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Conversation with Eldridge Ind. CEO Todd Boehly & MassMutual CEO Roger Crandall | Global Conference
Todd Boehly, Roger Crandall, Dani Burger
Industry leaders from MassMutual and Eldridge contrast their long-duration, policyholder-aligned ownership models against traditional banking systems to demonstrate the strategic advantages of private capital in financing U.S. infrastructure and mitigating maturity mismatches. While both firms address risks related to credit cycles and AI disruption through rigorous capital structure controls and multi-model technology partnerships, they emphasize their capacity to withstand liquidity shocks that threaten short-term financial vehicles. These perspectives highlight a shifting landscape where insurers act as the primary stabilizing capital source for the economy while adapting antiquated legacy systems to meet modern digital consumer expectations.
- Milken Institute26 min
Investing in Hollywood’s Connective Cultural Power: Eva Longoria & Kevin Yorn | Global Conference
Eva Longoria, Kevin Yorn, Rebecca Keegan
Eva Longoria and Kevin Glickman discuss a shifted investment landscape where successful ventures require rigorous operational execution rather than celebrity names alone. Longoria highlights her high-ROI successes with Siete Foods and John Wick, while Glickman emphasizes the critical need for protecting intellectual property and leveraging enterprise relationships in AI and cross-industry deals. Together, they outline a future where "hyphenate" talent must pair storytelling with proven business discipline, relying on specialized operators to ensure financial viability and authentic market conversion.
- Jane Street30 min
Jane Street on GPUs, Trading, and Hiring: A Conversation with Dwarkesh
Jane Street, Dwarkesh Patel, Ron Minsky, Dan Pontecorvo
Jane Street executes a multi-tiered trading strategy that balances nanosecond-scale FPGA execution with long-horizon AI models while transitioning to a disaggregated global network featuring a $6 billion compute partnership with CoreWeave. The firm prioritizes model architecture diversity and custom hardware, including ARM and NVIDIA infrastructures, to navigate high-noise financial data without relying on single foundation models. This approach is supported by a hiring strategy focused on scarcity-driven talent acquisition and a human-in-the-loop philosophy that maintains critical judgment during complex market anomalies.
- Y Combinator13 min
How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
The event argues for replacing traditional hierarchical management with recursive AI architectures where organizations function as self-improving loops composed of sensor, policy, and learning layers. It demonstrates this shift through a YC case study where autonomous agents analyzed failures and updated code overnight, enabling companies to transition from headcount-constrained models to token-limited systems. By mandating universal data recording and treating internal software as ephemeral, the presentation defines humans as peripheral "edge interfaces" while AI assumes the role of the central "company brain" for decision-making and execution.
- Milken Institute39 min
International Security: Innovation, Investment, and Partnerships | Global Conference 2026
David Trulio, Christopher Coons, Eric Schmidt, Adam Smith, Chris Coons
Panelists including Eric Schmidt, Senator Chris Coons, and Representative Adam Smith argue that the war in Ukraine has exposed the critical need for the U.S. to replace expensive, traditional military assets with autonomous drones and AI-driven systems to secure a cost-effective deterrence against adversaries. To overcome entrenched bureaucratic inertia and fiscal constraints, the group advocates for bipartisan legislation like the SPEED Act, expanded co-production with international allies, and a workforce shift toward technical innovation over four-year degrees. These strategic adjustments aim to leverage the agility of private sector competitors against legacy defense primes while ensuring American technological leadership in an era of algorithmic warfare.
- Bank of America27 min
Why we believe AI reshapes work more so than it reduces overall payrolls
Benson Wu, Nick Stenner, TJ Thornton
BofA Global Research contends that generative AI will primarily augment human labor and reshape specific tasks rather than cause mass job elimination, with only 2.3% of global roles facing high automation potential while 13% offer significant augmentation opportunities. The report projects a shift toward new AI specialist roles, hybrid professionals, and human-centric services in sectors like healthcare, noting that advanced economies possess the infrastructure to adapt despite risks of capital concentration and entry-level wage dispersion. Macroeconomic analysis suggests these productivity gains will be disinflationary over the long term, potentially allowing central banks flexibility on interest rates even as transition costs and uneven gains create short-term policy complexities.
- Stanford Online47 min
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The AI Native Company: How One Founder Becomes a 1000x Engineer
This session outlines a paradigm shift where AI-native tools compress startup development timelines from years to months, enabling six-person teams to generate $10M in revenue through standardized "compute agreements" and high-productivity frameworks like the G-Stack. Speakers detail the architectural evolution from human-dependent workflows to closed-loop agentic systems that automate back-office functions, citing successful unicorns like Salient and Happy Robot as proof of concept for these rapid scaling models. Ultimately, the discussion defines a new organizational hierarchy where founders act as "AI founders" who curate evaluation metrics and orchestrate autonomous agents to manage the complexity of building companies that previously required hundreds of employees.
- Bank of America19 min
Ceasefire, rates and the US consumer
Ralf Preusser, Bruno Braizinha, Sophia Salim, David Tinsley, Sfia Salim, Bruno Brasenia
Driven by persistent energy supply shocks and uncertain inflation baselines, market analysts project a limited number of European Central Bank rate hikes, with 10-year yields forecast to decline toward 2.9% before falling further to 2.7% by 2027 as growth risks persist. Concurrently, the volatility landscape reflects a regional divergence where European markets lag US levels due to rich pricing, while Asian markets like China demonstrate unique immunity to geopolitical tensions. In the US, consumer spending remains robust at a 3.2% annualized rate fueled by tax refunds and wage growth, creating a K-shaped recovery where higher-income groups drive discretionary gains despite rising gasoline costs.
- Bank of America20 min
No longer overbought, still advantaged; Emerging Markets
David Hauner, David Beker, TJ Thornton
Analysts maintain a structurally bullish outlook on emerging market equities and fixed income in early 2026, anchored by a secular US dollar downtrend and attractive valuations despite geopolitical risks in Iran. Brazil and Argentina are highlighted as primary investment targets due to their commodity export advantages and reform potential, while China and Mexico are viewed through the lens of currency resilience and US economic correlation respectively. Upcoming elections in Brazil and the duration of the Iran conflict remain critical variables that could alter the trajectory of capital flows and inflation dynamics through late 2026.
- Bank of America22 min
Summit, yen-tervention, & US rates
Mark Cabana, Adarsh Sinha, Meghan Swiber
On May 15, global rates experienced bear steepening while equities and AI stocks reached new highs despite unresolved geopolitical tensions and a lack of new trade barriers following the U.S.-China summit. Market strategists forecast increased upside risk for U.S. rate hikes and maintain a tactical bullish view on the dollar, driven by unsustainable rate differentials and ongoing intervention pressures in Japan. Concurrently, expectations for new Federal Reserve Chair Warsh center on his potential to shorten the balance sheet's weighted average maturity and his anticipated dovish reaction to stagflation risks at the upcoming June FOMC meeting.
- Bank of America17 min
Policy Derby: Rates for the Roses
Mark Cabana, Ralph Axel, Katie, Mark Capleton, Yamada, Ivan, Ronald Man
Recent central bank communications from the Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of Canada, and Bank of England have shifted global rate expectations toward potential increases or prolonged tightening driven by persistent inflation and oil prices. BofA strategists analyze these diverging stances to forecast bear flattening or steepening curves, while warning that fiscal risks and liquidity dynamics in the US Treasury market may further impact asset valuations. Ultimately, the analysis suggests a complex interplay where hawkish signals from the Fed and BoC contrast with dovish adjustments in the UK, creating volatility for sovereign yields and foreign exchange interventions.
- Bank of America25 min
A changing Federal Reserve
Sphia Salim, Aditya Bhave, Mark Cabana, Alex Cohen, Kevin Warsh, Zviya Salim
Kevin Walsh's Senate confirmation hearing strategy prioritizes securing a mandate for steady rates by emphasizing AI-driven productivity gains and full employment while avoiding direct calls for rate cuts. Concurrently, market analysts anticipate a prolonged pause in monetary policy, with a baseline forecast of potential cuts in September and October contingent on softer labor data and fading tariff effects. Despite Walsh's intentions to unilaterally alter communication protocols and shorten the duration of the Fed's balance sheet, these structural shifts face significant hurdles in convincing FOMC colleagues or fundamentally altering the central bank's current trajectory toward a flat rate path.
- Bank of America20 min
Payroll call
Ralf Preusser, Aditya Bhave, Mark Cabana, Alex Cohen, Shruti Mishra, Aditya Parve
The April 8, 2024, U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls report revealed a resilient labor market with back-to-back job gains that narrowed the divergence between establishment and household surveys. In response to these findings and persistent inflation data, Bank of America strategists have revised their Federal Reserve policy forecast to eliminate 2024 rate cuts and shift expectations to mid-2025. Consequently, global fixed-income strategists have adjusted their front-end yield curve positioning to anticipate a higher-for-longer interest rate environment while monitoring upcoming CPI and retail sales data for further confirmation.
- Bank of America15 min
Inflation markets
Ralf Preusser, Mark Capleton, Meghan Swiber
Analysts examine the $4 trillion inflation-linked bond market to highlight how fiscal constraints in the UK and Eurozone have created supply scarcity while instrument mechanics drive persistent basis disparities between swaps and cash markets. Despite theoretical stagflation models predicting lower real yields, current data shows a market anomaly where US real yields have risen alongside compressed long-term inflation expectations. Consequently, investors are advised to fade the recent spike in short-term real yields, as this pricing disconnect challenges the Federal Reserve's dual mandate without indicating an immediate risk of unanchored inflation expectations.
- a16z12 min
Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
Erin Price-Wright, Michael Duffey, Dino Mavrookas
Saronix is reshaping maritime defense by pivoting to software-driven autonomy that slashes labor requirements from millions to mere fractions while deploying an "IKEA" manufacturing model at its new Louisiana Port Alpha facility. This industrial strategy integrates commercial vessel production to ensure economic sustainability and rapid scaling, directly addressing Pentagon constraints on manufacturing capacity through private capital investment and streamlined acquisition policies. By fostering a robust public-private partnership, the initiative aims to establish a century-long national industrial base capable of supporting both defense needs and global energy dominance.