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The Cognitive Revolution

A weekly podcast where hosts Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co

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Aug. 6, 2025

Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z

Today Anjney Midha, General Partner at a16z joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss sovereign AI and China's growing semiconductor capabilities. Check out our sponsors: Gemini CLI, Labelbox, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Sho...

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Aug. 2, 2025

The Revolution in Services: General Catalyst's AI Rollup Strategy, with Marc Bhargava

Marc Bhargava from General Catalyst discusses their Creation Strategy for building AI-enabled roll-ups – companies that start as vertical software startups, then grow by acquiring traditional service businesses and transformi...

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July 30, 2025

Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z

Anjney Midha from Andreessen Horowitz explores the strategic choices facing countries as the US and China dominate AI's fundamental inputs of talent, data, and compute. The conversation examines "Sovereign AI" from both enter...

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July 26, 2025

Liability for AI Harms: How Ancient Law Can Govern Frontier Technology Risk, with Prof Gabriel Weil

Gabriel Weil from Touro University argues that liability law may be our best tool for governing AI development, offering a framework that can adapt to new technologies without requiring new legislation. The conversation explo...

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July 22, 2025

Private Governance: Creating a Market in AI Regulation, with Dr. Gillian Hadfield & Andrew Freedman

Dr. Gillian Hadfield from Johns Hopkins University and Andrew Freedman from Fathom discuss their innovative proposal to govern AI through private regulatory markets, which has been introduced as California's SB 813. Their sys...

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July 16, 2025

The Dawn of Dynamic AI: RFT Comes Online, w/ Predibase CEO Dev Rishi, from Inference by Turing Post

This crossover episode from Inference by Turing Post features CEO Dev Rishi of Predibase discussing the shift from static to continuously learning AI systems that can adapt and improve from ongoing user feedback in production...

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May 3, 2023

VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence: A discussion wit…

Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg sat down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, notable investors and co-hosts of the AI-focused No Priors podcast. Sarah is the founder of $100M AI-focused venture fund Conviction VC, which she launched last fall. She …

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March 6, 2023

OpenAI Price Drop: [Another] Megathread

Nathan Labenz is channeling his inner DJ Khaled and dropping another one - that’d be another megathread on OpenAI’s pricing. Nathan explains the price drop on Open AI’s ChatGPT API, how it happened and what it means. For context,…

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March 6, 2023

OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot – if you know how to read …

What to expect: Another AI-obsessive megathread on what 2023 has in store. Disclaimer: I am an OpenAI customer, but this analysis is based purely on public info. I asked our business contact if they could talk about Foundry, and got a p…

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"Welcome to the beginning of the end. This is your front row ticket. The show actually made me cry, made me realize how different the world is about to be. How difficult/impossible it is to predict/…"

The Human Fin | March 18, 2023

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