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Under Secretary Sarah Rogers joins a16z to discuss how the U.S. is reframing digital freedom as a national security priority and why Western AI development matters in the global competition with authoritarian regimes.
Box CEO Aaron Levie joins a16z to explain why large companies struggle to adopt AI, covering legacy systems, agent architecture, and why integration work is the real bottleneck.
Marc Andreessen talks with a16z about how internet media creates a viral outrage cycle every 2.5 days and why the shift from centralized to decentralized news is a net positive.
a16z discusses what makes Claude stand out in AI and what rapid AI advancement means for builders and society, covering adoption, product design, and public sentiment.
Ben Horowitz discusses how AI is killing traditional software moats, creating new infrastructure bottlenecks, and why crypto becomes critical for proving human identity in a world full of synthetic content.
Jesse Genet, a YC founder homeschooling four kids under five, shares how she uses AI agents to handle household and educational tasks while building from home.
Aaron Levie joins a16z to discuss how AI agents will reshape enterprise software, why adoption will be slower than expected, and what that means for business models and infrastructure.
Balaji Srinivasan joins a16z and Erik Torenberg to argue that AI will spread entrepreneurship rather than concentrate power, and explains how humans and AI will divide labor.
Peter Yang joins a16z to discuss how AI coding agents and platforms like OpenClaw are letting tiny teams of 2 to 3 people do what once required 10, and what that means for the future of work.
Alex Blania joins a16z to explain why verifying humans online is now urgent, and how iris-based biometric tools like Worldcoin aim to solve the bot and deepfake problem.
Owen Jennings of Block explains how a major AI capability shift led the company to cut 40% of its workforce, and what small AI-augmented teams can now accomplish.
Former Tesla and SpaceX engineers Chandler Luzsicza and Turner Caldwell share how practices from building hardware at scale translate to founding new ventures.
Bridgit Mendler, CEO of Northwood, talks with a16z about why ground stations are the overlooked bottleneck in the space economy and how her company is fixing that.
Palantir's Chief Strategy Officer Shyam Sankar argues that post-Cold War consolidation killed defense innovation and explains what it would take to restore American competitiveness against China.
Erik Torenberg talks with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz about a16z's new media team, arguing that firms should drop old media's defensive caution, speak directly and at length, and flood the zone with interesting...
Vishal Misra presents a mathematical framework showing why scaling LLMs alone cannot achieve AGI, and what two capabilities current architectures actually lack.
The Under Secretary of War joins a16z to discuss how the Pentagon is overhauling AI adoption, fixing problematic vendor contracts, and speeding up defense procurement to keep pace with China.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks at the a16z American Dynamism Summit about AI, defense technology, and why he sees the competition with China and Russia as zero-sum.
Olivia Moore from a16z breaks down their sixth Top 100 AI Apps Report, covering how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are diverging, and where AI is heading next.
Andrew Huberman joins a16z to discuss GLP-1 drugs, peptides, sleep optimization, and emerging health technologies he thinks could eradicate obesity within five years.