TED

Inside Dubai’s Mission to Build the City of the Future | His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul | TED

Usually governments are a hurdle or they take time or they're bureaucratic. We are hearing from our leaders that we can actually do this. This is music to our ears.

TBPN

Letter Enthusiasts, $250B, Mega-Startup School, SSI x Nvidia, ETN Raises $1.6M

This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not going to matter because we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

The a16z Show

Steven Sinofsky: AI Doesn't Need New Rules Yet

governments are rushing to regulate AI before they fully understand the technology, risking innovation in the process

The Business of Tech

Unworkable: the teen social media ban

attempts to police access through clumsy age verification systems and facial recognition will just upskill teenagers in VPNs, masking technologies and hacking techniques, producing a more sophisticated generation of young cyber intruders

Diet TBPN

Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN

It will never stop at 5%. It will go on and on. The governance will become a nightmare. Political capture will be real and it will generate precisely no goodwill with the public.

The New York Times

The Hidden Cost of America's Data Center Boom

There's a lot of pressure to bring this new energy online very quickly because states are currently competing for the opportunity to attract these data centers, even though the financial benefits of them for the state has not actually yet borne fruit.

Semafor

White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access

Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."

Diet TBPN

Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN

Private enterprises should be able to flourish in the United States. Everyone agrees with that. and the government should be able to enact reasonable regulations to protect America's interests and both of those need to find a way to play together but there is just a really really broad gap between these two organizations

Semafor

Trump’s Prediction-Market Regulator To The Supreme Court: Bring It On

A Supreme Court ruling on this really will settle the matter, but Congress did so when it when it drafted our statute. So I don't think this is so much a area of law where there's a lack of clarity. I think the statute's very clear. It's in the black letter statutory text.

Diet TBPN

Social Network Sequel Trailer, Fable 5 Sparks Safety Debate, SpaceX IPO Watch | Diet TBPN

We're twice as big as the biggest country on earth. We're not frightened of Congress. We're post government around here.

Freakonomics Radio

This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Update)

As the Trump administration rolls back environmental regulations, we revisit a 2022 episode that explored the hidden cost of an invisible threat: air pollution.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire

Its biggest-ever size, of course, at nearly $2 trillion dollars. But also because all kinds of rules that keep our markets fair are being bent, if not outright broken, along the way.

The Business of Tech

From Uber to Exaba: AJ Tills takes on Big Tech storage

whenever anyone asks, I would say that there would be no Uber today as it is without Travis and how he was. You know, when many cities, governments, regulators are saying this is a legal stop, to have such steadfast belief that this was going to be good for riders, good for drivers, good for cities, and to still push on with that belief

Pivot

Pope Leo Issues AI Warning to Silicon Valley and Beyond | Pivot

Here's a technology that is potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons. We didn't let Oppenheimer start a company and start selling bombs to China.

The Prof G Pod

Gavin Newsom: California’s Housing Crisis Is Its Original Sin

One word answer, housing. It's the original sin in California. We're as dumb as we want to be for decades and decades. Uh we, you know, forgot about our seventh grade econ class. It's supply and demand. Uh and we simply were not uh creating enough supply and demand grew.

The Daily

How A Drug Cocktail Made of Paper Is Killing Inmates

For most of human history, drugs have been grown in the land. When the war on drugs was first declared by President Nixon, there was cocaine, marijuana, heroin. Now there's, like, 1,450 new psychoactive substances.

Pivot

How Elon's OpenAI Lawsuit Backfired Spectacularly | Pivot

I think we now need alternative minimum taxes of 60 or 70% on anything over a billion dollars for an individual because these individuals are under the impression that they are not subject to the standards of Western society, decency or any or the law.

The Business of Tech

Space Mafia: How orbital AI changes everything

It's basically the wild West up there at the moment, which suits the companies trying to exploit space just fine. No copyright law, no IP law in space, No gambling or piracy laws to worry about when you have a server floating in space.

The Business of Tech

Power play: Qiulae Wong on R&D, AI, hi-tech skills and tax

tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.

The Business of Tech

Power play: Qiulae Wong on R&D, AI, hi-tech skills and tax

most of the ones I talked to you say tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.

The a16z Show

Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.

crypto has evolved from an ideological movement into a more pragmatic, product-focused ecosystem, shaped by real-world use cases and increasing regulatory clarity

Decoder with Nilay Patel

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

UL's been around for more than 100 years; it started as a way for insurance companies to standardize fire and safety testing as electricity was the new technology spreading into homes.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

UL's been around for more than 100 years; it started as a way for insurance companies to standardize fire and safety testing as electricity was the new technology spreading into homes. But now it's everywhere, and "safety" in tech doesn't just mean the hardware.

Semafor

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the NFL's Streaming Push, Iran Coverage, and Media M&A

In the media space, I would say the biggest northstar that we have is we're trying to effectively constrain the power of the large national programmers while empowering local TV stations.

The Business of Tech

RUC shock: the future of pay‑per‑kilometre driving

That turns what has been an automatic tax into a new layer of admin and compliance, another bill to track, another system to understand, and potentially another source of anxiety and a cost of living crisis.

Freakonomics Radio

In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins?

In blue cities across the country, unions and politicians want to ban self-driving cars.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

It's becoming increasingly untenable for prediction markets to sit in the middle of the tension between gambling on the news and trying to self-regulate such that they don't encourage insider trading.

TED

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED

The history of technological progress and its accompanying regulatory frameworks teach us that our future with AI and robotics won't only be decided by these large, sweeping philosophical discussions, but through practicality, through the answering of thousands of practical questions that arise from the simple minutia of sharing everyday life.