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Palmer Luckey on AIAA Up Next: Anduril’s Fury FQ-44A, Designing Missiles for Car Factories, Patents as Chinese Instruction Manuals, the iPhone Skill Ceiling, and Why Subterranean Warfare Is the Next Domain
Palmer Luckey sat down with AIAA CEO Clay Mowry and flight test engineer Jessica “Sting” Peterson at Anduril’s Costa Mesa headquarters for an episode of Up Next, the…
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Short Videos Impair Memory and Reduce Brain Synchrony, fMRI Study Finds: Why TikTok-Style Learning Leads to Faster Forgetting Than Long Videos
A new study published in Communications Psychology, a Nature Portfolio journal, tests a question most of us have quietly wondered about while scrolling: can you actually learn anything…
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Peter Thiel Interview with Mathias Döpfner on the AI Crisis, Europe’s Decline, the Democratic Socialist Threat, and the Case for Living Forever
Peter Thiel sat down with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for an hour-long MDMEETS conversation on the day he received the Axel Springer Award. It covers a lot…
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Secure Acceleration: Shalev and Romi Lifshitz’s Cyberdefense Strategy for Superintelligence, the Cyberswarm Equation, the Hugging Face Incident, and the SET Threat Model of Sabotage, Escape, and Theft
Secure Acceleration is a new report by Shalev Lifshitz and Romi Lifshitz, co-founders of the stealth San Francisco AI security lab Enclosure, and it makes one of the…
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Howard Marks, Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics Part III: Treasury Bond Buybacks, the 5.3% 30-Year Yield, $40 Trillion in Debt, Dollar Debasement, and Why Selling Your Stocks Isn’t the Answer
Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, has published the third installment of his series on governments trying to override markets, dated September 22, 2026. Shall We Repeal…
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BlackRock’s Machine-Native Economy Paper Is the Most Bullish Institutional Case Yet for Bitcoin and Crypto: AI Agents, Stablecoins, x402, and the Coming Market for Tokenized Compute
BlackRock, the largest asset manager on the planet, just published an 11-page research paper arguing that artificial intelligence may be the most underappreciated demand driver the crypto economy…
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Why I Couldn’t Build Jev at OpenAI: Diogo Almeida on TypeSafe, System One Models, RLCD, and Making AI Programmable
Diogo Almeida spent years inside OpenAI arguing that the entire field was optimizing the wrong thing, and then left to prove it. In this long interview recorded days…
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Rick Rubin on the One Human Trait AI Can Never Replicate: Point of View, Indefensible Art, and Why the Creativity Is in the Prompt
Rick Rubin has been making things for forty years, from founding Def Jam at twenty one to producing Johnny Cash, Jay-Z, Adele, Kanye West, Tom Petty, System of…
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Noam Brown on How a Swarm of 10,000 AI Agents Solved Navier-Stokes: Multi-Agent Scaling, Recursive Self-Improvement Timelines, the Hugging Face Incident, and Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
A week after OpenAI announced that a system of 10,000 AI agents solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, Dwarkesh Patel sat down with Noam Brown, one of…
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Barry Ritholtz on How Not to Invest: The Failure Gap, Sturgeon’s Law, Why Financial News Actively Hurts Your Returns, and Why He Says You Should Buy a New Car
Barry Ritholtz returned to the Rational Reminder podcast for episode 421, roughly seven years after Benjamin Felix and Cameron Passmore hauled backpacks full of recording gear to his…
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Scott Bessent Says Bottom 25% Wage Growth Is Now Beating Inflation: Trump Accounts, the AI One Person Company Boom, and $600 Billion in Federal Fraud
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff for a fast twenty four minute interview aimed squarely at young Americans who have been told…
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Michael Saylor Explains Why He Sold Bitcoin, How He Used AI to Make $15 Billion, and Why Saving Cash Destroys Your Wealth
Michael Saylor runs the company that owns 847,000 Bitcoin, roughly 4% of everything that will ever exist, and he sat down with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of…