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The US has to sit down with China. And of course, China feels the same. In fact, they feel even more because the leading models right now are in the US. So both have an interest to sit down at the…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

For the first time, I think, in the history of AI based on machine learning, we have mathematical results that can give us guarantees about the good behavior of AI in the sense of not violating the…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

We need to make sure that power is under check. And we can't rely on every company doing the right thing. We need governments to make sure everyone evaluates the risks and then acts accordingly.

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

We reached a point and it's going to get worse where AI can be weaponized. And as such it becomes a national security issue and in fact, a global security issue, because AI could be developed in one…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

We are not succeeding in making sure that AI will behave in a way that doesn't violate our red lines or our safety instructions. So it shows up right now with methods, for example, where it is quite…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

On the doors of the examiners were newspaper articles of deals blocked. Like the celebratory monuments of their success when as an entrepreneur, it's like the opposite of what should be on your door,…

Colin Angle ·Former Cofounder ·Jun 2026

The law says you need to have to be a monopoly, you need to have the ability to limit sales. You have to have the motivation to limit sales and it has to matter in the marketplace. And so there's no…

Colin Angle ·Former Cofounder ·Jun 2026

We were blocked for monopolistic potential in Europe when we had 15% market share and falling and the number one market leader had only been in market for three years. It was just it was a bit…

Colin Angle ·Former Cofounder ·Jun 2026

There were some real challenges with tariffs coming in which asymmetrically impacted us versus companies whose major markets were outside of the United States. And so that our ability to invest in…

Colin Angle ·Former Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I mean I think that if I had the availability of capital that exists today back at the beginning of iRobot, iRobot would have failed. Because you know I think that initial ideas of founders are kind…

Colin Angle ·Former Cofounder ·Jun 2026

In the future, what I'd really like to do is to be able to tell the difference back here if you're on the red line or the blue line and help you move from the red line to the blue line. So that not…

Rosalind Picard ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I think we want to look at like what's going on. Are they experiencing bad sleep? Are they experiencing psycho motor retardation? Are they experiencing these other things? And then I think we can…

Rosalind Picard ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

100 years of literature saying measure the non-dominant side. There are cases where that is going to give the wrong conclusions. When we published this in emotion review, the editor said, you know,…

Rosalind Picard ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

100% of the most dangerous kind of seizure, the grand mall or generalized honoclonic seizures had a more than two standard deviations increase in the pre-Cal in the ectal period over the pre-actal…

Rosalind Picard ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

We believe that uh SpaceX Space X AI um built Colossus one uh and two I'm not going to get this exactly right, but for roughly $30 billion and Anthropic is renting it out effectively for 1.25 25…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

I think the big surprise in the next few years is going to be labor shortages, not a glut of labor. Now I know that corporations are not hiring right now. um uh at least it's much lower than normal,…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

The mistake we believe, consider the source, but we believe uh in 22 is the Fed was trying to solve a supply shock with higher interest rates. Higher interest rates hurt supply even more. You need to…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

This economy is moving into boom territory. We've been talking about this for a while. Uh but the markets are plummeting. What the heck is going on? Uh well, we think we have the answer. Uh I think…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

We don't worry about this deficit that much. Uh because the flip side of it is a capital surplus. Uh again, foreign direct investment coming into the United States, equity investment and so forth.

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

Now, here's the good news. Um capital spending is beginning to boom. Now, what's interesting about this chart, and I've uh watched it really since since the early 90s, uh we peaked at roughly the…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

Bitcoin is moving up relative to gold. This um this uh would suggest that we've held the sort of the higher lows. The trend is up. Shall I say the trend is up over time and we do believe it is up…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

We've been we've been saying we've said it's not systemic. This would corroborate it. The latest tick here has been down. And finally, uh the high yield uh spread, high yield bonds or junk bonds…

Cathie Wood ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2026

In the mid term by fiscal 2020 we have a mid-term goal which is to grow our business from today's last year's close to 550 billion to 1 trillion u.s. dollar this is a short-term to mitten go in the…

Joe Tsai ·Chairman BABA ·Jun 2018

We strongly believe that at the end of day online offline with the digitalization of all these five components of retail operations online offline will be on the same page will give people seamless…

Joe Tsai ·Chairman BABA ·Jun 2018

Taobao has transformed from a marketplace to a social commerce platform because of the social because of the fun of discovery because of the experience of exploration so that's why people want to…

Joe Tsai ·Chairman BABA ·Jun 2018

Alibaba is an economy but driven by big data today when you see each elements each pillows of the infrastructure and each elements of the business we can see totally different picture but the common…

Joe Tsai ·Chairman BABA ·Jun 2018

The Federal Reserve has perverted risk tolerance across all assets. No one knows what anything's worth anymore because no one knows how to value a dollar. They're more printed by as the seconds that…

Jack Mallers ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2022

You can't build wealth as an employee. You've got to own equity, you've got to own an asset if you want to grow wealth. You can't be working paycheck to paycheck.

Jack Mallers ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2022

The average NFL career is three and a half years. I don't care what you do, that is not enough time in any profession to build generational wealth. Period. And giving guys like him, he deserves it,…

Jack Mallers ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2022

Bitcoin is the first asset class that humanity designed from scratch with our bare hands, and we as a community built it to solve this exact problem.

Jack Mallers ·CEO & Founder ·Jun 2022