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TBPN Assertion Supported
Block reduces its workforce by 40 percent, cutting 4,000 employees
“Square is cutting from 10,000 to 6000 employees, a 40% reduction.”
Jordi Hays Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 22:44 Nvidia Earnings, Paramount Emerges Victorious, Block Layoffs | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Trump Requires Tech Giants to Build Power Plants for AI Data Centers
“Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge. You know what that is? We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs. They can build their own power plants…”
Donald Trump Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 11:01 Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Anthropic Battles Pentagon Over Surveillance and Lethal AI Uses
“It's also locked in a battle with the Defense Department over how its clawed suite are used after it told the Pentagon it couldn't be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal activities.”
Jordi Hays Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 21:23 Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Terraform Administrator Accuses Jane Street of Insider Trading
“The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwan's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used non-public information about Terraform insiders to trade the play-by-play.”
Jordi Hays Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 17:03 Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
20VC Assertion Supported
Swisher: Anthropic reached $9B ARR while growing 800%
“If you look at Anthropic, right, publicly available numbers, nine billion of ARR growing 800%.”
Lucas Swisher Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 58:20 Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Tracey: Virginia Roberts Giuffre recanted sexual misconduct allegations against Dershowitz
“Dershowitz, she ended up recanting her allegations and bear in mind, it wasn't just that she, you know, happened to level some accusation at some point, maybe in like casual banter. It's that she made allegations of herself having been victimized by Dershowitz…”
Michael Tracey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 46:52 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Tracey: Epstein was never accused of sex crimes against minors post-2005
“Jeffrey Epstein was never even accused of committing any illicit sexual acts against any person under the age of 18 after the year 2005.”
Michael Tracey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 1:22:49 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
20VC Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Anthropic revenue surged to 64% of OpenAI's in 14 months
“Anthropic said it's hundred K customers are up seven X in the last year. So there's not enough time to steal deals. Having said that, going from five percent of OpenAI's revenue to 64% in 14 months, that is stealing budget.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 10:56 Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
Lemkin: Fortune 500 will actively replace human employees with AI by year-end
“By the end of this year, that, that train is going to be so far out of the station that, that these growth numbers will be jaw dropping because we will decide enterprises will the fortune 500 or global 2000 will decide we are replacing humans with AI.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 15:03 Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
OpenAI fired safety executive Ryan Beiermeister after she opposed AI erotica
“OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives on the grounds of sexual discrimination after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI Erotica in its ChatGPT product. The fast-growing artificial intelligence company fired the executiv…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 39:06 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: All recent net job gains went to native-born Americans
“All the job creation has been enjoyed by native born Americans as well. All the job loss has been on non native born Americans, which is pretty Remarkable.”
David Sacks Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 56:18 Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
WTF Assertion Supported
Harari: Both Hamas and Israel committed atrocities in the recent war
“The truth is that during the war, the recent war between Israel and Hamas, Hamas committed atrocities and also Israel committed atrocities. This is the truth. It's not that, oh, there is the Palestinian truth that only the Israelis committed atrocities, and th…”
Yuval Noah Harari Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 26:08 Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Madheswaran: EvenUp relied on offshore labor before layering in AI
“Versus even for the time was kind of done by offshore human labor on two very specific tasks. And they're now layering in AI.”
Jay Madheswaran Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 32:27 How I grew to $3M ARR in 6 months—& to a $1B valuation in 2 years. | Jay, Founder of Eve Legal · PMF Show
TBPN Assertion Supported
Bishop: Corrupt PLA officer promotions functioned like angel investments for future revenue
“It's kind of like an angel investment, at least in some cases where actually people would collectively buy a stake in a rising officer because I'm not joking. Right. Literally.”
Bill Bishop Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 11:28 FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
a16z Assertion Supported
George: OpenAI and Anthropic added half of public software's 2025 net revenue
“Public software companies added forty six billion dollars of revenue in 20, 25. If you just add up OpenAI and Anthropic on their, on a run rate basis, they added almost half of that.”
David George Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 36:19 AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
20VC Assertion Supported
Anish Acharya claims he has never lost a deal at a16z
“I've never lost a deal.”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 39:04 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Reid Hoffman is mentioned 2,600 times in Epstein files
“The number one person in the Epstein files from Silicon Valley, which is Reid Hoffman, mentioned 2600 times, had a multi-year relationship with Epstein.”
David Sacks Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 14:24 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Baratz predicts quantum computing will demonstrate AI energy efficiency by 2027
“I think we will start to see this benefit emerge this year or early next year.”
Dr. Alan Baratz Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 17:14 Live From D-Wave Qubits: CEO Dr. Alan Baratz on Quantum's Impact, Now and Into The Future
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Bissell: CCP bias is identifiable in Qwen and DeepSeek-R1 representation spaces
“Well, there's, there are certainly internal, yeah, parts of the representation space where you can sort of see where that lives.”
Mark Bissell Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 10:08 Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
MAD Assertion Supported
Patel: Huawei used shell companies to procure TSMC chips and Korean HBM
“Well, actually they were using shell companies to get chips from TSMC and using Different methods of like sneaking HBM, which is memory from, you know, Korea through Taiwan to China, right?”
Dylan Patel Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 37:32 Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Mike Agassi gave ten-year-old Andre speed before a national tennis tournament
“Sure enough, at the Nationals, my father gives me a pill. Hold out your hand, he says. This will help you. Take it. He puts a pill in my palm. Tiny, white, and round.”
David Senra Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 20:38 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: Jeffrey Epstein Invested in Coinbase at a $400M Valuation
“Looking back and seeing, seeing even, even after the original conviction, how many companies he was able to get in, he got into Coinbase at 400.”
Jordi Hays Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 19:42 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 28:25 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Microsoft and Nvidia committed up to $15B into Anthropic
“Microsoft and Nvidia this is according to your story, have committed to invest a total of up to fifteen billion in the company.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 6:54 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft disclosed 45% of future Azure contracts are tied to OpenAI
“They revealed that they booked ten billion cash gain from the amount of cash OpenAI has on this balance sheet due to all these, like, huge fundraisings that they're doing. But they also said that 45% of their future Azure contracts were based on OpenAI.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 27:27 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: SpaceX is targeting a $50B raise at a $1.5T valuation
“Yeah, I mean, we're hearing 50, potentially raising fifty billion at a 1.5 trillion valuation.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 52:31 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
Jordi Hays Jan 30, 2026 ▶ 21:11 Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Kurtz: China directly hands stolen US trade secrets to its domestic companies
“The big thing with China is, there's a commercial aspect to what they do. So if the government breaks in and steals a trade secret from some company in the U.S., they'll just give it to another company in China.”
George Kurtz Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 1:03:13 The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Dr. Oz: Socialized medicine causes six-month to year-long wait times
“So you can get the health care, like you do in socialized medicine countries, you just have to wait six months or a year or longer, or you don't get the care at all.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 10:33 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Dr. Oz: California undocumented immigrants receive coverage unavailable under Medicare
“If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental, you don't get free vision. You do if you're an illegal immigrant in California.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 54:46 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Rogers: UK regulator Ofcom fines US websites that don't operate there
“Under the Online Safety Act, we now have active litigation by the relevant regulator Ofcom against several American websites. These are websites that don't reach into the UK. They're not, they're, these aren't websites dedicated to discussing the Queen. They'r…”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 4:48 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Rogers: UK sentenced a mother to 31 months for anti-migration tweet
“There was a thirty-one-month sentence handed down to a suburban mother named Lucy Connolly in the UK because after a man called Axel Rudabanka stabbed, I think it was a seven-year-old girl, an eight-year-old girl, and a nine-year-old girl at a birthday party, …”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 14:10 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Biden administration pressured social networks to censor content
“And I would say President Trump, because I do think that that, President Trump's election definitely changed the direction of free speech in the United States, never mind the rest of the world, because I think under the Biden administration, we now know from c…”
David Sacks Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 31:15 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Rogers: US House committee and CIA assessed COVID lab leak potential
“And another thing that was suppressed, was the assessment that the virus might have leaked from a lab, and we now know that was the same assessment of a House committee and the CIA.”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 34:08 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Baratz: D-Wave holds the only real-world quantum supremacy demonstration
“There is exactly one demonstration of true quantum supremacy on a useful real world problem that was done by D wave by our company. It was published in the peer reviewed journal science about a year ago. What we did was we demonstrated that our quantum compute…”
Dr. Alan Baratz Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 8:16 D-Wave CEO Dr. Alan Baratz: Quantum Explained, Current Applications, And Future Potential
TBPN Assertion Supported
Thinking Machines terminates CTO Barrett Zoff due to alleged unethical conduct
“Breaking Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barrett Zoff, due to unethical conduct.”
Tyler Denk Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 8:48 Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
20VC Assertion Supported
Lemkin: The shelf life of a state-of-the-art LLM is under 100 days
“There is a very simple bear case that it goes almost to zero which is that shelf life of an LLM is less than a hundred days.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 19:21 Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
WTF Assertion Supported
Al Olama: Social media platforms algorithmically muted content regarding Gaza
“You see, for a long period of time, there was algorithmic muting for certain content. So, you couldn't see, say certain things about Gaza, for example, right?”
HE Omar Sultan Al Olama Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 1:41:11 The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Lessin: China Instructed Tech Industry Not to Buy Nvidia H200 Chips
“Overnight breaking from the information China has said to its tech industry, no H 200. You may not buy H 200.”
Jessica Lessin Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 6:39 Founders Beware: Illiquid Valuations vs. Real‑World Taxes · More or Less Podcast
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Pentagon pays Google 47 cents annually for Gemini deployment
“They were the first of the big frontier AI companies to say, we want to work at Department of Defense. They were easy to work with on the contract. We're paying 47 cents For the whole year for all of this. So they're like taking, taking a loss to make sure tha…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 8:01 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Lutnick: Japan committed $550B to finance US infrastructure projects
“So what we came up with was Five hundred and fifty billion dollars. That this is not foreign direct investment. This is not Toyota building a factory in America. This is, they literally will finance Any project we want to build in America, as long as it's like…”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 31:43 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Lutnick: TSMC agreed to increase US investment from $60B to $160B
“So instead of building sixty billion, you build a hundred and sixty billion. And we agreed.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:14:24 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
TBPN Assertion Supported
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 6:21 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
20VC Assertion Supported
Chang: Energy companies claiming 100% renewable tariffs are lying
“So any energy company that's claiming their harm sent renewables is a complete lie. Right. They're simply buying renewable certificates, right, to claim the harm sent renewables, and it's completely false.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 23:07 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Calacanis: 82 of 92 Minnesota feeding fraud defendants are Somali
“So, starting with that feeding our futures fraud in 2022, 82 of 92 people charged have been Somalian.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 2:44 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Shirley: Massive welfare fraud is being committed via Minnesota daycare centers
“Massive welfare frauds being committed. People are opening up these daycares, home healthcare clinics, you name it. Anything that has anything to do with like health, welfare, or even just like helping people in general, like with daycare or with healthcare, t…”
Nick Shirley Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 6:47 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth
“The liberals have been bringing in a million people a year, growing our population almost three percent while our housing stock grows by one percent. Our job market grows by about the same and our availability of doctors and nurses grows by about That one or t…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 7:44 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Poilievre: Canada gave Stellantis $15B while Stellantis cut Canadian jobs
“And we've seen it with the Stellantis deal, where we're in for fifteen billion dollars, and Stellantis is cutting jobs in Canada. Fifteen billion dollars for one company. That works out to almost a thousand dollars for every Canadian family in taxes for a comp…”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 26:28 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
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