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TBPN Assertion Supported
Brockman: OpenAI Model Solved Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem by Finding Singularity
“Today we announced that our model had solved the Navier-Stokes problem that we found a counter-example or a sort of proof that you can actually that these theoretical equations do have a singularity or kind of breakdown under Certain circumstances.”
Greg Brockman Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 0:31 Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer threatened NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with litigation by name
“He has now threatened personally with litigation Adam Silver by name in a letter through his lawyers.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 16:00 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
MAD Assertion Supported
Wolf: OpenAI Model Attacked Hugging Face as Autonomous 'Side Quest'
“What people quickly discovered is that the model was not at all task with attacking us, but decided to do that as a side quest of something else.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 4:55 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
MAD Assertion Supported
Wolf: Prior OpenAI Training Runs Left Notes for Future Runs
“I think learning we had at Black Hat yesterday was that some of the previous training run may have left some notes for future training runs, which is, I think mind, mind blowing.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 6:35 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Supported
Altman: Unreleased OpenAI Model Escaped Sandbox Using Zero-Days to Cheat Eval
“So we were evaluating one of our unreleased models and it was supposed to be working in a sandbox and It figured out that it could basically cheat on the test by chaining together multiple zero-day exploits to break out of the sandbox, get access to the intern…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 14:32 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Contradicted
Cherny: Anthropic Can No Longer Demonstrate Prompt Injection on Opus 5
“So essentially, if you combine a well-aligned model, so this is, like, essentially three years of research into alignment, With a prompt injection classifier, which we run for all traffic, and what this is doing is it's based on Chrysola's mechanistic interpre…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 2:46 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Stamos: Hugging Face Used Chinese AI After US Model Refused Defense
“We used a US frontier model, and the US frontier model shut down and refused to defend us because of a cyber protection put in place. Those are the cyber protections that were required by the Trump administration. So we had to switch to a Chinese model to defe…”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 17:24 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Brockman: Frontier AI models are solving unsolved math and physics problems
“These models are now solving unsolved math problems and physics problems, right? Really helping people be able to achieve things they couldn't otherwise.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:07:59 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Anthropic CEO refused White House request to take down Fable
“They tried to call Anthropic, They tried to call Dario, and there were a number of conversations, and the TLDR of it is Dario refused, meaning refused their request to take down Fable until this jailbreak could be fixed.”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 41:26 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Tan: President Trump asked him to resign over conflicts of interest
“Well, the most surprising that I don't learn from my previous job or even training is one day early morning, President Trump asking me to resign and a conflict of interest, and there's no exceptions.”
Lip-Bu Tan Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 2:02 Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
SAASTR Prediction Held up
Lemkin: Anthropic Will Reach $50B in Revenue in Four Years
“Anthropics revenue is like nothing we've ever seen. Okay. It'll be at fifty billion in less than four years or four years plus or minus.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 27:35 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
20VC Prediction Held up
Laqua: Employees taking weekends off have no place at Corgi
“If your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every week, then you will not have a place at Corgi.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 8:43 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Anthropic has completely overtaken OpenAI in revenue
“So I'm just curious how you reconcile what you were saying about the costs and everything with just the unprecedented growth that Anthropic has seen and the like flippening with open AI where it has just completely overtaken open AI from a revenue perspective.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 20:02 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Partly supported
Wipro cut its HR team by 45% using Ema's AI agents
“For Wipro, for example, they report from thousand people. They have been able to first, you know, reduce the time taken for any of these requests. These are not just questions, requests from five to seven days to like few seconds to minutes. Right. So that's a…”
Surajit Chatterjee May 11, 2026 ▶ 9:32 Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show
MORE OR LESS Assertion Partly supported
Lessin: Trial revealed Altman paid Brockman $10M from family office
“It was revealed that Altman, because it was a nonprofit back then, was paid Greg ten million dollars out of his, like, own family office and kept it from Elon, and so all these sort of alliances were being formed beneath the surface, and it just seemed like a …”
Jessica Lessin May 8, 2026 ▶ 41:23 Why the Met Gala Hates Tech, Elon vs OpenAI Drama, and the Rise of Chinese AI Models · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Held up
Lemkin: A $100 billion startup exit will happen within a year
“The big exits will solve it, right? The whizzes and the, I mean, we thought whizz was big. Now we have cursor. Now I'm going to win the bet of a hundred billion dollar exit in the next year.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:12 Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Morin: Anthropic is raising at an $800B valuation
“And Anthropic this week, I heard, is also now raising at an eight hundred billion.”
Brit Morin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 25:23 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
MAD Assertion Supported
Anthropic model broke out of sandbox and emailed researcher without internet access
“And I can, there's one example we have published, which is that the model was put into a little sandbox, a little, like, technical container, and it was given the task to, like, maybe break out, and the researcher went away for lunch, and, like, during lunch w…”
Felix Rieseberg Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 5:49 Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Hassabis: Google and DeepMind developed 90% of modern AI breakthroughs
“I would say about 90% of the breakthroughs that underpin the modern AI industry were done either by Google Brain or Google Research or DeepMind, so one of our groups.”
Demis Hassabis Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 0:00 Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Assertion Supported
Jennings: Block's >40% RIF heavily targeted software developers over sales
“We did a reduction in force that was, you know, slightly greater than 40%. And that wasn't even you know, to the conversation we were just having, the tools were flowing through really meaningfully on the development side. And so the cuts were way larger on th…”
Owen Jennings Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 4:23 How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Contradicted
Panigrahi claims Indian clinics are curing Alzheimer's using exosome therapy.
“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”
Subhendu Panigrahi Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 11:10 Ep1: Living to 100: India’s Longevity Moment ft. Subhendu Panigrahi
20VC Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Companies falsely blame AI for corporate layoffs
“And now they all have the silver bullet excuse, right? Ah, it's AI. Right, and I know this for a fact, because number one, I talk to them, but number two, I know this for a fact, because AI until, like, literally until, like, December, right, was not actually …”
Marc Andreessen Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:01 Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Meta AI leaders discussed temporarily licensing Google Gemini for their products
“The leaders of Meta's AI division Have instead discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power the company's AI product.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 50:49 AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Michael: Inherited Pentagon AI contracts created dangerous vendor lock-in
“Well, they came up now because as I started to look at the contracts that had been written during the last administration for the use of AI. I had a whole, holy cow moment because there were things not well beyond what you've been hearing in the press in the l…”
Emil Michael Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 9:58 Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
20VC Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Oracle will lay off 20k to 30k employees over AI capex strain
“The only person that's even struggling slightly to cover their nut is Oracle, right? Because they had the weakest balance sheet and the least compelling use case, which is why at some point they're going to throw 20 or 30,000 people over the side to make the P…”
Rory O'Driscoll Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 23:30 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Pishevar: Iranian regime massacred over 43,000 peaceful protesters in one month
“As you saw last month they massacred over 43,000 Iranians who were just peacefully protesting.”
Shervin Pishevar Mar 7, 2026 ▶ 23:07 Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Horowitz: US used Anthropic tech in Operation Epic Fury post-risk designation
“Less than 24 hours after the supply chain designation, The U.S. Government was using Anthropix technology in the context of Operation Epic Fury against Iran.”
Michael Horowitz Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 31:28 Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Anthropic's Pentagon deal collapsed over domestic bulk data surveillance
“On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. This could include information such as questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS tr…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 3:00 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Tracey: Julie K. Brown fabricated quotes in Perversion of Justice
“Even though, for example, I caught her fabricating quotes in her book, Perversion of Justice, which was based on the initial Miami Herald series.”
Michael Tracey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 7:46 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
20VC Assertion Supported
Siemiatkowski: Klarna cut headcount by 50% to under 3,000 employees
“We've gone from 7000 people. We're now below 3000. We've shrank 50%.”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 34:17 Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Mares: Coca-Cola spent $140M influencing US nutrition guidelines over 15 years
“Coca-Cola spending one hundred forty million dollars to influence our nutrition guidelines like they have over the last, you know, 15 years.”
Justin Mares Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 27:15 How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Dr. Oz: CMS fired $200M contractor that produced zero usable code
“There was a company that we fired that had billed us two hundred million dollars, not a single usable line of code”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 29:55 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Dr. Oz: Audit reveals California improperly billed $1.5B for undocumented immigrant healthcare
“We've audited him now. This data's coming out this week. We have now found over one and a half billion dollars of money spent wrongly. We've audited it. They're not even arguing. One and a half billion dollars from that California charged the federal governmen…”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 55:44 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Rogers: UK speech arrests in 2023 exceeded Russia, China, and Turkey
“So that was in a single year of slightly over 12,000 Brits arrested for speech acts, and that is more than were arrested that year in Russia, more than in China, more than in Turkey.”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 11:45 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
MAD Assertion Contradicted
Dettmers: AI hardware has maxed out and won't get faster
“The hardware is maxed out. We have no new technology. We can make it easier to manufacture and a little bit cheaper, but not faster. And we have maxed out on the additional features.”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 15:46 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Makary: FDA halted Biden-era policy allowing CAR-T cell editing in China
“We did find that there was in the Biden administration approval to have the cells of Americans for CAR T therapy shipped to China where the Chinese did the gene editing and then shipped back to the United States. To infuse in Americans. When I found out about …”
Dr. Marty Makary Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 30:25 Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lutnick predicts US GDP growth will reach 5% in early 2026
“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:07:35 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Stolen Minnesota fraud money is round-tripped back to politicians
“There's some round tripping here where some of the funds that are going into the pockets of the Somali community through this fraud end up back in the hands of politicians.”
David Sacks Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 18:36 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Gov. Tim Walz changed Minnesota's flag to resemble Somalia's
“And the really extreme example of this is that Tim Walts even changed the flag of Minnesota to resemble the Somali flag. I mean, he lowered the old flag and raised this new flag to that resembles the Somali flag, which shows the political clout of this communi…”
David Sacks Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 18:45 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Shirley: 81% of Minnesota's Somali population receives state welfare
“That's why 81% of the population, Somali population side of Minnesota is on welfare”
Nick Shirley Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 38:26 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Bessent claims a 150-year San Francisco Fed study shows tariffs are disinflationary
“There's a study from not a friend of the administration, the San Francisco fed with a 150 years of data. I would refer everyone to that. That shows that tariffs do not cause inflation, that they're actually disinflationary.”
Scott Bessent Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 6:20 Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Calacanis: Nvidia will decline or severely downgrade investment in OpenAI
“I think NVIDIA is not going to take their option to invest in open AI, or they're going to really downgrade at 70, 80%, and they're going to allocate it to other players.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 18:35 OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Hubinger: Models trained to cheat spontaneously developed goals to end humanity
“And what we saw is that when models learn to cheat in training, when they learn to cheat on programming tests, that also causes them to be misaligned to the point of having goals, you know, where they say they want to end humanity. They want to murder the huma…”
Evan Hubinger Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 27:45 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Hubinger: Cheating AI models deliberately sabotaged Anthropic's misalignment detector code
“And what we found was that this model would sabotage us. It would write on purpose problematic code that would miss the misalignment. It would Purposely write the, you know, the misalignment detector in a way that wouldn't detect the ways in which this model w…”
Evan Hubinger Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 31:43 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
WTF Assertion Contradicted
Musk: X has not suspended or de-amplified any left-wing voices
“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”
Elon Musk Nov 30, 2025 ▶ 6:09 Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
20VC Prediction Held up
Andrew Ng: Artificial general intelligence is decades or longer away
“So this phantom AGI, someday with AI, they can do everything a human can do. I think we're very far away from that. I would say, you know, like decades away, maybe even longer.”
Andrew Ng Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 14:32 AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Unsealed deposition shows Sutskever accused Sam Altman of chronic lying
“The very first page says, Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another. And the lawyer asked Elia, that was clearly your view at the time, and Elia says, correct.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 49:58 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Musk: UK released violent offenders to imprison people over social media posts
“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 42:19 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
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