Mar 10, 2026

10 years of AlphaGo: The turning point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli

Ten years after the historic match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol, Google DeepMind's Thore Graepel and Pushmeet Kohli reflect on its legacy. They discuss how AlphaGo's blend of deep learning and tree search conquered the game of Go, the significance of creative breakthroughs like 'Move 37', and how these foundational concepts evolved into systems like AlphaZero, which learns without human data. The conversation bridges the gap from game-playing to solving scientific grand challenges, detailing how the same principles are now used in tools like AlphaTensor to discover novel, more efficient algorithms for fundamental problems like matrix multiplication.

Mar 10, 2026

The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps | The a16z Show

Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore from a16z discuss the 6th edition of their "Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps" report. They analyze the diverging strategies of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini; explore global adoption trends and cultural attitudes towards AI; and delve into the rise of agents, the importance of memory, and the future of creative tools and voice interfaces.

Mar 10, 2026

Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World

Nominal's co-founders discuss the new age of reindustrialization and the critical need for a modern data infrastructure in hardware engineering. They explain how their platform acts as a 'GitHub for hardware data,' providing a system of record for testing that bridges the gap between simulation and reality, and serves as the essential verification layer for the future of 'Physical AI'.

Mar 09, 2026

How To Build The Future: Max Hodak

Max Hodak, co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, discusses the company's retinal implant that restores sight, the concept of the brain as a computer with a definable API, the surprising parallels between neural representations and latent spaces in AI, and the future of bio-hybrid interfaces.

Mar 09, 2026

Every Software Org is Dysfunctional • R. Parsons, G. Hohpe, B. O'Reilly & A. Harmel-Law • GOTO 2025

A panel of distinguished architects—Rebecca Parsons, Gregor Hohpe, Barry O'Reilly, and Andrew Harmel-Law—discuss the multifaceted world of software architecture. They explore the inevitability of organizational dysfunction, the critical role of architects in decision-making, and the impact of non-deterministic technologies like Generative AI and quantum computing on system design and organizational change.

Mar 09, 2026

Is RAG Still Needed? Choosing the Best Approach for LLMs

Martin Keen compares Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with the emerging long context window approach in LLMs. He analyzes the pros and cons of each, from infrastructure simplicity and retrieval accuracy to computational costs and the 'needle in the haystack' problem, providing guidance on when to use each solution.