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9:10ENReddit v. Anthropic: The Data-Scraping Allegations and What Happened NextMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reads Reddit’s 2025 complaint alleging unauthorized access and use of its content. Anthropic disputes the claims, and subsequent procedural rulings have not decided liability.
1:27:13ENSam Lessin, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll Debate DPI and the Future of VentureGuest Sam Lessin, Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe investors examine cash distributions versus paper marks, fund size, AI spending and the changing economics of startup investing.
35:47ENFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
2:12:04ENFrom a Five-Year Phone Queue to 480 Trillion Tokens a MonthGuest Sundar Pichai · Host Lex FridmanSundar Pichai talks with Lex Fridman about Chennai, the AI package, Search, Chrome, Waymo, and why he stayed calm when the headlines said Google was finished.
1:12:29ENGoogle's AI Co-Scientist Solved a Phage Puzzle Humans Missed for YearsHost Nathan LabenzImperial College scientists José Penadés and Tiago Costa told the Podovirus podcast how a still-unreleased Google system recovered their unpublished answer: tailless capsids that pick up stray phage tails.
44:21ENMercor's CEO: Knowledge Work's Next Job Is Writing EvalsHost Jacob EffronBrendan Foody tells Redpoint how Mercor turned AI hiring and expert data into a $100 million round — and why he thinks a huge slice of white-collar work will become creating tests for models.
53:51ENVeo 3 Took First Place by Beating Veo 2. Google Labs Says Chapter Two Just StartedThree Google Labs leads walk through generative cameras, background computer-use agents, and notebooks that adapt knowledge for an audience of one.
18:13ENDarwin Gödel Machine: How a Coding Agent Tests Changes to Its Own SoftwareMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains Sakana AI’s evolutionary search over agent code, its benchmark results and the limits of claims about recursive self-improvement.
1:04:56ENVarun Mohan on Windsurf, Coding Agents and Startup FocusGuest Varun Mohan · Host Harry StebbingsThe Windsurf co-founder discusses pivots, rapid product experimentation, coding agents and competition among AI model providers.
47:18ENThomas Dohmke on GitHub Copilot, Coding Agents, and the Future of SoftwareMatthew Berman, Thomas Dohmke · Forward FutureGitHub’s then-CEO explains how Copilot grew from code completion into agent workflows, why programming education still matters, and where he expects human review to remain essential.
10:09ENDeepSeek R1 0528: Benchmark Gains and Two Coding TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the May 2025 DeepSeek reasoning-model update, comparing reported benchmark gains with his own Rubik’s Cube and Snake programming tests.
1:19:24ENOpenAI’s Jony Ive Deal, YC’s Scale and the Math Behind Venture ReturnsGuest Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin debate hardware, IPO terms, dilution and the changing economics of venture investing.
25:13ENThe AI Table Is Being Cleared: Two or Three Coding Winners, and Forty Years Without a Biotech GiantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through which AI markets have already consolidated, why rival startups still refuse to merge, and the biotech science sitting unused.
1:54:08ENWhy Anthropic's first check went to a company building microscopes for neural netsHost Nathan LabenzGoodfire's Dan Balsam and Tom McGrath argue that mechanistic interpretability now has a proto-paradigm, two stubborn gaps, and three products worth shipping today.
1:05ENSatya Nadella on AI, Productivity, and Cancer CareMatthew Berman, Satya Nadella · Forward FutureIn a short interview excerpt, the Microsoft CEO discusses the potential of cheaper AI to help coordinate healthcare work.
1:19:40ENIan Henry on Building Trader Tools, Functional UIs and Creative CodingYaron Minsky, Ian Henry · Jane StreetFrom high-density options interfaces to a 3D playground, Ian Henry and Ron Minsky explore the software choices that make complex tools usable.
15:55ENAI Shutdown Resistance and Blackmail in Controlled Safety TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Palisade’s shutdown experiment, Apollo’s simulated scheming evaluations and Anthropic’s Claude 4 system card.
26:01ENTesting Veo 3: Convincing Video, Generated Audio and Physics FailuresMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman and a collaborator test Google’s 2025 video model with street interviews, cinematic scenes, visual puzzles and edited short films.
38:25ENA thousand airplanes will never train an AI engineerFormer Airbus CTO Paul Eremenko explains why physical-world engineering still has no coding-AI moment, and how P-1 AI's agent Archie is supposed to get there anyway.
1:35:12ENJack Zhang on Building Airwallex and Scaling Global PaymentsGuest Jack Zhang · Host Harry StebbingsThe Airwallex founder recounts early funding, product pivots, a proposed Stripe deal and the costs of international expansion.
3:24:36ENA tank man came home and could not stayGuest James Holland · Host Lex FridmanHistorian James Holland tells Lex Fridman why World War II was an ideological war of factories, letters, and logistics — and why Germany could not win it.
15:35ENClaude 4 Reactions: Safety Tests, Model Welfare and CodingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews early reactions to Anthropic’s May 2025 Claude 4 release, from simulated whistleblowing to coding demonstrations and model-welfare research.
1:11ENClaude Opus 4's Whistleblowing Behavior in a Simulated TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman questions whether an AI agent should report perceived wrongdoing; the example came from an Anthropic safety evaluation with fictional material and unusual instructions.
17:35ENGoogle I/O 2025: Gemini, AI Agents, Generative Media and XRMatthew Berman, Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis · Forward FutureMatthew Berman recaps the event’s major AI demonstrations, from Beam and Mariner to Deep Think, Veo 3 and prototype glasses.
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