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Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry for AlphaFold, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 for a wide-ranging conversation about the path to AGI and what comes after. He explains why...

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The UpshotIn this article, we review:US Economy and Job MarketLong Bond Yields: Secular Meets CyclicalTariff Revenue & Bond YieldsThe Housing Unlock?The Trump Admin’s Plan for Mortgage RatesMacro Trades IdeasIn our last Macro Memo, we predicted:The US economy and job market will continue to slow without breaking. [Yes]Overall inflation flat or lower despite tariff effects on goods prices. [Half Right]“The Powell Struggle” leads to fiscal - monetary convergence.Tariff uncertainty resolves [Half Right]The Fed to signal openness to rate cuts [Yes]Falling long yields to unlock ho

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Macro Memo: Summer is Over
Uploaded 30 May 2026

--- Meta description: The second annual report by Designer Fund and Foundation Capital on how design teams are adapting to AI across tooling, craft, and org. How to cite this report: Source: AI in Design 2026 | AiiD 26 | Read the Report +...

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AI in Design 2026 report v1
Uploaded 27 May 2026

--- captured: 2026-05-23T12:03:16-07:00 tags: - ai-research - ui - design - curl-md --- --- description: On the importance of sharing your work. url:

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--- created: 2026-05-23 description: "I. The Threshold Has Been Crossed" tags: - "clippings" --- We are past the point where the question is whether artificial intelligence will exceed human capability across most cognitive domains.

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--- created: 2026-05-23 description: tags: - "clippings" --- 2026 Apr 02 My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026 ***Warning: please do not simply copy the tools and techniques described in this post, and assume...

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--- - "[[Senior ConsultantTom Hoy]]" - "[[Partner]]" description: tags: - "clippings" --- 4 2026 GenAI x Research Playbook We interviewed 17 research industry leaders to identify how they are successfully leveraging AI today. This report...

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2026 GenAI x Research Playbook
Uploaded 27 May 2026

--- created: 2026-05-23 description: "Eric Rodenbeck, lecturer at the Harvard GSD, examines AI as a design medium that can reshape how designers think and produce knowledge." tags: - "clippings" --- *While the [first

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AI as a Design Medium
Uploaded 27 May 2026

--- created: 2026-05-23 description: "A first-principles breakdown of how Claude Code works, including the agent loop, tool use, context management, and key design tradeoffs behind modern coding agents." tags: - "clippings" --- Claude Code...

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--- created: 2026-05-23 description: "Speculative Research by USB Club and garden3d" tags: - "clippings" --- svg) We hesitate whispering our secrets to the cloud, guilty trading privacy for convenience.

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Family Intelligence
Uploaded 27 May 2026