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Amin Vahdat of Google: Why Power, Not Chips, Limits the AI Buildout
Amin Vahdat, who runs AI infrastructure at Google, explains how the company builds AI data centers, why it measures them by “goodput” and not chip speed, and why…
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Eric Schmidt on the Road to Superintelligence: Recursive Self-Improvement, Long Reasoning, the San Francisco Consensus, AI-Native CEOs, and Why His Programming Career Is Over (Inside Blackstone)
On this week’s episode of Inside Blackstone, Christine Anderson sits down with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, now CEO and chair of Relativity Space, for a conversation about…
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Bill Ackman on Lessons from a Lifetime of Investing: AI Disruption Risk, the Netflix Round Trip, Howard Hughes as a Modern Berkshire Hathaway, and Building a Brain Institute After His Daughter’s Hemorrhage
Bill Ackman sat down with Shane Parrish on The Knowledge Project for a wide-ranging conversation that opens somewhere no investing interview usually goes: his daughter Lucy’s near-fatal brain…
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Lloyd Blankfein on the 3 Sectors Where He Puts His Money Now: Big Tech, Energy, and Financial Services, Day Trading From an iPad, and the Warren Buffett Handshake That Backed Goldman in 2008
Lloyd Blankfein spent almost 40 years at Goldman Sachs, the last dozen as its chairman and chief executive, and he still trades almost every day from an iPad.…
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Anthropic Raises $65 Billion Series H at $965 Billion Valuation to Fund AI Safety Research and Massive Compute Expansion
Anthropic has closed one of the largest private financing rounds in the history of technology, raising $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation.…
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Gavin Baker on Orbital Compute, TSMC, Frontier AI Models, Anthropic’s Vertical Take Off, and the Coming Wafer Shortage
Gavin Baker, founder and CIO of Atreides Management, returns to Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best for his sixth appearance. He calls the current AI moment the most…
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Sundar Pichai on the All-In Podcast: Unpacking Alphabet’s AI Future, Competitive Pressures, and the Next $100B Bets
TLDW (Too Long; Didn’t Watch): Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, sat down with the All-In Podcast to discuss AI’s seismic impact on Google Search, the company’s infrastructure and…
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The Future We Can’t Ignore: Google’s Ex-CEO on the Existential Risks of AI and How We Must Control It
AI isn’t just here to serve you the next viral cat video—it’s on the verge of revolutionizing or even dismantling everything from our jobs to global security. Eric…
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Gemini: Google’s Multimodal AI Breakthrough Sets New Standards in Cross-Domain Mastery
Google’s recent unveiling of the Gemini family of multimodal models marks a significant leap in artificial intelligence. The Gemini models are not just another iteration of AI technology;…
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Microsoft Transitions from Bing Chat to Copilot: A Strategic Rebranding
In a significant shift in its AI strategy, Microsoft has announced the rebranding of Bing Chat to Copilot. This move underscores the tech giant’s ambition to make a…
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Amazon Charts New Territory with ‘Vega’: A Homegrown OS for Smart Devices
Amazon, the global e-commerce behemoth, is reportedly taking a bold step away from Android with the development of its own operating system for Fire TVs and smart displays.…
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Leveraging Efficiency: The Promise of Compact Language Models
In the world of artificial intelligence chatbots, the common mantra is “the bigger, the better.” Large language models such as ChatGPT and Bard, renowned for generating authentic, interactive…