Interview
Sam Altman on deployment, institutions, and the next constraint
An annotated reading of OpenAI’s public case for moving from models to implementation.
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Edited conversations and audio encounters with people shaping the new digital world.
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Dario Amodei on the economics of powerful AI
A public-record conversation about scaling, labor, and the institutions around frontier systems.
Interview
Jensen Huang on why computing became industrial policy
An annotated conversation drawn from NVIDIA’s public GTC materials.
Interview
Demis Hassabis on AI as a tool for science
A close reading of DeepMind’s public research mission and the road from games to biology.
Interview
Fei-Fei Li on spatial intelligence
A public-record conversation about the gap between language and the physical world.
Interview
Patrick Collison on infrastructure and economic progress
An annotated reading of Stripe’s public mission and the internet economy it is built to serve.
Interview
Dylan Field on design after the prompt
Config’s public record shows Figma absorbing code and generation without abandoning collaboration.
Interview
Aravind Srinivas on rebuilding search around answers
A sourced conversation about speed, citations, and the changing shape of discovery.
Interview
Palmer Luckey on the return of defense manufacturing
An annotated reading of Anduril’s public mission and systems strategy.
Interview
Mustafa Suleyman on consumer AI as a relationship
A public-record conversation about assistants, personality, and platform responsibility.
Interview
Arthur Mensch on Europe’s model-making wager
An annotated conversation about open weights, enterprise deployment, and strategic autonomy.
Interview
Cristóbal Valenzuela on the language of generated video
A sourced conversation about models becoming production tools.
Interview
Karri Saarinen on the discipline of calm software
An annotated reading of Linear’s approach to quality, speed, and interface restraint.
Interview
Amjad Masad on making software creation broadly available
A public-record conversation about agents, education, and the browser as a development environment.
Interview
Andrew Ng on practical AI and the work of adoption
An annotated conversation about education, iteration, and domain-specific systems.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 01: The deployment gap
Why model capability and organizational usefulness are becoming different stories.
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Signal Path 02: Reading the Anthropic Economic Index
What task-level usage data can—and cannot—tell us about work.
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Signal Path 03: The industrial AI stack
Chips, clouds, power, and the market beneath the model.
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Signal Path 04: Can design tools absorb code?
Config 2026 and the narrowing distance between a component and a running product.
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Signal Path 05: The defense systems company
How Anduril combines autonomy, hardware, manufacturing, and mission software.
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Signal Path 06: Voice becomes an interface
Synthetic speech is moving from media production into agents and accessibility.
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Signal Path 07: The open-model operating model
What teams gain—and inherit—when they deploy open weights.
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Signal Path 08: San Francisco after the model race
A city shaped by labs, startup batches, conference calendars, and the infrastructure of ambition.