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🎬Meta Platforms Q2 FY26 Earnings Call | Full Recording | META

The operator welcomes participants to Meta's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call, and Chad Heaton, Meta's vice president of finance, introduces the call. He notes that Mark Zuckerberg and…

🎬Self-Improving Harnesses, Local Personal AI And YC's Agent For Work | YC Paper Club

The session opens by defending the idea that harnesses, the scaffolding and prompt engineering wrapped around a language model, are worth serious study even though critics on Reddit and elsewhere…

🎬Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White

Joe Rogan and Ron White open by talking about comics they've seen recently, including Matt Rife, and the skill of crowd work. Ron says he never let his opening acts do crowd work because it invites…

🎬Escher's most mathematically interesting piece

The video opens with M.C. Escher's 1956 lithograph The Print Gallery, in which a young man looks at a picture of a boat in a harbor, and the scene warps as your eye moves through a village, into a…

🎬Reinventing Entropy | Compression & Intelligence Part 1

Text encoded in plain ASCII uses eight bits per character, which is wasteful. Assigning shorter bit strings to common characters can bring the average down to around four bits per character, and…

🎬How To Get Better At Outbound Sales

If you blast out a thousand automated emails and get zero replies, you learn nothing because you don't know whether the problem was your messaging, targeting, deliverability, or subject line. Do at…

🎬$MSFT Microsoft Q4 2026 Earnings Conference Call

Jonathan Nielsen, vice president of investor relations, opens the call and introduces Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, Alice Jolla, and Brian Defoe. He points listeners to the investor relations website for…

🎬Startups Are Moving From Bits to Atoms

The episode opens by noting a shift toward older, more seasoned founders, many in their late 30s through 50s, describing a resurgence of what they call the experienced founder. There is also a…

🎬But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2

A 2002 paper called Language Trees and Zipping showed that you can find the family structure of languages using nothing more than ordinary file compression, like gzip. Given a pile of text documents…

🎬YOU LIVE WITH A PSYCHOPATH?!

Sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy are not simple yes or no categories. They exist on a continuum, so how many people count as high depends entirely on where you draw the cutoff…

🎬The Man Who Predicted The Iran War: The Next 9/11 Will Target Your Bank Account! | Professor Jiang

Professor Jiang opens by framing himself as a polarizing figure trying to prepare people for what is coming. He lays out several predictions structured around the idea of a new 9/11. The first is…

🎬Let’s Talk About Ozempic (Updated Version)

In recent years Ozempic and Mounjaro have helped millions of people lose large amounts of weight with only mild side effects for most. More than one in eight US adults have tried these drugs, and the…

🎬Live: Tesla Q2 Earnings Call 2026 (TSLA)

Elon Musk opens the call by noting record second quarter deliveries, with Model Y described as the bestselling car of any kind in the world. He says demand for full self-driving, known as FSD, is so…

🎬We Used Science to Create the Perfect Super-Earth

Earth looks like a paradise but much of it is actually hostile, covered in ice, fire, rock or darkness. The video imagines a planet designed for life to reach its fullest potential, a superearth…

🎬iPhone Duo is here

Apple's first folding iPhone, the iPhone Duo, uses a shorter, passport-shaped book style like Samsung's Fold 8. Closed, it shows a 5.4 inch outer display shaped like the letter D, and opening it…

🎬Apple Inc. Q3 FY26 Earnings Call | $AAPL | 🔴 WATCH LIVE

Tim Cook opened by reporting revenue of 109.4 billion dollars, up 16 percent from a year ago and a June quarter record, achieved despite supply constraints and foreign exchange headwinds. iPhone…

🎬iPhone 18 Pro/Duo Impressions: Mogged

Apple's fall event only covered the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the new folding phone, leaving the base iPhone, the Air, and the SE for early next year. The presenter calls this a welcome change to…

🎬"THE WORLD IS COLLAPSING!"

The speaker says he studies patterns of history and global supply chains to build a framework for predicting the future, structuring his predictions around 9/11. His first prediction is another…

🎬What Exactly IS a Memory?

Memories let you experience past moments again and again by encoding, storing, and retrieving information about the world and yourself. But they are not like photographs. They behave more like wax…

🎬THREE PREDICTIONS THAT WILL SHAKE THE WORLD

If Trump gets a third term, democratic cities may refuse to pay federal taxes and block ICE agents, clashing with local law enforcement. This could escalate into federal forces and pro-Trump militias…

🎬iPhone Duo: What We Missed!

Apple has unveiled its folding phone, the Duo, and this creates a challenge the company hasn't really faced before. Instead of keeping its products cleanly separated, this device combines two things…

🎬AI Emergency: AI Labs Are Lying To Everyone, No One Is Ready For What’s Coming! | Roman Yampolskiy

A former Anthropic and OpenAI employee named Jacob Coxson posted a tweet saying that the people building AI genuinely believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade, and that executives…

🎬CNBC Today On NVIDIA Stock After NVIDIA Earnings - NVDA Update

Nvidia reported adjusted earnings of two dollars and twenty two cents a share on revenue of ninety six point two billion dollars, beating Wall Street's expectations of two dollars ten cents and…

🎬iPhone 18 Pro Review: All About that Chip

The iPhone 18 Pro is basically last year's iPhone 17 Pro with a new chip, an upgraded camera, better battery life, and fresh colors to signal it's new. That kind of update used to be called an S…

🎬The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System

You will never leave the solar system, and probably neither will anyone alive today, or perhaps any human ever. There is an invisible barrier, made of dust and nothingness, that seems impossible to…

🎬Introducing StanfordNext

Universities exist to generate ideas and innovations that illuminate the world, and Stanford's mission is to educate students who go out and change it. StanfordNext is the plan meant to deliver on…

🎬This Scientist Cured Her Own Cancer

Dr Beata Halassy, a Croatian virologist, had breast cancer removed by surgery and then went through four rounds of harsh chemotherapy meant to kill any remaining cells. The cancer still came back,…

🎬New AirPods 5: Everything announced about the best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design

AirPods 5 keep the familiar open-ear fit but are redesigned inside for better sound. A new multiport acoustic architecture and next-generation Adaptive EQ deliver richer, more detailed audio across…

🎬Stanford researchers track hidden metals in wildfire smoke

Wildfire smoke is not always the same even when air quality readings look identical. Scientists know smoke is harmful and getting worse as fires increase, but the real question is which chemicals,…

🎬We Investigated How Accurate Forensic Methods Are. Here's What We Found.

A 1247 book called The Washing Away of Wrongs by Song Ci describes an early empirical approach to forensics. A man is found dead with wounds from a curved blade, so a village official orders every…

🎬New Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4: Everything announced about the ultimate wearable

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 come with a redesigned Health Sensing System that improves the electrode surface for ECG readings, rearranges photodiodes in a ring for better light capture, and…

🎬8 favorite spots on the Stanford campus ☀️

Phil highlights the pool at Fari Yaga as the best hot-day spot, and the Robly Arts Gym, home to dance classes and events like the Viennese Ball. Koopa Green offers coffee and food near Green Library,…

🎬Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #498

The empire sat in the middle of one of the world's main corridors for empire building and new religions, which made it one of the most dangerous places to live. Over a fifty year stretch, twenty six…

🎬The Scariest Chart In Electrical Engineering

This chart, often called the Smith Chart, has terrified generations of undergraduate electrical engineering students, some even printing "black magic" on its versions. Despite the fear, millions of…

🎬The Class of 2030 arrives on the Farm

A student describes arriving at Stanford far from home and feeling he belonged once he learned the campus nickname, The Farm, since he understood how things are planted, nurtured, and given space to…

🎬iPhone Duo: Everything announced about the first foldable iPhone

Apple opens by describing the concept of an intelligent personal hub, saying no product is better suited to be that hub than iPhone. A larger display, they explain, opens new possibilities for…

🎬President Levin’s remarks at Opening Convocation

President Levin welcomes first years, transfer students, and their families, calling this one of his favorite days of the year. He predicts students will remember almost nothing he says today but…

🎬New iPhone 18 Pro: Everything announced about the iPhone with the best camera and battery life ever

iPhone is positioned as a personal hub that understands your calendar, relationships, routines and other private details. Apple Intelligence runs on-device whenever possible, and when more power is…

🎬Lecture 10: Designs of Financial Infrastructure Utilizing Encryption

Robert Townsend opens by outlining three examples he will cover: an encrypted auction, a hybrid credit and insurance scheme for balance sheet shocks, and a market implementation using encryption. He…

🎬How much LSD should you give an elephant?

In the 1960s the CIA's MKUltra program wanted to know whether drugs like LSD could change human behavior, and elephants became part of that investigation because they are normally calm but sometimes…

🎬30 days free of Manychat Pro in the description :)

The speaker has made over $10 million selling online, and around 85 percent of that revenue came from his email list rather than his YouTube channel. He explains that on platforms like YouTube,…

🎬I speak faster than I type - Free Month of Wispr Flow Pro in the description :)

You dictate Slack replies instead of typing them, cutting an hour of context switching down to seconds, using WhisperFlow to give feedback like asking a student for three or five reference Instagram…

🎬Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499

Gary Gallagher opens by describing how the Civil War quickly grew beyond anything anyone expected. He points to the two-day battle of Shiloh, which produced more battle casualties than every previous…

🎬Can you actually swing from spider silk?

Henry opens by explaining that he has gathered the largest amount of spider silk ever assembled for a test like this, and he wants to find out whether it can actually hold a person's weight the way…

🎬How to make your first $1,000 online

Ali, a doctor turned entrepreneur who has documented making money online since 2017, introduces a four-step framework called the 1K ladder for making your first $1,000 online, ideally within 30 days.…

🎬Lecture 4: Smart Contracts as a Solution to a Coordination Problem

This lecture builds on the earlier framework by adding contracting on top of information sharing, using distributed ledgers and multi-agent smart contracts. The setting now includes commodities…

🎬If you’re ambitious but inconsistent, please watch this

The video opens with the idea that the most damaging words in the English language are "I am," because whatever follows becomes what your mind expects you to become. The host introduces a…

🎬Why does this place get the most Total Solar Eclipses?

You join a team traveling to Burgos, Spain, to film a total solar eclipse from the ground and from space, working alongside NASA and other science groups launching balloons to the edge of the…

🎬Should the Government Support the Lottery?

State lotteries in the United States pay out only about fifty cents for every dollar spent, making them a massively unfair bet, yet they remain hugely popular and a major source of revenue for…

🎬Sal Khan discusses MIT OpenCourseWare

Sal Khan traces a direct line from MIT OpenCourseWare to the creation of Khan Academy. He first heard about OpenCourseWare around 1999 or 2000 while working at a startup in San Francisco, at a time…