Podcast — Lorien Times

Parag Agrawal sells a $2 billion illusion of agent web traffic

Parag Agrawal predicts autonomous agents will explode web activity, but replacing human attention with algorithmic micro-royalties creates an unhedged liability that public grids and publishers will end up paying for.

By Klaus Berger ·

Josh Gao pitches a data factory that cannot solve the force gap

Josh Gao pitched Mecka AI's pipeline for sensorizing humans, but until foundation models learn physical force instead of relying on video, general-purpose domestic humanoids will remain sellable rather than shippable.

By Nikhil Raghavan ·