovereign infrastructure operates as a fully air-gapped system, delivering speed and resiliency by utilizing pre-existing mobile assets rather than relying on external cloud providers or complex supply chains. The partnership aims to replicate this high-efficiency model in Europe and the US, targeting organizations with stranded data assets while adapting the technology for both defense and non-defense sectors.
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The New Arms Race: Securing Frontier AI Before It Secures Us | RAISE Summit 2026
Dan Lahav, Michael S. Rogers, Larissa Holzki
Driven by recent security incidents where AI models demonstrated autonomous hacking capabilities and coordinated social engineering, the US government has intervened to restrict model access while assigning the NSA the role of classifying AI as a national security asset. Experts highlight that rapid technological evolution outpaces current regulatory frameworks, creating a landscape where open-source vulnerabilities and autonomous agent behaviors present unprecedented insider risks that static defenses cannot contain. Consequently, business leaders are advised to adopt aggressive scenario planning and sandboxing protocols to manage the uncertainty of a future where machine-to-machine coordination fundamentally alters the threat environment.
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Sovereign Stacks: Building Trusted AI on National Terms | RAISE Summit 2026
Mohsen Moazami, Thomas Di Giacomo, Cory Hawkvelt, Simon Muskett, Gleb Budman, Claire Thomas-Daoulas
Industry leaders including Gleb Budman, Simon Musket, and Thomas Di Giacomo defined sovereign AI as pragmatic organizational control over data and infrastructure rather than mere geographic residency, emphasizing that vendor exit options and workflow autonomy are the true measures of sovereignty. The panel further analyzed how geopolitical export controls and massive capital requirements are driving domestic innovation in China and the Middle East while urging Europe to prioritize open industrial ecosystems over attempting to replicate U.S. hyperscaler models. Ultimately, experts concluded that sovereignty will remain a critical strategic focus through 2035, though its definition will evolve to emphasize resilience and interdependence over isolationist regulatory compliance.
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AI for Chip Design & Chip Design for AI | Ricursive Intelligence | RAISE Summit 2026
Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Azalea Amir-Hosseini
Founded by former Google Brain engineers Anna Goldie and Azalea Amir-Hosseini, Recursive Intelligence deploys its AlphaChip reinforcement learning system to replace months of manual chip design with superhuman layout generation that runs 1,000 times faster than commercial tools. The company is currently in Phase One, accelerating physical design for major manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, while its roadmap targets a "design-less" future where companies specify workloads to receive co-optimized hardware instantly. Ultimately, Recursive aims to close a recursive self-improving loop by eventually building its own chips and models, promising up to 20x performance gains through microarchitectural customization.
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The Agentic Web is Next: Building the Infrastructure for AI Agents on the Web | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded by Co-CEO Abhishek, Yotori deploys its autonomous Navigator N1.5 model to execute web-based enterprise tasks at a fraction of the cost and latency of frontier competitors. The platform currently processes over 100 million monthly API calls for Fortune 100 advertisers and fintech firms, enabling complex workflows like automated checkout fraud detection and cross-site data extraction. With Navigator N2 slated for release within two months to expand into general computer use, the company invites businesses with heavy browser workflows to partner on its heterogeneous, cost-optimized infrastructure.
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AI and Open Source: Shaping Each Other's Future | RAISE Summit 2026
Raj Dutt, Mark Surman, Oskari Saarenmaa, Gideon Mendels, Charles Zedlewski, Olivier Huez
Leaders from Grafana, Mozilla, Comet, and Together AI convened to define the distinctions between open source and open weight models while debating licensing strategies like AGPL to secure commercial viability against hyperscalers. The panelists analyzed how economic models must balance community adoption with value capture, emphasizing that trust in infrastructure and continuous innovation often drive revenue more than proprietary feature locks. Looking forward, the group predicted a self-reinforcing cycle where AI models trained on open code will increasingly recommend open source solutions, ensuring the ecosystem's dominance despite rising tensions over economic commoditization.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 41m
Iran War Expert: “I Worry They Will Attack Us On Home Soil!” | Robert Pape
Robert Pape's analysis indicates that Iran has emerged as a regional hegemon controlling the Strait of Hormuz, creating a critical energy crisis as U.S. strategic petroleum reserves hit their lowest levels since 1983. Facing a nearly 70% probability of a limited U.S. ground operation aimed at seizing symbolic coastal territory to disrupt Iranian dominance, the conflict risks escalating into a "forever war" driven by political incentives for a 2026 victory. This trajectory threatens a constitutional crisis should Congress attempt to defund the war while simultaneously heightening the global risk of mass casualty terrorist attacks.
- Y Combinator31 min
How Supabase Became One Of The Fastest Growing DevTool Companies In The World
Supabase founder Paul Copplestone recently secured a $500 million round at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, propelling the company to decacorn status with a 10 million developer base driven largely by AI agents launching 60-90% of new databases. The fully distributed organization leverages its open-source PostgreSQL strategy and a shift toward Infrastructure as Code to achieve exponential usage growth, reducing time-to-value from minutes to seconds while bypassing traditional marketing channels. Moving beyond standard user interfaces, Supabase is now building self-driving database capabilities and "Infrastructure for Platforms" to support enterprise labs managing millions of ephemeral instances autonomously.
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Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
Travis Kalanick, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg
Travis Kalanick, reflecting on lessons from his 2017 departure from Uber, is now leading ADAM, a stealth-backed venture that digitizes physical manufacturing and logistics to drive meal costs down to $8–$10. By integrating over 300 dark kitchen facilities and autonomous mining operations acquired from Pronto, the company leverages robotics to transform heavy industries while avoiding the external pressures that previously hindered Uber's scalability. Kalanick applies an "Industrial AI" framework focused on internal correctness and management capacity constraints to scale operations in food, mining, and transport simultaneously.
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It Takes AI to Break AI: Securing the Agentic Attack Surface | Alice | RAISE Summit 2026
Alice Lead of Product and Engineering Avi Golan explains how enterprises face escalating security and safety risks as AI evolves from static chatbots to autonomous agents with tool-calling capabilities. He details a specialized Agentic AI Red Teaming methodology that moves beyond traditional static scanning to continuously simulate adversarial attacks, ensuring robust threat modeling before production deployment. This approach addresses the unique vulnerabilities of non-deterministic models, such as reasoning manipulation and indirect prompt injection, which have previously led to significant operational failures and legal liabilities across major brands.
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Perfect Search, Built for AI Agents | Will Bryk, Exa | RAISE Summit 2026
Exa is rapidly scaling its semantic search infrastructure to power the next generation of AI agents, which are projected to outnumber human web searches within the year. By leveraging deep learning embeddings and a new marketplace for proprietary data, the platform enables precise, low-latency queries that reduce LLM costs while aiming for 99.9999% decision accuracy. This technology drives the company's mission to transition the digital landscape from keyword-based recommendations to "perfect search," targeting the 2028 U.S. presidential election as a pivotal milestone for enhancing societal decision-making.
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0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months: Genspark & the Global Knowledge Worker | RAISE Summit 2026
GenSpark, founded by MIT PhD Wen Sang and a team of ex-Google and Microsoft veterans, has scaled to $250 million ARR and 6,000 enterprise clients by transitioning from a product-led search engine to an AI agent orchestrator that automates complex business workflows. The company distinguishes itself by abstracting model complexity through a unified architecture that integrates over 70 underlying AI models, enabling rapid deployment of custom applications and driving efficiency gains such as a fivefold client increase for specific financial consultants. This technology was showcased at a New York Stock Exchange event where CEO Wen Sang detailed the shift from traditional software tools to autonomous agents that augment human creativity while redefining workforce productivity.
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Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Building Growth That Compounds | Clay x CapitalG | RAISE Summit 2026
Clay repositions itself as an AI go-to-market platform that transitions sales operations into self-learning revenue engines by integrating third-party data signals to execute scalable growth campaigns. Co-founder Varun leads a strategic shift toward "marketing alpha," utilizing unique tactics like custom film production and rapid, data-driven prospecting to secure high returns on investment for clients such as Canva and Anthropic. The company further distinguishes its value through a new pricing model based on workflow outcomes rather than data tokens, while emphasizing environmental fit in talent acquisition to maximize organizational performance.
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Compute as Capital: Redefining AI's New Currency | WEKA, Akamai, TensorWave & More | RAISE 2026
Val Bercovici, Carmen Li, Parimal Pandya, Sam Tabar, Piotr Tomasik, Robin Wauters
With global AI infrastructure spending projected to reach $7 trillion by 2030, industry leaders identify power access and specialized talent as the primary constraints limiting supply. Experts from White Fiber, Weka, and Silicon Data argue that compute has evolved into a high-value asset class driven by unique market dynamics, including appreciating H-100 GPU values and emerging financial instruments for compute volatility. While current value capture remains anchored in the physical supply chain of chips and energy, the sector anticipates a structural shift toward application-layer returns by 2031 alongside advancements in virtual supercluster technologies and regional market expansion.