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Naveen Rao, founder and CEO of Unconventional AI, argues at AI Ascent 2026 that the 80-year-old digital computer is the wrong substrate for the next era of AI. He walks through the math: the entire human race runs on 160 gigawatts of brainpower, and within...

Private markets had a very public week.

A model ban, a perp monopoly, and the first signs of a hot IPO summer.

What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real?

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...

Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already written. He walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the...

Daniela Amodei, President & Co-Founder at Anthropic discusses the latest in model development, its commercialization strategy and current relations with the US government with Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco. -------- Sub...

Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already written. He walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the...

Brex co-founder and CEO Pedro Franceschi believes most people still underestimate how much AI will change the way companies are built. AI isn't just another tool, it's a new foundation for building products, teams, and companies. In this episode of Lightcon...

Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The N...

Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, explains how staying laser-focused on audio innovation has allowed his company to thrive despite the push into multimodality from foundation models. From a high school friendship in Poland to building one...

Sequoia Capital partners Pat Grady, Sonya Huang, and Konstantine Buhler make the case that the AI wave isn't just a revolution in communication like the internet or mobile, but a revolution in computation. Not faster horses, but cars—and the cars have final...