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Accelerating a Healthier Future Through AI | Global Conference 2025
Gina Carithers, Jesse Ehrenfeld, Tom Hale, Kate Sasser, Johnese Spisso
A panel of experts from the AMA, UCLA Health, Tempus AI, and Aura discusses how artificial intelligence is accelerating the adoption of tools like ambient scribes and genomic analysis to address critical primary care shortages and administrative burdens. These leaders detail successful implementations at scale, noting that while automated workflows and continuous patient monitoring are improving clinical accuracy and reducing provider burnout, significant hurdles remain regarding interoperability and fragmented prior authorization systems. Looking forward, the group envisions a regulatory landscape that scales with risk, enabling AI to support personalized, data-driven care models that include digital twins and citizen science while maintaining strict safety protocols for high-stakes medical decisions.
- All-In Podcast32 min
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis, Sir Demis Hassabis, Tucker, Mark Cuban, Paul Kinlan
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, recently honored with a Nobel Prize and knighthood for AlphaFold, outlined the organization's expansion into a 5,000-person engine room driving breakthroughs in AI, robotics, and scientific discovery. His recent presentation highlighted Genie 3's ability to generate interactive 3D worlds without manual physics coding, alongside strategic investments in a universal robotics operating system and drug discovery partnerships with pharmaceutical giants. Looking ahead, Hassabis predicts a robotics "wow moment" within two years and estimates that Artificial General Intelligence, currently hindered by a lack of intuitive creativity, remains 5 to 10 years away.
- Milken Institute44 min
Author Talk: Deepak Chopra, "Digital Dharma" | Global Conference 2025
Deepak Chopra, accompanied by his daughter Mallika Chopra, presents his new work *Digital Dharma*, framing artificial intelligence as a modern oracle that bridges biological evolution with a transcendental "cognitive revolution." The event outlines seven core principles for leveraging AI as a spiritual guide and health coach, while predicting a future where personalized medicine and gene editing redefine human longevity through a "digi-ceutical" era. The session culminates in the launch of a personalized multilingual AI platform and concludes with a meditation on shifting identity from the transient physical self to timeless awareness.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Eastern European Dynamism: Rayscho Raychev & Delian Asparouhov on Space Tech & AI Innovation
Rayscho Raychev, Delian Asparouhov, Deleon Asparov, Raicho Raichev, Vyacheslav Tykhonovskyi
Deleon Asparov of Founders Fund and Endurosat CEO Raicho Raichev discuss how the Bulgarian space company scaled from bootstrapping to securing rapid venture capital while deploying over 60 satellites. Raichev highlights Endurosat's strategy of using AI to slash data costs and eliminate traditional mission control, contrasting the region's "survivalist" work culture and 10% flat tax against stagnant Western European economies. The panel concludes by predicting that Eastern Europe will lead a defense and technology renaissance driven by geopolitical necessity, aiming to reduce reliance on the United States and prevent the decoupling of critical industrial sectors.
- Y Combinator42 min
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad, Chinat, Shivam, Sophia, Emma
Replit outlines a strategic pivot toward making software engineering obsolete by developing autonomous agents that operate within a robust, sandboxed cloud infrastructure capable of end-to-end testing and self-healing. This transition aims to shift software value from expensive SaaS applications to near-zero-cost, prompt-driven creation, enabling individuals to act as sovereign entities that assemble teams and deploy full-stack solutions instantly. By achieving near-full autonomy in the next agent generation, the platform intends to dismantle traditional corporate hierarchies in favor of on-demand, mission-based networks where human creativity complements agent-driven execution.
- The Economist10 min
Are British spies ready for future global threats?
Rosie Blau, Shashank Joshi, Rosie Bloor
Outgoing MI6 Chief Richard Moore has identified China as the primary global security threat, directing the agency's expanding mandate toward countering Russian sabotage and Iranian nuclear proliferation alongside emerging technological risks. On October 1st, Blaise Matuloli assumes leadership as the service's youngest and first post-Cold War chief, leveraging her operational background in counter-subversion to navigate a complex landscape where traditional agent recruitment is increasingly hindered by digital surveillance. Facing a finite budget against limitless strategic demands, Matuloli must balance covert intelligence collection with active disruption operations while integrating human and technical capabilities through the newly formalized National Cyber Force.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Amit Zavery & Scott Thomas: Pace vs Panic. Governance vs Chaos. How Companies Can Survive the AI Era
ServiceNow addresses the critical tension between accelerating AI adoption and maintaining rigorous governance by launching an AI Control Tower to track and manage autonomous agents within a centralized asset framework. Parallel to this, the company evolved its acquisition strategy to target deep-domain leaders like Logic.ai, integrating their specialized IP to solve complex orchestration problems while demonstrating that internal AI deployment can generate substantial value without reducing headcount. By generating $325 million in value through a hybrid human-digital workforce and achieving high call deflection rates, ServiceNow positions its "no-layoff" approach as a counter-narrative to industry trends driven by fear and cost-cutting.
Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Molly O'Shea
Klarna has transformed from a high-burn fintech startup into a profitable retailer by reducing its workforce to 3,000 employees while shifting to a full banking model and aggressively integrating AI through CEO Sebastian Szymiankowski's decentralized strategy. The company targets the $1.2 trillion U.S. credit card market with a distinct pink aesthetic and meme-driven branding designed to appeal to younger consumers, leveraging short-duration credit to maintain resilience against potential economic downturns. Underpinning this financial pivot is a vision to become a trillion-dollar digital financial assistant that automates complex tasks like mortgage switching, all while utilizing internal AI tools to drive operational efficiency and rapid product prototyping.
- RAISE Summit37 min
RAISE Summit 2025: AI Infrastructure. Compute is the New Oil
Roman Chermin, Youssef El Manssouri, Shaun O'Meara, Stephen Balaban, Chase Lochmiller, Dylan Patel
The AI infrastructure sector is undergoing a paradigm shift from CPU-centric multi-tenant models to dedicated, high-density GPU environments, prompting NeoCloud providers to leverage rapid deployment speeds and sovereign strategies to challenge hyperscaler dominance. Leaders such as Sorrenti and Nebius are vertically integrating from energy sourcing and data center construction to advanced software virtualization, aiming to address Europe's compute deficit and mitigate enterprise switching barriers through specialized physical infrastructure. While market projections indicate that future revenue will eventually consolidate around model builders and sovereign entities controlling Artificial General Intelligence, the immediate landscape remains defined by a struggle for agility against entrenched ecosystem lock-in.
- Milken Institute57 min
Middle Market Private Equity: The Smart Money's Next Move | Global Conference 2025
John L. Bowman, R. David Andrews, Dean Mihas, Molly Murphy, Scott Spielvogel, Andrew Weinberg
Managing nearly $25 trillion, the alternatives industry is pivoting from financial engineering to operational excellence and AI-driven value creation amid an elongated market cycle characterized by suppressed IPO activity and limited M&A supply. Industry leaders are refining differentiation strategies through aggressive AI deployment, specialized management screening by industrial psychologists, and creative exit tactics like recapitalizations to navigate geopolitical volatility and valuation dislocations. As the sector adapts to a future where 98% of finance jobs face AI disruption, general partners are evolving into long-term operating partners to capitalize on the impending $105 trillion wealth transfer while prioritizing earnings quality over gross multiples.
Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot
Ashlee Vance, Pete Shadbolt, Molly O'Shea
PsyQuantum distinguishes itself in the competitive quantum computing sector by pursuing a consistent strategy to build a one-million physical qubit machine capable of delivering thousands of error-corrected logical qubits. Founded by researchers from the UK and Australia, the company operates within Silicon Valley facilities using factory-scale manufacturing processes to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and commercial utility. Backed by extraordinary funding, PsyQuantum maintains a disciplined focus on fault-tolerance while providing transparent facility access to validate its progress toward the industry's estimated ten-to-twelve-year breakthrough timeline.
- Milken Institute53 min
Expanding Solutions to Improve Mental Health | Global Conference 2025
Savannah Sellers, Rebecca O. Bagley, Jonathan Haidt, Bill Ready, Marketa Wills
A panel of experts, including Jonathan Haidt, Bill Reddy, and representatives from the Kennedy Forum and American Academy of Pediatrics, convened to address a global mental health crisis driven by smartphone adoption and addictive platform algorithms. The discussion outlined specific corporate countermeasures, such as Pinterest's age-restricted privacy settings and the "Inspired Internet Pledge," while contrasting them with calls for stricter federal regulations and a mandatory minimum age of 16 for smartphone ownership. Ultimately, the event proposed a multi-faceted strategy combining phone-free schools, industry-wide well-being reporting standards, and improved medical reimbursement rates to mitigate rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among youth.
- a16z43 min
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
This analysis identifies exponential forces like Moore's Law and network effects as the primary value drivers that often overwhelm traditional product strategies, while noting that incumbents frequently fail to pivot against these shifts. In the current AI landscape, new entrants leverage externalized network effects and heavy capital intensity to build moats, shifting consumer habits toward premium subscriptions that treat software as a necessity alongside food and rent. The discussion further outlines emerging dynamics where open-source models face funding barriers, vibe coding decentralizes production, and the market moves from skeuomorphic interfaces toward undiscovered native interaction paradigms.
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt
Pete Shadbolt, Jensen Huang, Molly O'Shea
PsyQuantum has secured nearly $2 billion in funding led by BlackRock, Nvidia, and Jensen Huang, distinguishing itself as the world's largest privately funded quantum computing company with plans to deploy a one-million-qubit system. The firm is constructing massive industrial campuses in Chicago and Brisbane to manufacture ultra-pure photonics at GlobalFoundries, aiming to bypass current hardware limitations and capture value in materials science before achieving cryptographic relevance. By targeting a direct path to commercial utility in drug discovery and energy rather than incremental scaling, the company positions its technology as an essential scientific instrument capable of generating significant revenue by 2027.
- All-In Podcast45 min
Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
Elon Musk, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Elon Musk outlined aggressive roadmaps for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot, which aims to achieve human-level dexterity and a $20,000 production cost through vertical integration, alongside a new AI5 chip and software update designed to make vehicles feel sentient by year-end. SpaceX targets full Starship reusability within the coming year using advanced heat shields and plans to acquire $17 billion in spectrum for direct-to-cell satellite connectivity, while xAI is expanding its training infrastructure to accelerate intelligence growth toward a Kardashev Type II scale. Strategic discussions also addressed a potential $1 trillion compensation package for Musk, the acquisition of X by xAI, the immediate launch of Tesla's public robo-taxi service, and a 25-year vision for establishing a self-sustaining human civilization on Mars.