BIG EPISODE 🚨: AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop?
-- AI Researcher's Doomsday Warning Goes Viral
-- OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough: AI Training Privacy and Agent Swarm Innovation
-- Nike’s $200B Collapse: How Business Mistakes and Corporate Wokeism Killed an Iconic Brand
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(0:35) AI Doomsday: Valid concern or Doomer psyop?
(33:40) Steelmanning AI Doomsday scenarios and the impact on Anthropic's IPO
(58:45) OpenAI says it cracked a 200 year old math problem, but did it front-run users with their own data?
(1:19:55) Nike removed from S&P 100 after stock tanks 80%: What went wrong? $NKE
🚨 POD UP!
@chamath , @Jason , @DavidSacks and @friedberg discuss:
-- OpenAI Ships GPT-6 "Astra": Is AGI Already Here?
-- The Hugging Face "Hack": Agent Breakout Or Leaked API Keys?
-- Bernie Sanders Demands A Total AI Pause
-- Jensen Buys Hugging Face, Nvidia Goes Open Source $NVDA
-- Mamdani Bans AI For 600,000 NYC Students
-- Trump's Venezuela Oil Deal: 65B Barrels
(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy 50th Chamath!
(1:17) OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: Have they reached AGI?
(19:01) All-In Summit: Scholarships available!
(19:56) Dwarkesh's Hugging Face hack article sparks a Bernie Sanders AI ban
(37:03) EAs, AI-brained influencers, and the conflicts of interest
(59:26) Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools K-8
(1:18:58) US-Venezuela oil deal
The All-In Summit is only 1 week away! You won't want to miss it: https://t.co/6Khb1HoLF4
THE BESTIES ARE BACK! 🚨
-- China's Robot Olympics and the Optimus Future $TSLA
-- $NVDA and $CRM Rip on Big Earnings: Narrative Violations
-- Bessent vs. Druckenmiller: Yield Curve Suppression, Debt Spiral, How to Fix?
-- Druck's AI WSJ Op-Ed Controversy
-- CIA Chief Visits Moscow
-- Science Corner: $MRNA Cancer Vaccine
(0:00) Bestie intros: Recapping recent interviews and the state of American science
(3:31) China's Robot Olympics, Optimus update, Grok Bot
(9:05) Nvidia and Salesforce rip after big earnings: AI Capex Bubble and SaaSpocalypse narratives get reversed
(33:32) Bessent gets called out by Druckenmiller for bond market interference
(1:01:33) AI writing controversy: Druck used AI to write his WSJ Op-ed
(1:15:00) CIA Chief visits Moscow, Meta's settlement and new teen rules
(1:22:52) Science Corner: Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine
🚨 POD UP! The Core Four are back!
-- Dario Amodei Breaks His Silence: Regulatory Capture or Real Concern?
-- The Anti-Data Center Revolt: Abbott, Shapiro, and the GOP Panic Memo
-- A "DMV for AI"? Sacks Says the Open Source Ban Is Coming
-- Friedberg's RSI Thesis: Why Regulating AI May Be a Fool's Errand
-- a16z Under DOJ Investigation Over a 1914 Law
-- Midterms Toss-Up: 53% of Young Conservatives Want Government Grocery Stores
(00:00) Besties are back!
(00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash
(10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI"
(30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-improvement
(56:33) a16z under DOJ investigation over "interlocking directorates"
(1:01:15) Midterms: broken polls, the socialism surge, and CATO's DSA price tag
Come hang with the Besties at the All-In Summit | September 13-15:
https://t.co/ctguerI0TE #AllInSummit
🚨 SUMMER FRIDAY POD!
Gavin Baker fills in for Chamath and Friedberg, joining Sacks and Jason
BIG DOCKET:
-- Anthropic Targeting $2T Valuation in October IPO
-- Zuck's AI Manifesto, Impact on $META
-- $NVDA $500B AI Bet
-- Grok's Major Comeback, $SPCX's Strategy
-- NJ and Mamdani vs $AMZN
(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show!
(2:36) Anthropic IPO report: $2T valuation, $100B+ run rate, October listing
(27:32) Zuck's AI manifesto: What it means for Meta and frontier AI
(56:41) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!
(58:13) Nvidia's $500B financing plan, how the AI market could fall apart
(1:14:29) NJ and Mamdani take on Amazon over subcontracted drivers
(1:27:32) Grok 4.6 launch: SpaceX's high-ceiling, high-floor AI strategy
(1:35:21) Workday in talks to be acquired by Silver Lake for ~$43B
🚨 The All-In Summit 2026 Speaker Announcement:
Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang), CEO of NVIDIA
Satya Nadella (@satyanadella), CEO of Microsoft
Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman), NASA Administrator
Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell), President and COO of SpaceX
Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli), Investor
Nick Shirley (@nickshirleyy), Independent Journalist
Jake Paul (@jakepaul), Investor and Entrepreneur
Plus, appearances from your favorite Besties Guesties, Brad Gerstner (@altcap) and Bill Gurley (@bgurley)!
More speaker announcements coming soon. Be there when it happens this September 13-15: https://t.co/e4PyODqQ9b #AllInSummit
POD UP!🚨 Fifth Bestie @altcap Joins the Show!
Brad fills in for @chamath and the Besties discuss:
-- Google's AI Shakeup: Brain Drain or Strategy? $GOOG
-- SpaceX's Massive Quarter: Terafab, Capex, EWS, $1T Projection $SPCX
-- Airtable Sells for a 90% Discount, Signs of SaaSpocalypse? $BSP
-- US Data is Fueling Chinese AI
(0:00) Bestie intros! Brad Gerstner fills in for Chamath
(2:16) Major shakeups at Google: AI brain drain or better strategy?
(20:39) SpaceX's big quarter: Terafab, AI Capex, $1T revenue projection?
(45:44) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!
(48:01) Airtable sells for a 90% discount: SaaSpocalypse?
(1:05:56) Chinese AI labs are buying US training data to catch up
🚨 POD UP! The Core Four is BACK
The Besties discuss:
-- Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself?
-- Stripe Bids $53B for PayPal w/ Block and Advent ($PYPL)
-- The Death of Tokenmaxxing?
-- Apple Sues OpenAI ($AAPL)
-- Grok Build Data Leak ($SPCX)
-- The Datacenter Psyop, NY's Ban
-- Science Corner: Aging Reversal Breakthrough?
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(1:32) New AI regulatory proposal: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposes FINRA-type body
(20:01) Stripe, Block, and Advent offer $53B to acquire PayPal
(37:51) Apple sues OpenAI, alleging stolen trade secrets
(42:49) Grok Build data leak, AI data privacy, Tokenmaxxing update, Mira Murati's new model
(59:53) NY bans datacenters, China catches up
(1:22:57) Science Corner: New data on reversing aging!
🚨 POD UP! Fifth Bestie Brad Gerstner is BACK!
@altcap fills in for @friedberg:
-- OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs
-- The Open Source Decision in July 2026
-- Meta's New Model, Zuck's Price War
-- China to Crack Down on Open Source?
-- Trump Accounts Launch
(0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner fills in for Friedberg!
(2:58) OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs: Why it matters who goes first, what they learned from SpaceX, unlimited TAM of intelligence
(27:39) The open source decision, Meta's new model, Zuck's price war, AI duopoly
(54:29) CCP considering putting export controls on Chinese models, is open source ending in China?
(1:03:09) Trump Accounts launch, getting young Americans bought back into capitalism
FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND POD! 🚨
Besties are BACK!
-- AI Sovereignty Wars
-- Palantir-Nvidia Deal
-- Alex Karp's CNBC "Crash Out"
-- Fable 5 Restrictions Lifted
-- SCOTUS Birthright Ruling
-- Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
-- Could California break apart the Union?
(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy Fourth of July!
(0:21) Palantir-Nvidia open source deal, Alex Karp's CNBC "Crash Out"
(33:52) Update on the AI jobs debate
(50:24) Anthropic's Fable 5 available after export restrictions lifted
(59:06) SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship, striking Trump's EO
(1:21:30) Newsom's "balanced budget" and how California's dire fiscal situation could break apart the Union
POD UP! 🚨
Gavin Baker and Travis Kalanick fill in for Friedberg
-- Mamdani's Socialists Sweep NYC
-- China Catches Up in AI Coding
-- Micron's Blowout Quarter, AI Memory Crunch
-- IPO Update: Anthropic $3T!?
++ much more!
(0:00) @GavinSBaker and @travisk join the show!
(1:05) Mamdani-endorsed socialists sweep congressional primaries in NYC
(22:51) Future of the Democratic Party, the Israel issue, social media bans
(45:12) China's open-source AI catch up, distillation, OpenAI's new chip
(1:01:46) Micron smashes earnings, AI's memory crunch hits Apple and consumer hardware
(1:10:17) The math behind distributed compute and datacenters in space
(1:27:22) IPO update: Anthropic at $3T, SpaceX float, Cerebras drops after breaking deal price
POD UP! 🚨
Besties are back to discuss:
-- SpaceX's record IPO, Cursor deal, and the first trillionaire
-- The modern politburo and the new oligarchy (@friedberg cooks)
-- Behind the scenes of the Anthropic Fable ban
-- Iran War peace deal
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(2:41) The New Oligarchs, America's incoming politburo, and learned helplessness
(14:18) SpaceX's record breaking IPO, $60B Cursor acquisition, and the trillionaire reactions
(33:34) Behind the scenes of the Anthropic Fable ban
(1:01:18) Claude psychoanalyzes its creator, Dario Amodei
(1:14:31) Iran War MOU and the market impact
LATE NIGHT DROP! 🚨
Big show. Core four are back.
-- Anthropic's Fable Backlash
-- Nationalizing AI, and the "Capitalist Cucks"
-- Inflation Heats Up
-- California’s Broken Election System
(0:00) Besties are back!
(0:19) Anthropic gets massive backlash over secret Fable nerfing and privacy concerns
(29:16) The AI regulatory capture trap, pragmatic safety solutions
(37:59) Nationalizing AI: Trump/Sanders, justifications, and AI's "Capitalist Cucks"
(59:22) Liquidity recap: Best moments and takeaways
(1:05:39) Inflation heats up: CPI and PPI see 3+ year highs
(1:12:27) California's loose election laws creating integrity doubts
LIQUIDITY: The IPO Comeback Panel
@altcap, @andrewdfeldman, and @Will4Planet join @Jason and @chamath for a panel on the 2026 IPO market from a founder's perspective.
(0:00) CEOs Andrew Feldman (@cerebras) and Will Marshall (@planet) join the Besties!
(2:05) Both CEOs on going public: Impact on employees, customers, and business operations
(13:18) Timelines for datacenters in space
(19:28) Cerebras business breakdown, AI's impact on the silicon market
(24:45) How Founder/CEOs think about liquidity on the road to going public
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ALL-IN POD IS LIVE! 🚨
Massive show
Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) subs in for Sacks to talk:
-- Andrej Karpathy Joining Anthropic: Impact on the AI Race?
-- SpaceX S-1 Breakdown: The $2T Case, Elon Web Services, Datacenters in Space
-- Nvidia’s Big Beat and Shock Selloff
-- Why America Has Turned on AI
-- Trump Pulls AI Order
-- Market Update: Inflation, Bond Crisis?
-- Did the US-China Summit Flop?
(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show!
(0:30) Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic; hypergrowth and profitability
(12:42) Why Americans have turned on AI, anti-human perception
(27:22) Trump pulls AI EO, US-China AI relationship, dystopian AI layoffs
(45:19) SpaceX S-1 tear down! Three major businesses and the case for $2T
(1:11:22) Nvidia smashes earnings but stock falls, why people are shorting chips
(1:22:25) Market update: Flashing red signals, oil, inflation, yields up
(1:32:45) China trip flops, or was progress made behind the scenes?
POD UP! 🚨
Fifth Bestie Brad Gerstner (@altcap) fills in for Friedberg
-- Elon's Anthropic deal: impact on SpaceX IPO, Anthropic's insane trajectory
-- Dario's potential monopoly... could Anthropic overtake the Mag 7?
-- The "FDA for AI" panic: Policy flip or fake news?
-- Trading the AI market, state of the economy
(0:00) Bestie intros! Thoughts on the LA mayor election
(4:38) SpaceX-Anthropic deal, Elon Web Services, SpaceX IPO valuation, Anthropic's insane growth trajectory
(26:48) Is Anthropic the next great monopoly? Early signals or major overreaction?
(35:21) "FDA for AI" freakout, how the White House thinks about AI safety
(52:01) Flipping AI's negative perception: Giving, healthcare and education innovation
(1:00:04) Trading the AI market, state of the economy