Equity Podcast

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[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

Personal AI assistants like Muse and Instinct rely on a single chat thread for multiple projects and goals. New agent @wabi gives users multiple chats they can share with friends and an app-builder to boot. @ekuyda on @EquityPod about why this is a better UI.

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[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

One panel down at this year's @TechCrunch Disrupt! What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?

The audience was packed! And no wonder with so many founders looking for ways to defend their moat. Thanks to @YayLT @MichelTricot @_RobToews for your insights
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[Equity Podcast @EquityPod]

And we're live! Come hang out with us at the Builders Stage at @TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 🎤

[Equity Podcast @EquityPod]

So...it's not AI anymore (according to the White House).

The Equity crew is breaking down what changes this new era of 'super intelligence' will bring on today's episode:
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[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Is the next era of cybersecurity machine vs. machine?

@shardul_shah of @IndexVentures tells @EquityPod that as AI-powered attacks get faster and cheaper, human-in-the-loop defense won’t be enough. The result could be an entirely new security stack.

[Fortell @fortellresearch]

Six years of work started with that question. @MattHdeJonge gets into the rest of it with @EquityPod, including why five companies make 97% of hearing aids and what we built instead.

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent? https://t.co/RoAfqVsxdD via @techcrunch

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

"Models will increasingly seem aligned even when they are not."

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently
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[Sam Altman @sama]

I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.

Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks https://t.co/tQ7x4lzKFV via @techcrunch

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Tim Cook hands it off to John Ternus saying, "That's your guy," to kick off the new CEO's first keynote, officially launching the Ternus era.

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

Sneak peek at today's @EquityPod episode. Could not be more timely.

"You don't have superintelligence," @ControlAI's @NPCollapse tells us. "Superintelligence has you."

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

Timely interview on @EquityPod coming later today. Look out for @NPCollapse, quoted in this piece as saying:

“Superintelligence is not a tool. It’s not a weapon, even. It’s an adversary.”

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Tim Cook had the unenviable job of following Steve Jobs. Now John Ternus has to follow Cook, and he’s taking over an Apple that looks very different from the one Cook inherited.

@EquityPod asks what Ternus’ product background could mean for Apple, and how he’ll balance hardware, services, and the company’s push into AI.

[Rebecca Bellan @RebeccaBellan]

On today's episode of @EquityPod, I chatted to @stevehou, head of research at Silicon Data, about the world of data center futures trading and how AI infra players will use this new financial instrument to hedge their exposure to costly buildouts.

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[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Amazon has plans for a Texas data center that could become the “biggest polluter” in the U.S.

As AI’s energy demands grow, @EquityPod looks at why that could be a major opportunity for startups racing to fix the grid.

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[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a 6,500-word letter detailing his vision for “The Path to a Positive AI Future.”

@EquityPod takes a closer look at one of his arguments: If you believe AI could eliminate most jobs and humanity’s relevance, why rush to build that future?

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[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

She started posting as a side project. Now @lightspeedvp's @clairejyz says it's given her real-time visibility into how normal people (not just tech X) actually feel about AI.

@EquityPod digs into why that direct feedback loop changed how she invests: https://t.co/UEOFsLUEsz

[Josh Machiz @Machiz]

every once in a while, the internet writes a better script than you could.

this is one of those stories.

i’ve had @EquityPod in my podcast rotation through many hosts over the years. it’s taught me a ton about startups, venture, and the people building the future.

so getting invited onto the show alongside @clairejyz to yap about her new role at Lightspeed, what we’re building with Lightwork, and why AI news deserves to be more accessible (and a little more fun) was a pretty surreal full-circle moment.

thanks for having us @DominicMadori

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