On this week’s Insider our panelists share what they know about America’s peace deal with Iran. Instead of the minutiae of a vague and flimsy agreement, they discuss more weighty—and more interesting—questions about the Middle East and its future

Do You Want to Be a Great Speaker and Panelist on Stage? Here Are My 5 Tips! Hope this video will be useful to many of you, especially as interpersonal and public speaking skills become critically more important in this AI age. You can find this video and many similar ones on my YouTube page:

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC announces roundtable to prepare for 24-hour stock market trading. Panelists: • Citi • UBS • Cboe • NYSE • DTCC • Invesco • Nasdaq • Schwab • Samsung • Blackrock • Robinhood • Jane Street • State Street • BNP Paribas • BNY Pershing • Citadel Securities • Interactive Brokers

At final Black Hat keynote (called a locknote, ha ha) panelists say they are surprised at how the OpenAI - Hugging Face incident debrief, as well as other reporting on AI agent escapees (Anthropic/Meta) - has turned into a marketing/PR play. "Felony humble-bragging," said one.

In 2 hours, we kick off #BNBMiami# Catch our esteemed panelists share insights on the current landscape of: 1️⃣ Onchain Assets Joined by @valgui1 of @xStocksFi, Guyan Liu of @Paimon_Finance, Ric Golubov of @FTDA_US & moderated by @Lukexiao0 2️⃣ Onchain Finance Infra Joined by Nile Natsheh of @awscloud, @samuel_vvvv of @GeniusTerminal, Ahmed Zifzaf of @Worldpay_Global & moderated by @0x1CMC

At ModCon this year, we asked five investors where the next wave of AI infrastructure capital is going: training, inference, or silicon? Five different answers, and one panelist said it's the wrong question to be asking. The discussion also covered whether chipmakers absorbing AI software means the infrastructure is maturing or getting ahead of itself, and what open weight models do to the valuation of a compute-heavy startup. Michelle Gonzalez (@M12vc), Liz Stein (@USITfund), Sam Fort (@dfjgrowth), Quentin Clark (@generalcatalyst) and Dave Munichiello (@GVteam) each closed with what they think founders should build right now. Full recording:

🔥 “ISLAM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH WESTERN CIVILIZATION.” A discussion about 9/11, Islam and what American children are being taught in school quickly turned into a heated debate. One panelist invoked Charlie Kirk before declaring: “Islam is not a religion of peace.” @RCPolitics

“THEY’RE JUST NOT GOING TO ALLOW FACTS TO GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR OPINIONS.” A fiery panel discussion over the Charlie Kirk murder case turned directly to the conspiracy theories surrounding accused killer Tyler Robinson. One panelist pointed to the evidence outlined by the judge — including DNA, vehicle evidence, alleged confessions and the recovered gun — before delivering this shot: 🔥 “For anyone who thinks that this is not the assassin of Charlie Kirk, they’re just not going to allow facts to get in the way of their opinions.”