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Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment
MentionsLauren Reeder
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Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't written a line of code in 2026, why he now ships dozens of PRs a day from his phone, and why he believes coding is…
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Apple PodcastsOpenAI Just Released ChatGPT Agent, Its Most Powerful Agent Yet
MentionsLauren Reeder
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Isa Fulford, Casey Chu, and Edward Sun from OpenAI's ChatGPT agent team reveal how they combined Deep Research and Operator into a single, powerful AI agent that can perform complex, multi-step tasks lasting up to an hour. By giving the model access to a virtual computer with text browsing, visual…
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Apple PodcastsOpenAI Codex Team: From Coding Autocomplete to Asynchronous Autonomous Agents
MentionsLauren Reeder
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Hanson Wang and Alexander Embiricos from OpenAI's Codex team discuss their latest AI coding agent that works independently in its own environment for up to 30 minutes, generating full pull requests from simple task descriptions. They explain how they trained the model beyond competitive programming…
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Apple PodcastsPricing in the AI Era: From Inputs to Outcomes, with Paid CEO Manny Medina
WithManny Medina
MentionsJeff BezosChris ManningLauren Reeder
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Former Outreach CEO Manny Medina discusses his new company Paid, which provides billing, pricing and margin management tools for AI companies. He explains why traditional SaaS pricing models don’t work for AI businesses, and breaks down emerging approaches like outcome-based and agent-based…
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Apple PodcastsOpenAI’s Deep Research Team on Why Reinforcement Learning is the Future for AI Agents
MentionsLauren Reeder
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OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and Josh Tobin discuss how the company’s newest agent, Deep Research, represents a breakthrough in AI research capabilities by training models end-to-end rather than using hand-coded operational graphs. The product leads explain how high-quality training data and the o3 model’s…
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