YC Demo Day, Spoon = Bent (Again), iPhone Duo Reactions | Garry Tan, Om Buddhdev, Karen Serfaty, Antonio Li, Edward Ge, Alfredo Gonzalez
About this episode
The episode discusses the future of AI, Y Combinator's focus on hard tech, and innovations in robotics and payment systems.
(01:47) - The Future of AI (10:57) - AI Safety Takes Over the Timeline (12:48) - Spoon = Bent (Again) (17:54) - iPhone Duo Reactions (24:17) - Garry Tan discusses Y Combinator’s growing focus on hard tech and how AI enables small teams to build ambitious hardware, software, defense, and gaming companies with fewer resources. The Y Combinator CEO predicts AI-native startups will outcompete established firms through agentic workflows while emphasizing practical cybersecurity solutions over speculative AI-safety debates. (43:56) - Om Buddhdev, co-founder and CEO of Olam Labs, discusses building realistic reinforcement-learning environments and training data to evaluate AI behaviors such as deception, collaboration, and negotiation. He highlights data and compute as key bottlenecks to AI progress, explains Olam Labs’ benchmark-driven business model, and expresses cautious optimism amid growing AI safety concerns. (52:55) - Karen Serfaty discusses Agent Card, a payments platform that enables AI agents to use consumers’ existing credit cards safely. He explains how its Vault and purchase API help personal-assistant companies securely store cards, navigate merchant websites, and…
More episodes of TBPN
- Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Washington on AI Risk, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Thijs Simonian, Alex Heath & Guy Oseary, Mitesh Agrawal
- AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- Apple Unveils iPhone Duo, Muse AI Agent, Keith Rabois Joins | David Cahn, Mikey Shulman, David Perell, Jim Reilly, Fletcher Richman
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the TBPN podcast page.