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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit20 min
Beyond the Helpdesk: AI Turning IT Into a Strategic Function | Serval | RAISE Summit 2026
Serval is an AI-native platform that completely rebuilds IT Service Management infrastructure to replace legacy systems like ServiceNow by integrating dual-agent architecture for full automation of enterprise workflows. Co-founded by Jake, the company has driven an 80% automation rate for major clients such as SeatGeek and Ramp, enabling thousands of IT staff to shift from support roles to building cross-functional solutions in marketing, legal, and HR. By treating AI as a core foundation rather than an add-on layer, Serval allows enterprises to eliminate support queues and rapidly reinvent their operational roadmaps every six months.
- RAISE Summit13 min
The Golden Age of Software Engineering | Scott Wu, Cognition | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded two and a half years ago, global firm Cognition leverages its autonomous AI agent, Devin, to generate 90% of committed code while scaling engineering output tenfold with only a 40% headcount increase. By closing the full software development lifecycle autonomously, the company enables asynchronous, event-driven workflows that effectively add 130 engineers to every 1,000-person team through a 10:1 human-to-AI ratio. This shift toward outcome-based delivery signals the imminent "Golden Age of Software Engineering," where the primary constraint moves from labor availability to identifying complex problems worth solving.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
US Midyear Outlook: Geopolitical Shocks, the New Fed Era, and Growth
Recent U.S. economic data reveals unexpectedly resilient job growth and stickier inflation stabilizing near 3%, driven by geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and AI-related price measurement distortions. Goldman Sachs forecasts core PCE inflation to settle around 2.1% with real GDP growth of 2%, prompting expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain current interest rates through July while shifting its policy stance toward neutralizing inflation regardless of its source. Despite market speculation regarding rate hikes, the primary economic risk remains a potential escalation of the Middle East conflict that could trigger sustained price increases and destabilize financial markets.
- RAISE Summit7 min
Who Controls AI? The Open Source Imperative | Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Arthur Mensch, Mark Surman, Henri Delahaye
Speakers Arthur and Marc outline a strategic framework for artificial intelligence sovereignty that prioritizes domestic compute security, affordability, and sustainability to mitigate economic inequality and social unrest. They identify open source technology as a critical mechanism for nations to retain control over essential infrastructure, preventing foreign dependency while fostering a global ecosystem where open components serve as the dominant building blocks within the next decade. Although this shift from proprietary chatbots to shared infrastructure is widely anticipated, the speakers warn that realizing this future requires sustained research funding and coordinated interoperability to overcome significant capital and partnership challenges.
Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO
Driven by hyperscaler capacity shortages and stringent data sovereignty requirements, major enterprises are migrating workloads back on-premises while adopting heterogeneous AI architectures to manage complex agentic environments. CEO CJ Desai leads MongoDB's strategic response by prioritizing real-time, operational database solutions for AI-native startups and Fortune 500 clients, shifting from traditional model selection to a focus on deterministic outcomes and autonomous administration. This approach positions the company to capitalize on the "AI super cycle" by ensuring the high-quality data layer required to transition experimental prototypes into scalable, production-grade applications in sectors like banking and aviation.
SemiAnalysis, 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.
- 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.