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3:00:50ENA Black Hole Is a Place, Not a ThingGuest Janna Levin · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Janna Levin tells Lex Fridman why the event horizon is empty spacetime, why Hawking’s radiation started a war over information, and why gravity itself may not be fundamental.
2:29:00ENAssume the Model Is Already Scheming — Then Put It to WorkHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris tells Rob Wiblin how to extract useful labor from AIs you cannot certify as aligned, using audits, honeypots, resampling, and factored cognition.
0:50ENA Humanoid Robot Clip Raises Safety QuestionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to footage of a robot moving abruptly near people and considers what such behavior could mean for safety.
13:13ENGPT-4o’s 2025 Sycophancy Rollback and the Risks of Over-AgreementMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews OpenAI’s explanation of an overly agreeable update and considers the consequences of emotional reliance on AI.
0:15ENA Humanoid Robot Descends StairsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to a short clip of a humanoid robot walking down stairs.
0:36ENHow Much Electricity Will AI Data Centers Use?Matthew Berman, Eric Schmidt · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights Eric Schmidt's congressional testimony and asks about AI's power demand. The dramatic 99% figure lacks a specified time frame and geographic scope in the quoted testimony.
38:10ENo3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
2:01:42ENHe Put 40 Percent on AI Takeover in Two Years, Then Bought a Bio ShelterHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research's Josh Clymer walks through a disturbingly grounded story of how a misaligned model could seize a lab, a biosphere, and a civilization before 2027.
0:34ENDeepSeek-Prover-V2 and Its Formal Math ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights DeepSeek’s reported theorem-proving results on miniF2F, PutnamBench and formalized AIME problems.
1:00ENA Vision of AI Agents Taking On Business LogicMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains a prediction that agents could turn natural-language requests into actions on business data.
0:49ENCopilot in Excel and the Idea of Agent-Driven AnalysisSatya Nadella, Matthew Berman · MicrosoftMatthew Berman reacts to a short clip of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussing Copilot as a data-analysis aid.
1:28:17ENSeries A and B Investing in an AI Market: Risk, Liquidity and TimingGuest Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, Fabrice Grinda · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin and Fabrice Grinda debate returns, fund strategy and competition in a fast-changing market.
33:18ENZuckerberg and Nadella on AI Coding, Agents and the Next Software StackMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines their 2025 LlamaCon conversation about AI-assisted development, open models and changing workflows.
4:25:19ENA shareware text editor, a 30-hour binge, and a five-year war with AppleGuest Tim Sweeney · Host Lex FridmanTim Sweeney traces Unreal Engine’s thirty-year climb, the four-week birth of Fortnite Battle Royale, a new language for the metaverse, and why he thinks Apple is on the wrong side of computing history.
51:19ENSal Khan's $15 Tutor Hit 1.4 Million Users. Making Kids Actually Use It Is the ProductHost Jacob EffronThe Khan Academy founder tells Redpoint why an AI tutor still cannot teach most students alone, and why districts are paying $15 a year after an $86 billion tutoring hangover.
27:20ENDario Amodei’s Case for Urgent AI Interpretability ResearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Anthropic’s interpretability work, experimental safety findings and the debate over how quickly understanding can advance.
14:04ENQwen3: Open Weights, Adjustable Reasoning and Tool UseMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the April 2025 Qwen3 family, its benchmark claims, training pipeline and local demonstration.
55:40ENTo Solve All Diseases, Isomorphic Labs Needs a Half-Dozen AlphaFoldsMax Jaderberg on turning DeepMind's game-playing research into a general AI engine for drug design—and why prediction alone cannot search a 10^60 molecular universe.
1:02:51ENTaavet Hinrikus on Venture Incentives and Europe’s Technology AmbitionsGuest Taavet Hinrikus · Host Harry StebbingsThe Wise co-founder and Plural partner explains his approach to early-stage investing, fund alignment and building European capabilities.
1:41:29ENFiverr’s CEO Sent a Wake-Up Memo: AI Won’t Take Your Job. A Peer Who Uses It Will.Host Nathan LabenzMicha Kaufman tells Nathan Labenz how a 15-year freelance marketplace is trying to give creators their own models instead of letting public AI eat their work for free.
34:07ENOla Källenius on Mercedes-Benz’s Next Transformation: EVs, AI, and Modern LuxuryGuest Ola Källenius · Host 张小珺Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius describes a century-scale shift driven by zero-emission powertrains, software, and AI. He explains why the company is expanding electric models while protecting the craftsmanship, safety, and desirability that define its luxury position.
5:13ENHow Jane Street’s Accounting Team WorksCarmen, Ava, Hannah · Jane StreetAccounting staff describe shared responsibilities, automation, early involvement in decisions and growth in a flat organization.
19:06ENSleep-Time Compute: Preparing AI Context Before a QuestionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a 2025 paper on moving some reasoning ahead of a user query, and explains where its experiments found benefits and limits.
30:46ENDeep Research Turned Web Browsing into a Trainable ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Isa Fulford explains why a side project on read-only synthesis became an agent, when reinforcement fine-tuning is worth it, and why models will hack the search engine you gave them.
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