Nov 19, 2025

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)

Silicon Valley's historical alliance with US defense fractured over 15 years of hostility, but is now being rebuilt under the "American Dynamism" thesis, driven by the geopolitical realities of Ukraine and competition with China. This shift prioritizes building in the physical world—defense, energy, manufacturing—by leveraging software, AI, and autonomy to innovate faster than legacy, five-year-plan-based incumbents and win by doubling down on America's chaotic creativity.

Nov 19, 2025

Anthropic stops AI spies, the new OWASP Top 10 and the rise of small-time ransomware

Experts discuss a report from Anthropic on a nearly autonomous AI-driven espionage campaign, debating its significance. The conversation explores the rise of agentic AI in attacks, the new 2025 OWASP Top 10, the fragmentation of the ransomware landscape, and the role of cyber insurance as a de facto regulator.

Nov 18, 2025

The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava

Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten, joins Gradient Dissent to discuss the core challenges of AI inference, from infrastructure and runtime bottlenecks to the practical differences between vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and SGLang. He shares how Baseten navigated years of searching for a market before the explosion of large-scale models, emphasizing a company-building philosophy focused on avoiding premature scaling and "burning the boats" to chase the biggest opportunities.

Nov 18, 2025

I’m Teaching AI Self-Improvement Techniques

Aman Khan from Arize discusses the challenges of building reliable AI agents and introduces a novel technique called "metaprompting". This method uses continuous, natural language feedback to optimize an agent's system prompt, effectively training its "memory" or context, leading to significant performance gains even for smaller models.

Nov 18, 2025

Beyond the Hype: Real Talk on AI-Assisted Development • Jessica Kerr & Diana Montalion

Jessica Kerr and Diana Montalion explore a pragmatic approach to AI-assisted coding, framing AI not as a replacement for developers, but as a powerful tool for automating tedious work like typing, scaffolding, and error handling. They argue that AI's strength lies in executing well-defined, laborious tasks, which frees up developers to focus on the nuanced, high-level work of systems thinking, architectural design, and discerning the right response to complex problems—skills where AI currently falls short.

Nov 18, 2025

941: Multi-Agent Human Societies — with Dr. Vijoy Pandey

Dr. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift incubator discusses his vision for a future where multi-agent human societies collaborate to solve major scientific and physical challenges. He introduces AGNTCY, an open-source project for the "Internet of Agents," designed to address the critical hurdles of agent interoperability and trust through a Zero Trust framework and Task-Based Access Control (T-BACK).