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About Live at PB
Recordings of live events held by Presidio Bitcoin in San Francisco presidiobitcoin.substack.com (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/s/live-at-pb?utm_medium=podcast)
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- 18 Sept 2026
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- 22 Sept 2026
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22 Sept 2026
Privacy Panel with Tinfoil, Maple AI, Electric Capital, Google
A discussion of why privacy matters, the lack of privacy in popular products like ChatGPT and Claude, and different approaches and trade-offs to achieving it, including TEEs, homomorphic encryption, and local AI. Follow: Tanya Verma (https://x.com/t0nyav) (Co-Founder & CEO, Tinfoil) Mark Suman (https://x.com/marksuman) (Co-Founder & CEO, Maple) Curtis Spencer (https://x.com/curtis0x) (Partner & Co-Founder, Electric Capital) Shruthi Gorantala (https://x.com/_shruthig) (Software Engineer, Private Computing, Google) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
NVIDIA Fireside with Bryan Catanzaro
Matt White will moderate a conversation with Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA. Follow: Bryan Catanzaro (https://x.com/ctnzr) Matt White (https://x.com/matthew_d_white) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
The Geopolitics of AI
An exploration of what China’s rise in competitive open-weight models means for American AI leadership, global influence, export controls, and the case for a U.S. open-weights strategy. Follow: Travis Oliphant (https://x.com/teoliphant) (CEO & Co-Founder, OpenTeams; Creator of NumPy & SciPy) Kyle Olney (https://x.com/KyleOlney) (Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute) Ken Egan (https://x.com/bitcoinpolicy) (Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
Hardware You Can Verify
Every security guarantee in an AI system eventually rests on silicon almost no one can inspect. Three teams working that problem share their approaches. Vora is building a personal AI appliance with its own secure element. Caution is building verifiable compute out of Distrust’s open-source supply-chain work. Sudo’s Project SOVereign is an attempt at a maximally open source, fully verifiable, security-first chip. Follow: Jesse Posner (https://x.com/jesseposner) (CEO, Vora) Nick George (Head of Hardware, Vora) Lance Vick (https://x.com/CautionHosting) (Co-Founder & CTO, Caution) Sudo ML (https://x.com/sudo_ml) (Steward, Project SOVereign) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
AI and Human Freedom
A look at why the Human Rights Foundation cares about open-source AI, how AI is shaping human freedom, and why open, user-controlled technology matters for protecting individual rights. Follow: Justin Moon (https://x.com/_JustinMoon_) (AI Lead, Human Rights Foundation) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
AI for Science
A discussion on what’s being built at the intersection of open-source AI and science, and how open models, agentic skills, and local infrastructure can uniquely support scientists and help accelerate scientific discovery. Follow: Niko McCarty (https://x.com/NikoMcCarty) (Founding Editor, Asimov Press) Rory Donovan-Maiye (https://x.com/allen_ai) (Sr. Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence) James Sinka (https://x.com/jamessinka) (Founder, Reactorfield) Tanishq Abraham (https://x.com/iScienceLuvr) (CEO, Sophont) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
Sovereign by Design: Protecting Enterprise Value in the Age of AI
As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, a company’s most valuable assets increasingly include what it uniquely knows: proprietary data, trade secrets, institutional knowledge, intellectual property, and the collective intelligence built over decades. This talk explores how open-source AI and sovereign data infrastructure can allow organizations to capture the transformative value of AI without surrendering control of the knowledge that creates their competitive advantage. Follow: x.com/teoliphant (https://x.com/teoliphant) x.com/TheVinoMom (https://x.com/TheVinoMom) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
22 Sept 2026
Computing Manifesto Fireside Chat
Tess Posner and Alex Komoroske sit down to explore why today’s technology so often leaves us alienated and disempowered, why AI represents a critical crossroads, and what it would take to build a more resonant computing future grounded in human agency, connection, and flourishing. Follow: Alex Komoroske (https://x.com/komorama) (CEO & Co-Founder, Common Tools) Tess Posner (https://x.com/tessposner) (Founder & CEO, Resonance) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
21 Sept 2026
Securing Open Source Software
This panel explores how AI-powered security scanning is reshaping the race between attackers and defenders in open-source software. The conversation covers finding and triaging vulnerabilities, responsible disclosure, protecting maintainers from malicious reports, and why access to open-weight models is becoming essential to defending critical code. Panelists: Steve Lee (Lead, Spiral) · Elias Rohrer (Developer, Spiral) · Jordan Mecom (Staff Security Engineer, Block) · Rob Hamilton (Co-Founder & CEO, AnchorWatch) Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/moneyball (https://x.com/moneyball) x.com/_tnull (https://x.com/_tnull) x.com/Rob1Ham (https://x.com/Rob1Ham) x.com/jordanmecom (https://x.com/jordanmecom) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
21 Sept 2026
The Importance of Open Protocols
This panel explores why open protocols are essential to building an interoperable AI ecosystem. The conversation covers standards for agent identity, communication, payments, and memory, and how they can reduce lock-in, create open markets, and enable new forms of collaboration between humans and agents. Panelists: Max Webster (Founder, Hivemind Ventures) · Tom Brow (Applied AI, Block) · Ilan Strauss (Economist, AI Disclosures Project) · Sam Herring (Developer, Nous Research) · Roland Bewick (Developer, Alby) Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/MaxAWebster (https://x.com/MaxAWebster) x.com/_tombrow (https://x.com/_tombrow) x.com/IlanStrauss (https://x.com/IlanStrauss) x.com/yaboilyrical (https://x.com/yaboilyrical) x.com/rolznz (https://x.com/rolznz) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
21 Sept 2026
The Right to Compute: Greg Lukianoff, Conner Brown, and Kyle Olney
This panel examines whether model weights and AI outputs qualify as protected speech, how AI regulation intersects with the First Amendment, and whether people have a right to run intelligence on hardware they own. The conversation explores the limits of “code is speech,” the privacy advantages of local AI, and why technical experts should help shape policy before new regulatory frameworks are established. Panelists: Greg Lukianoff (President & CEO, FIRE) · Conner Brown (Executive Director, Bitcoin Policy Institute) · Kyle Olney (Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute) Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/glukianoff (https://x.com/glukianoff) https://x.com/BitcoinConner (https://x.com/BitcoinConner) x.com/KyleOlney (https://x.com/KyleOlney) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
19 Sept 2026
The Economics of Open-Weights Models and Autonomous AI Systems
This panel explores how open-weight models could compete with closed AI labs and how autonomous agents may earn, transact, and hold resources. The conversation covers control over data, the economics of compute, verification, Bitcoin, and why a diverse ecosystem of open models may be safer than relying on a few centralized systems. Panelists: Max Webster (Founder, Hivemind Ventures) · John Komkov (Managing Partner, Fathom Capital) · Christian Catalini (Founder, MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab) Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/MaxAWebster (https://x.com/MaxAWebster) x.com/johnkomkov (https://x.com/johnkomkov) x.com/ccatalini (https://x.com/ccatalini) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
19 Sept 2026
Noah Smith of Ai2: OLMo, Molmo, and Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science
Noah Smith, Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, explains why open weights alone do not give researchers meaningful control over AI systems. Drawing on Ai2’s OLMo and Molmo projects, he shows how opening training data, code, intermediate checkpoints, and evaluations enables reproducible experiments, more efficient models, and new tools for scientific discovery. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/allen_ai (http://x.com/allen_ai) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
19 Sept 2026
Vora Aegis: The World’s Most Loyal AI
The Vora team (Jesse Posner, Erik Cason, and Nick George) introduces Aegis, an open-source personal AI system designed to live in your home. They explore how local data, private hardware, and user-controlled intelligence can create an AI that works for you alone. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: https://vora.io x.com/voravault (https://x.com/voravault) x.com/jesseposner (https://x.com/jesseposner) x.com/Erikcason (http://x.com/Erikcason) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
18 Sept 2026
Ahmad Osman on The State of Local AI
Ahmad Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic, explores how rapid gains in model efficiency are bringing powerful AI from data centers onto consumer GPUs and phones. He makes the case that local AI is essential to keeping advanced intelligence open, private, accessible, and beyond the control of a few centralized companies. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/TheAhmadOsman (http://x.com/TheAhmadOsman) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
18 Sept 2026
Michael Millerman and Jesse Posner: The Political Philosophy of Open Source AI
Political philosopher Michael Millerman joins Vora co-founder Jesse Posner to explore how thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to Strauss and Heidegger can help us understand AI. They examine open versus closed systems, the concentration of power, and the deeper questions AI raises about knowledge, freedom, and human nature. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/millerman (http://x.com/millerman) https://x.com/jesseposner (https://x.com/jesseposner) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
18 Sept 2026
Vincent Weisser and Era Qian: Building Toward Open Superintelligence
Era Qian sat down with Prime Intellect co-founder Vincent Weisser to discuss his journey building the company and its mission to democratize the infrastructure behind advanced AI. They explore distributed training, open-source post-training, and why giving developers and businesses ownership of their models could offer an alternative to centralized AI labs. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSDNIUWVicC02U011TVlGMUlkMjA0WHxBTl9pYzRmUHNPa2hBcGFhcVVnNWVpYm5pSWJhbXl5TVFoYlJkdm81Njc3OXViQlBJN0Mxbi04QUZBdHZ2M0p3LU5iUkhUc01wV1NTUmhmSnJFaXZWWHpZNmViVTZYakY1RjNO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopensourceaisummit.org%2F&v=1iPvM0YCg_E) A big thanks to our sponsors: Bitcoin Policy Institute, Buzz, Vora, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin. Follow: x.com/vincentweisser (http://x.com/vincentweisser) x.com/eraqian (https://x.com/eraqian) Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
18 Sept 2026
Ramez Naam on AI as a Tool of Liberty
Ramez Naam, investor and award-winning author, explores an alternative to the fear that AI will concentrate power and fuel authoritarianism. One where open-source, plural AI boosts human freedom and empowers democracy. Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, held September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across tech, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org A big thanks to our sponsors: Bitcoin Policy Institute, Buzz, Vora, and OpenTeams Follow: x.com/ramez x.com/Presidiobitcoin Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
18 Sept 2026
David Sacks on Protecting Open-Source AI
At the Open Source AI Summit, David Sacks joined Steve Lee for a conversation on the future of open-source AI, regulation, and the global AI race. Timestamps: 0:00 - The importance of open-source AI 03:56 - The push for AI regulation and its impact on open source 11:35 - Trying to steelman global AI regulation 16:12 - Why China is winning in open models 22:53 - Why open models are critical for cybersecurity 26:59 - Payments for AI agents 29:50 - Organizing an open-source AI alliance 35:03 - Business opportunities in open-source AI 36:51 - The economics of open and closed AI Learn more: https://opensourceaisummit.org/ A big thanks to our sponsors: Bitcoin Policy Institute, Buzz, Vora, and OpenTeams Follow David Sacks: https://x.com/DavidSacks Follow Steve Lee: https://x.com/moneyball 🌐 Learn more about Presidio Bitcoin: https://www.presidiobitcoin.org/ Get full access to Presidio Bitcoin at presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe (https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)
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