The sudden widespread usage of advanced artificial intelligence models has massively increased global demand for data centers that can handle... more

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We’re really excited to talk about the launch of our second public Riskgaming scenario, “DeepFaked and DeepSixed: AI Election Security... more

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The automobile industry is one of the most pivotal in the world, both due to its scale and its nexus... more

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China’s pivot from open to closed over the past decade has been striking. It wasn’t so long ago that tens... more

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China’s vertiginous rise over the past three decades has finally dawned on the Washington DC foreign policy blob. The hopes... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

In this episode of the RISKGAMING Podcast, host Danny Crichton sits down with columnist Michael Magnani to dissect the explosive... more

Science is the world’s greatest force for progress, but how are the people and institutions that compose this critical activity... more

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This week, Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon were injured and killed by the thousands across two waves of attacks when their... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

The old adage of “If you build it, they will come” might be translated into chip design better as, “You... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

Silicon Valley couldn’t be farther from the confines of Langley or Fort Meade, let alone Beijing or Moscow. Yet, the... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

Gaming has enveloped our world. A majority of Americans now gamble at least once every year, and popular video games... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

Global inequality has grown over the past two decades, concentrating an enormous amount of wealth and power on an elite... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

It’s good and bad times in America. Inflation is down and wages are up in real terms, but there’s a... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world.... more

The CrowdStrike meltdown on July 19th shut down the world with one faulty patch — proving once again the interconnected fragility of... more

Welcome to the ongoing mini-series The Orthogonal Bet. Hosted by ⁠Samuel Arbesman⁠, a Complexity Scientist, Author, and Scientist in Residence... more

When it comes to the so-called DC foreign policy “blob”, few scenarios have been more sketched out, analyzed and wargamed... more

Welcome to the ongoing mini-series The Orthogonal Bet. Hosted by ⁠Samuel Arbesman⁠, a Complexity Scientist, Author, and Scientist in Residence... more

The history of pharmaceutical development has traditionally been one of exploration on the frontiers of life on Earth. From fungi... more

Welcome to the ongoing mini-series The Orthogonal Bet. Hosted by ⁠Samuel Arbesman⁠, a Complexity Scientist, Author, and Scientist in Residence... more

Welcome to the ongoing mini-series The Orthogonal Bet. Hosted by Samuel Arbesman, a Complexity Scientist, Author, and Scientist in Residence... more

The media world has been rocked by artificial intelligence, labor strife, the creator economy, the decimation of business models and... more

Hello and welcome to the ongoing miniseries The Orthogonal Bet Hosted by Samuel Arbesman, Complexity Scientist, Author, and Scientist in Residence... more

If we had to rebuild American politics to be more positive, could we do it? And what would a positive... more

Welcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world. Hosted... more

2024 is the year of democracy, with more than half of the world’s population voting in elections across India and... more

In this episode, Sam speaks with Ben Reinhardt, an engineer, scientist, and the founder of a new research organization called... more

Another week, another media tempest in a shrinking tea cup. This time, the internet’s ire centered on Perplexity AI, a... more

The Orthogonal Bet is an ongoing miniseries of the Riskgaming podcast that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that... more

There have been data revolutions in most areas of human activity, and biological research is no exception. The rapidly shrinking... more

Hello, and welcome to the ongoing mini-series, The Orthogonal Bet, a show that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns... more

Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig built Applied Intuition differently from most other startups. At a time of profligate spending at... more

This is the inaugural episode of an on-going mini-series for the Riskgaming podcast we’re dubbing the Orthogonal Bet. Organized by... more

We’ve known for decades that one of the key mechanisms of biology — and of life itself — is the... more

How does science progress? One way to look at the question is to peer into individual fields and observe the... more

Ever since the invention of CRISPR technology about a decade ago, biologists have gained increasing power to discover new DNA... more

Every quarter, Lux publishes our latest quarterly letter to our limited partners, highlighting the key themes we’re working on as... more

This week’s solar eclipse captured the imaginations of millions of Americans throughout an arc across the continent. One of those... more

During a recent interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized his interest in how Nvidia’s AI processing chips could transform the... more

Astrobiology has seen a series of revolutions over the past three decades that have completely reinvigorated the field. Scientists who... more

Humans are enamored by a good story. The world overloads our mammalian senses, and so we seek any simplifying structure... more

Connections are the key ingredient for careers, society and AI neural networks to boot. Sometimes those connections arise spontaneously and... more

The construction of Boston’s Big Dig highway tunnels has gone down in history as one of the most infamously delayed... more

Home appliances are some of our most used and time-saving technologies, but they have barely evolved since their invention. A... more

Colonizing Mars has gone from the speculative fiction section of the bookstore right into the halls of Congress. Entrepreneurs led... more

The current drive for a Mars colony revolves around two central axes: one is a fear of existential risk and... more

The cost of launching a payload into low-earth orbit has shrunk dramatically over the past two decades as SpaceX has... more

Lux announced big news today: we are leading a $30 million founding seed round into Sakana AI, a Tokyo, Japan-based... more

Hey, it's Danny Crichton. 2023 was an incredibly busy year, and nowhere was there more fervent attention than on artificial... more

In a world where science fiction often paints a pessimistic picture of dystopian futures and critiques of modern technology, novelist... more

Ever wonder if your dreams were more than just dreams? Dive into an intriguing conversation with Erik Hoel on our... more

In this episode of the "Securities" podcast, host Danny Crichton leads a discussion on consciousness with guests Erik Hoel, Josh... more

Welcome to "Securities," a podcast and newsletter about science, technology, finance, and the human condition. In this episode, Danny Crichton... more

In this episode of “Securities” by Lux Capital, host Danny Crichton joins guests Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride... more

Welcome to this enlightening episode of "Securities” Podcast with host Danny Crichton, where we navigate the intricate crossroads of technology,... more

As the birthplace of semiconductors and computers, Silicon Valley has historically been a major center of the defense industry. That... more

Artificial life, aka “A-life”, is an intellectually vital field simulating life within computational systems. By allowing simulations to run uninterrupted... more

Think AI can't touch the creative world? Think again. Writers, directors, illustrators - none are safe. AI models, despite their... more

Historians survey the past and the Twitterati (X-erati?) process the events of the present day. But what does it mean... more

Welcome to "Securities," a podcast and newsletter devoted to science, technology, finance, and the human condition. In this episode, Josh... more

The rise of generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) have forced computer scientists and philosophers to ask a fundamental question:... more

The birds and the bees just don’t cut it anymore. With the rising age of first pregnancies in America, optimizing... more

While the natural world is fecund with a dazzling diversity of smells, the landscape of scents in our daily lives... more

In a quantified world, the act of creation remains mysterious. Where do ideas come from? How does an artist translate... more

We perceive the world through our senses, watching the sunset, hearing the staccato of a violin soloist, smelling and ultimately... more

It’s been a long road to mastering the cell, but biological scientists think they are getting closer and closer to... more

ChatGPT has overtaken the cultural zeitgeist faster than any consumer service in the history of technology, with some analysts estimating... more

The Lux LP quarterly letter has become an institution for its intricate weave of pragmatic cynicism about human nature and... more

While much of the venture world has hit a reset in 2023, you’d never know that in artificial intelligence, where... more

Artificial intelligence has become ambient in our daily lives, scooting us from place to place with turn-by-turn navigation, assisting us... more

They say that you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, but what if each shot costs money and... more

Technology’s prime and still growing role in society has led to a crescendo of criticism that it has exacerbated inequality.... more

No technology has as many dual-use challenges as artificial intelligence. The same AI models that invent vivacious illustrations and visual... more

Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern life, powering our appliances, smartphones, cars and electronics. That’s led to soaring demand from consumers,... more

We live in a time of tremendous focus on … focus and productivity. Scan the shelves of any self-help section... more

Episode reading list: The future of crypto regulation: Highlights from the Brookings event Lux + Tactic funding announcement Fourteen years after the release... more

Episode reading list:  Forging the Industrial Network the Nation Needs Defense Fordism and AI Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy The Return of Industrial Warfare America... more

Stanford University is at the beating heart of Silicon Valley and has become almost a rite of passage for generations... more

Agricultural commodities is a bit like accounting: you only hear news stories about it when things go wrong. And unfortunately... more

“Securities” podcast host Danny Crichton and producer Chris Gates talk about the latest newsletter issue, “Truth and reputations.” Reputations are... more

Humans have been bartering and trading for millennia, building extraordinarily complex mechanisms of exchange centered on fiat currencies, contracts, and... more

Recently in the Lux Capital office, my colleague Chris Gates, the producer of the "Securities” podcast, along with biotech investor... more

There has been a massive expansion in data emanating from bio labs, and that means next-generation AI algorithms and machine... more

“Securities” podcast host Danny Crichton and producer Chris Gates talk about the last two weeks of “Securities” newsletters. The first,... more

Welcome to “Securities” by Lux Capital, a podcast and newsletter devoted to science, technology, finance and the human condition. I'm... more

Today we're talking about the future of American defense. And we have three of the leaders changing the trajectory of... more

Here is my dilemma, I want custom art for the podcast. Ideally, I would have a new image for each... more

SpaceX has grown from nascent dreams of the final frontier into the world’s premier commercial space launch company, with dozens... more

"Where marginal stupidity is about  “how there is a turning point where further information or complexity can befuddle us and... more

"The world is incredibly complicated, and humans necessarily use heuristics and analogies to process that complexity into simpler forms. These... more

"GPT-3 was trained on is so large that the model contains a certain  fraction of the actual complexity of the... more

"One of the most important cognitive tradeoffs we make is how to process information, and perhaps more specifically, the deluge... more

"The activities of an extremely complicated phenomenon like a  multi-national corporation cannot be reduced to five-star ratings,  particularly on a... more

Speech and the right to it has become deeply contested across America in the 21st Century. What is free speech,... more

In part one of this interview, Jonathan Haidt described his recent article in The Atlantic on America’s structural stupidity and... more

Speculative fiction is a long-running but increasingly popular genre of science fiction that uses a variety of imaginative techniques to... more

It’s been another crazy week of financial news, but how do all these trends add up? This week, Danny Crichton... more