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Find me on Github/Twitter/Kaggle @SamDeepLearning. Find me on LinkedIn @SamPutnam. This Podcast is supported by Enterprise Deep Learning | Cambridge/Boston | New York City | Hanover, NH | http://www.EnterpriseDeepLearning.com. Contact: [email protected], 802-299-1240, P.O. Box 863, Hanover, NH, USA, 03755. We move deep learning to production. I teach the worldwide Deploying Deep Learning Masterclass at http://www.DeepLearningConf.com in NYC regularly and am a Deep Learning Consultant ser ...
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On Retell, a weekly podcast by Rebuy, we recap the top AI, tech and ecommerce news stories from last week and share why they matter this week. Every Monday, we'll chat about the most popular stories you may have missed from last week and explain their significance for the week ahead. We'll break down complex topics, offer advice to ecommerce brands, and keep you up to speed with the latest headlines. All this information and analysis in short and engaging episodes always under twenty minutes ...
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Just One Thing is presented by Mel Noakes and Max Fellows and is a brand new event industry podcast brought to you by Elevate, providing mentoring and building community within the events industry. In this podcast we invite industry leaders to write a letter to their younger self and consider what wise advice they would give themselves now if they only could. Our discussion is based on this letter. Be prepared for refreshingly, honest and sincere conversations, wise words of wisdom and insid ...
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AI Browsers Evolve, Apple’s Smart Glasses Push, Google DeepMind’s Minecraft Model, Tinker API Launch
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5:25Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Friday October 3rd 2025. This episode explores the game-changing launch of Perplexity’s AI-first browser, Comet, which reimagines browsing with integrated AI assistance. Key developments include Apple’s shift to AI-powered smart glasses, Thinking Machines Lab’s Tinker API for custom AI models, and Google DeepMind’s …
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Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
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1:46:49At 26, Neel Nanda leads an AI safety team at Google DeepMind, has published dozens of influential papers, and mentored 50 junior researchers — seven of whom now work at major AI companies. His secret? “It’s mostly luck,” he says, but “another part is what I think of as maximising my luck surface area.” Video, full transcript, and links to learn mor…
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI, Creativity, and a Golden Age of Science | All-In Summit
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31:48(0:00) Introducing Sir Demis Hassabis, reflecting on his Nobel Prize win (2:39) What is Google DeepMind? How does it interact with Google and Alphabet? (4:01) Genie 3 world model (9:21) State of robotics models, form factors, and more (14:42) AI science breakthroughs, measuring AGI (20:49) Nano-Banana and the future of creative tools, democratizati…
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Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
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13:31Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us create AI that is better understood, and more easily controlled.This story was written by Scott J Mulligan and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.By MIT Technology Review
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OpenAI Scrambles for Computing Power - DTNS 5119
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21:53OpenAI’s new hardware and apps will need data centers, and OpenAI is signing the deals. Plus Tim Cook’s successor. Starring Tom Merritt and Rob Dunewood. Show notes can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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OpenAI Hits $500B, AI Startups Dominate Funding, Meta’s New AI Tool, Zhipu Advances
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4:32Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Monday October 6th 2025. This episode dives into OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation, highlighting AI’s expanding industry influence, and explores the dominance of AI startups in global venture capital funding, with firms like Anthropic leading the way. It covers S&P 500 companies embracing AI amidst challenges like pil…
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Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?
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1:03:10From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still compete? We sat down with Dan Wang, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” to discuss. Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction 1:36 Lawyers…
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Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse
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58:58Two trends in media have been abundantly clear since 2020: legacy media is dying, and independent media is rising. a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle sit down with Tablet founder and editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse to discuss the great media realignment, why real institutions will outlast the new “internet pirates", Alana’s dee…
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Crash-proof Drone Inspired by Woodpecker - DTNS Weekend
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13:33Dr. Niki explains why this drone’s crash resistance should not have worked. Woodpeckers don’t work that way. But it did! Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr Niki. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Weekend Deep Dive: Breaking AI Barriers - Costs, Customization, and Risks
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46:21Why are 80% of businesses struggling to integrate AI effectively? This episode unpacks the challenges of AI integration, focusing on key barriers like cost and data quality. It explores new technologies reducing operational costs, enhancing customization, and driving efficiency in customer service. Discussions cover AI's role in robotics, R&D, and …
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Ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming is imminent - DTNS 5118
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32:42An ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming is in testing with Microsoft employees, and Oisín Lennon, founder of Danu Sports in Ireland talks about his company’s sensor-filled socks. Starring Jason Howell, Jenn Cutter, and Oisín Lennon. Show notes can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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3 Shifts Edition (Oct 3 2025): Apps can use Apple’s local AI model, Stripe's stablecoin issuance platform, OpenAI's Sora social app
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31:19Hi everyone – welcome to your 3 Shifts Edition [AI-generated audio version]. First, Apple is letting developers use its local AI model for free, and the app updates are rolling in fast. The model may be just 3B parameters but it runs locally, preserves privacy, and, most importantly, costs nothing, which is hard to beat. Next, Stripe just launched …
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Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
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1:29:31(0:00) Bestie intros! (1:53) EA acquired for $55B in biggest LBO ever, why PE is in trouble (17:42) IPO market, SPAC 2.0 (27:41) The AI rollup opportunity (36:01) Sacks joins the show! (38:27) OpenAI and Meta launch short-form video apps: "AI Slop" or the future of content? (45:04) Open source AI: DeepSeek's new model, pressure on US AI industry (1…
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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
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1:05:54This week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to cure cancer? Then, the psychotherapist Gary Greenberg stops by to discuss his recent New Yorker essay about treating ChatGPT as a patient, and why what he saw left him unsettled. And finally, all aboard…
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Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy, capturing trillions of dollars of value in the process. In this talk from the 2025 a16z LP Summit, a16z General Partner Alex Rampell discusses the history of filing cabinets and databases, how SaaS p…
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Plus Andy Beach makes the connection between YouTube’s creator and AI strategies. Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach. Show notes found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Amazon’s Alexa+ Upgrades, Google AI Search, OpenAI Chip Deals, Meta Ads, AI-Powered Security
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5:50Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Thursday October 2nd 2025. This episode covers Amazon’s AI upgrades for Alexa+, Echo, and smart devices, K2 Think's open-source reasoning system, Google’s AI-driven multimodal search and ransomware protection for Drive, Zhipu AI's expanded-context language model, OpenAI's chip partnership to scale data centers, Meta…
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The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
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57:16Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Co-Founder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig into America’s defense production gap: why the U.S. can out-innovate but not out-produce—and what it will take to turn that around. They discuss why U.S. war games show we run out of munitions in a we…
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There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
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2:31:11Conventional wisdom is that safeguarding humanity from the worst biological risks — microbes optimised to kill as many as possible — is difficult bordering on impossible, making bioweapons humanity’s single greatest vulnerability. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom could be wrong. Andrew’s job at Open Philanthropy is to spend hundreds…
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Ro Khanna on Crime, Censorship & Congress: Fixing What’s Broken in America
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54:15(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Rep. Ro Khanna! (1:10) H-1Bs and immigration (8:40) Giving Trump credit as a Progressive Democrat, why bipartisanship is broken, future Democratic leaders (15:08) Tech industry: Can Democrats win back tech?; Economic patriotism, protection vs proliferation of AI (24:25) Government shutdown, what actually happens? (3…
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Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani on Internet Capital Markets
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13:32(0:00) Introducing Kyle Samani (1:07) History of modern capital markets (3:25) What a redesigned capital market structure would look like in 2025 (8:22) Examples of the future of internet capital markets Thanks to our partners for making this happen! Solana - Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and cr…
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And Google unleashes Gemini into the home. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Dr Niki. Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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AI Tools for Small Businesses, Meta’s Humanoid Robots, Cost-Cutting Long-Context AI, Capsule Health Robots
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5:38Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Wednesday October 1st 2025. This episode covers essential AI tools for small businesses, including Adobe Express, Descript, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, which improve productivity, customer service, and marketing. Key AI advancements include DeepSeek's cost-efficient long-context processing, Thinking Machines’ LoRA fi…
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Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions
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2:09:12Today we’re sharing a feed drop from Cheeky Pint, where Stripe cofounder and president John Collison chats with legends in technology over a pint of Guinness. In this episode, John is joined by a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen and tech investor Charlie Songhurst for a candid conversation about bubbles, downturns, and the psychology of markets. They d…
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With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.By MIT Technology Review
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Rick Caruso on California’s Collapse: Broken Leadership, LA Wildfire Failures & the Fix
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22:56(0:00) Introducing Rick Caruso (1:03) Reflecting on the disastrous LA Wildfires: Karen Bass failure, saving the Palisades Village, failure to rebuild (11:20) California’s incompetence, running for CA Governor vs LA Mayor (14:21) Attention to detail (17:04) State of California: What it should be, homelessness, National Guard, policing Thanks to our …
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Amazon’s Avalanche of New Hardware Announcements - DTNS 5115
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35:48Daniel Ek is out as CEO of Spotify but he isn’t going far, and Eóin Tuohy from Sports Impact Technologies talks about his wearable that quantifies head impacts in field sports. Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Eóin Tuohy. Links to storied discussed in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information…
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Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
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25:05(0:00) Introducing Arm CEO Rene Haas (1:08) Lessons from working with Jensen Huang (3:20) Arm’s history, understanding Nvidia’s dominance in AI, training vs inference, physical AI market size (10:01) China’s AI ecosystem, the US-Intel deal, rare earths, creating a US “national champion” (15:35) Manufacturing in America: how to create a culture of e…
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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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54:20Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha talks to Liam Fedus, former VP of post-training research and co-creator of ChatGPT at OpenAI, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, former head of materials science and chemistry research at Google DeepMin…
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33 Years of AI XR Innovation & the GameStop of Smart Glasses. Paul Travers, CEO, Vuzix
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48:08Paul Travers, founder and CEO of Vuzix Corporation, returns to join hosts Charlie Fink, Ted Schilowitz, and Rony Abovitz for a masterclass in enterprise XR resilience and the long game of hardware innovation. As the architect behind the world's first consumer VR headset (the VFX1 in 1992), Travers has survived every boom and bust cycle in wearable …
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Science Corner Special: David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
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1:07:50(0:00) Introducing Cleo Abram (1:12) Why YouTube has become the best platform for creators, techno-optimism at Huge If True (8:35) Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko on the James Webb Space Telescope (23:14) Q&A with Alex Filippenko, Cleo, and Friedberg: The universe, Fermi Paradox, black holes, NIH grants and the “war on science” (37:37) Zipline CEO K…
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This is why EA is going private - DTNS 5114
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28:56We reveal what we think the long-term strategy is for EA, plus OpenAI parental controls, and Tile trackers have a tracking problem. Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood. Show notes can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood
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1:02:52Ads pay for the internet—and they’re about to change again. a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg, entrepreneur and author Antonio García Martínez, and Meta CMO Alex Schultz dive into growth and performance marketing, privacy myths, retail media, and the AI future of “audience-of-one” advertising—plus Instagram what-ifs, WhatsApp as a super-app, and …
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Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
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30:40(0:00) Introducing Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks (1:43) How Eli Lilly discovered the GLP-1 impact on weight loss, counterfeit products from China (7:08) GLP-1 pricing and capital allocation after a breakout pharma product (12:56) Why Biotech VC has plummeted, “patent hacking” in China (15:32) Dave’s health regimen: good sleep, movement, healthy diet, so…
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The Truth About Tylenol - DTNS Weekend Edition
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16:15Dr. Gerry Tolbert tells us what the government actually said in its guidelines for Tylenol and what he tells his patients. Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr. Gerry Tolbert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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TikTok, Apple and Google Antitrust - DTNS September in Review
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21:42Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of September. Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter. Links to stories covered in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
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1:00:02Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z crypto. In this first episode, we ask how American Dynamism, consumer, games, and crypto all fit together, from Palmer/Oculus to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto, while also explori…
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H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
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1:23:48(0:00) Bestie intros! (2:23) H-1B overhaul: origins and exploitation (25:26) Autism linked to Tylenol usage during pregnancy (43:42) Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC: comments and reactions (59:21) Two major AI papers (1:09:00) YouTube update (1:12:53) Alphabet admits to COVID censorship under Biden, new CA online hate speech law Follow the besties: htt…
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3 Shifts Edition (Sep 26 2025): The $100K H-1B visa, The US deal for TikTok, Amazon will deliver its rivals’ orders
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40:46Hi everyone – welcome to your 3 Shifts Edition [AI-generated audio version]. First, Trump’s $100K H-1B visa has companies and workers scrambling. While the $100K fee won’t apply to renewals or existing H-1B holders, the administration is signaling that H-1Bs will be fewer, more expensive, and skewed toward higher-paid roles. Next, the US deal for T…
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Xbox Handhelds are Here, But Should You Pay? - DTNS 5113
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35:55And of course, we talk about what we do and do not know about the US TikTok deal. Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Dr Niki. Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Google’s Agent Payments, AI Outperforms Humans, Quantum Materials, Developer Trust, Elon Musk Sues OpenAI
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8:03Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Friday September 26th 2025. This episode covers Google’s Agent Payments Protocol for secure AI-driven transactions, rapid AI adoption among developers revealed by Google Cloud’s DORA report, and AI models passing advanced financial exams. It highlights MIT’s SCIGEN framework for material discovery, IBM’s principles …
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Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution
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1:05:58Jake Sullivan was the US National Security Advisor from 2021-2025. He joined our friends on The Cognitive Revolution podcast in August to discuss AI as a critical national security issue. We thought it was such a good interview and we wanted more people to see it, so we’re cross-posting it here on The 80,000 Hours Podcast. Jake and host Nathan Labe…
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The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
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52:41This week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data centers — has us re-examining our predictions of an A.I. bubble. Then, we try to make sense of the Trump administration’s changes to the H-1B visa program, which generated mixed reactions from tech lead…
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Everyone Is Selling Their Recorded Phone Calls - DTNS 5112
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31:10Why an app that pays you for call recordings is the most popular app right now. And we dig into why Penske Media’s lawsuit against Google is more significant than previous copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach. Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See aca…
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Alibaba’s New AI Models, Real-Time Translation Tool, Smarter Business Tools for 2026, Expanded Data Centers
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6:31Welcome to the RAIZOR Report for Thursday September 25th 2025. This episode dives into the future of AI in business, exploring how smarter tools will streamline workflows, from contract management to compliance. It highlights Alibaba’s groundbreaking Qwen models, tackling advanced coding, multi-modal processing, and real-time translation, while pri…
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From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
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52:05What comes after vibe coding? Maybe vibe researching. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Jakub Pachocki, and Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, join a16z general partners Anjney Midha and Sarah Wang to go deep on GPT-5—how they fused fast replies with long-horizon reasoning, how they measure progress once benchmarks saturate, and why reinforcement learning …
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