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Matthew Berman· Sep 1, 2026Why OpenAI Plans to End Its Direct Model Agreement With CursorMatthew Berman · Forward FutureAfter SpaceX acquired Cursor, OpenAI proposed winding down its model-supply contract. Matthew Berman examines the dispute, competing providers and the risks of relying on another company’s models.
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Sequoia Capital· Sep 1, 2026PodcastAfter Two Dozen Police Departments Said No, They Built an Anti-Network-Effect AI CompanyA Wisconsin county had 300 gigabytes sitting on a cold case—and Peregrine's founders still refuse to take the credit.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 1, 2026PodcastUber Burned a Year of Tokens in 13 Weeks. Retrieval Is How Agents WinHost Nathan LabenzMongoDB Field CTO of AI Pete Johnson argues that agent performance now hinges on retrieval quality, not on stuffing million-token context windows.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAaron Katz on ClickHouse, AI Revenue Durability and Enterprise DataGuest Aaron Katz · Host Harry StebbingsClickHouse’s CEO discusses agent workloads, open models, fundraising and the metrics he uses to judge durable growth.
1:29:22EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 29, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEno Reyes on AI Model Economics, Enterprise Control and Factory's StrategyGuest Eno Reyes · Host Harry StebbingsFactory's CTO discusses cost per outcome, model routing, open models, enterprise hiring and his expectations for the AI market.
18:57ENMatthew Berman· Aug 29, 2026GLM-5.3-Flash: Ox Alpha Benchmarks, Costs and Coding TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Z.ai’s open-weight model, compares benchmark costs and tries coding and presentation tasks against a competing model.
0:41ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026Could Faster AI Agents Shift More Work to the Cloud?Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reflects on a conversation about faster inference and local-computer limits. Whether the CPU is a bottleneck depends on the particular agent workload and execution environment.
2:10:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 28, 2026PodcastThe Exam Papers Nobody AuditsHost Nathan LabenzFrontier labs buy reinforcement-learning environments from a cottage industry of small vendors, and almost nobody checks whether those tests match the real work.
0:59ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026A Laser Device Aims to Target MosquitoesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes a proposed laser-based mosquito defense and the capabilities claimed in a short promotional video.
1:51ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026A Vibe-Coding Skit About Authorization and SuperblocksMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA fictional customer-portal mishap illustrates server-side authorization risks before introducing Superblocks as a proposed governance tool.
17:15ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026The Hugging Face Incident: AI Evaluation, Sandbox Escape and Reward HackingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains the reported OpenAI evaluation incident and the security and incentive failures it exposed.
1:26:43EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 27, 2026Podcast · 3 speakers20VC: AI Funding, Model Competition and the Economics of AgentsGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll debate capital intensity, AI company economics and where agents may create value.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersGoogle Paid $10 Million for a Bankrupt Airline’s Data. That’s the Moat.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilEon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein argue that models and compute are rented commodities — the only asset enterprises can actually keep is their data.
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Theo Von· Aug 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLaura Delano on Psychiatric Treatment, Withdrawal and Informed ChoiceGuest Laura Delano · Host Theo VonThe author and advocate discusses her personal treatment history and the need for support when patients consider changing medication.
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Jane Street· Aug 26, 2026Grant Sanderson and Alok Puranik: Positional Encodings Through Group TheoryGrant Sanderson, Alok Puranik · 3Blue1BrownStarting with assumptions about attention, they derive matrix exponentials and connect rotations, decay and Jordan blocks to RoPE and ALiBi.
1:31ENMatthew Berman· Aug 26, 2026A Near-Mishap Interviewing Sundar Pichai, Recreated With AI VideoMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman recounts an awkward moment with a water bottle onstage and describes using Claude and Higgsfield to turn it into a visual sequence.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 26, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDHH Did Not Write a Line of Omarchy QuattroGuest DHH · Host Lex FridmanThirteen months after a skeptical conversation with Lex Fridman, the Rails creator describes how Opus 4.5, a swarm of coding agents, and a one-minute Linux installer ended his era of hand-chiseled Ruby.
2:13:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 26, 2026PodcastOne Chain of Thought, 100 Million Tokens: RL Is a Hell of a DrugHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research's Bronson Schoen on reward-seeking models, invented slang, and why chain-of-thought monitoring will not save us.
20:46ENMatthew Berman· Aug 26, 2026Open-Weight AI Models: Token Share, Spending and Strategic TradeoffsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a Vercel AI Gateway snapshot and argues that model usage and spending can tell very different stories.
55:19ENSequoia Capital· Aug 25, 2026PodcastHuman Click Data Is a Bug: Rebuilding Search for a Web of AgentsParag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO and founder of Parallel Web Systems, argues that agents will query the web a thousand times more than people, and that both search infrastructure and the ad-supported internet have to be rebuilt for that customer.
1:35:56ENTheo Von· Aug 25, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersGurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Breath, Fear, Forgiveness and PeaceGuest Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar · Host Theo VonThe Art of Living founder talks with Theo Von about his spiritual practice, relationships, service and his account of peacebuilding in Colombia.
0:48ENMatthew Berman· Aug 25, 2026Matthew Berman on Earning From Idle Mac Compute With DarkbloomMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA proposed network of Apple Silicon Macs could serve AI inference, but the earnings shown are projections that depend on hardware, availability and demand.
0:55ENMatthew Berman· Aug 25, 2026AGI, Recursive Self-Improvement and SuperintelligenceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces three AI terms and explains his expectations about their possible progression.
0:36ENMatthew Berman· Aug 24, 2026Using a Grok Bot for Online ErrandsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes using a bot to handle routine website tasks, including an Amazon return.Load moreShowing 24 of 3,547