The Artificial Developer Intelligence (ADI) podcast is a weekly talk show where hosts Dan Lasky and Shimin Zhang (two AI Filthy Casuals) discuss the latest news, tools, and techniques in AI enabled software development. The show's for the 99% of software engineers who need to ship features and not fine-tune large language models. We cut through the hype to find the tools and techniques that actually work for us, discuss the latest "LLM wars" and "vibe coding" trends with a healthy dose of sk ...
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, ...
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The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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All Things LLM is your go-to podcast for demystifying Large Language Models! We break down their core concepts—like tokens, embeddings, and the self-attention that powers GPT-4 and Llama. Learn how LLMs are built, trained, and fine-tuned (SFT, RLHF, PEFT) on massive datasets. Discover real-world use cases in healthcare, finance, chatbots, code, RAG, and more. We explore the LLM ecosystem, covering open-source vs. closed models, LLMaaS, LangChain, and LLMOps tools. Plus, we tackle challenges— ...
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The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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Expert interviews and guides to help you level up as a product leader and creator fast.
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"Last Week In r/LocalLLaMA" is your weekly roundup of the most interesting discussions, debates, and moments from the r/LocalLLaMA community. Join us for a fun and lighthearted take on the top posts, user opinions, and trending topics. Perfect for keeping up with the conversation, even when you’re short on time.
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Welcome to Mysteries of the Universe — a podcast that explores the deepest, strangest, and most awe-inspiring questions in existence. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates the unknown forces shaping our cosmos, from dark matter and black holes to ancient astronomical anomalies and the possibility that reality itself may be an illusion. With a serious, documentary-style tone, Mysteries of the Universe blends cutting-edge science, philosophy, and fringe theories to illuminate the fro ...
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The rise of the digital entrepreneur has completely redefined what business ownership looks like today. Average people are creating extraordinary lives while building the businesses of their dreams online…but it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. Welcome to Beyond the Bullshit…Real talk for digital entrepreneurs. Whether you're an established business owner of some kind looking to deepen your connection with your current venture and clear the fog that’s preventing clarity on next steps, or a n ...
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AI Paper+ is a podcast exploring the latest research on AI across various fields! We dive into impactful papers that showcase AI’s applications in healthcare, finance, education, manufacturing, and more. Each episode breaks down technical insights, innovative methods, and the broader industry and societal impacts.
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On Georgian's Impact Podcast, we get into the latest tech trends and how they impact growth-stage software companies. Jon talks with folks from around the tech ecosystem at the intersection of business and technology.
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Welcome to Data Brew by Databricks with Denny and Brooke! In this series, we explore various topics in the data and AI community and interview subject matter experts in data engineering/data science. So join us with your morning brew in hand and get ready to dive deep into data + AI! For this first season, we will be focusing on lakehouses – combining the key features of data warehouses, such as ACID transactions, with the scalability of data lakes, directly against low-cost object stores.
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In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its platform across models, pricing, and infrastructure, and how it is shifting from a single general-purpose model to a portfolio of specialized systems, custom fine-tuning options, and node-based agent …
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AI is becoming the orchestration layer inside the enterprise. In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore the shift from isolated AI copilots to coordinated multi-agent systems that plan, analyze, and execute work across teams and tools. This is not a new feature, but a new way workflows run inside large organizations. You will hear from Seema Am…
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Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting. This year, I offer a short apologia for higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, focusing not on the down-to-earth economic/occupational benefi…
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AI is moving from chat to action. In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change is not just smarter models, but software itself taking on a new form. You will hear from Marc Andrusko on the move from prompting to execution, Stephanie Zhang on building machine-legible systems, and Sarah…
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Teresa is a well-known product coach and author who runs her entire life and business using two Claude Code terminals and a note taking app. It was genuinely mind blowing to watch her use Claude Code to manage her to do list, delegate her research, and write content. Teresa and I talked about: (00:00) Why Teresa uses Claude Code to run her life (03…
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Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into the category. By late 2022, that number had collapsed to almost zero. In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber and Plaid cofounder and CEO Zach Perret unpack what actually happened during …
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In this episode of "Artificial Developer Intelligence," hosts Shimin Zhang and Dan explore the latest advancements in AI, including the release of GPT 5.2 and its implications for the industry. They discuss the integration of Cloud Code into Slack, Mistral AI's new coding model, and the innovative MindEval framework for assessing AI's clinical comp…
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https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Black holes are more than just cosmic vacuums—they may be the universe’s most powerful vaults of hidden knowledge. In this episode, we explore the latest theories that suggest black holes don’t destroy information but store it in ways we are only beginning to understand. Could the event horizon be a gate…
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Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?
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1:02:30In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been involved in backing many of the defining companies of this era and is now investing behind a new wave of AI startups. This discussion goes deep into how the a16z growth practice operates: how the team hires an…
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What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the problem. In this episode, Erik Torenberg speaks with Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, about what is happening in the cities that are trying. Flock …
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Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the company where Ryo is now Head of Design. In this episode, a16z General Partner Jennifer Li sits down with Ryo to discuss why "taste" is the wrong framework for understanding the future, why purposef…
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AMA | December 2025
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3:36:43Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the que…
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Yana is Head of AI at Amplitude and a good friend. We had some real talk about how to stay scrappy inside a big company, including how to avoid decision by committee and endless internal debates. Yana also demoed her favorite AI workflows to triage her emails and aggregate customer feedback. I think you’ll love our banter 😅 Yana and I talked about:…
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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
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1:02:50AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing in scale and impact? Some industries may be transformed. Others may barely feel it. Tech giants are racing to reorient their strategies, yet most people still struggle to find an everyday use case. Tha…
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Episode 5: How Anthropic Engineers use AI, Spec Driven Development, and LLM Psychological Profiles
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In this episode, Shimin and Dan explore the evolving landscape of AI in software engineering, discussing the implications of the Cloud Opus 4.5 sole document, the ethical considerations of AI models, and the impact of AI on developer productivity. They delve into spec-driven development, the latest advancements in AI models like DeepSeek v3.2, and …
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https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Could the entire cosmos have emerged from nothing? According to leading theories in quantum physics, random fluctuations in the vacuum of space may have triggered the Big Bang—producing time, matter, and the laws of physics from an unstable sea of energy. But if our universe was born from a quantum event…
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Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious people with world-class personal assistants. Today he runs a 4,000-person company, invests on the side, and raises four kids — all by designing his life around leverage. a16z General Partner, Erik Toren…
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Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience. AI coding is already actively changing how software gets built. a16z Infra Partners Yoko Li and Guido Appenzeller break down how "agents with environments" are changing the dev loop; why repos and PRs may need new abstractions; and where ROI is sho…
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Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously, Naveen led AI at Databricks and founded two successful companies: Mosaic (cloud computing) and Nervana (AI accelerators, acquired by Intel). In this episode, a16z’s Matt Bornstein sits down w…
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
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1:26:21The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected. Modern physicists have no such scruples, of course, but more importantly neutrinos turn out to be very detectable, given sufficient resources and ex…
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As VP of Alexa, Daniel builds product for 600M Alexa devices. He had a great answer to my tough question: “Why has it taken so long to add AI to Alexa?” and then gave a live demo of what an AI-powered Alexa looks like. We also had a great chat about how to apply Amazon’s working backwards process to build useful AI products. Daniel and I talked abo…
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Episode 4: Open AI Code Red, TPU vs GPU and More Autonomous Coding Agents
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1:04:22In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan discuss the evolving landscape of AI in software engineering, touching on topics such as OpenAI's recent challenges, the significance of Google TPUs, and effective techniques for working with large language models. They also delve into a deep dive on general agentic memory, …
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What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future
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1:01:56Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep learning revolution. Justin Johnson is her former PhD student, ex-professor at Michigan, ex-Meta researcher, and now co-founder of World Labs. Togethe…
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It is the end of re:Invent! Simon and Jillian share some updates and also take a moment to reflect on 2025.Por Amazon Web Services
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Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is enabling 100M-user products at unprecedented speed, and what founders need to understand heading into 2026 — from distribution shifts to founder mindset to the mechanics behind the fastest product cycle…
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Simon and Jillian catch you up on the highlights from today's keynote PLUS all the "pre:Invent" announcements that took place prior to the event!Por Amazon Web Services
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a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die - and why the survivor might charge $20,000 for what used to cost $20. They expose the "janitorial services paradox" (why the most boring software is most defensible), explain why OpenAI won't compete with your o…
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In this episode, Matt Garman's 2025 re:Invent keynote unveils exciting AI advancements, including Amazon Nova to Lite, a cost-effective reasoning model, and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, a new speech-to-text model. The keynote also covers Security, Storage, Compute, Networking, and a whole lot more!Por Amazon Web Services
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How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million
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1:10:40A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader. Resources: Follow Ben on X: https://x.com/bhorowitz Follow Shaan on X: https://x.com/ShaanVP Follow Sam on X: https://x.com/thesamparr Stay Updated: If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to like, subscribe, and share with your frien…
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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
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1:17:37Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both things have goals and potential rewards. That's a pretty broad class of interesting events, so it is unsurprising that game theory is a useful way of thinking about everything from international relations to the evolution of pea…
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Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually is. In this episode, Russ sits down with a16z General Partner Alex Rampell to reveal why the measurement infrastructure that unlocked internet advertising's trillion-dollar boom is exactly what's missin…
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Xinran is a top AI instructor who has taught 100s of product teams how to design and prototype with AI. He shared 5 practical techniques to avoid generating AI slop — from side-by-side exploration to reverse prompting to component libraries — that you can start trying today. If you want to level up on AI prototyping, this is a must watch. Xinran an…
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In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the latest advancements in AI models, including the release of Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3. They discuss the implications of these models on software engineering, the rise of open-source models like Olmo 3, and the enhancements in the Claude Developer Platform. The …
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In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the latest developments in AI, including Google's Gemini 3 model and its implications for software engineering. They discuss the rise of AI-driven cybersecurity threats, the concept of world models, and the evolving landscape of software development techniques. The c…
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In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, discussing recent news, benchmarking challenges, and the implications of AGI as a conspiracy theory. They delve into the latest techniques in AI development, ethical considerations, and the potential impact of AI on human intelli…
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Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhattan Project with closed models, Chinese developers quietly captured the open-source heartbeat of global AI through DeepSeek, now running inside every major US company and university lab. The kicker: Goog…
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investing track record into the most talked-about firm in venture capital. She unpacks how they weaponized transparency in an industry built on secrecy, why Fortune's cover story triggered a cartel meltdown, an…
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Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build empires? In this conversation with Mark Halperin from Next Up, Marc Andreessen reveals why small bakeries are beating Fortune 500 companies at AI adoption, how to turn ChatGPT into your personal board o…
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The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
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1:00:10Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years, and what 30% GDP growth actually looks like. They explain why "energy bottlenecks" are just companies complaining about paying 2x for power instead of getting it cheap, why 10% of current jobs will va…
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Discover how AWS leverages automated reasoning to enhance AI safety, trustworthiness, and decision-making. Byron Cook (Vice President and Distinguished Scientist) explains the evolution of reasoning tools from limited, PhD-driven solutions to scalable, user-friendly systems embedded in everyday business operations. He highlights real-world examples…
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
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1:14:11Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understand the origin and nature of this progress, it is useful to dig at least a little bit into the mathematical and algorithmic structures underlying these …
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Tanay is the CEO and co-founder of Wispr Flow, my favorite app to dictate to AI 10x faster than typing. I asked him to do a live tutorial on how to get the most out of AI voice dictation, how his brain-to-text device reads your thoughts without speaking, and how he built an AI product that has 70% annual retention (unheard of!) by NOT focusing on A…
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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
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1:05:02Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" investors demanded desktop, a brand that made finance feel like rebellion instead of a club you'd never join. By 2021 they'd forced every major brokerage to slash fees and attracted millions who'd never own…
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Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig
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The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved them is finally being rebuilt. Gene Ludwig ran the OCC during the Clinton administration, created a half-trillion-dollar market solving a problem his Aunt Betty faced riding buses between banks, then wat…
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Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
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1:16:13Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything about how fast the ground moved beneath Silicon Valley's feet. For decades, tech and defense were allies, then came 15 years of hostility so visceral that Google employees revolted over a Pentagon AI contr…
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AMA | November 2025
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3:34:18Welcome to the November 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the que…
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Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
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1:10:36Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation with Erik Torenberg and Séb Krier, Shear argues that the entire "control and steering" paradigm for AI alignment is fatally flawed. Instead, he proposes "organic alignment" - teaching AI systems to genu…
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There are so many updates this week you might need two cups of coffee! Simon and Jillian guide your way.Por Amazon Web Services
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As the head of design at Cursor, Ryo is at the cutting edge of designers who ship code instead of mocks. He showed me how he built a retro OS with AI and did a live demo of adding a new feature using Cursor’s new agent mode. We also covered how to avoid AI design slop and how the Cursor team reached $29B valuation without full-time PMs. Ryo and I t…
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Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
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1:02:23Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the last one. Elliot Hershberg reveals the "three horsemen" strangling drug development as costs explode to $2.5 billion per approval, while Lada Nuzhna exposes how investigator-initiated trials in Shanghai…
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