TED Radio Hour

Can curiosity save the wild?

And in addition to the reach and the global reach of it all, too, Bean didn't have to leave my house at all or be transported to an in-person facility. And so there was a lot less stress on him. And so there was definitely a moment of that clicking of I can do this conservation outreach education work virtually without having to bring the animals anywhere

The a16z Show

David George & Jack Altman on AI, Autonomy, and the Next $25 Trillion

With AI adoption still concentrated among a relatively small group of heavy users, he argues there could be room for multiple layers of the stack to grow at once.

Diet TBPN

OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN

Same month that AI solved this incredibly difficult math problem, I saw someone use Chachi PT to book a haircut. So equivalent, no, I mean in terms of the actual economy, the actual impact of these things, uh like practically using these tools for something that people enjoy, that's not just spinning their wheels, that's not just optimizing endless things, that's actually uh generative and moving things forward.

The a16z Show

Your AI Doctor Is Coming | Julie Yoo

Because healthcare never built the same layers of legacy software as other industries, it may now be able to leapfrog directly into agentic AI.

The a16z Show

How Kavak Rebuilt Itself Around AI Agents | Alejandro Maza Ayala

companies looking for incremental AI adoption may be missing the larger opportunity: redesigning the organization itself

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters - [Invest Like the Best, EP.485]

The most dangerous words in investing might be 'this time is different,' but the second most dangerous might be 'this time is the same.' Almost every major technology transition has seen people underestimate the ultimate scale of the winning technology while simultaneously overestimating the near-term pace of adoption and monetization.

The a16z Show

OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI?

Joshua also explains why most people have quietly adapted to capabilities that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago, and why the biggest changes from AI may arrive gradually rather than all at once.

The a16z Show

OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI?

most people have quietly adapted to capabilities that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago, and why the biggest changes from AI may arrive gradually rather than all at once

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Sacerdote - How to Invest Through Technology Cycles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.477]

The real insight is that the S-curve is not just a technology adoption curve — it's also a valuation curve. The multiples that investors are willing to pay expand dramatically as a technology moves from the early adopters to the early majority, and then compress just as dramatically as growth slows and the technology matures.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber's Bet on AVs, AI, and Building a Super-App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.476]

The danger with the AV transition is that it's going to be pretty sudden. It's not like, 'Hey, we're going to have 10% more AVs every year.' The technology is going to get approved, it's going to be proven, and I think you'll see a rapid acceleration of AVs into the market.

The Business of Tech

China’s AI and robot revolution

China may not be the leader in AI development yet, but it certainly is a leader in the adoption of AI.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Sacerdote - How to Invest Through Technology Cycles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.477]

The best tech investors understand that the S-curve is not just a description of what happened — it's a prediction tool. When you're early on the S-curve, the technology is improving faster than the market appreciates, and when you're late, the technology is maturing faster than the market appreciates.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Sacerdote - How to Invest Through Technology Cycles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.477]

The biggest mistake investors make is that they think about technology adoption as linear, when in reality it follows an S-curve. The early part of the S-curve looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly everything happens at once, and then it plateaus. Most investors are either too early and give up, or they extrapolate the steep part of the curve forever.

The Business of Tech

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

I mean, you know, if I reverse engineering my career, it's really been about normalizing disruptive technologies to make them more understood and to drive that mass adoption.

The Business of Tech

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

if I reverse engineering my career, it's really been about normalizing disruptive technologies to make them more understood and to drive that mass adoption.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

we're no closer to figuring out how to thread the needle about generative AI in education than we were in September.

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.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Sergey Levine - Building LLMs for the Physical World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.465]

human trust and acceptance may matter as much as technical breakthroughs in determining when robots become part of daily life

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach | WWDTM

Actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them.

TBPN

FULL BREAKDOWN: Why Oracle's Stock is Exploding

Compute is still growing exponentially. But AI adoption curves often look like S-curves... there's going to be deceleration. So OpenAI shot up to basically a billion MAU, monthly active users... that curve is slowing down. There's just no way you can be like, yeah, actually, we're expecting 10 billion ChatGPT users next year because there aren't 10 billion people.