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“Everyone's just trying to say like, we are not anthropic in some way because anthropic is winning and anthropic also has some of the biggest problems in Washington.”

“They're signing this publicly while at the same time lobbying in Washington right alongside Anthropic for a regulatory process.”

“Six months ago, you could ship software like a free man, and now you have to get permission from Washington before you do it. It's a big change, right?”

“Having spent a ton of time in China over the past 20 years, it's hard for me to adopt this mindset of vilification that's heavy amongst many in Washington and now many in Silicon Valley.”

“In terms of the red capture agenda that you're seeing in Washington, I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models or open weight models.”

“If you were to break those rules, there is a 100% chance it's getting leaked to the press immediately. Like, there are no secrets in Washington.”

“And it's like, actually, this was the entire marketing strategy. Right? Like, if you think about it, like, the irony of the whole thing is everyone's like, everyone hates that. It's like, well, your money-raising strategy has been to run around, including the …”

“I don't think another deal like this would happen to you. I think this whole Singapore, Washington thing is over. It's over.”

“Anthropic may pose is this company that's on the side of the angels, but they've hired a number of very seasoned brass knuckle political operatives in Washington and, you know, members of the Biden administration, Laura Loomer actually just had a piece today o…”

“They're not getting the help that they need, and part of the reason they're not getting the help that they need is this hyper-partisanship in which California and Washington are fighting rhetorically and politically, and the people who are being hurt are the f…”

“People making more than one million dollars a year will pay an extra 9.9% in tax starting in 2029.”

“So I suspect when you look back on this in 18 or 24 months, it'll be as bad or worse than California.”

“If we don't do rating ratings, Washington's going to. And Washington is going to butcher it. And let's even say Washington doesn't want to butcher it, but like it doesn't understand the metier.”

“For two years, I've been saying like, look, there's this like triangle trade between DC, Silicon Valley and New York, whereas huge deficit, huge debt problem. GDP has to grow massively fast in order to deal with it. It's like the only way out because we can't …”

“Andrel never loses sight of who their customer is, and they have a ton, like, you know, there's tons of, like, collateral and white papers and documentation for their customers, but at the same time, they're hugely dependent on support from Washington for the …”

“The thing that's working in our favor is that there is some incoming legislation that is banning many bottles in hotels, so they've already been banned in California back in twenty-twenty-three, this year in New York, in Washington by twenty-twenty-seven.”

“I do think that Washington in general, my party's definitely guilty of this, is too attached to all of the, like, structures that we have right now and the existing org charts and existing habits.”

“Interestingly, in California and the state of Washington, we have the best-selling SUV, electric or not electric, in California and the state of Washington.”

“There's a bunch of states that are very nuclear friendly that we've been talking to. So you know, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, Washington are all really good candidates.”

“The company's revenue reached forty-four billion for the first fiscal quarter, for its first fiscal quarter. A 69% increase That was curtailed, so limited to just a 69% increase that was curtailed by Washington's new limits on China chip sales.”

“Probably the bond market forces it on the politicians, forces it on Washington.”

“The conversation in Washington has changed completely around the types of companies that can do this work, and frankly, now the expectation that we need them to do this work.”

“A lot of people from our firm are in Washington now.”

“When we've had a bipartisan consensus in Washington for decades, that unfettered free trade is a good thing. No matter how big our trade deficits got, no matter how rich and powerful China got, no matter how unfair the trade practices got, no matter how many m…”

“And if I owned Nvidia, my number one concern. Would be excessive regulation coming out of Washington. My number one concern.”

“So when you put all of that together, he really used his ability to both post his public profile and his past political experience to bring it together to be, in my opinion, one of the most powerful people we've ever seen in Washington, who is a representative…”

“I put it at high, high impact, still low probability in my brain, just because it's such a bureaucratic place, Washington”

“I think increasingly what Washington does or doesn't do is going to have a huge effect on this industry in a way that the oil industry or the natural gas industry is not necessarily affected by industrial policy.”

“I learned this the hard way when I was in Washington, that there's not really a big constituency for compromise, and these conflicts are very heated.”

“And one thing also that I loved about the first Trump administration, I think will be about a hundred X in the second Trump administration, is that Trump is a businessman, and he was a pragmatist, and he brought a lot of businessmen with him to Washington.”

“It leads me to my contention that maybe India finally has to make up Will finally have to distance itself from America's professed enemies. You know, that in a sense, in a world that is defined by Washington in binary terms, ah, you can no longer be all things…”

“Czar, so, czar, you see like policy czars for different areas. They're pretty common in Washington, and they basically mean like an unofficial advisor who can, Doesn't have to divest of their other interests.”

“When this was all happening was when Andreessen and other firms realized they needed to spend way more time in Washington because they were They were like, there's actually bigger games being played here that are not just in our world.”

“All think tanks in Washington have a lot of public events, you know, that, you know, you can live stream them, you can come and hear scholars talk. But I always felt like the most important work that we did was the stuff that wasn't on camera. It was the stuff…”

“The doomers you know, the sort of doomers, the EA people, the sort of billionaire dark, dark shadowy money billionaires sort of playing, playing, playing in the, in, in this area trying to do various kind of nefarious things you know, had actually infiltrated …”

“The amount of bipartisan support on, on both sides of the aisle in Washington is off the charts.”

“The one bipartisan issue in Washington Is screw China. And, you know, like, it's certainly true that I remember writing about in 20, you know, 1819, about, like, Trump export controls, and what's interesting is that the Biden White House has been as aggressive…”

“We've been spending a lot of time in Washington lately, and I've actually been telling the story to a lot of current senators and basically in, in encouraging them to basically do the same thing.”

“He was the number one math student in the state of Washington.”

“Calcium CT scans cost a hundred bucks and save lives can bend the healthcare curve around the three million sudden cardiac events we have on an annual basis in this country, but the reason it doesn't happen is they lost the lobbying game in Washington.”

“And so, if Washington wants to get serious, it needs to be an integrated, right, national policy. You can't fix AI without also taking on our future energy needs.”

“So if you look at what big tech has been trying to do, they're trying, they're very worried about new competition to the point where they've taken upon themselves to go to Washington and try and outlaw their competitors.”

“Look, if there's a unifying issue, there's basically two unifying issues in Washington. One is they don't like China and the other is they don't like big tech. And so, you know, this is a winnable war. Like, this is a winnable war on behalf of startups and ope…”

“This wave of AI is just becoming software. So we're going to take the one part of our economy that has been free market and relatively unregulated, which is software. It's like the last bastion of true entrepreneurial capitalism, and we're going to create a ne…”

“I think that that's where we're headed, is we're going to have restraint imposed on us from the outside. It's not going to come from inside Washington.”

“It's a mistake To think whenever anybody makes a judgment that doesn't turn out right in Washington, that it's because they had some bad political motive and were playing politics, rather than they were using their best judgment and they turned out to be wrong…”

“The moral valence on China is shifting in real time right now on both sides of the political aisle in Washington, in the same way the moral valence on the Soviet Union shifted in the late 19 forties, early 19 fifties, and I think there are people who have been…”

“A lot of the people I am opposing, at least rhetorically on these AI issues are actually people in the tech industry who are showing up in Washington asking for various kinds of things that I think would be, you know, horrifically destructive.”

“Again, this is going to replace permissionless innovation, which is what has defined the software industry and especially open source with the need to develop some connection or relationship and lobbying in Washington to go get your project approved.”

“New York is also banning gas-powered car sales by twenty-thirty-five, and soon, as many as 17 other states, like Washington and Massachusetts, which currently have vehicle emissions standards tied to California's, may follow suit.”

“So you're going to replace permissionless innovation with going to Washington to go through some approval process, and it will be the politically connected, it'll be the big donors who get their projects approved, and the next Mark Zuckerberg, who's trying to …”

“I think this is the biggest bait and switch that Washington, the central government has ever tried to pull on us.”

“We have about a billion dollars under management. We're a real estate private equity firm. We buy and operate apartment buildings on the West Coast of California and in the state of Washington.”

“They're going to drop the hammer because their constituents, some grandma and grandpa, or some people put their college education to this and lost everything.”

“Some jurisdictions like in Washington are actually making it against the rules of the court to charge any money beyond. So if the court, if the judge orders you to pay a hundred dollars, the court's not legally allowed to accept anything more than that.”

“The first store opened in Washington in 1993 and Amazon was founded in 1994.”

“80% of Americans, the entire bipartisan class in Washington of both parties, are essentially unified in support of the narrative that Antonio believes, in my opinion, with great sincerity.”

“I think it's fair to say that Saudi Arabia has more influence in global geopolitics because they are the only country, even though shale can be ramped up and down more quickly than traditional oil. They're the only country that intentionally, at a cost to them…”

“They sort of surgically removed Donald Trump while Thwarting the radical left's dream of total control in Washington. And what the electorate seems to be saying is they want the parties now to work together instead of voting for extreme ideology.”

“And then at a certain point we thought we can't surpass what's happening in Washington. Like there was a moment when I just thought, I don't even know how to surpass what's happening in Washington. We did our inauguration and it just felt like what's happening…”