Sep 25, 2026

Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanidis

Anastasis Germanidis, co-founder of Runway, discusses the company's journey from early generative creative tools to frontier video models, emphasizing their pivot towards general-purpose world simulation. He details the evolution of Gen-1, Gen-2, and Gen-3 (scaling 10x after Sora's release), highlighting the importance of controllability and the inevitability of real-time generation. The conversation delves into cutting-edge applications like Interface World Models (a fully neural operating system) and World Models for Robotics, where third-person video data and robust simulation are key to training intelligent agents.

Sep 23, 2026

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Eric Nguyen, CEO of Radical Numerics, details the journey from early genome language models to Omni, a system that excels in DNA reading, writing, and reasoning. Omni outperforms specialized models in disease-variant prediction, particularly in previously challenging non-coding regions. The discussion also covers the critical need for AI-native biosecurity defenses, addressing how models can design biological sequences that evade current detection systems, and the broader vision for General Biological Intelligence.

Sep 02, 2026

AI Internals Are Weird — Tom McGrath

Tom McGrath, Chief Scientist at Goodfire, delves into neural network interpretability, intentional design, and the geometry of learned concepts. The discussion covers how models learn modularity and algorithmic structures like arithmetic, the limitations of current interpretability tools like sparse autoencoders, and the implications for alignment, reward hacking, and multi-agent systems.

Aug 27, 2026

AI, Radio Astronomy, and the Search for Life Beyond Earth

Ramiro Caisse Saide presents a multimodal deep-learning approach for technosignature detection in radio astronomy, using observations from Breakthrough Listen at MeerKAT. He investigates combining spectrograms with I/Q signal representations to improve signal detection and classification, particularly in low signal-to-noise environments. The talk also covers his extensive background in AI education, software development, the motivations behind SETI, fundamental radio astronomy concepts, and studies on Earth's own radio leakage.

Aug 13, 2026

Continual Learning: How AI Agents Get Better With Every Use | Arjun Karanam, Trajectory

Arjun Karanam from Trajectory discusses the "experience gap" in AI, where models excel in intelligence but lack real-world experience, advocating for continual learning. He outlines four key areas for the agent ecosystem: robust traceability including corrective actions, evaluations drawn from production traffic, harnesses that orchestrate rather than constrain, and comfort with open-weight models. Trajectory aims to provide a platform for companies to own and continuously improve their AI intelligence.

Aug 10, 2026

Why Deep Networks Don’t Need to Memorize Everything — Matthieu Wyart

Matthieu Wyart, a statistical physicist, argues that deep networks discover abstractions by recovering hidden data hierarchies, allowing them to escape the curse of dimensionality. He explains how this mechanism, combined with predicting latent representations instead of raw tokens, can significantly improve sample efficiency. The discussion also covers the physics of rough loss landscapes, machine creativity, diffusion models, and a theoretical framework for neural scaling laws.