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57:47ENPeter Thiel on AI Acceleration, Global Power, and the Values of Its BuildersGuest Peter Thiel · Host Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson challenges Peter Thiel on AI risk, concentrated power, and the moral responsibilities of visionary founders. Thiel argues that stopping progress carries dangers of its own.
37:07ENArm’s 98.5% margin business just started shipping chipsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCEO Rene Haas tells No Priors why the IP company built a physical CPU for Meta, and why CPUs still sit at the center of AI systems.
1:09:26ENAnastasios Angelopoulos on Arena, Open Models and AI EvaluationGuest Anastasios Angelopoulos · Host Harry StebbingsArena’s CEO discusses real-world model comparisons, enterprise AI control, security and the economics of evaluation.
3:51:47ENForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGuest Anthony Kaldellis · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
1:07:45ENAndrew Feldman on AI Chips, Data Centers and Compute DemandGuest Andrew Feldman · Host Harry StebbingsCerebras’s CEO discusses memory supply, inference speed, community impacts and US chip policy.
38:01ENThe Philippines Gifted America 4,000 Acres. Pax Silica Wants to Make the AI Supply Chain a BusinessHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilUS Under Secretary Jacob Helberg on a 14-country coalition, a diplomatic industrial zone in the Philippines, and why Washington is putting companies—not ministries—in the driver's seat.
57:04ENMatthew Steckman on Anduril’s Defense Business, Procurement and Product BetsGuest Matthew Steckman · Host Harry StebbingsAnduril’s president explains a $20 billion procurement ceiling, the company’s approach to building military products and his view of the responsibilities of defense suppliers. His forecasts and company claims reflect his position as an interested executive.
1:06:06ENAndrew Ng on AI Infrastructure, Open Models and Building Useful ApplicationsGuest Andrew Ng · Host Harry StebbingsThe AI Fund general partner discusses computing constraints, geopolitics, adoption and the economics of AI products.
2:36:55ENOne Second of Fuel: David Kirtley on Fusion Power by 2028Guest David Kirtley · Host Lex FridmanThe Helion Energy CEO walks Lex Fridman from 1958 theta pinches to a Microsoft contract that wants first electrons on the grid in 2028.
1:13:29ENDavid Cahn on AI Infrastructure, Startup Growth and Defense InvestingGuest David Cahn · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia partner explains why he sees an AI bubble, how he evaluates startup growth and where he sees opportunities in defense.
4:25:44ENThe Wehrmacht's Secret Ingredient Was MethamphetamineGuest Norman Ohler · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Norman Ohler tells Lex Fridman how Pervitin, Hitler's doctor, and LSD change the story of World War II without turning drugs into a single cause.
58:25ENA construction permit that took four months now takes three minutesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJared Kushner talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about Affinity Partners, the AI firm BrainCo, and how capital, energy, and Middle East diplomacy now run through AI.
40:54ENSeventeen Years of Flat Power, and a Plan to Bring the Factories HomeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJacob Helberg, the under secretary of state designate for economic growth, energy, and the environment, argues that nuclear power and AI productivity—not cheap labor—are how America reshore its supply chain.
10:26:31ENThe War on Terror's Only Gift Was Better Luke Skywalker HandsGuest Scott Horton · Host Lex FridmanScott Horton walks Lex Fridman through fifty years of U.S. wars, from Vietnam Syndrome to Ukraine, and argues the machinery never stops because it is not supposed to.
1:49:29ENChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGuest Keyu Jin · Host Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
36:48ENThe Weekend DeepSeek Dropped, the White House CalledHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSriram Krishnan walks No Priors through America’s 28-page AI Action Plan, a token-share definition of winning, and why the lead over China is too small to take for granted.
4:30:02ENGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGuest Jack Weatherford · Host Lex FridmanAnthropologist Jack Weatherford tells Lex Fridman how an abandoned boy on the Mongolian steppe built the largest contiguous empire in history—and why conquest is only part of the story.
1:04:33ENPhilipp Freise on KKR’s European Investing and Private-Market LiquidityGuest Philipp Freise · Host Harry StebbingsThe KKR investor discusses deployment discipline, AI, European capital markets and broader access to private investments.
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.
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.
3:04:01ENXi Jinping Revived China's Personality Cult. He Did Not Revive Mao's Chaos.Guest Jeffrey Wasserstrom · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Confucius, Tiananmen, censorship, the 2025 trade war, Hong Kong's warning to Taiwan, and why history has no straight road.
3:19:00ENTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGuest Dave Smith · Host Lex FridmanComedian and libertarian Dave Smith tells Lex Fridman that American wars keep manufacturing enemies, that Gaza and Ukraine follow the same arithmetic, and that long conversations broke the old monopoly on selling war.
3:09:05ENFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.
3:17:34ENIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGuest Narendra Modi · Host Lex FridmanAfter forty-five hours on water, Lex Fridman sits down with India's prime minister for a three-hour conversation on poverty, faith, war, and what holds a civilization together.
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