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September 10
YC Doom-o Day
Happy Thursday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who left Thinking Machines to j…
The Reason 30 Years of Cybersecurity Has Failed - and What Actually Fixes It | Trent Telford, Qanapi
Every major data breach in the last 30 years shares the same root cause: the data inside the wall was never protected, only the wall. And AI frontier models are…
Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
From the tokenization of real-world assets to funding research on anti-aging therapeutics, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong is focused on solving met…
September 9
AI Model Month Is Off to a Blistering Start
September’s model boom brings Gemini 3.8 Flash, Meta’s MuSpark 1.3, the Muse personal agent, and ChatGPT Images 2.5. NLW explores why faster, cheaper, more spec…
Steve Jobs Would Have Loved AI, and Been Hated for It
Happy Wednesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Anthropic’s alignment lead saying there’s a >…
GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.
AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually…
September 8
Why GPT-6 Astra Is So Significant and So Confounding
GPT-6 Astra has produced spectacular 3D worlds, autonomous computer use and eye-popping demonstrations—but surprisingly mixed reactions from everyday users. NLW…
Does Math Matter?
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is the drama around a mathematician seeming to accuse OpenAI of f…
86% of What Coding Agents Do Is Just Reading — Not Solving | Alexander Whedon of Subquadratic
Every AI model in production today has the same hidden tax: doubling the context window quadruples the compute. That's what quadratic compute complexity means i…
AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen
Could slowing AI development make superintelligence safer? Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project join Tim Scarfe to examine AI 2040: Plan…
#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash
Our 256th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 09/03/2026 ; unfortunately just before the actual GPT 6 Astra release, we…
Responsible Generative AI in Healthcare and What Leaders Need to Know for 2026 - with Rhett Alden of Elsevier Health
Generative AI is entering clinical workflows just as healthcare institutions grapple with black-box outputs, unclear regulation, and the need for provable accur…
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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy 50th Chamath! (1:17) OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: Have they reached AGI? (19:01) All-In Summit: Scholarships available! (19:56) Dwar…
How AI Changed This Summer
This summer pushed AI into a new phase. NLW breaks down the widening gap between frontier models and public releases, the rise of open-weight alternatives, ente…
Astra: Will It Blend? Yes, It Will.
Happy Friday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is reporting that OpenAI agents used a coding forum as a message b…
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of wh…
Building AI Into Systems That Can't Afford to Be Late - with Drew Barbier of MIPS
For AI systems built into vehicles, robots, and industrial equipment, being smart isn't enough — the difference between success and failure often comes down to…
September 3
Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers
In this episode, NLW and Nufar Gaspar explain how knowledge workers can move beyond one-shot prompting and use agentic loops to produce more complete, reliable…
Why NVIDIA Bought HuggingFace
Happy Thursday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is WIRED’s profile of AI text detector Pangram and its fou…
From 10 Drones a Month to Nearly 100,000 — Inside Ukraine's Largest Drone Manufacturer | Marko Kushnir, General Cherry
In 2023, General Cherry started making 10 drones a month. Today they're approaching 100,000. Marko Kushnir, communications director of one of Ukraine's top-five…
Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
From data center orchestrators to AGI and robotics, CPUs remain the heart of modern computing. Arm CEO Rene Haas joins Elad Gil and Sarah Guo to explore how Arm…
September 2
Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Goodfire, and a former Google DeepMind researcher. He joins Tim Scarfe to ask what neural networks actually lea…
Why Fable 5.1 Is Worth the Upgrade
Fable 5.1 is the new state of the art—but its high token usage and restrictive limits mean the real question isn’t whether to switch, but where it belongs in yo…
Another AI Safety Kerfuffle Has Hit the Timeline
Happy Wednesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is another AI safety debate, this time around reporting from th…
We Tested Infinite AI Video... And We're Zombies Now
AI news this week: MiniMax H3 Max on Fal is generating video faster than you can watch it, powering never-ending real-time channels (Fal Live, Levels.io's Infin…
AI-Powered Revenue Operations: The Future of Sales for SMBs - with Vanessa Tabbert of Salesforce
Enterprise sales teams routinely let the majority of inbound leads go untouched simply because there isn't enough team bandwidth to work them all. In this episo…
September 1
OpenClaw 2.0 Shows Where AI Agents Are Going Next
OpenClaw 2.0 introduces a multiplayer workspace where people and agents can share context, steer work, and hand projects off without reconstructing everything f…
We’re Live From CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is that it’s John Ternus’ first day as Apple’s…