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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz sits down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI agents are transforming cybersecurity, shifting attacker speed from days to seconds, and flattening the adversary hierarchy from natio…
- CrowdStrike and Nvidia built Safe Mind, an internal frontier lab pairing an offensive model named Red Tempest against a defensive model named Blue Solano. Read →
- Fortune 500 banks are cutting back on proprietary frontier APIs after massive token inference bills wrecked their early enterprise AI budgets. Read →
- The classic adversary hierarchy has flattened: entry-level hacktivists now access nation-state offensive power through open-weight models. Read →
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Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht joins host Sarah Guo at Cloudflare Connect to discuss the rising frequency of software vulnerabilities discovered by AI-assisted threat actors, whom they dub 'agent kitties.' Knecht explains C…
- Zero-day events on the scale of Log4j and Shellshock used to hit the internet once a year; Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says they now occur almost weekly. Read →
- Cloudflare scaled its summer internship cohort from 200 to 1,000 people across a 5,000-person company to drive bottom-up AI adoption. Read →
- In May, Cloudflare executed the first corporate restructuring in its history to eliminate handoffs between teams and reorganize around automated execution. Read →
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OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman discusses the breakthrough resolution of nearly 400 long-standing math problems and how generative models are beginning to create genuinely new scientific knowledge. The con…
- Developing a single drug requires 15 years and $1.5 billion, but $1.4 billion of that total funds clinical trials while pre-clinical discovery costs just $50 million. Read →
- Greg Brockman predicts security budgets will outstrip traditional software budgets as AI pushes the marginal cost of writing code toward zero. Read →
- OpenAI models resolved nearly 400 open math problems, including questions untouched for a century, proving AI can produce original knowledge. Read →
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ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, a 500-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning model. Laskin outlines why open models will capture the vast majorit…
- ReflectionAI trained Beam, a 500-billion-parameter model with 23 billion active parameters, spending more FLOPs on reinforcement learning than on pre-training. Read →
- Elad Gil views Chinese open-source AI as a direct subsidy to Western enterprises, giving builders frontier intelligence without paying the research bills. Read →
- When enterprise spending on closed-model APIs crosses $100 million annually, the economic math flips from renting proprietary tokens to running private, owned infrastructure. Read →
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Walter Goodwin, founder and CEO of AI chip startup Fractile, joins Sarah Guo to discuss the technical and commercial landscape of frontier AI inference silicon. Goodwin breaks down why Fractile shifted away from SRAM to…
- Hyperscaler ASICs like Google TPU, Meta MTIA, Microsoft Maia, and OpenAI Jalapeno rarely offer differentiated computational performance over Nvidia or AMD. Read →
- Over the past 20 years, raw compute FLOPs scaled 1,000,000x, while memory bandwidth scaled only 40x. Read →
- Physical fabrication enforces a strict floor of 3 to 5 months from tape-out to physical chip delivery, even when running expensive super hot lots at foundries. Read →
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Sequence Holdings co-founder and CEO Michael Lee joins Sarah Guo to explain his strategy of transforming legacy incumbents through frontier engineering and a permanent holding company model. He details Sequence's $7.7 b…
- Sequence Holdings partnered with the Dell Family Office on a $7.7 billion take-private transaction of insurance brokerage Baldwin to overhaul its operations with proprietary AI sy… Read →
- Sequence Holdings partnered with Michael Dell and Dan Batar, head of global direct investing at the Dell Family Office, to complete a $7.7 billion take-private acquisition of insu… Read →
- Sequence Holdings reduced BankSouth's consumer loan underwriting turnaround times by 94% within six months of starting work in March. Read →
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Arm CEO Rene Haas discusses Arm's strategic transition from intellectual property licensing into custom physical silicon production, including the Arm AGI CPU developed for Meta. He analyzes persistent supply chain bott…
- Chip development cycles span 24 to 36 months, with the bulk of that time consumed by verification, validation, and documentation rather than initial logic design. Read →
- Arm expanded beyond blueprint licensing to deliver bespoke physical silicon, starting with a custom general-purpose AGI CPU for Meta. Read →
- Rene Haas projects a three-to-five-year severe hardware constraint driven by the compute and memory demands of transformer models. Read →
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Max Hodak, co-founder and CEO of Science Corporation, joins Sarah Guo to discuss PRIMA, Science's retinal implant that restores functional form vision to blind patients and recently gained CE mark approval in Europe. Ho…
- Venture investors often make the mistake of treating brain-computer interfaces as a single category, whereas neurotech divides into completely different technical architectures. Read →
- Small-molecule drug discovery spends ten years and hundreds of millions of dollars before finding out if a biological target works. Read →
- Hodak rejects digital snapshot uploads: a software replica matching your behavior fails if it lacks continuous subjective experience. Read →
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Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valor Atomics, discusses their approach to rapidly scale nuclear fission through hardware iteration and manufacturing, contrasting it with the traditional modeling and simulation industry. He detai…
- The "Chicken and Egg" Problem Isn't Always Immovable: For 20 years, nuclear innovation stalled because empirical data was required for regulators, but obtaining that data meant op… Read →
- Valor Atomics confronts historical reliability failures in helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors head-on, specifically addressing issues that plagued past designs like Fort S… Read →
- Traditional nuclear reactors require continuous active cooling even after shutdown to prevent a meltdown, managing what's called "decay heat" through active pump systems. Read →
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Sarah Guo and Elad Gil discuss the rapid rise of trillion-dollar AI companies, questioning the sustainability of such velocity and whether founders are becoming too cautious in their market ambitions. They delve into st…
- Many new AI founders are consciously avoiding direct competition with major labs, instead opting for niche markets or hardware plays. Read →
- Over-emphasis on safety, without balancing it against societal benefit, leads to regulatory capture, making innovation slow and expensive. This is a direct threat to AI's future. Read →
- California's newly passed 'billionaire tax' and proposed 'exit tax' are predicted to trigger a mass exodus of high-value founders, not just a minor attrition. Read →
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DoorDash co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang discuss the company's ambitious foray into Agentic Commerce and autonomous delivery with their robot, DOT. They explain how AI is transforming user experience, leading to…
- DoorDash has been building in robotics since 2018, long before the wider hype, showcasing a deep, long-term commitment. Read →
- DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang makes a surprising prediction: in 10 years, despite the rise of robotics and AI, DoorDash will likely employ more human Dashers, not fewer. Read →
- DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang says the initial, core challenge of making autonomous delivery possible has largely been overcome; the hard part now is scaling operations and har… Read →
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This episode features Sarah Guo interviewing Isaiah Taylor, founder and CEO of Valor Atomics, about their work in developing scalable nuclear reactors. They discuss the historical reasons for the slowdown in nuclear ene…
- The nuclear industry's core regulatory slowdown stemmed from a 'chicken and egg' problem: needing operational data for approval, but needing approval to operate. Read →
- Traditional nuclear reactors require continuous active cooling even after shutdown to manage "decay heat," which represents 5-6% of their operating power, creating meltdown risks… Read →
- Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valor Atomics, argues that energy is the core input to human quality of life, citing historical shifts from agrarian to industrial societies as proof that ch… Read →
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This episode features OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown discussing the shortcomings of current AI model evaluation benchmarks, particularly their failure to account for large-scale test-time compute. He explains how…
- Current AI model benchmarks, often presented as a single-point "grid," fail to account for the amount of compute spent during evaluation, masking true model capabilities. Read →
- Early LLMs (pre-GPT-5.2) were useless for complex reasoning tasks like building a poker bot; they simply couldn't get started. GPT-5.2 could help, but required constant oversight. Read →
- Your current AI models, even public ones like GPT-5.5, hold significant untapped "latent capabilities." OpenAI recently disproved the complex Erdos unit distance conjecture intern… Read →
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Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan discusses his ambitious plan to revitalize Intel, focusing on cultural shifts, balance sheet strengthening through strategic partnerships including government investment, and a renewed emphasis on l…
- AI isn't just another tool; it's a deep organizational reset, already proving its worth by driving major efficiency gains in electronic design automation (EDA) tools like those fr… Read →
- Deep tech businesses, from advanced semiconductor foundries to AI factories, have become incredibly capital-intensive, often requiring billions in funding that outstrip traditiona… Read →
- Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan believes current semiconductor infrastructure hasn't kept pace with AI growth, demanding urgent and radical new approaches. Read →
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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Alex Rives discuss Biohub's mission to accelerate scientific progress through open-source tools and frontier AI combined with frontier biology. They delve into breakthroughs like ESM…
- Biohub began with an audacious goal from Mark Zuckerberg: to "cure, prevent and manage all disease by the end of the century," a vision Priscilla Chan admits was met with laughter… Read →
- For breakthroughs in complex fields like frontier biology, a non-profit structure can achieve "bigger impact" by getting tools into more scientists' hands faster than a for-profit… Read →
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In this crossover episode, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, discusses the company's AI strategy, emphasizing an ecosystem approach for custom intelligence rather than a single model. He delves into Microsoft's MAI model…
- Agentic AI is moving beyond simple coding assistance to directly augmenting "glue work"—the essential but tedious coordination tasks—and compressing complex, multi-step workflows… Read →
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, argues that the real performance boost in AI comes not just from the underlying models, but from a well-designed "AI harness" that orchestrates mo… Read →
- Community 'Permission' is the New Bottleneck: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that future AI infrastructure and innovation won't advance without explicit permission from local… Read →
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company's AI strategy, focusing on an ecosystem play where companies can build their own AI using specialized 'harnesses' and private evaluations. He explores the shift in softw…
- The AI 'Harness' Redefines Platform Control: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the "harness" as a new platform layer. For founders, this means designing your AI systems to ex… Read →
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Elad Gil point out that AI's impact on education has been surprisingly slow, making it ripe for massive disruption by founders. Read →
- AI's trust problem is real: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that people are tired of tech's grand promises. AI's future success hinges on delivering local, tangible benefits rat… Read →
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This episode features Sarah Guo interviewing Maxim Bar Kogan, CEO of Onyx Security, about the escalating security risks of autonomous AI agents in enterprise. They discuss why traditional security measures are inadequat…
- Enterprises refuse to trust foundation model labs like OpenAI or Anthropic for AI security. They demand independent, third-party verification for their sensitive deployments. Read →
- 'Mythos-level' AI models have dropped the barrier to automated vulnerability research from a 20-50 year dream to an immediate reality, making traditional security inadequate. Read →
- Traditional enterprise security measures fail against autonomous AI agents because they can't keep pace with AI's speed and scale of operation. Read →
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Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, discusses the Trump administration's "Pax Silica" initiative, a multi-nation coalition aimed at securing the AI supply chain for the US and its allies. He co…
- Pax Silica is a 14-country economic security coalition focused on building a resilient, non-China-dependent AI supply chain for the US and its allies. Read →
- Jacob Helberg observed the Trump administration defying bureaucratic norms, operating with an unexpected entrepreneurial drive and a strong appetite for risk. Read →
- The US government, through the “Pax Silica” initiative, is actively pursuing a private sector-led strategy to secure critical AI minerals, directly contrasting China's state-heavy… Read →
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Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten, discusses the explosive growth of the AI inference market, predicting over $1 billion in revenue for his company this year. He explains the shift towards custom models and the critical…
- Baseten, an AI inference company, is on track for over $1 billion in revenue this year, experiencing 30x growth driven by the broad realization that "you can put AI everywhere." Read →
- Despite security concerns, Chinese-origin open-source AI models are often high-quality and, when properly network-bound, show no direct evidence of embedded 'Trojan horses' or bia… Read →
- Sarah Guo, during her conversation with Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava, challenged the core premise of independent AI application layers, asking if they can truly exist against powe… Read →