FYI – For Your Innovation
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- 300
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- St Petersburg, FL
- Dernier épisode
- 12 Nov 2026
À propos du podcast
The FYI - For Your Innovation Podcast offers an intellectual discussion on recent developments across disruptive innovation—driven by research, news, controversies, companies, and technological breakthroughs. Hosted by ARK Invest, ARK and guests provide a unique perspective on how to best understand disruptive innovation.
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Épisodes 300
Filling The Falcon 9-Shaped Hole: Stoke Space's Bet On Full Reuse
In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton, Daniel Maguire, and Tasha Keeney speak with Devon Papandrew, VP of Business Development at Stoke Space, about building a rocket designed to be fully and rapidly reusable …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton, Daniel Maguire, and Tasha Keeney speak with Devon Papandrew, VP of Business Development at Stoke Space, about building a rocket designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. Papandrew explains why recovering the orbital upper stage is the hardest part of the problem, how Stoke's actively cooled heat shield and engine are one and the same, and why the company skipped partial reuse entirely. They also discuss the unveiling of Nova Block 2 and the $1 billion Series E behind it, the Falcon 9-shaped hole opening up as SpaceX turns to Starship, why satellite operators want more independent launch providers, the 24-hour turnaround Stoke is designing for, and the microgravity manufacturing market that only opens once payloads can come back down.
Key Points From This Episode:- 00:00:00 Introduction and disclaimer.
- 00:01:36 Why Stoke Space sits in ARK's venture portfolio, and what the company is building.
- 00:07:37 Borrowing decades-old actively cooled engine technology and applying it to the vehicle.
- 00:10:23 How far along Stoke is, with over 11,000 seconds of hot fire on the engine.
- 00:12:02 Why vertical integration is the winning structure in rocketry today.
- 00:15:38 Why Stoke skipped partial reuse and went straight at the harder problem.
- 00:17:48 Flight-proven hardware, Falcon 9's record, and the reliability case for full reuse.
- 00:20:06 The Falcon 9-shaped hole SpaceX is leaving as it retracts capacity from the market.
- 00:22:19 Whether the space economy today is really just Starlink and national security.
- 00:24:47 Microgravity manufacturing, and why coming back down is 10x more constrained than going up.
- 00:27:15 The technical distance between Starship today and Starship flying at high cadence.
- 00:29:28 What keeps Papandrew up at night as Stoke moves into higher-consequence testing.
- 00:39:57 Stoke's target of 24-hour turnaround, and what that demands of every design choice.
- 00:42:52 ARK's estimate of $300 per kilogram as the point where compute in space pencils out.
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
Did The Midterms Just Break The AI Trade? | The Brainstorm 157
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett work through what the midterms actually change for AI, separating the data center buildout, where delays may shift timelines roughly 10%, from the harder …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett work through what the midterms actually change for AI, separating the data center buildout, where delays may shift timelines roughly 10%, from the harder question of what federal AI regulation would look like and who it would favor. That leads to the sharpest disagreement the show has had in a while: Nick argues the incumbents finally get time to catch up and he would not want to be Anthropic or OpenAI heading into 2027, while Brett argues the economics push would-be competitors into becoming vendors instead. They also dig into whether Google search is past peak, what an AI-native ad unit even looks like, and why the Jensen Huang espionage story could make Chinese open-weight models look radioactive to security teams.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why a data center slowdown could raise compute prices and reshape who captures the margin
- The case for and against betting on the incumbents to catch the frontier labs in 2027
- Why a hidden instruction in an open-weight model is a Chief Information Security Officer’s (CISO’s) nightmare
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
The Call After The Calls: SpaceX And Tesla
Elon Musk put a $1 trillion revenue number on SpaceX, and the sell side has been staring at its models ever since. "Roughly five times wrong relative to what Elon said 2028 revenue could be," says Alex Potter …
Notes de l’épisode
Elon Musk put a $1 trillion revenue number on SpaceX, and the sell side has been staring at its models ever since. "Roughly five times wrong relative to what Elon said 2028 revenue could be," says Alex Potter of Piper Sandler. "That's absurd."
ARK hosted the call after the calls: a live post-earnings breakdown of SpaceX and Tesla with buy side and sell side in the same room. Cathie Wood, Brett Winton, Tasha Keeney, Daniel Maguire and Sam Korus of ARK Invest are joined by Alex Potter of Piper Sandler, Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, and Aaron Burnett of Mach33.
The group works through the numbers that moved them most: 20 gigawatts of power and cooling lined up for terrestrial compute, one to two Starship launches per week, 2 million driverless miles in eight months, and a 75% full self-driving attach rate on new Tesla deliveries. They debate where the money for all of it comes from, why Pierre Ferragu believes the vision-only approach to autonomy has cleared proof of concept, how Starmind and orbital compute could change the cost curve, and whether the SpaceX and Tesla merger that Brett Winton puts at 90% odds within 18 months actually clears the Tesla shareholder base.
They close on the bear case. Debt markets, regulation, China, execution risk over decades, and the possibility that the merger never happens at all.
Ramp's Economist Found Cracks In The AI Thesis | The Brainstorm 156
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, joins Sam and Brett with data from 80,000 businesses and over $275 billion in annual spend. His latest research, “Cracks in the AI …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, joins Sam and Brett with data from 80,000 businesses and over $275 billion in annual spend. His latest research, “Cracks in the AI Thesis,” finds AI spend is extraordinarily concentrated, with 1% of businesses driving 80% of it, and that those heaviest adopters are now slowing their spend even as token volumes keep climbing. Brett pushes back hard: three months is not a trend, prices have halved over the same window, and the gap between the median firm at $15 per employee per month and the top 1% at $7,000 to $10,000 is the whole story. The debate runs from revenue quality and venture capital (VC) -backed concentration risk to where spend could actually land five years out.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why falling prices can make AI spend look like it is slowing while usage keeps rising
- Whether concentration in VC-backed buyers is a revenue quality problem for the frontier labs
- What the gap between the median firm and the top 1% could mean for competition and private equity
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Anthropic’s S-1, Meta’s $90B, And Elon’s Warning Call | The Brainstorm 155
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open the Anthropic S-1, maybe the most impressive twelve months of revenue growth in corporate history, and debate whether a major AI-enabled cyberattack …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open the Anthropic S-1, maybe the most impressive twelve months of revenue growth in corporate history, and debate whether a major AI-enabled cyberattack would be good or bad for the frontier labs. Then Nick breaks down Meta’s $90 billion raise, the filing suggesting Zuckerberg could raise $700 billion before losing voting control, and why the math on monetizing Muse may require Meta to build a bank. Finally, Elon Musk is publicly warning of an extinction event for neoclouds with chips they cannot plug in, and the team asks who that warning is really for.
Key Points From This Episode:
- What the Anthropic S-1 reveals about gross margins, research and development (R&D) efficiency, and the risk factors everyone is quoting
- Why Meta’s consumer agent math may not reach Instagram-level Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without owning payments
- Why compute now rents above $50B per gigawatt, and what that squeeze likely does to the neoclouds
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
The Real Reason Tesla Announced The Roadster | The Brainstorm 154
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett cover a week of exciting developments. Brett was at the Tesla Roadster unveil in person and argues the event was primarily marketing for a prospective SpaceX …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett cover a week of exciting developments. Brett was at the Tesla Roadster unveil in person and argues the event was primarily marketing for a prospective SpaceX Tesla merger, pointing to the swapped order of the earnings calls, SpaceX executives quietly following Tesla accounts over the weekend, and the window a shareholder vote would require. Then to CoreWeave, whose bonds are trading at a fifteen percent yield after being raised at nine, with no visible softening in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) demand to explain it. Brett’s suspicion is that a leveraged fund is being liquidated rather than anything fundamental breaking. Plus Anthropic’s reported numbers, why growth decelerating to 340% may still be the most remarkable twelve months of business performance ever recorded, and the non-consensus case that the closed labs are pulling away rather than getting caught.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Brett reads the Roadster unveil as potential merger marketing, and what a combined SpaceX Tesla could unlock for both shareholder bases
- Why CoreWeave’s bonds are trading at 15% while GPU demand shows no sign of softening
- Why having the frontier model is what lets you build the cheap one, and why trading down to open weight may be the expensive choice
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Is SpaceX Coming For Your Phone Bill? | The Brainstorm 153
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open on OpenAI’s release of 722 mathematical proofs and the one subject conspicuously missing from it, cryptography. Brett argues the nearer term threat …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open on OpenAI’s release of 722 mathematical proofs and the one subject conspicuously missing from it, cryptography. Brett argues the nearer term threat to crypto is AI rather than quantum computing, and that the danger sits not in the cryptographic primitives but in everything built around them, from self-custody hardware to the exchanges now holding enormous honeypots. He also suggests quantum-safe encryption may be the more vulnerable life raft, and that a scrambled bank ledger could be far more disruptive than stolen coins. Then SpaceX reportedly pays $8 billion for Nextel’s old spectrum and wins Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for 15,000 direct-to-cell satellites, turning a service that was going to clip a dollar off your phone bill into a bid for the entire bill. Plus why SpaceX collects far more per gigawatt of compute than the neoclouds can.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why AI, not quantum computing, may be the nearer term threat to crypto, and why quantum-safe encryption could be more vulnerable than assumed
- How SpaceX plans to turn home Starlink dishes into cell towers, and why the cellular business likely depends on selling broadband first
- Why SpaceX collects $30 to $40 billion per gigawatt on short term compute deals while the neoclouds settle for far less
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Starship Reached Orbit. Here's the $1B-Revenue-Per-Launch Math | The Brainstorm 152
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett work through OpenAI DevDay, where one of the most interesting announcements was the one that never shipped. Ultra Ultra Fast did not reach public …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett work through OpenAI DevDay, where one of the most interesting announcements was the one that never shipped. Ultra Ultra Fast did not reach public availability because the inventory was reportedly sold out to Jane Street, which is paying something like $200 billion per gigawatt for it, several times what Anthropic pays to rent capacity from SpaceX AI. Brett argues speed is becoming its own axis of competition alongside intelligence, and that the pull of enterprise money keeps starving consumer agents of compute. Nick covers Robinhood’s Hood Summit, where retail traders got agentic accounts, paid data connectors, and backtesting, and asks whether that is democratization or lambs walking into a Goliath. Then Starship reaches orbit carrying commercial satellites, and the team sizes up a launch business that could add a billion dollars of annual revenue per flight.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Jane Street is paying roughly $200 billion per gigawatt, and what speed as a competitive edge potentially does to AI pricing
- Whether Robinhood handing agentic trading to retail is democratization or fodder for high frequency traders
- Why full Starship reusability could take launch costs below $100 per kilogram, and what that could mean for revenue per launch
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Building A Nuclear Plant That Can’t Melt Down
In this episode of FYI, Daniel Maguire and Tasha Keeney speak with J. Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy, about the company’s approach to reinventing nuclear power with advanced small modular reactors. Sell explains …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of FYI, Daniel Maguire and Tasha Keeney speak with J. Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy, about the company’s approach to reinventing nuclear power with advanced small modular reactors. Sell explains X-energy’s TRISO fuel and helium-cooled reactor design, why the company believes safety and repeatable construction can drive nuclear costs lower, and how regulatory reform is accelerating deployment. They also discuss X-energy’s partnership with Amazon, the role of AI in nuclear engineering and licensing, competition with China, supply-chain constraints, and Sell’s vision for making nuclear power abundant, affordable, and easy to buy.
Key Points From This Episode:- 00:00:00 Highlights and intro
- 00:02:58 Clay Sell's background and X-energy's goal of reinventing how nuclear is deployed
- 00:05:23 Why a pebble-bed, high-temperature gas-cooled design — and moving nuclear down the cost curve
- 00:10:09 TRISO fuel, helium coolant, and why a reactor that can't melt down needs fewer safety systems
- 00:16:44 Building a fuel business alongside the reactor business, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license for commercial fuel fabrication
- 00:20:01 Why Sell’s believes regulation is no longer the main constraint — construction execution is
- 00:24:00 Amazon's commitment to five gigawatts, and why X-energy is chasing nth-of-a-kind scale over being first
- 00:28:37 Earning community support and social license for plants and data centers
- 00:31:53 Applying AI to nuclear development with Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, Idaho National Lab, and the Department of Energy (DOE)
- 00:38:40 Competing with China on advanced reactors, supply-chain buildout, and nuclear as a routine option within a decade
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
Zuckerberg Admits He Got It Wrong | The Brainstorm 151
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett unpack Meta Connect, where Muse quietly replaced the metaverse as Zuckerberg’s vision for the company. Nick walks through the hardware spread, from …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett unpack Meta Connect, where Muse quietly replaced the metaverse as Zuckerberg’s vision for the company. Nick walks through the hardware spread, from audio-only Ray-Bans with no camera, to a 100 gram VR headset at $1,300 that outspecs the Vision Pro at a third of the price, to the Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-style agent device shipping for the holidays. Brett argues the real target was never virtual reality (VR) but Apple, and that loosening the smartphone’s grip is worth more to Meta than any single device. Nick counters that the three things people actually do on their phones are untouched by any of it, and that Meta should just build a phone. Plus whether consumer agents arrived a graphical processing unit (GPU) generation too early, and why owning the consumer may be the best dollar Meta can spend and the one Wall Street would hate most.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Meta’s $1,300 headset outspecs the Vision Pro, and why that may not matter if nobody wants VR
- How agent devices erode Apple’s ecosystem lock-in without ever replacing the smartphone
- Why consumer agents may take five years to monetize, and which balance sheets can fund the gap
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Amazon Just Blocked AI Shopping. Shopify Opened Up | The Brainstorm 150
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett dig into the opening shots of the AI shopping wars. Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from crawling its site to protect a $70 billion advertising business, while …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett dig into the opening shots of the AI shopping wars. Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from crawling its site to protect a $70 billion advertising business, while Shopify did the opposite and opened Shop Pay and its agent-ready catalog to the same model. Nick argues Amazon is making a mistake and will have to reverse course the moment Walmart or Target defect and see the Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) lift. Brett makes the case that agents expand the market rather than divide it, pulling services, grocery, and home projects into e-commerce for the first time, and that Meta’s years of social commerce tooling on Instagram may be the most underrated head start in the whole fight. Plus ghost brands, proof of human, and why agents may develop brand taste of their own.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Amazon has a $70 billion reason to block agents, and why a 5% agent take rate may be the compromise
- How agents could push US e-commerce past 30% of retail by pulling services and expertise into the cart
- Why Meta’s social commerce tooling on Instagram is potentially an underrated head start in agentic shopping
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Bitcoin’s Biggest AI Test Has Arrived
In this episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, Rod Roudi, Cathie Wood, and Lorenzo Valente are joined by Rob Hamilton, Seth For Privacy, and Dhruv Bansal to discuss how rapidly advancing AI models are changing …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, Rod Roudi, Cathie Wood, and Lorenzo Valente are joined by Rob Hamilton, Seth For Privacy, and Dhruv Bansal to discuss how rapidly advancing AI models are changing cybersecurity and Bitcoin security. The group examines the Coldcard vulnerability, the growing capabilities of open-weight models, and the resulting shift in the balance between attackers and defenders. They discuss AI-powered code auditing, self-custody and hardware wallet risks, the importance of domain expertise, and how teams can build continuous security systems around their software. The conversation also explores quantum computing threats, Bitcoin’s resilience, and why AI could ultimately strengthen software security.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
- Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest
- Lorenzo Valente: Director of Research, Digital Assets, ARK Invest
- Rod Roudi: Founder, Bitcoin Park
- Rob Hamilton: Co-Founder And CEO, AnchorWatch
- Dhruv Bansal: Co-Founder And CSO, Unchained
- Seth For Privacy: COO, Cake Wallet And Radar
Key Points From This Episode:
- How falling inference costs, rapid model advancement, and open-weight models have unlocked a new level of capability in software vulnerability research.
- The Coldcard weak-entropy vulnerability, and why we believe it represented a software and vendor problem rather than a failure of the Bitcoin protocol.
- The trade-offs between self-custody, third-party custodians, ETFs, hardware wallets, and multi-vendor multisig—and why security demands ongoing vigilance rather than a "set it and forget it" approach.
- Why we expect AI to benefit defenders more than attackers, from continuous repository scanning and faster audits to preparing Bitcoin for potential quantum computing threats.
Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, And Dario Amodei All Agree… | The Brainstorm 149
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett dig into Dario Amodei’s open letter calling on frontier labs to pace themselves, a position Elon Musk and Sam Altman both signaled agreement with. Brett …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett dig into Dario Amodei’s open letter calling on frontier labs to pace themselves, a position Elon Musk and Sam Altman both signaled agreement with. Brett argues the real risk is not extinction but agentic swarms mangling digital infrastructure that was never hardened for them, and that slowing the public frontier may hand closed labs both a wider lead and a defense business to sell. Nick pushes back on the competitive motives behind a federal AI regulator. Then Nick reports back from six days inside Meta’s Muse, the agentic consumer app that found him over $1,000 in unclaimed money sitting in Michigan.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why frontier labs want to pace the public frontier, and what that does to 99.99% cost declines
- Whether an AI regulatory regime protects the public or locks in the incumbents
- How Meta’s Muse is built for the consumer, not the prosumer, and why commerce take rates beat subscriptions
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Elon Musk’s Event Almost Nobody Was Invited To | The Brainstorm 148
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett unpack Tesla’s Cybercab launch, a two-seat vehicle with no steering wheel and no pedals that Brett believes can operate at roughly 25 cents a mile, a level at …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett unpack Tesla’s Cybercab launch, a two-seat vehicle with no steering wheel and no pedals that Brett believes can operate at roughly 25 cents a mile, a level at which Waymo may not be able to stay gross profitable. They settle the debate over why Tesla would sell Cybercabs at all instead of owning the fleet outright, and what a 4.5x jump in robotaxi app users on the back of a deliberately low key event says about demand at half the price of an Uber. Then the team turns to OpenAI’s Astra, the model release behind a solution to Navier-Stokes, and why Brett thinks the closed frontier labs eating their own caviar are pulling away from open weight models rather than converging with them. Plus Apple’s folding iPhone Duo, which neither host is buying, and why they believe the Apple Watch is the more interesting announcement.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why the Cybercab could run at 25 cents a mile, and what that price does to Waymo’s economics
- Why Tesla is selling Cybercabs to third party owners instead of keeping every mile for itself
- Why we believe closed frontier models are pulling away from open weight models, and why Apple’s walled garden becomes a liability in an agent driven world
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Why Some Of America’s Biggest Brands Are Going Driverless
Gautam Narang built India’s first customized humanoid robot as a teenager — then walked away from humanoids because they were nowhere near commercial. Today his company, Gatik, runs fully driverless trucks 24/7 …
Notes de l’épisode
Gautam Narang built India’s first customized humanoid robot as a teenager — then walked away from humanoids because they were nowhere near commercial. Today his company, Gatik, runs fully driverless trucks 24/7 across Texas, Arkansas, and Arizona for PepsiCo, Kroger, and Loblaw: dock to dock, no safety driver, no observer, no required remote monitoring. He tells Tasha Keeney and Daniel Maguire why Gatik took the contrarian bet on the middle mile while the rest of the industry chased long haul, how a $200,000-per-truck take-or-pay contract moves utilization risk off Gatik’s books, and why he believes autonomous trucking has moved from a technology challenge to an execution story.
Key Points From This Episode:- 00:00:00 Meet Gautam Narang, CEO and Co-founder of Gatik
- 00:05:49 The contrarian bet: why Gatik started with the middle mile
- 00:08:12 Dock to dock, and the interface problem nobody talks about
- 00:12:56 $200,000 per truck, take-or-pay: the business model explained
- 00:18:15 Inside the PepsiCo partnership: Frito, beverage, and dynamic routing
- 00:20:48 From 10-mile routes to 400-mile routes
- 00:32:12 A $300B market, and why the tech is platform agnostic
- 00:36:58 The $200M Series D and putting strategic partners on the capitalization table
- 00:39:17 Why ARK doubled down: what we believe the proof actually looks like
- 00:46:07 The 3x utilization assumption underpinning everyone else’s margins
- 00:48:25 Isuzu, NVIDIA, South Carolina, and 50,000 units a year by 2030
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Chip Factory | The Brainstorm 147
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett unpack SpaceX’s $100 billion Louisiana buildout, one of the largest infrastructure projects in history, and why the returns on Starlink, AI satellites, and …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett unpack SpaceX’s $100 billion Louisiana buildout, one of the largest infrastructure projects in history, and why the returns on Starlink, AI satellites, and terrestrial data centers could pull capital away from everything else. Brett makes the case for an “AI riptide”: if AI infrastructure underwrites a $30 trillion knowledge work opportunity, borrowing costs rise for everyone outside the value chain, and otherwise healthy businesses get caught offsides. Then the team turns to Figure AI’s Index, a bid to solve robotics’ data problem by paying people to wear a camera while they do their own chores.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why SpaceX chose Louisiana, and how a $100B project stacks up against the interstate highway system
- How the “AI riptide” could break business models that have nothing to do with AI
- Why we believe Figure AI’s Index is smart strategy, and why generalizable humanoid robots are still a decade out
IRR stands for Internal Rate of Return, which is a financial metric used to estimate the profitability of potential investments.
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is a financial metric that measures how efficiently a company uses its money to generate profits.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Moderna's Cancer Vaccine May Cut Deaths In Half | The Brainstorm 146
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett break down Merck and Moderna’s positive Phase 3 results for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, a treatment custom-built from each patient’s own tumor …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett break down Merck and Moderna’s positive Phase 3 results for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, a treatment custom-built from each patient’s own tumor that cut mortality from advanced melanoma by roughly 50% versus the standard of care. The team digs into cost, manufacturing scale, and why the capital poured into mRNA during COVID may be paying off in oncology. Then Brett reports back from a weekend with Grok Bot, which recovered $75 of his wife’s forgotten escrow money on its first task, and the team debates why multiplayer agents could be the real threat to Microsoft’s enterprise moat.
Key Points From This Episode:
- How a custom mRNA vaccine trains the immune system against a patient’s own tumor, and what Phase 3 melanoma results could mean for other cancers
- Why $200K–$300K per treatment limits early use, and what we believe has to change for personalized oncology to scale
- Why agents that live inside team chat, not one-on-one, may be the real disruption to Microsoft and Slack
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Anthropic Is The Fastest Growing Software Company Ever | The Brainstorm 145
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Frank dig into the rumors of a multi-trillion-dollar Anthropic initial public offering (IPO). A company that started the year at $9 billion in run rate revenue may now …
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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Frank dig into the rumors of a multi-trillion-dollar Anthropic initial public offering (IPO). A company that started the year at $9 billion in run rate revenue may now be approaching $70 billion, adding more than a whole Salesforce in revenue in less than a year. The team walks through what a $2 trillion valuation would actually imply, why that multiple could land below public AI winners like Palantir and Cloudflare, and what the S1 might reveal about profitability. Then the conversation turns to the Pareto Frontier, where 14 of the 16 most cost-efficient models are proprietary, Google has none, and SpaceX AI has clawed its way back with Grok 4.6 and Grokbot.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Anthropic’s reported run rate makes a $2 trillion IPO look cheap
- What the S1 could reveal about profitability, and why the token subsidy bear case may not hold
- How the Pareto Frontier reshuffles the model race, and why Google is currently off it
Total Addressable Market (TAM) refers to the total money or customers you could get if 100% of people buy your product or service.
Venture Capital (VC) refers to a type of funding where investors give money to new or small businesses in exchange for a share of ownership.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
OpenAI's Agents Hacked Their Way Out | The Brainstorm 144
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett break down what may be a watershed moment for AI: OpenAI’s agents devised their own secret communication scheme, hacked out of their training sandbox, and …
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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett break down what may be a watershed moment for AI: OpenAI’s agents devised their own secret communication scheme, hacked out of their training sandbox, and attacked Hugging Face in search of test answers. The team debates what swarms of autonomous agents mean for cybersecurity, why the coming wave of open-source attackers could drive more spending into frontier labs, and whether “alignment” is even a coherent concept. Then, Zuckerberg’s latest essay on personal AI assistants raises a bigger question: if billions of consumers get their own agents, compute supply could be constrained for a decade.
Key Points From This Episode:
- How OpenAI’s agents escaped their sandbox, and why every internet-facing system may soon face waves of AI attackers
- Why open-source “mercenary” models could push more spending, not less, toward frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic
- What Zuckerberg’s vision for personal AI assistants could mean for a decade-long compute crunch
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Could China Block A Rumored Tesla-SpaceX Merger? | The Brainstorm 143
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Nick and Brett discuss whether Tesla’s Shanghai factory could derail a rumored Tesla-SpaceX merger, and why both expect an announcement before the end of the year …
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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Nick and Brett discuss whether Tesla’s Shanghai factory could derail a rumored Tesla-SpaceX merger, and why both expect an announcement before the end of the year. Then, the team turns to AI economics: a benchmark that no model could crack at any price in January can now be beaten for 15 cents per task. With costs collapsing 99.99% on an annualized basis, the debate shifts to who actually wins, frontier labs, open source challengers, or the companies building AI hardware.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why Tesla China complicates, but may not kill, a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger
- How 99.99% annualized AI cost declines are resetting the model race
- Whether frontier labs, open source, or AI hardware locks in the next winners
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Why AI May Need Bitcoin
In this episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, Rod Roudi is joined by Cathie Wood, Lorenzo Valente, Steve Lee, Jesse Posner, and Paul Itoi to examine the growing convergence of Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and …
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In this episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, Rod Roudi is joined by Cathie Wood, Lorenzo Valente, Steve Lee, Jesse Posner, and Paul Itoi to examine the growing convergence of Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and energy. The group explores whether agents will settle in Bitcoin or stablecoins, why self-custodied AI could become essential for individuals and companies, and how open models, distributed compute, and Lightning payments may reshape collaboration. From Buzz and peer-to-peer inference to AI-assisted Bitcoin security and the changing structure of the firm, the conversation shows how open money and open intelligence could reinforce each other.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
- Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO at ARK Invest
- Lorenzo Valente: Director of Research, Digital Assets, ARK Invest
- Steve Lee: Lead, Spiral (Block)
- Jesse Posner: Co-Founder, Vora
- Paul Itoi: Co-Founder & CEO, Stakwork
- Rod Roudi: Founder, Bitcoin Park
Key Points From This Episode:
- 00:00:00 Cathie Wood on simultaneous S-curves and the potential for super-exponential growth.
- 00:07:11 Jesse Posner on how privacy, speech, and self-determination increasingly depend on decentralized technology.
- 00:11:58 How ARK's cross-technology research structure helps its analysts evaluate convergence.
- 00:16:47 Paul Itoi on why stablecoins fit workers who cannot absorb Bitcoin's short-term volatility.
- 00:23:49 Steve Lee on stablecoins as a fintech evolution and Bitcoin as a monetary revolution.
- 00:28:35 Why self-custodied AI could become as important as self-custodied money.
- 00:40:27 How control of models and agentic traces protects companies from dependence on foundation-model providers.
- 00:56:48 Why narrow models, distributed training, and micropayments can move work beyond company boundaries.
- 01:03:55 How AI security tools expose a capability gap between Bitcoin attackers and open-source defenders.
Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
The Age Of Free Food Delivery: Manna Air Delivery With Bobby Healy
In this episode of FYI, Tasha Keeney and Daniel Maguire sit down with Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of Manna, to examine the rapidly expanding drone delivery market. Bobby explains how Manna’s autonomous …
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In this episode of FYI, Tasha Keeney and Daniel Maguire sit down with Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of Manna, to examine the rapidly expanding drone delivery market. Bobby explains how Manna’s autonomous aircraft can deliver food and other goods within minutes, why its hot-swap architecture supports high-volume operations, and how regulation is opening the US market. They also discuss the operational challenges behind drone delivery, Manna’s use of ground robots and AI, opportunities across food, medical, grocery, and parcel delivery, and Bobby’s expectation that drone delivery will reach cities across the United States within five years.
Key Points From This Episode:- [00:00:00] Introduction to Manna and the drone delivery market
- [00:06:46] Why Bobby Healy founded Manna
- [00:07:41] The current drone delivery landscape
- [00:10:01] How an autonomous Manna delivery works
- [00:15:20] Operational challenges and aircraft maintenance
- [00:17:59] Regulation and Manna’s US expansion plans
- [00:21:54] Why Manna prioritizes food delivery
- [00:24:37] Medical, parcel, and grocery delivery opportunities
- [00:30:09] Partnerships with delivery aggregators and brands
- [00:39:09] How Manna uses AI and automation
- [00:44:21] The potential size of the drone delivery market
- [00:48:55] Goal of reducing delivery costs from nearly $10 to $0.50
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 + Kimi K3 Freakout | The Brainstorm 142
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Tasha Keeney, Nicholas Grous, and Brett Winton uncover how SpaceX's latest Starship test flight is revolutionizing space travel, slashing launch costs, and how this …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Tasha Keeney, Nicholas Grous, and Brett Winton uncover how SpaceX's latest Starship test flight is revolutionizing space travel, slashing launch costs, and how this potentially unlocks new commercial opportunities. Plus, a deep dive into AI’s rapid evolution, cost declines, and the real race behind the frontier of intelligent models.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why SpaceX’s recent test flight is a critical milestone toward fully reusable rockets and what that means for satellite deployment costs
- How AI models are getting exponentially cheaper, with potential savings of 97x in just a year and a half, and what this implies for knowledge work
- The true battleground between frontier and open-source models and why the race to dominate AI is about economic power, not just technological capability
- The subtle ways AI-driven automation and intelligent agents are transforming marketing, operations, and even consumer choice
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Can China’s Kimi K3 Beat OpenAI, Anthropic, And Grok? | The Brainstorm 141
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Nick are joined by Frank Downing to discuss the shifting future of AI models. Most AI companies are focusing on smarter models, but the real game-changer may be how …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Nick are joined by Frank Downing to discuss the shifting future of AI models. Most AI companies are focusing on smarter models, but the real game-changer may be how efficiently we run them — and how that shifts market power. When the biggest open source model ever, Kimi K3, launches with 2.8 trillion parameters, it challenges the economics of AI infrastructure and the assumptions about who holds the power in AI innovation.
Key Points From This Episode:
- How open source models like Kimi K3 are shifting the cost frontier
- Why infrastructure, compute, and energy are becoming the real battleground
- What this means for AI leaders, startups, and enterprise deployment strategies
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
How Businesses Can Gamify Loyalty With Lucra's Dylan Robbins
In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton hosts Dylan Robbins, founder and CEO of Lucra Sports, to discuss how white-label gamification is reshaping brand loyalty. Dylan traces Lucra's evolution from a peer-to-peer …
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In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton hosts Dylan Robbins, founder and CEO of Lucra Sports, to discuss how white-label gamification is reshaping brand loyalty. Dylan traces Lucra's evolution from a peer-to-peer sports betting app built at Stanford Business School into an enterprise software platform that powers leaderboards, challenges, tournaments, payments, and compliance for brands across fitness, hospitality, competitive entertainment, mobile gaming, and recreational sports. He explains why won rewards get redeemed when coupons don't, how partners like Dave & Buster's and Puttshack drive more visits, longer dwell times, and higher spend per visit, and how Lucra is using AI and its growing data set to personalize tournaments and marketing. The conversation also covers Lucra's $25 billion addressable market, the premium consumers place on in-person experiences, and Dylan's five-year vision for making friendly competition ubiquitous.
Key Points From This Episode:- (00:00:00) Introduction
- (00:01:25) Lucra's white-label gamification model: powering loyalty and games for brands.
- (00:02:20) Digitizing offline competition, from mini golf and darts to board games.
- (00:04:15) How Lucra evolved from peer-to-peer sports betting into recreational games.
- (00:05:50) The pivot to Business-to-Business (B2B): becoming a full-stack loyalty solution for enterprise partners.
- (00:07:00) Lucra's three value propositions: more visits, longer dwell times, higher spend.
- (00:08:30) Tournaments and asynchronous play across locations.
- (00:10:30) Why customers redeem rewards they win but ignore the coupons they are given.
- (00:12:15) Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and first-party data to personalize tournaments and marketing.
- (00:15:00) Mobile mini games as a beachhead to drive in-person visits.
- (00:16:20) The long-term vision: making friendly competition ubiquitous.
- (00:19:00) How Lucra deploys AI internally without losing its in-person core.
- (00:21:30) Sizing a $25 billion Total Addressable Market (TAM) across six sectors.
- (00:24:40) Where Dylan wants Lucra to be in five years.
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
What Is The Best AI Model In 2026? | The Brainstorm 140
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick are joined by Frank Downing to break down how OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and X are competing on performance, pricing, and deployment strategy as the AI …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick are joined by Frank Downing to break down how OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and X are competing on performance, pricing, and deployment strategy as the AI market gets more efficient. Frank Downing explains why the economics of AI matter as much as the benchmarks, while Brett Winton argues the true “iPhone moment” for agentic AI may still be ahead.
Key Points From This Episode:
- AI competition is increasingly about economics, not just intelligence. Companies are choosing between expensive frontier models and cheaper open-source alternatives based on cost, performance, and strategic fit.
- The real "iPhone moment" for AI may still be ahead. Model benchmarks are improving, but reliable autonomous task execution is what could ultimately matter.
- Open-source and lower-cost models are gaining traction on simpler knowledge work. That could commoditize parts of the market and pressure the business models of frontier labs.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Did Tesla Just Release The “Perfect" Car? | The Brainstorm 139
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett and Sam are joined by Daniel Maguire to discuss Tesla’s Model Y L and what it could mean for family buyers and robotaxi strategy, plus Rocket Lab’s acquisition of …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett and Sam are joined by Daniel Maguire to discuss Tesla’s Model Y L and what it could mean for family buyers and robotaxi strategy, plus Rocket Lab’s acquisition of Iridium and the growing importance of satellite bandwidth and launch capacity. The conversation also dives into the state of frontier AI models and open source vs. closed systems.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Robotaxis will need flexible vehicle form factors that match different passenger and use-case needs.
- Spectrum and bandwidth are becoming scarce, high-value assets in the satellite industry.
- Frontier AI models stay valuable because the highest capabilities command the strongest pricing power and strategic advantage.
- Vertical integration gives space companies better control over supply, capacity, and long-term resilience.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
SpaceX Starfall And Apple Price Hikes | The Brainstorm 138
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick discuss SpaceX’s Starfall, a new orbital delivery concept that could move cargo anywhere on Earth at extraordinary speed and open up new possibilities for …
Notes de l’épisode
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick discuss SpaceX’s Starfall, a new orbital delivery concept that could move cargo anywhere on Earth at extraordinary speed and open up new possibilities for military logistics and space manufacturing. The team also breaks down why Apple is raising prices as memory costs surge across the hardware industry, driven by AI demand and constrained Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) supply. Finally, they debate whether open-weight models are starting to pressure frontier AI leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic, or whether this is just a temporary shift toward more efficient spending.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The episode explores SpaceX’s Starfall concept, which could enable rapid point-to-point delivery from orbit and reshape both military logistics and emergency response.
- Apple’s price increases are framed as part of a broader DRAM crunch, with hyperscalers and AI workloads driving up memory costs across consumer hardware.
- We debate whether companies are starting to shift toward lower-cost, more efficient models, which could challenge the economics of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier model providers.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
Some Of The Smartest World Cup Bets Weren't In Sportsbooks | The Brainstorm 137
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick explore the future of prediction markets, cutting-edge medical AI, and the surprising power of global events to reshape financialization. You’ll discover …
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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick explore the future of prediction markets, cutting-edge medical AI, and the surprising power of global events to reshape financialization. You’ll discover how the World Cup has catapulted prediction markets into the spotlight, with volume trending towards over $100 billion annualized. We also uncover a revolutionary medical scanning device that promises to do high-definition ultrasound in a fraction of the cost and time, and break down the implications of accessible, frequent scans—tracking disease progression and enabling personalized health insights—while sparking debate on regulations, data privacy, and consumer bioscience.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Prediction markets are seeing a huge surge in volume during the World Cup, driven partly by sports-betting restrictions in the U. S. and by new users exploring adjacent markets like crypto and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)/event-based contracts.
- Kalshi appears to be benefiting more than Polymarket in the current wave, with stronger U. S.-market exposure and regulatory positioning, while Polymarket’s share has fallen and it’s facing trust/marketing scrutiny.
- Midjourney’s new medical scanning device sparked excitement and controversy because it could make frequent, lower-cost scans possible, potentially improving early detection and longitudinal health data, but also raising concerns about ambiguous findings and the tension between biohacking and traditional medical science.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
SpaceX IPO, Anthropic Fable 5, And Roku | The Brainstorm EP 136
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick explore how SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) could revolutionize the space and satellite industries, with Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar vision …
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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick explore how SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) could revolutionize the space and satellite industries, with Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar vision focusing on Starlink satellites and AI orbital data centers. They discuss the intricate financial strategies that could propel SpaceX to $400 billion in revenue, and how Tesla’s Robotaxis signal a massive investment opportunity in space-enabled infrastructure. Finally, they breakdown the news of Fox acquiring Roku, unlocking synergies in the connected television era, and why understanding these shifts is crucial for future tech dominance.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The true value of space-related ventures lies in leveraging cash infusion to accelerate future technological scaling, emphasizing long-term growth over short-term profitability.
- Transformative tech companies' valuations depend on bundling consumer relationships with advanced infrastructure, creating a powerful moat that ensures future user lock-in.
- Developments in AI are democratizing capabilities, shifting the focus from restriction to adaptation, highlighting the unstoppable nature of open-source progress.
If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.
Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financial
Learn more about Public: https://public.com/
Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
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