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“one of the best gifts you can give your kids as a parent is like help your kid find some stuff they're good at. Doesn't have to be sports. Maybe it's art, maybe it's music, maybe it's theater”
“I recently got a full spectrum 150 different biomarkers and then things checked out and I found out like I'm severely deficient in B12 and that has a big effect on my mood and my energy level.”
“we introduce Multi-Region Latent Factor Analysis via Dynamical Systems (MR-LFADS), a sequential variational autoencoder designed to disentangle inter-regional communication, inputs from unobserved reg…”
“It's a new speech recognition model achieving best-in-class accuracy across 25 languages, which is purpose-built for transcription workloads.”
“Put Claude to work on your computer with this feature...Claude can use your computer to point click and complete tasks.”
“They've now added that feature into Claude Code. You can preview that feature if you're on one of Claude's Pro or Max plans. If you're not familiar with that feature, check out last week's news video …”
“I always thought that Google's live features are super underrated and not talked about enough because you could literally get it to like teach you how to do things, just show your screen and have it w…”
“Perplexity computer loads tax modules for US federal tax questions. computer can help with hard parts of tax work that usually cost people the most time and money.”
“They also released Lia 3 Pro, which is kind of like Google's version of Sunno, where you can have it generate any music you want.”
“Personally, I'm a big fan of Slack. I do all of my work inside of Slack. Even my open claw is built for me to talk to it through Slack. So, this is something I'll definitely be playing with.”
“It's a great show. I actually tune in to make sure that I'm not missing anything in the news.”
“if you've never played with like give it a shot it it's kind of a blast”
“if you're building an app that needs a voice agent that sounds pretty much as good, if not a little bit better than 11 Labs, maybe check out Smallest.ai.”
“Mistrol also released a texttospech model this week and this one is an open weights model that you can actually run locally on your own computer.”
“This company, Love Art AI, released a new feature called move object...You can actually play around with this one for free as well.”
“open Da Vinci Resolve and show me where the magic mask feature is”
“It looks like you're using OBS Studio, which is a popular program for streaming and recording.”
“The product of the year is Claude 35 or 37. Without this, we have no vibe coding. Without this, we have no lovable, no vacations to grease, no replet, no cursor that really works, no gamma”
“Download Omal and universal model for atoms to enhance research for a better tomorrow.”
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“Check out our AI at Method blog to learn more about this groundbreaking research.”
“I was rereading the Ashley Vance biography of Elon Musk from 2015. It's a really good read now because it's 10 years on and you can he actually calls some things very interestingly.”
“When they can turn that on, do you think every single Salesforce customer is going to want that product when it can be delivered quickly? Would you like this is another $100,000 a year but our agent w…”
“Adobe announced they had 5 billion of quote AI influenced revenue this year... to me, it don't count unless it's net new bookings... Adobe gets the worst score.”
“They also installed their new Neotron 3 Super 120 billion parameter model on this. So the AI that runs on here can actually run completely on device.”
“every single Friday I make a video where I break down all of the news that happened in the world of AI for the week. If you just want to watch one video a week so you get looped in on everything that'…”
“This feature is available on all plan types. You should even be able to use it if you're using Claude for free.”
“interactive learning is rolling out starting today to all logged in ChatGpt users... if you need help with math or sciency topics, there is a bunch of cool built-in visuals here.”
“I just think it's really really cool. You can generate any image you want and then go and recompose it... from what I understand, it's available in all plans on Canva.”
“they've just released their eighth version of MidJourney... MidJourney V8 is much better at following detailed directions, has a much better ability to understand your aesthetics”
“I already think it's more impressive than midjourney if I'm going to be honest... it nailed it. It did the exact thing it was supposed to.”
“If you haven't already, check out stitch.withgoogle.com. I'm really quite impressed because now what we can do is we could literally take this design and throw it into codeex or claude code or cursor”
“Andre Carpathy... recently released this US job market visualizer to show which jobs are most at risk of AI sort of taking your job... If you want to click around in here, of course, I'll link this up”
“There's a new feature inside of Adobe Photoshop. Now, inside of Photoshop, you can actually give it text prompts to adjust images... it's available on web and mobile.”
“from everything I hear, it's a really impressive model, especially for an openweight model... it is available now. You can use it inside of Nvidia's platform, Perplexity, Open Router, and Hugging Face…”
“if you're a developer and you're building something... This model could be a model that you build with that can do that kind of thing if that makes sense.”
“ChatgPT for Excel came out this week... it can read your data and it can also add data to the sheet... teams can describe what they need in plain language and chat GPT will create or update live Excel…”
“they launched scheduled tasks in Claude Code... There's also a new code review feature inside of Cloud Code... Apparently, Anthropic uses this code review internally.”
“Andre Carpathy opensourced what he called auto research... He put all of his code up on GitHub... give an AI agent a small but real large language model training setup and let it experiment autonomous…”
“Google rolled out a new update to maps. You can use it to ask maps questions and have conversations about your surroundings.”
“Google also rolled out some new Gemini features in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive... go to a first draft instantly. You could polish things. You could match the voice or writing style.”
“now that you have things like shares post and forge and secondary marketplaces um and so the vast majority of my exits in in the last three years have come from secondaries”
“I read the the Spider Network I think finished it last month. Have you ever read that?”
“we're in a handbag marketplace called Rebag and that they have this AI where you take a photo and Puma tells you the model whether it's fake or not, the quality, the price, everything's done.”
“Box should win. Box should reacelerate to 20 or 30%... It has all the AI and it has the data. It has trillions of documents, right, that you can't even find. Now I can talk to my documents.”
“They bought Moveworks just now and they said, you know, hey, we have we had an AI story before we bought a small company clearly getting some traction... I thought it was kind of a shrewd move.”
“we partner with a company called Natural Cycles. They make a FDA uh clear digital contraceptive. If you use Aura in concert with Natural Cycles, it's a way to not have to do hormonal birth control”
“I worked at Survey Monkey for a couple years and this was one of the things that we did was like to make sure the voice of the customer was sort of both programmatically pulled into the company”
“Dilbert is a late 90s comic strip with the pointy-haired boss.”
“the Mac Neo is crazy. You hold that and you're like, 'Oh, I'm holding a MacBook.' You know, like this is a quality product.”
“his work at services, you know, you have Apple fitness, faster growing, higher margin. I mean, it's it's crazy how how well they've done”
“Apple is partnering with Google Gemini right smart strategy in your opinion? I think it's the only strategy right now for them.”
“If you open up Siri now, you can ask either Chat GBT or Siri a question.”
“You see what Microsoft does with Windows and it feels a little like they're cramming too much AI in your face, you know, with co-pilot there.”
“your stock here that you're bullish on is Viva. First, tell us a little bit about what they do and then kind of lay out your bullcase.”
“we want to give investors exposure to the space economy... having an ETF that's focused on the space economy without SpaceX in it is like having a semiconductor ETF without Nvidia.”
“we're bringing in Marcus Collins, marketing professor at the University of Michigan Law School of Business, also author and host of the From the Culture podcast.”
“I would say you know the future is more like Wall-E. Have you have you seen that cartoon? Yes. Yes. I love Wall-E.”
“you can scan the code, the QR code on your screen to go to the Yahoo Finance Prediction Markets hub powered by Poly Market.”
“we got another software company here. This is your goodbye, and it's ADP... We've recently sold it.”
“I would encourage anyone who wants to invest in this IPO or invest in this company pre-IPO to read this profile, because I think it's important to understand the management of a company that you're in…”
“I thought The Big Short was a great entertain from a piece from purely an entertainment perspective.”
“I think it's time for a Bill Ackman book. I would read a book on Bill Ackman... I would devour that book.”
“The goal is tens...it's enough that you can actually see these things flying around and people can start to get comfortable with it.”
“we're very excited about the Vivant performance on its own, but combining Vivant and its presence in the household with our business at Reliant and our other brands in the household, that's 8 million …”
“it's enabled us to create a whole new suite of products, a residential virtual power plant...that enables you, the consumer, to be part of meeting capacity spikes...We estimate that our VPV program ca…”
“you guys at Lazar do an annual report called the levelized cost of energy, right? Um where you basically compare all the different generations um and their cost. And so and the next one I think is com…”
“one of the things that's very exciting about sir week here is that people do come together from the energy industry and they make their case in many ways about what they want to see happen next”
“Microsoft and Google offer strong risk-adjusted returns. Um, we think a lot about the price you pay for the risk that you're taking.”
“Microsoft and Google offer strong risk-adjusted returns... you've got an opportunity to have um lots of ways to unlock value um with a name like Alphabet as well.”
“We we uh we're actually one of the largest outside shareholders of U-Haul and uh it's a it's a really interesting story and a and an interesting company.”
“Stock got hit pretty aggressively and we think that was a buying opportunity. the stock got down to a 15p multiple... for a company growing as fast as they are, we think this is a good place to be.”
“Yeah, exactly. We like the name a lot... they're a beneficiary on both ends now last quarter was a good quarter.”
“I think this is an opportunity to buy a high quality name that's on on sale compared to where it normally trades at... I think PaloAlto is a winner there.”
“the bundle is that you you get the cheapest offering at what at US Mobile plus a a cheaper Starlink plan. So, basically the cheapest plan you get for $47.”
“we want to allow people to very easily have access to these facilities through our mindbody marketplace, our class pass consumer app and then our wellpass corporate subsidized app.”
“the price signal you all need to be looking at 16:30 GMT time Monday through Friday dated Brent crude... That's your price signal. That's the not the paper price, but that's the delivery spot price fo…”
“We specifically consider Kantian ethics and present a multi-sorted quantified modal logic we call the Formula of the Universal Law Logic (FULL). The FULL formalizes Kant's f...”
“We propose Bayesian Hybrid Shrinkage (BHS), an empirical Bayes (EB) framework that leverages data-driven priors to mitigate selection bias and provides accurate uncertainty quantification.”
“We propose T-Learners layered into the G-Formula for this setting, building on literature from causal machine learning and identification in sequential settings.”
“recommend systems to study its properties at scale as an ongoing health check”
“every week, every Wednesday, I read a report that Michael Nadeau puts out. He published it on his website. It's probably the best thing I read in crypto all week.”
“The Ethereum Foundation this week actually released a post-quantum roadmap website. It's called pq.etherium.org. And it really specifies the plan and the milestones.”
“it is directed towards cryptocurrency. They go through specific solutions and problems for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a list of other chains as well... you guys can go through it, run it through your AI b…”
“We did almost a two-hour podcast with Justin Drake on this very subject, released that earlier this week.”
“Do you ever watch the the series Ozark? ... Oh, she was fantastic in that.”
“you sent me a movie recommendation recently, which I haven't gotten to... Weapons... Yeah. Yeah, I like that movie.”
“I'm going to watch it just for entertainment value... I'll watch it for both of us.”
“He wrote a book called The Gospel of Wealth. Um, and for those who haven't read it, it is a book that I think everyone should read.”
“premium subscribers get it like 10 days earlier. So if you want if you want to go listen to that episode, you can subscribe to Banklist, get that in your podcast feed.”
“I highly encourage uh listeners and viewers of the podcast to go read it for yourself. Not that long, not that short either, perfect in length just to get the point home”
“I remember Brad Stone's book the everything store and this has ported into all kinds of other businesses and that's essentially and you know Jasse sort of goes through that line of thinking in a way i…”
“John Keru, who's a sort of prestige journalist who uh wrote Bad Blood, the Elizabeth Holmes, the story”
“Moments ago, I just dropped two new episodes of my opening bid podcast, Finance, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.”
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“Morgan Stanley being the first um sort of big Wall Street bank to enter the ETF space, the Bitcoin ETF space...competing with the existing products out there like IBIT from BlackRock”
“Meta's new Muse Spark model is getting lavished with praise by Wall Street...this model is still below the capability of chat GPT and Claude...maybe Wall Street needs to chill out on this one.”
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“About 10 years ago, he wrote a paper called the some simple economics of the blockchain. So, he was all over crypto when it was new.”
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