The Hallway Track
Jensen Huang argues America must embrace open source models—including Chinese ones—to win the AI race.
“If we want to win the AI race, it's not about a few tech companies winning that race. This is about every company in America, every industry, every researcher, every teacher, every student, every startup. Everyone wins.”
RAND recommends the US adopt a 'Freedom of Action' strategy to preserve all options on the path to superintelligence.
“to build and preserve the ability to secure U.S. geopolitical advantage and ensure humanity's survival with agency through the transition to Superintelligence”
Banning open-weight models will hurt US AI competitiveness while increasing long-term cyber risk
“I feel we're going to end up making policy decisions that both limit American AI competitiveness and increases long-term cyber risk.”
OpenAI publishes a public policy agenda covering AI safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards.
Kimi K3 proves open weight models now match proprietary frontier models, splitting the industry on policy
“Prediction by the end of this year: the Pope says something about open models.”
OpenAI report maps how AI could automate, grow, or reshape jobs across EU occupations.
NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 promotional content highlights AI, robotics, and digital twins convergence.
“We will be able to make progress towards solving problems that have so far been completely off limits.”
a16z's Academy targets young builders who will found billion-dollar companies employing hundreds of thousands.
“These are the people who are going to employ thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in the future.”
US robotics competitiveness depends on Silicon Valley founder tenacity and contrarian thinking
“Every founder started out as having a contrarian idea that was kind of seen as heretical.”
YC partner argues founders should stop overthinking, commit to one startup idea, and validate it fast with customers.
“It's impossible to figure out the perfect idea in the abstract. You can only figure out what you should be working on by making contact with reality and getting feedback from customers.”
Y Combinator's Startup School returns, featuring past speakers like Fei-Fei Li and John Jumper.
“There's no greater concentration of those types of people anywhere else in the world.”
The defining trait of every great founder is extreme focus on their own work.
“It's like mute the world and then build your own.”
David Senra describes an obsession with people who love their work so much they'd never stop.
“If you love what you do, they couldn't pay you to stop.”
The single trait shared by the greatest founders across history is extreme focus.
“mute the world and then build your own”