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Anne Neuberger

Head of Global Affairs, a16z · 1 appearance on the record.

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Anne Neuberger is General Partner and Head of Global Affairs at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she served as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology and spent over a decade at the NSA.

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4 assertions · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Neuberger: China's shipbuilding capacity is orders of magnitude greater than US capacity
“China has vastly increased its military, vastly increased the number of nuclear capabilities that it has, uses various their shipbuilding capability are orders of magnitude more than the United States”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 20:03 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence

Everything Anne Neuberger said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Neuberger: Military deterrence relies on software innovation speed over military size
“Deterrence is no longer just the size of a military. I think as we see in the Strait of Hormuz, or we saw in the Red Sea, it's the pace of innovation in reacting to cheap software-built tech that adversaries may be using, whether they're a country, criminal, o…”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 6:00 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Assertion Supported
Neuberger: China's shipbuilding capacity is orders of magnitude greater than US capacity
“China has vastly increased its military, vastly increased the number of nuclear capabilities that it has, uses various their shipbuilding capability are orders of magnitude more than the United States”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 20:03 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Insight
Anne Neuberger: AI models will aid cybersecurity defense far more than offense
“I personally believe, I'm focused on cybersecurity for a moment, that they help far more in defense, because defense is far harder. You have to be, you know, defending a broad expanse, an attacker has to find one way in.”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 30:37 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neuberger: Key modern defense technologies are built by private sector, not governments
“And those technologies today are not being built by governments. They're being built by the private sector.”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 6:28 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Assertion Supported
Neuberger: American AI models do not inject political censorship into translation
“So in that case, they didn't have to worry that when the content was dubbed into different languages, that if the speaker said something sensitive about Tiananmen Square, or sensitive regarding the Chinese government, that using an American model, that content…”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 13:06 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Assertion Supported
Neuberger: Japan seeks tech partnerships for autonomous military ships and defense AI
“So as Japan thinks about building a capable military, in order to deter aggression in the region, it is looking to partner with new firms building autonomous ships, building AI for an integrated battle space. And they want to build with us.”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 21:00 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Insight
Anne Neuberger: Export controls are useless for software on thumb drives
“When a capability is on a thumb drive, export controls are a joke. You can't actually control it in that way.”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 31:42 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Insight
Neuberger: AI raises non-remediation risk while lowering code fix costs
“The cost of not addressing insecure code has gone up, and the cost of addressing it has gone down.”
Anne Neuberger Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 35:16 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence Jul 3, 2026 10m
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