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StandardSummaries onlyThe Reality of AI-Powered Cyberattacks | Truffle Security & Socket
The a16z Show· Aug 7, 2026
Joel De La Garza is joined by Dylan Ayrey, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Security, and Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, to discuss one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity: AI models are no lon…
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Hugging Face's CEO on Open Source AI, Model Routing, and the Future of Competition
The a16z Show· Jul 20, 2026
As governments weigh new restrictions on frontier AI models, one question is becoming increasingly important: what role should open source play in the future of artificial intelligence? Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini spea…
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Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI
The a16z Show· Daniel Litt· Sep 1, 2026
a16z’s Lisha Li sits down with Daniel Litt, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, to unpack AI's rapid progress in mathematics, what today's frontier models can actually do, and what they're st…
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StandardSummaries only20VC: Scale, Surge, Turing, Mercor: Who Wins & Who Loses in Data Labelling | Is Revenue in Data Labelling Real or GMV? | Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Go and What Happens Then? | Why SaaS is Dead in a World of AI with Jonathan Siddharth @ Turing
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Dec 1, 2025
Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $350M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company…
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How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?
The a16z Show· Aug 18, 2026
a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Nick Warner of Neo and Max Pollard of Cotool to discuss what happens when cybersecurity tools built to defend against humans and malware suddenly have to contend with AI agents. As fr…
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StandardSummaries onlyIt Wasn't Just ColdCard: AI Is Finding Bugs in Every Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin Well Podcast· Aug 14, 2026
This isn't just a ColdCard story anymore. In this emergency episode, Portland Hodl, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of Slipstream, reveals that an open-source AI model with none of the safety guardrails of US fronti…
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StandardSummaries only3D Artists reacts to Live VFX 🤯
Bad Decisions Podcast· Jul 17, 2026
Lucy 2.5 overlays generated effects onto live webcam footage in real time, and the effects actually react to your hands, your hair, and the light in the room. Kimi K3 became the first Chinese open-weight model to beat th…
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20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jul 23, 2026
Rory O'Driscoll & Jason Lemkin break down China's new frontier models, why now may be the perfect time for OpenRouter to sell, Fireworks' $1.5B raise, and whether Stripe can pull off a PayPal takeover.
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20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jul 4, 2026
Clay Bavor is the Co-Founder of Sierra, one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise AI companies. Sierra is valued at approximately $15.8 billion, has raised more than $1.5BN from leading investors including Sequoia, B…
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20VC: The AI Bubble Is Wrong | AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern | Why People Over-Estimate Open Models But Enterprises Still Fear Frontier Models with Aaron Katz, ClickHouse
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Aug 31, 2026
ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz reveals they're tracking from $0 to $500M+ ARR, targets $1B by late 2027, boasts 200%+ net dollar retention, and explains why agents—not humans—will soon select your entire infrastructure stack.
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Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI
The a16z Show· Ben Horowitz· Jul 26, 2026
Ben Horowitz joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to discuss one of the biggest debates in AI today: the future of open-source models. They examine the growing push to restrict open models, why Ben believes open source is…
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StandardSummaries onlyAll The Headlines, All The Model Drops...
Tech Brew Ride Home· Apr 24, 2026
DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash, undercutting US labs on price by roughly 5x. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude. Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs on May 20, and Google plans to inves…
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StandardSummaries only⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Jan 27, 2026
From building Crixet in stealth (so stealthy Kevin had to hunt down Victor on Reddit to explore an acquisition) to launching Prism (https://openai.com/prism/) as OpenAI's free AI-native LaTeX editor, Kevin Weil (VP of Op…
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StandardSummaries onlyWelcome to the AI crisis in math
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Aug 20, 2026
My guest today is Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter. Robert recently wrote a fantastic story for us about the debate raging inside the world of mathematics — and the existential crisis over what it means …
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20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jul 9, 2026
Harry, Rory, and Jason break down Washington lifting the Fable 5 ban, Sam Altman's wild offer to give the US government a 5% OpenAI stake, Deepseek building its own chip, and Meta's surprise cloud business launch.
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Intelligent ReportThe Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jul 13, 2026
ElevenLabs CEO reveals $600M ARR in 40 months, zero PM hires, and why voice AI just hit a golden era—plus Legora's CEO on how AI is dismantling the trillion-dollar legal industry from the inside.
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Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jun 26, 2026
DSA socialists sweep NYC primaries, Mamdani's political rise, China's GLM-5.2 challenges US AI dominance, Micron smashes earnings, and Apple raises Mac prices amid tariff pressures.
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20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Brendan Foody· Jun 1, 2026
Macaw co-CEO Brandon Foody busts myths about the company's hack and revenue, reveals spending more on AI tokens than employee salaries, and predicts at least one frontier lab hits $10 trillion.
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Intelligent ReportAnthropic Ships Opus 4.7, $2B With No Product & Google AI Deals
The Jaeden Schafer Podcast· Apr 16, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 launches with intentionally nerfed security features, a robotics sim-to-real startup raises $8.5M, and a 7-month-old chipmaker eyes a $2B valuation with zero products.
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Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jun 13, 2026
Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus release sparks fury over secret model downgrades, mandatory data retention, and Dario's regulatory capture push — while Bernie Sanders wants to seize 50% of AI companies.
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Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet
The a16z Show· Jul 24, 2026
Sriram Krishnan joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini just after concluding his tenure as Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI to discuss one of the biggest weeks yet for open-source AI. They unpack the rapid release of…
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Gavin Baker: Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
The a16z Show· Gavin Baker· Aug 31, 2026
a16z’s David George sits down with Gavin Baker to unpack the state of the AI boom, why demand for intelligence may still be dramatically underestimated, and why the outcome doesn't necessarily have to be winner-take-all.…
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Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Feb 12, 2026
From rewriting Google’s search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with frontier ML research, Jeff Dean has quietly shaped nearly every layer of the modern AI stack…
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StandardSummaries onlyGenie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)· Aug 19, 2025
Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution …
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World Models and the Future of Spatial AI with Justin Johnson
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)· Justin Johnson· Sep 1, 2026
In this episode, Justin Johnson, co-founder of World Labs, joins us to discuss world models and the emerging field of spatial AI. We explore why many researchers see capabilities beyond language as an important frontier …
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20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Osvald Nitski· Jul 25, 2026
Osvald Nitski is the Chief Product Officer at Mercor, the AI-training and expert-data marketplace powering frontier-model development. Mercor last raised a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation, and is reporte…
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The State of AI: Macro, Apps, and Consumer
The a16z Show· Aug 26, 2026
Anish Acharya joins Jen Kha to break down the next frontier of AI, from the evolving model landscape and open-source AI to why the application layer, and consumer AI in particular, may be entering a new phase. Anish expl…
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Intelligent ReportJitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language
The Robot Brains Podcast· Jitendra Malik· Aug 17, 2023
Berkeley professor Jitendra Malik discusses why today's AI falls short of human intelligence, the importance of physical skill acquisition, rapid motor adaptation in robots, and how benchmarking transformed computer visi…
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AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom's CA Budget Lie
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jul 3, 2026
Palantir & Nvidia's sovereign AI partnership sparks a deep debate on intelligence sovereignty, enterprise data risks, frontier model duopoly, open source vs. closed models, and whether AI is truly eliminating jobs.
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Why Video Agent models are next — Ethan He, xAI Grok Imagine
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Jun 1, 2026
We’re announcing AIEWF speakers this week! Take the AI Engineering Survey!Today’s guest Ethan first joined us for the LS Paper Club as the lead on NVIDIA Cosmos World Model, but then joined xAI and built Grok Imagine in …
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Infrastructure Scaling and Compound AI Systems with Jared Quincy Davis
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)· Jared Quincy Davis· Jul 22, 2025
In this episode, Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO at Foundry, introduces the concept of "compound AI systems," which allows users to create powerful, efficient applications by composing multiple, often diverse, AI mod…
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More Trillion Dollar IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jul 11, 2026
The besties debate trillion-dollar AI IPOs, token cost explosions, enterprise ROI reckonings, open-source vs. frontier model wars, and China's potential move to restrict its top AI models from the West.
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The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Jul 24, 2026
Kimi K3 sparks White House panic over banning Chinese open source AI, Anthropic settles a $1.5B copyright lawsuit, and the guys debate whether frontier model dominance is already evaporating.
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AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil
The a16z Show· Kevin Weil· Jun 26, 2026
Kevin Weil, the previous CPO & Vice President of Science at OpenAI, joins Speedrun to discuss the future of AI, scientific discovery, and startup building. After helping build products at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook…
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20VC: NVIDIA Bonanza: Buys Poolside & Invests in Mercor and Perplexity | Anthropic's $30TRN Revenue Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service, Defence and Robotics are Overinflated
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Aug 27, 2026
AGENDA: 00:00 NVIDIA Launches a Three-Deal Blitz Across the AI Stack 04:31 NVIDIA's $12BN Poolside Deal Exposes Frontier AI's Capital Wall 15:39 NVIDIA Moves to Back Mercor at $20BN and Perplexity at $30BN 26:55 OpenAI C…
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🔬Searching the Space of All Possible Materials — Prof. Max Welling, CuspAI
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Feb 25, 2026
Editor’s note: CuspAI raised a $100m Series A in September and is rumored to have reached a unicorn valuation. They have all-star advisors from Geoff Hinton to Yann Lecun and team of deep domain experts to tackle this ne…
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20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jun 22, 2026
Nikesh Arora is the Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader. Since taking over in 2018, he has transformed the company from an $18 billion market cap business into one worth more than $225…
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Intelligent Report#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast· Feb 1, 2026
Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert break down the AI landscape with Lex Friedman, covering open-weight models, Chinese lab competition, coding tools, and why transformer architectures haven't fundamentally changed desp…
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Google Stops AI Exploit, Nadella Testifies, OpenAI's New $4B Unit
The Jaeden Schafer Podcast· May 11, 2026
Google's AI caught the first wild zero-day exploit by spotting hallucinated CVSS scores in AI-written malware, plus Nadella reveals Microsoft recovered $9.5B of its OpenAI investment and a Robinhood co-founder raises $27…
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