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September 23
Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete
(0:00) Luca Ferrari joins the Besties! (1:56) Crashing an AI startup, the $40,000 restart & buying product market fit (4:59) The in-house tech stack, shrinking…
Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Anthropic and OpenAI release new models on the same day, with Opus 5.5 winning early acclaim while GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the frontier of affordable intelligen…
Jensen vs NYT
Happy Wednesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is new models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.Today…
How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter
Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind…
🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
The OpenAI → Hugging Face attack has people asking “what else do we need to worry about?” and Anthropic’s filters flag two things: cyber-security and biology. T…
Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republicans
(0:00) Steve Hilton joins the Besties! (3:53) How one-party rule broke the state, regulatory bloat & who really writes the laws (12:09) The path to victory: the…
September 22
🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar, two textbo…
Agent Wars!
Meta’s Muse has overtaken ChatGPT in the App Store, and Amazon has responded by blocking it from shopping on its site. Shopify is opening its doors instead, set…
Legal AI FUD Hits The Timeline
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is startups like Harvey moving to cheaper, open-source models.Tod…
Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine
(0:00) Welcome Blake Scholl! (5:11) Solving the sonic boom & legalizing supersonic flight (7:59) The pivot to powering data centers (10:38) Jason joins: data ce…
Managing Change Across Modern Financial Operations - with Nathaniel Bell of Wells Fargo
For large banks, the barrier to AI at scale is rarely the model. It's decades of fragmented systems, inherited through mergers, acquisitions, and new products…
September 21
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
Tickets for AIE NYC now open, and apply for the invite-only AIE CODE. Join us!We have an unusual relationship with today’s guest: for years since coauthoring th…
Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology
(0:00) Welcome Naveen Rao (4:45) Is energy really the problem? The cost of a token, power contracts & the gap to close (10:24) Cutting out the middleman: abstra…
The State of the AI Debate
Trump wants an AI Force, politicians are pushing kill switches, and calls for a slowdown keep running into the same question about China. Ahead of this week’s T…
Seedance Strategy
Happy Monday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse.Today’s LineupRainmaker C…
Inside Ukraine's Drone War: Maj. "Phoenix" of Lasar's Group
The first armed drone Ukraine ever fielded wasn't built in a factory or procured from a defense contractor. It was built in four months by a network engineer us…
Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick
Alexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Yannic Kilcher's…
September 20
Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market
(0:00) Adam Foroughi joins the Besties! (3:07) Discovery vs search & is your phone listening? (10:04) IPO tumble & becoming your own best investor (16:00) Priva…
7 Ways How We Use AI Is Changing
From persistent conversations and voice commands to chatbots that coordinate entire teams of agents, the way we work with AI is shifting. NLW breaks down seven…
September 19
September 18
The AI Challenges Businesses Are Actually Focused On Right Now
While AI safety dominates the headlines, businesses are focused on agent security, shifting model choices, and control over their own data. NLW explores how the…
Jared Isaacman: A New Era for NASA and American Space Exploration
(0:00) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman lays out the state and future of NASA (17:59) Moon base, creating new space industries, NASA's next chapter (23:29) How…
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA
This week, we break down why everyone is suddenly talking about A.I. safety, why frontier A.I. companies are asking for regulation and why the Trump administrat…
Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.
AI news this week: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life. O…
Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon
As generative AI hits hardware and latency bottlenecks, Stanford professor, diffusion pioneer, and Inception co-founder and CEO Stefano Ermon is betting on a ra…
Nick Shirley: Exposing Government Fraud, Suing California & Taking on the Media
(0:00) Nick Shirley debuts his new video: "Inside California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere" (11:42) Nick joins The Besties to discuss California's "Stop Nick Shi…
September 17
Why Everyone Is Getting Excited About Personal AI Agents
Personal AI agents are gaining traction as tools like Meta’s Muse make everyday tasks easier to delegate. NLW explores what changed and why consumers are finall…
Snap Officially Launches SPECS
Happy Thursday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Paramount’s potential departure from California.Today&#…
Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta's Future
(0:00) Dina Powell McCormick joins The Besties! (1:52) Impact of Meta's data center in Richland Parish, LA: $50K teacher checks, revitalizing a small town commu…
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
New episode with Noam Brown.We talk about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, and what the current explosion of maths progress tells us about what happens once you auto…