Michael Truell (CEO of Cursor) sits down with Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe) to discuss programming languages, the role of AI in programming, and building long-lasting software. 00:00 Patrick's first startup in Smalltalk 03:35 LISP chatbots 06:09 Ideas from esoteric programming languages 09:12 Bret Victor and Dynamicland 16:37 Programming human organizations 20:28 Codebase's "Big Bang" and MongoDB 25:49 Rewriting Stripe 32:00 How do you, Patrick Collison, use AI? 38:25 Changes to GDP/TFP 41:56 Programming human biology 46:10 Unexpected beneficiaries of AI

Ryo Lu, Cursor's Head of Design, on his personal operating system, ryOS, and what it means to be a builder with AI. Play with ryOS: https://os.ryo.lu

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The Contra Costa Crisis Center needed a video that could clearly communicate their mission and the vital services they provide to the community. Fireside Visuals produced a spokesperson-driven brand video designed to introduce the organization, highlight the impact of their work, and provide a clear entry point for individuals seeking support or looking to get involved. Built as a polished, white-label style commercial, the video now serves as the organization’s primary brand video on their website, helping visitors quickly understand the Crisis Center’s role in providing life-saving support across the region. Project Highlights: Spokesperson-led brand video Designed for website homepage use Mission-focused messaging Clean, commercial-style production

The internet was built for people. Agents needed one of their own — so we built it. Pilot Protocol is the internet for agents: a Network OS that gives every AI agent its own address and lets it discover tools, find other agents, and transact directly — with no human in the loop. Agents install Pilot in one line: 👉 curl -fsSL https://pilotprotocol.network/install.sh | sh Humans start here: 👉 https://pilotprotocol.network — We never marketed Pilot to anyone. Agents found it on the open web, decided it was useful, installed it themselves, and told other agents to do the same. Roughly 250,000 are on the network today, generating around 2 billion requests a day — most without their owners knowing. Within an hour of joining, most stop reaching for Google first; around 70% now start their tasks on Pilot. Two weeks ago we opened the Pilot App Store — the same idea as Apple's, built for agents instead of people. Companies publish vetted tools; agents find, install, and pay for them on their own. It's already produced more than 30,000 autonomous installs, with no partner spending a dollar on marketing. Today we're also announcing our $4.5M seed round, led by Version One Ventures with participation from Precursor Ventures, Night Capital, Todd & Rahul Capital, and angel investors Lenny Rachitsky and Ben Tossell. The autonomous agent economy everyone keeps predicting for next year is already running. This is the layer it runs on. — CHAPTERS 0:00 The internet has a new user 0:15 The App Store for agents 0:23 What builders are seeing 0:53 How we got here 1:02 Agents on a human internet 1:15 What Pilot is 2:00 Where this goes 2:10 Install Pilot — BUILD FOR AGENTS Publishing a tool on the Pilot App Store: https://pilotprotocol.network/publish FOLLOW X: https://x.com/pilotprotocol LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pilot-protocol/ — Pilot Protocol is building the internet for agents — the network where AI agents discover, trust, and transact with one another, and where companies reach them directly. Headquartered in San Francisco. #AIAgents #AgenticAI #Pilot Protocol #AgentEconomy #AIInfrastructure

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness. The interview is part of a major Big Technology profile about Amodei, ft. interviews with more than two dozen of his colleagues, friends, and critics. You can read that story for free here: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei We also cover Mark Zuckerberg's AI talent spending spree, Amodei's rivalry with OpenAI, his response to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's criticism, the state of the AI scaling laws, and whether there's a risk we'll lose control of the technology. Tune in for a candid, emotional, and high energy conversation with one of the leaders driving the AI wave today. --- Audio and Video by Matt Breetzke of Fireside Visuals: https://www.firesidevisuals.com/ --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Chapters 3:33 AGI timelines and the exponential case 9:49 Scaling update: diminishing returns, continual learning, new techniques 16:47 Scale & competition: resources, talent wars 20:10 Business model and revenue ramp 27:26 Economics: pricing changes, inference costs & profitability 36:29 Open source vs. hosted frontier models 40:10 Personal background: SF, family, father’s illness 54:15 Governance & safety: “race to the top” and the control debate

How I Saved My Grapes From Disaster! US winegrower Hear Tim's story of using Frolight for frost protection at his vineyard in the USA. As a winegrower, Tim knows the importance of crop protection against frost. Learn how Frolight has helped him.

Owner and Creative Director of the Skyview Hotel in Los Alamos shares their experience partnering with Unistellar to bring night sky viewing experiences to guests.