Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop
The politics of AI are already exploding. Whether we're talking about data centers, electricity prices, labor displacement, water consumption, competition with China, or users of chatbots becoming psy...
18 Dec 202547min
MeatEater's Steven Rinella on the Economic History of Hunting
When we think about America’s economic rise, we usually point to agriculture or the industrial revolution. But in the early days of colonization, one of the biggest economic drivers wasn’t crops or fa...
15 Dec 202554min
D.A. Wallach Explains Why Biotech VC Is So Different
Most people think of venture capital as funding software startups or, these days, some new AI tool. But VC also plays a major role in developing new medicines and treatments. That’s the world of D.A. ...
12 Dec 202550min
This Is What It Takes to Get a Data Center Financed
Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a way to consume a tremendous amount of electricity fr...
11 Dec 202545min
Dan Ivascyn Is Excited About a New Era in Fixed Income
In the years since the financial crisis, bond investors didn't get much return for taking on risk. With low interest rates and little sign of inflation, investors had to accept lower-quality assets to...
8 Dec 202557min
How Microsoft Excel Conquered Corporate America
Excel. If you work in corporate America, that word either inspires laser-focused productivity or pure dread. Over the last 40 years, the spreadsheet software has become synonymous with the best — and ...
7 Dec 202518min
Affirm's Max Levchin Breaks Down How Buy Now, Pay Later Really Works
Max Levchin probably knows as much about online payments as anyone. He was part of the original "PayPal mafia" before going on to become co-founder and CEO of Affirm, the $22 billion player in the Buy...
5 Dec 202553min
AI Can Tell Us Something About Credit Market Weakness
There have been some wobbles in credit markets lately. It hasn't been too dramatic, but we've had some blowups, leading Jamie Dimon to speculate about the presence of other "cockroaches" lurking in th...
4 Dec 202544min
