John Collison's build vs. buy framework for fast-moving markets

John Collison on Stripe's build versus buy framework⁣ "You should buy the companies where you're better off buying them than building it in house.

Why the US Is Moving AI Policy Behind Closed Doors

Carnegie Endowment Fellow Anton Leicht discusses the alignment consensus at Curve, the national security pivot in AI governance, and the strategic positioning of middle powers like Australia and France.

Why 70% of Enterprise AI Seats Sit Idle | Russ Fradin

Larridin CEO Russ Fradin breaks down how enterprises measure real AI usage and return on investment[cite: 1].

Quitting Anthropic made him more powerful.

Jacob Coxon, the 27-year-old Anthropic researcher whose resignation post on X ricocheted around the internet, and ex-lab employees testifying before the New York City Council: boycotting AI companies or quitting them, which one actually…

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The Future Belongs To Invite-Only Social Networks

Curtis Yarvin predicts the future belongs to invite-only social networks because the open internet destroyed reputation: "I think the future entirely belongs to invite-only social networks.

John Collison on how Stripe quietly compounded to $1.9 trillion

John Collison on why Stripe's $1.9T outcome never felt like a breakout⁣ "It just felt like, yeah, growth is down a bit from last year, but in absolute terms it's bigger, and you eventually get there.

The Basement: Ed Barnhart | Lost Cities, Botflies, and a Magic Number

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Better AI Models Aren’t Enough

Better AI models aren’t enough to make AI work in the real world. As companies deploy more autonomous agents, the bigger problem becomes figuring out how to actually control them.

How to be free of distress | Jonny Thomson

How to be free of distress | Jonny Thomson

Why 60% of Global Losses Go Uninsured | Jamie Cuffe

Pace Founder and CEO Jamie Cuffe explains how AI agents are transforming back-office insurance operations, closing the $9 trillion protection gap, and disrupting $400 billion in BPO spend.

AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?

In July of 2026, 700 AI agents hacked the infrastructure of Hugging Face in order to solve a task.

How Double-Blind Tests Could Secure Frontier AI | Patricia Paskov

Patricia Paskov, Director of Standards at AVERI, discusses the growing need for independent frontier AI auditing, the talent shortage in model evaluation, and pilot double-blind evaluations run with Google DeepMind and Openmind.

Stripe’s John Collison: AI Agents Will Rewire the Internet

John Collison, Co-Founder of Stripe, on how AI agents are changing commerce, payments and the internet itself.

Why AI Competition Forces Labs to Race | Dan Robinson

Paradigm Head of Research Dan Robinson joins to demo Pace, a game modeling the game theory, prisoner's dilemmas, and equilibrium dynamics between competing AI labs pacing the frontier.

Ari Emanuel's Autobiography

The Billion Dollar AI Advantage Is Disappearing

The hidden geography of AI

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Geoff Woo: "I don't think we'll die anymore" if AI makes biology computable

Geoff Woo on why AI could mean the end of death⁣ "I don't think we'll die anymore.

Why LLMs Need a Collective Memory Layer | Pablo Stern-Plaza

MongoDB CPO of AI & Engineering Pablo Stern-Plaza reveals the company’s new Atlas Agent Engine and explains why data gravity makes MongoDB the natural memory layer for AI agents.

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on going from $100M to $300M ARR in a year

Winston Weinberg on how Harvey went from $100M to nearly $300M in ARR⁣ "Our token usage in January was 1,000,000,000,000 for the month.

Why 401ks Will Access Private Markets | Davis Thacker

Carta Chief Strategy Officer Davis Thacker breaks down current private market macro trends, from seed valuation bifurcations and IPO backlogs to the surge in LP secondaries.

Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y

Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth on why frontier AI and open weight models need to coexist⁣ "We absolutely need these frontier models.

Models are only as good as the Data.

Everyone's obsessed with the next new model. But at the end of the day, these models are only as good as the data they can use.

AI Agents Are Spawning Unpredictable Traffic | Ben Cefalo

MongoDB CPO Ben Cefalo breaks down the launch of MongoDB 9.0 and Atlas Infinite, explaining how the platform re-architected compute and storage to handle erratic AI agent workloads.

Bending Spoons CEO on why fewer, bigger acquisitions beat buying dozens of small companies

Luca Ferrari on why Bending Spoons buys fewer, bigger companies⁣ "We prefer to acquire five or 10 businesses each year, but bigger, than 50 smaller ones." #shorts

Why Patients Wait 30 Days for Follow-Ups | Trey Holterman

Tennr CEO Trey Holterman breaks down how long-horizon AI agents are quietly removing systemic bottlenecks in healthcare, scaling across 430,000 referring providers, and bypassing outdated EMR infrastructure.

Why the Data Center PR War Is Getting Worse | Jonas Du

Jonas Du, co-organizer of Data After Dark and writer at Pirate Wires, breaks down the origin of Washington DC's "pro data center party" and the rising political backlash against AI infrastructure.

AI Agents Will Cause Mass Subscription Cancellations | Rob Hadick

Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick details why personal AI agents like Instinct lack long-term retention and defensibility, how agentic finance will reshape subscription business models, and why financial platforms like banks and…

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm how Colossal engineered the viral woolly mice in just 30 days

Why CFOs Are Secretly Moving to Stablecoins | Dileep Thazhmon

Jeeves CEO Dileep Thazhmon breaks down how the company hit $1.5 billion in annualized stablecoin TPV in nine months, the real-world mechanics of B2B cross-border payments, and how AI agentic microtransactions will reshape global financial…

How Agents Searched 3 Million Epstein Documents | Dylan Freedman

He discusses his hands-on reporting with LLM transcripts, security risks around AI agent swarms, and how newsrooms balance human expertise with generative tools.

Why Agent Swarms Will Break Traditional Databases | Jim Scharf

MongoDB CTO Jim Scharf breaks down how AI agent swarms are driving transaction scale to unprecedented levels, shifting the security race against nation-state adversaries, and transforming JSON and document databases into the core memory…

Lior Susan on why gross margin is a vanity metric

Lior Susan on why gross margin is a vanity metric⁣ "Gross margin is an indicator to potentially what your free cash flow is going to be...

$1,250 UBI would be a gamechanger.

AI is going to supercharge the economy. GDP per capita will soar past $100,000.

Why American Mass Transit Is Collapsing Post-COVID | Reed Schwartz

IFP's Reed Schwartz breaks down how Japan and Hong Kong leverage land value capture to fund transit infrastructure, why American mass transit faces severe fiscal cliffs post-COVID, and how Georgist tax policy influenced early American…

Seattle - What's It Really Like Now?

My new book "Your Fellow Americans" is out now! Seattle gets a lot of attention nationwide these days, but it’s usually in videos about crime and homelessness or polished tourist pieces.

How To Prevent AI Military Power Grabs | William MacAskill

Forethought co-founder Will MacAskill discusses the risks of superintelligence, preventing value lock-in and military power grabs, and why effective altruism focuses on long-term AI safety.

Is President Trump's AI Accord Enough? | Kevin Frazier

UT Austin Fellow Kevin Frazier discusses the need for AI constitutionalism, model specs, and improved lab transparency to govern AI systems.

Anthropic Will Reach Full RSI by August 2027 | Rayan Krishnan

Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan discusses his company's new RSI Index benchmark, predicting Anthropic could reach full recursive self-improvement by summer 2027.

Jen Prosek on why the right stage beats traditional media every time

Why Scott Bessent's Milken stage moment calmed the entire market⁣ "He just calmed the entire financial ecosystem by doing it.

Cost Per Token Is the Wrong Metric for AI | Arena

Arena Co-Founder and CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos breaks down Gemini 4 Argon's performance across text, expert, agent, and coding leaderboards.

Why UBI Is Inevitable | Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang re-engages with Jubilee debate hosts to discuss tangible policy solutions for an AI-driven economy.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora the path to AI making life-critical decisions

Dino Mavrookas on how an $800 raft became the foundation for a defense company

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The CIA, the Soviet Union, and a Missing UFO Blueprint

A package from Kazakhstan arrives on a kitchen table outside Boston. Inside are 119 pages, written in Russian by a man his daughter always knew as a plumber.