Mar 07, 2026

AI Won't Replace You—But Someone Using AI Will

In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss how AI is fundamentally reshaping the modern workplace. They explore the necessary evolution of knowledge work, from a focus on routine execution to problem definition and spec-driven development, and outline the critical skills professionals must cultivate—including rapid experimentation, AI agent orchestration, and systems thinking—to remain valuable and navigate a more volatile labor market.

Mar 06, 2026

CROSS — Leveraging AI ASICs for Homomorphic Encryption

The talk presents CROSS and Morph, two compiler frameworks that enable existing AI accelerators, like Google's TPUs, to efficiently execute cryptographic workloads. CROSS focuses on Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Morph on Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), demonstrating how to transform high-precision modular arithmetic into low-precision matrix operations that TPUs excel at, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance and energy efficiency without any hardware modifications.

Mar 06, 2026

Efficient Distributed Orthonormal Optimizers for Large-Scale Training

Kwangjun Ahn from Microsoft Research provides a technical overview of orthonormal optimizers (like Muon and Dion2), a new class of algorithms for large-scale AI model training that are emerging as powerful successors to AdamW. The talk covers their theoretical foundations, empirical benefits, distributed implementation strategies, and practical guidelines for integration into modern training pipelines.

Mar 06, 2026

Inside Perplexity Computer’s agent platform

Experts on the Mixture of Experts podcast analyze Perplexity Computer's pivot to agent orchestration and debate its closed-system approach versus open alternatives like OpenClaw. They also discuss Anthropic's new memory import feature for Claude, questioning if memory is still a competitive moat, and explore NullClaw, a minimalist agent framework that sparks a conversation about the future of edge-based agent swarms. Finally, they tackle the controversial debut of Tilly Norwood, the world's first AI actor, and debate the implications for the entertainment industry and the personification of AI.

Mar 06, 2026

Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor

Cursor's team discusses their latest Cloud Agents launch, which gives agents full cloud VMs to test changes, record demo videos, and provide remote access. We explore parallel model swarms, bug reproduction workflows, and the future of agentic coding where throughput and new bottlenecks in review and CI/CD take center stage.

Mar 05, 2026

This Startup Built the Infrastructure Powering Voice AI

In a YC Founder Fireside chat, AssemblyAI founder Dylan Fox discusses his journey from a solo founder in 2017 to leading a major voice AI infrastructure platform. He covers the early challenges, the technological shifts that fueled growth, the development of intelligent, promptable voice models, and the lessons learned in scaling a deep-tech company.