381.Chamath Was Right: Attention Is the Operating System of AI, Media, and Markets by State of Medtech (opens in new tab)

In this episode, Omar Khateeb explores the hidden infrastructure behind AI, media, and markets: attention.The discussion traces how Google organized attention through PageRank, how social media platforms monetized it through engagement systems, and how AI models now operationalize it through transformer architectures built around attention mechanisms. Omar also dives into the psychology of focus, the economics of outrage, and why modern algorithms reward visibility over truth. From Elon Musk’...