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Clear all filtersAndrew 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.
What AI Leaders Really Think | Dylan Field, OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, MIT, IVP
Dylan Field, Ian Silber, Brian Ringley, Niko Klein, Holly Herndon, Zach Lieberman, Shreyas Garg, Molly
Figma's Dylan Field, Boston Dynamics' Brian Ringley, and OpenAI's Ian Silber outlined a strategic shift where AI serves as a collaborative lever for execution rather than a replacement for human intent, while advancing hardware reliability and interface fluidity. Speakers from IVP, MIT Media Lab, and musician Holly Herndon further emphasized that rapid prototyping, data curation, and systemic thinking are now essential for navigating the transition from static tools to autonomous agents in design and robotics. Collectively, the event framed the future of technology as a convergence of physical and digital realms that prioritizes high-level human creativity to overcome market homogenization and drive mass adoption of complex systems.
- Y Combinator31 min
YC's Head of Design Shows You How To Design With AI
Eve Bouffard, Aaron Epstein, Ev Bufar
Designer Ev Bufar utilizes a voice-first workflow with tools like Aqua, Conductor, and Paper.design to rapidly produce high-fidelity assets for diverse projects, including the Paxyl transcript analyzer and the Soda Zine. Her recent work at Startup School demonstrates an agent-driven production model that generated visual identities for 6,000 attendees through custom shaders and automated speaker assets, while Paxyl analyzes coding agent interactions to reveal developer patterns. By prioritizing massive context density and disposable internal models, Bufar accelerates the design iteration cycle to handle complex branding and interactive web experiences that explicitly cater to both human users and AI agents.
"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch
Cyan Banister, Luke Nosek, Scott Banister, Molly O'Shea
Ranking as the world's top angel investors, Cyan and Scott Bannister leverage a methodology of identifying non-obvious trends to secure transformative stakes in companies like SpaceX and Anduril. During their discussion at Long Journey HQ, they outline a future dominated by AI-driven robotics while advocating for decentralized models to counter surveillance states and urging a shift away from traditional degrees toward artisanal entrepreneurship. Blending this strategic foresight with personal philosophies on radical authenticity and introspection, the couple emphasizes the critical need for American deep tech resurgence to navigate the coming "consumer wave" of artificial intelligence.
- All-In Podcast1h 4m
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
Andrew Feldman, Robin Rombach, Martin Scorsese
Cerebras Systems leverages a $25 billion order backlog from major tech giants to deploy chips that accelerate AI reasoning fifteen times faster than standard inference, effectively achieving early Artificial General Intelligence while reshaping global energy infrastructure. Simultaneously, Black Forest Labs utilizes its pioneering latent diffusion algorithms to bridge generative media and robotics, partnering with entities like Martin Scorsese to create scalable production tools and autonomous "world models." Both companies advocate for a hybrid ecosystem combining open-source accessibility with proprietary sovereignty, aiming to resolve economic bottlenecks and regulatory challenges through staged deployments and secure data practices.
- 80,000 Hours53 min
The Next President May Control Superintelligence
Sneha Revanur, Zershaaneh Qureshi
Founded by Sneha Ravenor at age 15, the nonprofit ENCODE has evolved from capability skepticism to spearheading a strategic campaign to regulate existential AI risks through state-level legislation and coalition building. The organization successfully influenced California's SB 53 and SB 1047 by prioritizing whistleblower protections and internal deployment reporting, while simultaneously dismantling corporate intimidation tactics like the OpenAI subpoena through diplomatic engagement. Facing the 2028 election as a potential turning point for AI governance, ENCODE advocates for a phased regulatory approach that codifies voluntary safety standards to build political capital before pursuing aggressive liability measures.
- Y Combinator32 min
Solving the Blank Canvas Problem: Gusto's AI Co-Founder
Launched in just ten weeks by a five-person team including co-founder Eddie Kim, Gusto Co-founder is a new AI product that transforms Gusto's payroll and HR data into proactive, agent-based automations for small businesses. The platform has already onboarded 500 paying customers by replacing traditional dashboards with text-based interfaces that execute complex workflows, such as full payroll processing, weather-based customer notifications, and tax credit application. This initiative validates a strategic pivot toward becoming a proactive business partner capable of lowering entry barriers for new entrepreneurs while automating compliance and growth opportunities through a "vibe coding" development methodology.
- The Economist8 min
Has the AI boom entered a manic new phase? | The Economist
Henry Curr, Mike Bird, Josh Roberts
US equity markets have reached near-record capitalization levels driven primarily by massive AI-focused "giga IPOs" like SpaceX and anticipated offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI. This concentration, now comprising nearly 40% of the S&P 500, coincides with unusual retail participation and inverted options pricing that signal a shift toward speculative mania. Simultaneously, major technology firms have redirected capital expenditure toward infrastructure, causing a collapse in free cash flow and transforming the sector into a dominant force in global corporate debt markets.
- Sequoia Capital55 min
Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Eric Watson, Alfred Lin, Pat Grady
Since its 2016 launch in Rwanda, Zipline has evolved from a struggling medical logistics provider into a global autonomous infrastructure operator serving 5,000 hospitals across eight countries. The company now achieves a safety record of zero incidents over 140 million commercial miles while leveraging a vertical integration strategy to reduce delivery costs below those of human-driven vehicles. This operational success recently facilitated a $550 million partnership with the US State Department aimed at deploying similar life-saving services under a new commercial diplomacy framework.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
AI: What Investors Should Know
Jim Covello, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani
Goldman Sachs analysts project that global AI capital expenditures will surpass $3 trillion by 2026, though they warn of distinct "earnings bubbles" in public markets and "valuation bubbles" in private sectors driven by unsustainable demand. While consumer adoption remains strong, enterprise integration faces hurdles due to data fragmentation, leading experts to predict a strategic shift toward specialized Small Language Models that prioritize efficiency over mass labor replacement. The investment landscape is further complicated by geopolitical divisions favoring the U.S. in chip infrastructure and China in model production, alongside concerns over circular financing practices that delay profitability for large-cap companies.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Geopolitics, AI, and Private Credit: Navigating Three Key Investor Concerns
Following Middle East strikes that disrupted global oil production and slightly altered Federal Reserve rate cut expectations, U.S. equities have recovered to record highs as historical data indicates a 95% probability of recovery within eight weeks. The firm attributes this resilience to America's energy insulation and revised 2026 earnings growth forecasts, while advising a strategic overweight in U.S. assets alongside a selective tilt toward the software sector. Although private credit risks remain contained and systemic stress is deemed unlikely, investors are urged to maintain long-term market participation through customized asset allocations rather than attempting to time the current volatility.
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel
Arun Mathew, Miles Clements, Matt Weigand, Molly O'Shea
Accel leverages its multi-stage platform and three-decade partner cohesion to deploy hundreds of millions in capital across the full technology stack, recently leading significant investments in AI infrastructure giants like Nebius and cybersecurity leader Cyera. The firm strategically balances early-stage discovery with massive late-stage checks targeting potential trillion-dollar outliers, driven by a thesis that artificial intelligence will transition from hype to tangible real-world efficiency in sectors ranging from healthcare to developer tools. By prioritizing operational depth and a silent partnership model over marketing, Accel aims to capture exponential returns as the market converges on trusted platforms capable of scaling proven AI workloads.
- 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.
- All-In Podcast1h 42m
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
Palantir and Nvidia launched a partnership to establish a Sovereign AI Operating System, enabling U.S. government agencies to retain full ownership of their hardware, data, and model weights through customized open-source Nemotron models. This initiative addresses executive concerns that reliance on external AI providers like Anthropic risks transferring proprietary intellectual property to competitors, while economic data suggests that in-house, open-source solutions offer significantly lower costs and greater financial security. Concurrently, the discussion extended to broader political and economic issues, including the Supreme Court's confirmation of birthright citizenship and a critique of California's fiscal mismanagement, which hosts argued threatens to accelerate the exodus of capital and population from the state.
- 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.