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Arc Had Millions of Users. Why They Left It Behind for Dia. | Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal, cofounders of The Browser Company
Duration: 01:24:52
July 2, 2025
- The Browser Company initially struggled with Arc's "novelty tax", which made it difficult to attract a mass market audience despite its popularity with early adopters.
- Inspired by new AI capabilities, the company made a challenging pivot, shifting from Arc to Dia, an AI-centric browser, amid initial negative external feedback and internal team adjustments.
- A key insight driving Dia's development is the potential for AI to enable users to create highly personalized software experiences through custom "skills," effectively building niche software solutions within the browser.
How We Built Our AI Email Assistant: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Cora
Duration: 00:46:21
June 26, 2025
- Kora is launching as an AI email assistant that acts like a "chief of staff" in your inbox, screening emails, pre-drafting replies, and summarizing information to save users time.
- The team emphasizes Kora's opinionated approach to email management; users either love it or hate it, but the product aims to drastically change how people interact with their inboxes.
- A key feature is the Kora Assistant, which personalizes the email experience by learning from user feedback and history to categorize and prioritize emails based on individual needs and preferences.
Inside OpenAI: Coaching the People Creating AGI | Joe Hudson, Founder of The Art of Accomplishment
Duration: 00:53:56
June 18, 2025
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Joe, a coach at OpenAI, likens the current environment to being in a hospital during childbirth, full of growth, pressure, and a mix of emotions.
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Joe emphasizes that emotional fluidity is key to navigating the transformative period of AI development, advocating for the acceptance of all feelings to clarify decision-making and avoid stagnation.
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The guest advocates for ownership without responsibility, explaining that empowering others means avoiding the weight of responsibility, which can hinder resilience, innovation, and love.
How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15 With AI Agents | Kieran Klaassen, Nityesh Agarwal
Duration: 00:54:02
June 11, 2025
- The speakers emphasize that AI's role in engineering extends beyond coding, encompassing research, workflows, and overall task management.
- The presenters built a "prompt-building prompt" within Cloud Code that automates the creation of detailed research documents as starting points for new features, significantly streamlining the development process.
- They stress the importance of actively managing AI outputs and "checking the AI's work at the lowest value stage" to ensure accuracy and prevent wasted effort going in the wrong direction.
The Future of AI in Medicine: From Rules to Intuition | Awais Aftab, Psychiatrist and writer
Duration: 00:53:02
June 4, 2025
- Explanatory pluralism is crucial in psychiatry because mental health phenomena are complex and multifaceted, requiring multiple theoretical perspectives rather than a single unifying theory to fully understand them.
- Diagnostic labels like OCD can be pragmatically helpful for guiding treatment, but clinicians should avoid reifying categories and recognize that these disorders have fuzzy boundaries and varying presentations.
- AI and deep learning have the potential to revolutionize psychiatric classification by identifying new patterns and predictive models, although challenges remain in scaling data sets and avoiding overfitting to specific samples.
GitHub CEO on the AI Coding Arms Race: One Agent, 100M+ Devs
Duration: 00:30:30
May 28, 2025
- GitHub Copilot is repositioning itself with its agent launch to remain competitive against offerings like Cursor and Windsurf, seeking to reinvent its established position.
- GitHub emphasizes developer choice by supporting multiple models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini, and allowing customization through custom instructions.
- GitHub is integrating its agent into the existing GitHub Actions ecosystem so that developers can use agents in the same workflow they are already doing with their team and that session log survives.
Kevin Scott on The Future of Programming, AI Agents, and Microsoft’s Big Bet on the Agentic Web
Duration: 00:28:02
May 20, 2025
- Scaling laws for AI models are proving accurate, shifting the focus to solving a "capability overhang" by better utilizing existing model reasoning in product applications.
- Agents need access to the wider internet and internal systems through standard protocols, like the emerging MCP, to achieve their potential, driving Microsoft's efforts to facilitate an "agentic web."
- Despite concerns about stifling creativity, AI-assisted coding offers developers choices and efficiency, and the key is to "be curious" and adopt tools that suit individual needs and preferences.
OpenAI Launches Codex: An Autonomous Programming Agent
Duration: 00:44:34
May 16, 2025
- OpenAI's new coding agent, Codeex, allows developers to delegate multiple software engineering tasks in parallel, optimizing for efficiency and minimal code reviews.
- The team at OpenAI envisions a future where a single, general AI assistant, similar to ChatGPT, can utilize various tools, including Codeex, to seamlessly handle tasks without requiring the user to specify delegation versus collaboration.
- A key strategy involves specializing models, such as Codex-1, for specific audiences and tasks, then integrating those learnings back into the base models to improve the overall system and user experience.
The $10B Hedge Fund CEO Who’s Betting Big on AI | Will England, CEO and CIO of Walleye Capital
Duration: 01:07:27
May 14, 2025
- The Walleye CEO views AI adoption as a cultural imperative and is mandating AI training throughout the firm, regardless of department or technical expertise, to address anxieties and enhance productivity.
- Walleye is aggressively pursuing a "Borg" strategy of recording and processing vast amounts of internal data, aiming to uncover insights and predictive capabilities across all departments, moving beyond just sentiment analysis for investment.
- The CEO leverages AI tools like ChatGPT to significantly increase his own communication efficiency, advocating for their use to free up time for higher-level strategic thinking rather than getting bogged down in stylistic or mechanical aspects of writing.
Jhana Meditation Silenced Her Mind—And Changed Her View On AI | Nadia Asparouhova, Author and researcher
Duration: 00:53:37
May 7, 2025
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The podcast explores the philosophical implications of meditation, particularly a Janna meditation retreat that allows practitioners to quiet their inner voice, challenging traditional notions of human consciousness and identity.
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Nadia discusses the goal-oriented approach of Journey meditation contrasted with traditional practices, emphasizing how this new method encourages specific outcomes and enhances emotional well-being.
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The conversation raises questions about what it means to be human, suggesting that our current understanding of intelligence and consciousness may be less unique than we perceive, especially in the context of emerging AI technologies.