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AI researchers, hardware engineers, tech executives, and technologists tracking frontier computing.
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- Covers: Deep dives into artificial intelligence research, agent models, semiconductor manufacturing, compute economics, and historical analysis.
- For: AI researchers, hardware engineers, tech executives, and technologists tracking frontier computing.
- Best for: Technical professionals and tech founders wanting frontier-level insights into AI and semiconductor progress.
- Skip if: General consumers or marketers looking for basic AI tool tutorials or entry-level business advice.
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Sponsors Antithesis lets you run thorough simulation tests on every PR your coding agents ship.
What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years · 2026-10-30WorkOS ’s Airlock is a judgment layer that sits between your agents and your most important tools.
What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years · 2026-10-30Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street will pay to fabricate their favorite submissions. The competition is open until January 18th. Get started at janestreet.com/dwarkesh
What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years · 2026-10-30Sponsors Antithesis helps you trust your code. As agents generate more and more of your software
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-11Grok BotSponsor
Grok Bot has been a great way to hand off tasks. My team uses it as a producer
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-11Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street just launched its most ambitious competition yet: design a protocol-emulator ASIC.
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-11WorkOS helps you do business with enterprises. It gives you access to all the features most commonly required by enterprises
What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 2026-10-22Jane StreetSponsor
If you want to be trusted to pursue the ideas you think matter most, Jane Street is hiring. Go to janestreet.com/dwarkesh
What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 2026-10-22Antithesis ’ testing platform lets you perfectly reproduce every single bug you find. That’s because it runs on a fully deterministic computer
What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 2026-10-22Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street has been interested in AI for a lot longer than you’d think, and not just for trading.
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-17Grok BotSponsor
Grok Bot has made handing off work super easy. It runs on its own cloud computer, where it installs the tools it needs
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-17Antithesis gives you the confidence of a giant test suite without actually having to write one.
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 2026-09-17Jane StreetSponsor
If you want to read about more 2026 intern projects or apply for Jane Street’s 2027 internships, go to janestreet.com/dwarkesh
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 2026-10-01Grok BotSponsor
Grok Bot can tackle the tasks you’ve been meaning to handle but just haven’t gotten around to.
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 2026-10-01Antithesis solves one of the biggest problems with traditional software testing: to test for a bug, you first have to be able to imagine it.
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 2026-10-01Antithesis is a software testing platform that finds the failures no human or AI could ever anticipate.
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 2026-08-11Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street ’s back with a new puzzle. They designed an ASIC and sent me the final masks… but they didn’t tell me what the chip actually does.
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 2026-08-11Grok 4.6 is coming soon, but in the meantime, you can try 4.5 at cursor.com/dwarkesh
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 2026-08-11Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street ’s ML engineering internships start with an intense four-day bootcamp: PyTorch, autograd, writing kernels, profiling workloads…
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 2026-09-01If you want to read more about the ML research that Cursor and SpaceX are doing, go to cursor.com/dwarkesh
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 2026-09-01Antithesis hands you (or your agents) a bug’s root cause so you can avoid days of manual debugging.
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 2026-09-01Grok BotSponsor
Sponsors Grok Bot has been quite helpful with my search for a new editor.
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 2026-08-25Antithesis lets you add time travel to your software testing toolkit. Since the Antithesis platform is fully deterministic
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 2026-08-25Jane StreetSponsor
Jane Street is hiring for two separate ML internships right now, one focused primarily on research
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 2026-08-25
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