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At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change?
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The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents
October 22, 2026
George Kurtz (0:00)
For the first time, security is the gas pedal, not the brake.
Sarah Guo (0:03)
How would you describe what you're seeing AI doing for adversaries?
George Kurtz (0:07)
The new apex predator is the agency. The same level of capability that a nation state would have just a few years ago, essentially a hacktivist would have today. That has dramatically changed the overall threat environment. What people have to keep in mind is it's not malware anymore, it's prompts. They can…
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- How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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- Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan
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- The Agentic Economy: How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire
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- Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last
- How Capital is Powering the AI Infrastructure Buildout with Magnetar Capital Managing Director Neil Tiwari
- From SaaS to AI-First: How Companies Are Reshaping Innovation
- Rivian’s Roadmap to AI Architecture and Autonomy with Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe
- Introducing 4D Creation Open Beta: NPCs, 4D Worlds, and the Future of Gaming with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki
- Why Cryopreservation is No Longer Science Fiction with Until Co-founder and CEO Laura Deming
- No Priors Live: Building Durable Software in the AI Age with MongoDB President & CEO CJ Desai
- AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
- The 2026 AI Forecast: Foundation Models, IPOs, and Robotics with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- The Future of Voice AI: Agents, Dubbing, and Real-Time Translation with ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
- Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
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- How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
- Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
- The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- Reinventing the Developer Terminal with Warp Co-Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd
- Unlocking the Road to Energy Abundance with Base Power CEO and Co-Founder Zach Dell
- Humans&: Bridging IQ and EQ in Machine Learning with Eric Zelikman
- The Impact of AI, from Business Models to Cybersecurity, with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora
- Reinventing K-12 Education Using AI with Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt
- AI Agents Talking to AI Agents: Reinventing Commerce with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang
- Jared Kushner: BrainCo, Affinity Partners, and the Geopolitics of AI
- A New Operating System for Physicians with OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
- Reshaping America’s Economy for the Superintelligence Century with Jacob Helberg
- How Agentic AI is Transforming The Startup Landscape with Andrew Ng
- Chips, Neoclouds, and the Quest for AI Dominance with SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- The Shifting Value of Content in the AI Age with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
- America’s Plan to Dominate the Full AI Stack with Sriram Krishnan
- The Power of Quality Human Data with SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen
- Asimov: Building An Omniscient RL Oracle with ReflectionAI’s Misha Laskin
- Why Platforms Win and Point Solutions Fail with Rippling CEO Parker Conrad
- Chai-2: The AI Model Accelerating Drug Discovery with Chai Discovery Co-Founders Jack Dent and Joshua Meier
- Meet AlphaEvolve: The Autonomous Agent That Discovers Algorithms Better Than Humans With Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Matej Balog
- The Operating System for Self Driving Cars (and Tanks, and Trucks...) With Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition
- Will we have Superintelligence by 2028? With Anthropic’s Ben Mann
- Teaching AI to Understand the Physical World, with Dr. Fei-Fei Li of World Labs
- AI Consolidation, Biotech Opportunities, and World Models with Sarah and Elad
- AI is Making Enterprise Search Relevant, with Arvind Jain of Glean
- Gaming as the Future of Education with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn
- O3 and the Next Leap in Reasoning with OpenAI’s Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
- Inside Deep Research with Isa Fulford: Building the Future of AI Agents
- Predicting the Earth with Josh Goldman: How KoBold Uses AI to Find Critical Minerals
- From Job Displacement to AI Trainers, Brendan Foody on Work in the AI Age
- Public Markets, Image Gen, and Specialized Models, with Sarah and Elad
- Conversations Are the Source of Truth in Healthcare with Abridge CEO Shiv Rao
- The Robotics Revolution, with Physical Intelligence’s Cofounder Chelsea Finn
- Copilot, Agent Mode, and the New World of Dev Tools with GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke
- National Security Strategy and AI Evals on the Eve of Superintelligence with Dan Hendrycks
- Building the Platform for Scientific Breakthrough, with Noubar Afeyan of Moderna and Flagship Pioneering
- Virtual Cell Models, Tahoe-100 and Data for AI-in-Bio with Vevo Therapeutics and the Arc Institute
- Building Hard Tech in Hard Markets: Kyle Vogt on Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company
- How Harvey AI is Changing the Legal Industry with Winston Weinberg
- DeepSeek, Deep Research, and 2025 Predictions with Sarah and Elad
- Rick Caruso on LA’s Wildfires, Policy Failures, and the Path Forward
- What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico
- How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang
- Erik Bernhardsson on Creating Tools That Make AI Feel Effortless
- The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- Revolutionizing Customer Success with Agency’s Elias Torres
- How Diamond Cooling Could Power the Future of AI, with Akash Systems
- Bolt’s Eric Simons on Enabling Everyone to Generate Websites with AI
- Model Plateaus and Enterprise AI Adoption with Cohere's Aidan Gomez
- AI and the Future of Math, with DeepMind’s AlphaProof Team
- NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design, Scaling Data Centers, and his 10-Year Bets
- Forecasting the Future with Kalshi: America’s First Regulated Prediction Market
- Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling
- Gaming, Nobel Prizes and At-Risk Businesses in the AI Era
- Launching AI products with Braintrust’s CEO Ankur Goyal
- The Sheriff of Silicon Valley: Lina Khan’s FTC agenda for M&A, AI Acquisitions, and Non-Competes
- Using AI to evaluate employee performance with Rippling’s COO Matt MacInnis
- Transforming Customer Service through Company Agents, with Sierra’s Bret Taylor
- Future of LLM Markets, Consolidation, and Small Models with Sarah and Elad
- The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy
- Building toward a bright post-AGI future with Eric Steinberger from Magic.dev
- Cloud Strategy in the AI Era with Matt Garman, CEO of AWS
- The marketplace for AI compute with Jared Quincy Davis from Foundry
- How AI can help build smarter systems for every team with Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh of Ramp
- Innovating Spend Management through AI with Pedro Franceschi from Brex
- Google DeepMind's Vision for AI, Search and Gemini with Oriol Vinyals from Google DeepMind
- Low-Code in the Age of AI and Going Enterprise, with Howie Liu from Airtable
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- Speed will win the AI computing battle with Tuhin Srivastava from Baseten
- Designing the Future: Dylan Field on AI, Collaboration, and Independence
- Big tech earnings and the current AI debates, with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- Competition makes for better chip design with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
- Improving search with RAG architecture with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
- RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
- Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe
- Building the factories of the future with Covariant CEO Peter Chen
- Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
- The case for AI optimism
- AI is the new enterprise UI with Clara Shih, CEO Salesforce AI
- Open AI leadership shuffle, new diffusion models, and starting the cult of Q*
- AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
- Mistral 7B and the Open Source Revolution With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
- What is Digital Life? with OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
- AI Threats & Opportunities in Cyber Security With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
- What Google Cloud Can Teach Enterprises Developing & Rolling Out AI Tools, With Kawal Gandhi
- From App to Suite to Platform, with HubSpot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
- Model Quality, Fine Tuning & Meta Sponsoring Open Source Ecosystem
- If DNA is Code, Can AI Help Write It? Scaling Cell Programming and Synthetic Biology, with Ginkgo Bioworks Co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly
- How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad
- The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin
- The World’s Largest AI Processor with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
- AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch
- AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive
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- How Palantir’s AI Bet is Revolutionizing Defense and Beyond, with CTO Shyam Sankar
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- What happens to Observability If Code is AI-Generated? The Potential for AI in DevOps, with Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel
- Listener Q&A: AI Misconceptions, The Reality of Regulation, Infinite Context, Incumbent AI Execution and Startup Ideas
- AI & Defense Technology with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
- The AI Will See You Now: Exploring Biomedical AI and Google’s Med-PaLM2 With Karan Singhal
- Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
- Personalizing AI Models with Kelvin Guu, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
- Listener Q&A: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More
- The Computing Platform Underlying AI, with Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA
- Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
- The Future is Small Models, with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
- What’s Beyond GitHub Copilot? With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- How do we go from search engines to answer engines? With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
- What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
- What is the role of academia in modern AI research? With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
- How AI can make drug discovery fail less, with Daphne Koller from Insitro
- Why the Future of Machine Learning is Open Source with Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
- Founder Stories: What’s behind the largest commercial autonomous system on earth? With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- How can we make sure that everyone has access to AI? Can small models outperform large models? With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
- What does AI-powered content creation look like? with Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela
- The bot Cicero can collaborate, scheme and build trust with humans. What does this mean for the next frontier of AI? With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
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