Best EVOLV Academy Podcasts (2025)

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Cape Cod and Seemingly (the) Ranch 54:50

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This week’s episode brought to you by digestive biscuits, dude ranches, and deeply chaotic energy. We’re recording in the same room (aka audio issues obv!!), spending our favorite weekend of the year on Cape Cod, and catching up on everything from small-town parades to horseback hailstorms. Nicole recaps her horse girl summer vacation in Montana — …

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Ep 70: Karol Hausman and Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence) Unpack the Most Recent Breakthroughs & Path to Generalist Robots 1:09:57

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In this episode, Jacob sits down with Karol Hausman (Co-Founder) and Danny Driess (Research Scientist) from Physical Intelligence, two of the minds behind some of the most exciting advances in robotics. They unpack the last decade of progress in AI robotics, from early skepticism to the breakthroughs powering today’s generalist robot models. The co…

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Asia PPA Pros UPSET the #3 SEED + Training at Briones Pickleball Academy #89 49:36

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F1: The Movie: The Review 37:50

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The long-awaited Formula 1 movie is finally here… and we have thoughts. In this week’s episode of See You On The Internet, Kate and Nicole go full film critic (sort of) and break down everything from Brad Pitt’s suspicious tattoos to Charles Leclerc’s movie star face to the sheer audacity of the representation of women. Was it a cinematic masterpie…

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Book Recs, Baby Fever, and a Dating App Horror Story 54:33

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Producer Alex returns! Fresh off her fairytale UK adventure (punting in Cambridge? Ted Lasso tour?!) she's just in time to hear Nicole spiral into a full-blown baby fever monologue, unpack the illusion of the “cool girl dream job,” and recap the most unhinged Love Island twist we’ve seen in years. Kate’s trying to emotionally recover from shoe shop…

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MLP Australia is an Absolute VIBE, and Caden's WORST Pickleball Nightmare #88 47:26

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Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure 54:57

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Ion Stoica helped define the modern data stack. Now he’s coming for AI evaluation. From co-founding Databricks and Anyscale to launching LMArena, Ion has shaped the infrastructure underlying some of the biggest shifts in computing. In this conversation, he unpacks what most people get wrong about model evaluation, the infrastructure challenges ahea…

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Are We Music Critics Now? 56:26

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This week, it’s just two gals in the living room — no producer, no rules, and definitely no structure. While we mourn Alex’s absence (come home from London, please!), we spiral deep into a passionate ode to pop stardom: Britney, Beyoncé, Taylor — and whether anyone today has what it takes to reach their level. We also break down the highs and lows …

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FinTech Without Borders | GFTN's Pat Patel on the Global Corridors Shaping AI & Digital Finance 38:17

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In this episode of On Call with Insignia, we go on a world tour of fintech innovation with Pat Patel, Co-CEO of GFTN Forums & CEO of USA, LATAM, MEA at the Global Finance and Technology Network (GFTN), the non-profit behind the Singapore FinTech Festival. Over the past decade, Pat has been at the intersection of tech, finance, and policy—shaping ec…

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Girls on Track: The F1 Academy Netflix Series That Had Us Crying 55:56

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This week on See You On The Internet, we’re diving helmet-first into the new F1 Academy Netflix docuseries—and spoiler alert: it got us in our feelings. From Abby Pulling’s adorable dad to Lia Block’s emotional journey, we break down the standout stories, surprising edits, and what this series means for the future of women in motorsport. Plus, we c…

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Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling 44:03

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Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, a company building the infrastructure for AI-native labor markets. Mercor’s platform is already used by top AI labs to label data, evaluate human and AI candidates, and make performance-driven hiring decisions. They’re operating at the intersection of recruiting, evals, and foundation model develop…

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The "Manager Crash" are you prepared for it happening? 29:55

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In this episode we will discuss why is there a Manager Crash looming and some topics we will delve into are: 🔷 Employees Want More Autonomy & Purpose Today’s workforce is less interested in traditional command-and-control management. They crave empowerment, flexibility, and meaningful work pushing organizations toward flatter, more collaborative st…

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2025 Strategy Q&A (Live) #87 53:56

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Why Your Startup Shouldn't Treat Comms as an Afterthought and Do This Instead for Marketing 1:00:59

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Session recorded from the "PR & Comms for Global Growth" as part of the Insignia Ventures Academy StartCXO ProgramOur StartCXO program beginning in September is now OPEN for applications:Gain the skills to transition seamlessly into a start up leadership roleLearn from industry professionals, well versed in the start-up scene.Join our network consi…

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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve 44:09

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Jacob and Logan sit down with Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora - a rapidly growing legal AI platform (and Redpoint portfolio company). After announcing their Series B last week, Max joined the show to discuss why law is uniquely suited for AI, what it takes to scale an enterprise-ready product across global markets, and a few crazy moments…

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The Monkeys Are Evolving and So Are We 52:09

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Happy Birthday to Kate! This week on See You on the Internet, we're diving deep into comfort watches, cartoon crushes (Doug Funny truthers, rise), and Kate’s bold new quest to finally watch Titanic all the way through. Nicole challenges Kate to break free from her “re-watch spiral,” and spoiler alert: it may involve Danny Phantom, crying over HGTV,…

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PPA Pro Dylan Frazier on the Afterlife, Bad Life Choices, and the Mental Game #86 24:58

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Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers 57:45

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Sholto Douglas, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joined Unsupervised Learning to break down why coding is the clearest early signal of model progress, how AI agents are already accelerating research, and what it’ll take to unlock real-world breakthroughs in fields like biology and robotics. (0:00) Intro (0:48) Claude 4 (1:30) Capabilities …

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Nicole Finally Met Her Knight In Shining Armor! 54:43

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Welcome back to See You on the Internet — the podcast where group chat drama, chaotic dating, and pop culture collides. This week, we’re fresh off our Mother's Day episode and deep in our feelings (and our group chats). We recap our moms becoming virtual besties, spiral over whether our dads like talking to us, and then fully unravel over a missed …

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Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years 1:23:27

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The recent AI 2027 report sparked widespread discussion with its stark warnings about the near-term risks of unaligned AI. Authors @Daniel Kokotajlo (former OpenAI researcher now focused full-time on alignment through his nonprofit, @AI Futures, and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI) and @Thomas Larsen joined the show to unpack their …

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Happy Mother's Day: Meet Our Moms! 1:02:43

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We finally did it! After years of talking about it, Nicole and Kate are joined by two very special guests for a long-awaited Mother’s Day episode — their moms. In this heartwarming and hilarious conversation, it's in-laws-meet-the-internet energy as we reflect on childhood antics, strong personalities, why some of us (ahem, Nicole) have always hate…

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I'm Coaching the Top Players from ASIA #85 48:40

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Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today 47:12

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In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Pokrass, who leads a research team at OpenAI within post-training focused on improving models for power users: developers using OpenAI models in the API and power users in ChatGPT. We unpack how OpenAI prioritized instruction-following and long context, why evals have a 3-month shelf life, what separates su…

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Lewis Hamilton's Met Gala 2025 Recap 1:15:00

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Note: We do recommend watching this on youtube to see the fits! Nicole's in a bridesmaid dress. Kate's in a Vegas gown. Homie the dog is wreaking havoc. And yes, we’re judging the Met Gala from bed like the glamorous gremlins we are. This week’s episode of See You on the Internet is a chaotic, unfiltered, watch party of the 2025 Met Gala, featuring…

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Anna Leigh Waters' Success + the FUTURE of Pro Pickleball #84 14:01

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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education 50:53

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When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…

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Carlos Sainz Is Stuck in a Freaky Friday & Other Deeply Important Discoveries 50:50

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Get ready for a chaotic nostalgia trip! In this week’s episode of See You on the Internet, Kate and Nicole dive deep into their text history, reliving the chaotic early days of launching Two Girls One Formula (TG1F) during the wild summer of 2020. From drunk birthday fish tacos to inviting F1 drivers to their birthday party, the girls unearth the e…

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Building Epoch Making Companies from India to Indonesia | On Call with Flip CEO Pratyush Prasanna | Call 182 29:21

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You are going on call with Pratyush Prasanna, Group CEO of @FlipID , one of Indonesia's largest consumer fintech platforms serving more than 13 million users primarily for their money movement needs, among other financial services. With 20+ years of executive and leadership experience in consumer and fintech companies including Paytm, Poynt, and Go…

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Crazy Stories OverSeas, and 5 Essential Pickleball Strategies #83 46:26

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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers 50:44

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Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…

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The Radical Magic of Fairytales, Smut & Shadow Daddies 1:04:49

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Fairy tales aren’t just bedtime stories—they’re radical, rebellious, and often super horny. In this episode, we deep dive into the surprising history of fairy tales, how 17th-century French women used them as feminist rebellion, and how that all led to modern-day romantasy, shadow daddies, and fairy smut. Featuring Feminism, Little Red Riding Hood,…

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Building a truly global financial inclusion with AI | Surfin AI Fintech Forum Exclusive Roundtable | Call 181 26:37

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In a world where nearly 1.4 billion adults still lack access to basic financial services, the promise of technology to bridge this gap has never been more critical. Our exclusive roundtable from the Surfin AI Fintech Forum 2025 in Manila brings together three visionary leaders -- a venture capitalist, a nuclear physicist turned fintech CEO, and Nob…

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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype 43:28

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At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more. (0:00) Intro (0:39) AI Investment Land…

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F1 updates and other musings 34:16

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The girls are back in bed and back on the mic for another chaotic and cozy mini-episode of Yappy Hour—a bite-sized dose of “See You on the Internet” that’s equal parts Formula 1 banter and existential rambling. Kate and Nicole are talking F1 again (surprise!)—but this time with rookie energy and absolutely no desire to be taken seriously. They unpa…

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MLP Champion Zane Navratil Talks HUGE MLP Loss + Future of Pro Pickleball #82 14:13

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Behind Vietnam's first fintech acquisition of a securities brokerage | Against All Odds with Finhay CEO and Founder Huy Nghiem (Part 3 of 3) 6:29

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After building brand recognition and educating the market on digital investments in the years leading up to their 2020 inflection point, Finhay set its sights on a bigger goal: becoming Vietnam's first fintech to secure a stock brokerage license. In this final episode of our three-part series with VNSC by Finhay CEO and founder Huy Nghiem, we explo…

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Selena Gomez vs. Hailey Bieber: The Internet Feud That Won’t Die 57:10

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In this chaotic and unfiltered episode of See You on the Internet, Kate and Nicole are joined by their tiniest (and furriest) co-host yet—Homie, the 9-week-old mini dachshund! 🐾 From new puppy motherhood to internet obsession, the girlies are mothering in more ways than one. The convo spirals into a deep dive on Selena vs. Hailey, eyebrow gate, Nep…

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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning 1:01:30

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To unpack some of the most topical questions in AI, I’m joined by two fellow AI podcasters: Swyx and Alessio Fanelli, co-hosts of the Latent Space podcast. We’ve been wanting to do a cross-over episode for a while and finally made it happen. Swyx brings deep experience from his time at AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte, and is now focused on AI agents and…

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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools 44:37

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Two weeks ago, OpenAI released its set of tools to help developers build agentic systems. Today on Unsupervised Learning, Nikunj Handa (Product Lead) and Steve Coffey (Eng Lead) answer some of the biggest questions around how developers should be thinking about building in the agentic paradigm in 2025. (0:00) Intro (0:53) OpenAI’s Vision for Consum…

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Selena Gomez's "I Said I Love You First" Album Review 19:21

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Yappy Hour is back, and we’re diving headfirst into the I Said I Love You First era! This week, Kate and Nicole break down Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s brand new album—track by track, bop by bop. Is it a 6.5 or a 7.5 out of 10? Does "Call Me When You Break Up" deserve a Grammy? Is Bluest Flame the Ibiza club anthem of our dreams? We’re talking e…

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Pro Pickleball Continues to Evolve, and Caden Signs with the PPA! #81 31:26

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Federico Staksrud's Journey to Greatness #80 17:24

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Gabe Tardio Playing with Ben Johns & Breaking Into the Top Ten #79 10:39

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[Part 1 of 2] Must listen call before you undergo Gen AI transformation | On Call with Carro COO Zi Yong Chua 19:45

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This is Part 1 of 2 with Zi Yong Chua, Carro COO on his journey driving Gen AI transformation in the pan-Asia used car platform. Timestamps (01:19) How Zi Yong joined Carro after PayPal, Alipay, and his own ventures; (04:41) Zi Yong's first order of business as COO, refining Carro's internal data processes for better productivity; (08:20) How Zi Yo…

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The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate 1:06:00

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Are you searching for love in seemingly all the wrong places? Do you have a friend who claims to find her soulmate every few months but so far hasn't had luck pinpointing The One? Well friends, this is the episode for you. Kate and Nicole uncover who Nicole's true Soul Mate is, and for a few laughs, discuss her most recent journey towards finding l…

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Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI 1:09:28

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On the latest episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob is joined by two of the most influential minds in AI today. 🔹 Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the Transformer 🔹 Jack Rae, Research Director at DeepMind and one of the leads behind Gemini’s Flash Thinking We got to ask them all of the top-of-mind questions in AI today about where we are, where we’re…

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Drive to Survive Season 7 Review 31:20

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Welcome to Yappy Hour, a series of minisodes where we talk about the hottest topic of the week. Whether you're going to drinks with a friend or on a first date, these are the things you need to know. On this episode, we're talking all things Drive to Survive Season 7. Zak Brown's fungus toe was on full display, Kimi Antonelli inspired cute aggressi…

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The Inflection Point Built with Brand, Education and Partnerships | Against All Odds with Finhay CEO and Founder Huy Nghiem (Part 2 of 3) 3:55

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Many startups found an inflection point thanks to the shift to digital in 2020 amidst the pandemic. VNSC by Finhay was one of these startups, at the time a wealth management startup focused on mutual bonds and roboadvisory. But what has set Finhay apart has been its ability to convert this growth inflection into market leadership and an opportunity…

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The Returnee That Started a Fintech Revolution in Vietnam | Against All Odds with Finhay CEO and Founder Huy Nghiem (Part 1 of 3) 5:35

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VNSC by Finhay has been raising the bar for Vietnam fintech for the last 8 years 🇻🇳 Taking the industry beyond payments, serving more than 300K+ funded accounts investing across asset classes Pioneering compliance for fintechs in wealth management as the first to acquire a securities firm and license Setting new standards for user experiences when …

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Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution 44:47

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On today’s Unsupervised Learning, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO of Meta and founder of Gigascale Capital) reveals why energy is a key bottleneck holding AI progress back. Mike discusses how we can scale energy production to democratize AI globally and explores AI’s role in climate change. He also reflects on a decade as Meta’s CTO and how AI coding is tr…