Apr 22, 2026

Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show

Marc Andreessen discusses the launch of "Monitoring the Situation" (MTS), a new media network on X. He explores the concept of the “current thing,” how the internet has reinvented media consumption through viral outrage cycles, and why today's internet-native media landscape is reshaping politics, culture, and our collective attention, drawing parallels from the history of CNN to the theories of Marshall McLuhan.

Apr 22, 2026

Agents need more than a chat - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO Legora

Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, argues that as AI agents tackle more complex work, the bottleneck shifts from task execution to planning and review. He proposes a framework for human-agent collaboration based on increasing 'trust' and 'control', and advocates for moving beyond simple chat interfaces to high-bandwidth, domain-specific artifacts like documents and structured reviews for more effective collaboration.

Apr 22, 2026

How Stripe Built Their New Website

Stripe's Head of Design, Katie Dill, provides a behind-the-scenes look at their recent homepage redesign. She discusses the strategic shift from a product-list to a narrative-driven approach, the intricate design process behind key elements, and how AI is fundamentally changing their design workflow and empowering their team to fight the "gravitational pull to mediocrity".

Apr 22, 2026

Should you let OpenClaw pen test your system? Plus: Cybersecurity for ephemeral software

IBM security experts discuss the implications of using AI agents like OpenClaw for penetration testing, the challenges posed by AI-generated ephemeral software, and the strategic allocation of security budgets in an era of rapidly growing ransomware threats.

Apr 21, 2026

Building Generative Image & Video models at Scale - Sander Dieleman (Veo and Nano Banana)

Sander Dieleman from Google DeepMind provides a behind-the-scenes look at the key components of training large-scale diffusion models for audio-visual data. The talk covers the entire pipeline, from the critical role of data curation and latent representations to the mechanics of diffusion, network architectures, sampling with guidance, and advanced control signals.

Apr 21, 2026

How AI is changing Software Engineering: A Conversation with Gergely Orosz, @pragmaticengineer

Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer, discusses the bizarre trend of 'token maxing' in Big Tech, the evolving role of software engineers in the AI era, and why companies are heavily investing in internal AI infrastructure despite uncertain productivity gains.