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How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn

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David Cahn is a partner at Sequoia Capital. Cahn joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how much revenue the AI industry must generate to pay back its massive infrastructure investments and why the pursuit of AGI is driving companies to keep spending. Tune in to hear his assessment of the strategies guiding OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, and SpaceX. We also cover the risk of an investment-timeline mismatch, the value of AI talent and proprietary chips, and whether building artificial intelligence could change religion and spirituality. Hit play for a cool-headed examination of the enormous financial and strategic bets shaping the future of AI.

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Write Drunk, Edit Sober: Creating Generative Content Responsibly - Matthijs van der Veer

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Duration: 56:54
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This talk was recorded at NDC Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. #ndccopenhagen #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper

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Let's examine the growing concern over low-quality generative AI content and explore how we can build automated systems that produce high-quality output.

You’ll learn to identify the signs of 'AI Slop' and implement strategies that counteract our automation bias, ensuring that the content we create meets the standards we expect. Using session abstract generation as a case study, I will provide practical guidelines to elevate the quality of your AI-generated content.

This talk is designed for developers and IT professionals who are dedicated to improving the quality of AI-driven content in their organisations. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and discover how a little effort can lead to significant improvements in the content we create.

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Application Performance Optimisation in Practice - Steve Gordon - NDC Copenhagen 2026

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Duration: 1:02:30
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Application performance always matters. Sometimes critically, sometimes subtly, but it’s never irrelevant. While many developers rightly caution that “premature optimisation is the root of all evil,” the opposite mistake, ignoring performance until it becomes a serious issue, can be just as problematic.

This talk explores the practical aspects of performance optimisation in .NET. We’ll look at proven strategies for monitoring, identifying, analysing, and iteratively improving applications. You’ll learn how to approach the performance lifecycle, from monitoring applications in production and pinpointing the best areas to optimise, to investing valuable engineering time where it counts most.

Through a worked example, we’ll follow a feature through the optimisation cycle. We’ll profile the application, design benchmarks, theorise improvements, and iteratively refine the implementation to reduce allocations and execution time, while balancing performance gains with code readability and maintainability.

Along the way, you’ll learn how to use tools like dotTrace, dotMemory, and BenchmarkDotNet to target areas for improvement and validate gains. We’ll discuss common optimisation opportunities, from smarter memory usage and fewer allocations to more efficient execution flow.

By the end of this session, you’ll leave with practical techniques to write faster, more efficient .NET code, along with the judgment to know when optimisation is worth the trade-off, and when it’s not.

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AI-Powered Gamification for the Web - Courtney Yatteau - NDC Copenhagen 2026

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Duration: 52:15
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AI can make gamification feel personal and responsive, without turning your app into a giant game engine.

In this session, we'll build a set of small, practical features you can drop into real web apps: dynamic story beats, sentiment-aware feedback, and adaptive challenge tuning that reacts to player behavior.

You'll see how to wire these features into a modern JavaScript app with lightweight demos that focus on patterns you can reuse in real apps.

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Visual Studio Code 1.133 (Insiders)

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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.133 (Insiders)

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SkiaSharp 4.0 Establishes Milestone-Aligned Release Cadence

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Microsoft and Uno Platform have released the first stable versions in the SkiaSharp 4 series, beginning with SkiaSharp 4.148.0 and followed shortly afterward by 4.150.0. A 4.151.0 prerelease line is also available, demonstrating the project’s new approach of aligning package versions and release cadence with upstream Skia milestones.

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