ARK puts these out every year. They are pretty darn inspiring

https://ai-2027.com/ made some bold claims about the rate of AI progress. AI says we are ahead of schedule.

AI Agents are here. Let them take over.

Encyclopedias! Who knew they were going to be such a big deal.

As AI models like GPT-6 demand unprecedented levels of power, Earth’s energy grids and water-cooling systems are hitting a breaking point. In this episode, we explore the revolutionary shift toward orbital computing. Learn how startups like StarCloud and tech giants like Google are launching Nvidia H100s into orbit to solve the "terrestrial bottleneck".

We dive into the physics of sun-synchronous orbits for 24/7 power, the elegance of passive radiative cooling in the vacuum of space, and how SpaceX’s Starship is making space-native hardware economically viable. Discover how the pursuit of cheap energy for AI is leading humanity to "tile the sky" with solar collectors, inadvertently building a Dyson swarm and accelerating our transition toward a Type II civilization.

Macrohard, a conceptually audacious project from Elon Musk’s xAI that aims to redefine the operating structure of a software company. Unveiled in August 2025, Macrohard is envisioned as a fully end-to-end AI-operated enterprise that replaces human employees and traditional hierarchies with decentralized swarms of autonomous AI agents.

We explore the meaning behind the name—a competitive satire of Microsoft—which signals a shift toward large-scale, robust, and "hard" operations designed for extreme organizational velocity. We break down the technical "engine" of the company: AI Swarm Simulation. This model utilizes specialized digital agents to replicate every functional department of a traditional firm, from R&D and QA to product management and coding.

Key topics covered in this episode include:

• The Origin of Macrohard: How a public declaration on X and a broad US trademark filing (Serial No. 9931-4877) set the stage for a direct challenge to legacy tech giants.

• The AI Swarm Model: Understanding how autonomous agents coordinate through decentralized protocols—much like an ant colony—to achieve complex goals without central human management.

• Grok as the Arbiter: The role of the Grok AI model as the "constitutional law" of the company, providing the high-level reasoning and strategic direction needed to prevent "rogue" behavior and maintain system-wide objectives.

• The Velocity Advantage: How eliminating human-centric bottlenecks like meetings, time zones, and departmental politics allows Macrohard to compress product roadmaps from months into a single week.

• The Future of Innovation: A look at the economic and competitive implications of a virtual enterprise that never sleeps, operating 24/7 to produce high-quality operating systems and productivity suites at a pace human teams cannot match.

Join us as we analyze whether this AI-native software creation model will become the new benchmark for development speed and if the most significant innovations of the next decade will come from entirely autonomous entities.

a contrarian and fascinating outlook for the US economy: the 2026 Coiled Spring. While many experts have spent years bracing for a traditional recession, the research suggests that the grinding pressure we’ve felt is not a sign of collapse, but rather the potential energy fueling a historic launch.

We begin by deconstructing the "rolling recession" that has gripped the country since 2023. While headline GDP numbers appeared positive, foundational sectors like housing—which saw sales volume drop to levels not seen since the 1980s on a per capita basis—and manufacturing were effectively "frozen solid" by a 22-fold increase in the Fed funds rate. This aggressive rate shock served as the "hand" pushing down the economic spring.

The episode highlights three massive "rivers" converging to release this tension in 2026:

• Policy & Tax Incentives: We explore a major pivot toward deregulation and the "single biggest lever" in the report: 100% accelerated depreciation. This mechanism, retroactive to early 2025, allows businesses to write off 100% of tech and equipment investments in the first year, potentially turning the US into the most tax-competitive place on Earth.

• The Deflationary Boom: Contrary to fears of "10-dollar eggs," the sources project a "good deflation" driven by technology. With Trueflation data already showing inflation at 1.7% and housing prices cooling, we discuss how falling costs can actually drive a surge in purchasing power.

• The AI Engine: We break down the 99% annual drop in AI inference costs and the projected $600 billion capex boom in data centers. This technological shift is being compared to the internal combustion engine and electricity during the Roaring '20s, promising a productivity spike of 5% to 7%.

Finally, we analyze the "US supremacy trade," looking at why global capital is flooding into the dollar, gold’s vertical climb, and how multiple compression could make today’s expensive stock prices look like a bargain in hindsight.

Is your business or career ready for the "fighter jet" velocity of this recovery?. Join us as we explore how to stay agile and ride the wave of the 2026 snapback

we move past the "tech doom" narrative of job loss to explore how Tesla is pivoting from a car manufacturer to a robotics powerhouse,. Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot is projected to account for a staggering 80% of the company’s future valuation, dwarfing its vehicle business. We unpack the "first principles" look at economics that suggests a quasi-infinite economy is possible when the cost of physical labor approaches zero,.

We also look ahead to the highly anticipated V3 reveal in Q1 2026, which is expected to feature near-human dexterity with 22 degrees of freedom in its hands. From lifting eggs to performing complex surgeries, the sources suggest Optimus will eventually outnumber humans, with a target of 8 to 20 billion units globally,,.

Join us as we discuss:

• The V3 Reveal: Why investor Jason Calacanis called the new prototype "transformative".

• Economic Impact: How Ark Invest predicts Optimus could add $24 trillion to global GDP by 2035.

• The Tech Doom Detox: Addressing displacement and why Elon Musk believes this future will require Universal Basic Income (UBI),.

• Vertical Integration: How Tesla’s FSD chip and the Dojo supercomputer are teaching robots to understand physical reality,.

The question is no longer "if" robots will replace labor, but what human flourishing looks like in a post-scarcity world where physical necessity is automated,.