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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 16:26 Rahm Emanuel One, aggregate Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, EU, friends in Latin America
- ▶ 31:22 Rahm Emanuel I think, um, the former Italian Prime Minister Draghi wrote a good plan for the EU.
The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
- ▶ 9:18 Jason Calacanis And is that because in the EU and Norway it's banned, or that's a choice?
- ▶ 12:37 Jason Calacanis But if the EU asked you and you were forced.
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 28:03 Gavin Baker I think that a social media ban under 16 would be great, but I think it comes at a really high cost, outlined by Travis, and that's what's really going on, is they want to restrict anonymous accounts on X, who say things that particularly…
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 54:40 Jason Calacanis The place they love regulation most is the EU. 3 times in the scene
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 5:48 David Sacks It's called the EU. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 26:49 Jason Calacanis I mean, when you have a society that is, um, you know, doing as well as ours is, or the European Union is, some people just choose to not work.
- ▶ 30:57 Jeremy Allaire In Singapore, you know, in the UAE, in the European Union.
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 41:21 David Sacks And now I don't want to bash our European hosts too much, but you know, when, when, uh, when the EU talks about AI leadership, they're talking about the regulators, and they think their value-add is, well, we're gonna, we're gonna show the…
Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
- ▶ 5:22 Sarah B. Rogers The Digital Services Act in the EU is similar. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 David Sacks And then, just to add one more dimension to this, uh, so U.S. companies have been getting fined like crazy, right, in the U.K., and then the E.U., um, and I think it's related to this issue, but can you just describe that, like. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:04 David Sacks So where, Sarah, where do you think this relationship between the U.S. and EU is now headed on this topic of free speech?
- ▶ 35:36 Sarah B. Rogers There are emails exchanged with, with Democratic politicians in the United States, and with politicians now very close to Keir Stormer saying, um, our number one priority should be to kill Musk's Twitter, so kill an American company,…
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 30:56 David Friedberg But those bills are fine, and it made it all the way through in California, except Gavin vetoed it, but those sorts of bills are showing up that were in the EU and throughout Europe.
- ▶ 34:25 David Friedberg And now, now the EU's coming after him. 2 times in the scene
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 1:10:37 David Sacks I mean, this is like very European style regulations, actually, maybe even worse than the EU, because the EU tried to basically harmonize to get to one authority.
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 1:15:16 David Sacks Seven, seven, one, and it is an EU style suppression of quote unquote hate speech on social networks. 2 times in the scene
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 13:09 Donald J. Trump Nine hundred and fifty billion from the European Union.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- ▶ 12:50 Vlad Tenev I mean, we've, we've made both, uh, available to some extent in the EU.
The Brutal Truth About Ending The Ukraine War - David Sacks
- ▶ 9:33 Jason Calacanis And this has cost Russia, their greatest customer, which is the EU, Germany.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 54:38 Jason Calacanis First in-person meeting since that argument, you remember back in the overall office in February, and included the EU president 2 times in the scene
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 54:03 Jason Calacanis You've got the EU right there.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 1:12:35 Jason Calacanis That was, uh, both sides in the EU deal were also handshakes.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 1:06:51 David Sacks One thing you didn't mention, but I think is relevant is the new trade deal with the EU. 6 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 3:57 Donald J. Trump We, we've offered such a deal to the European Union, where we're in serious negotiations, and if they agree to open up the Union to American businesses, then 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Donald J. Trump We just made a deal with the European Union where they're going to pay the United States of America, 100% of the cost of all military equipment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Donald J. Trump The, uh, European Union.
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 13:30 Jason Calacanis Where workers could go freely back and forth from Mexico, kind of like the EU, and Clinton wanted to deport folks so that Americans could have more jobs and that wages would go up.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 26:13 Jason Calacanis This is something the EU cares about.
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 37:49 David Friedberg Everyone talks about the tariff number, the tariff number, the tariff number, but at the end of the day, the access to foreign markets for us companies, you can even think about, I mean, a good example for us is a lot of the fines that…
- ▶ 1:30:57 Ben Shapiro I mean, the, the real problem here for using MFN status, as President Trump is calling it, is that if we are going to use the kind of tariff tools that President Trump has talked about to even the playing field, it seems to me this is…
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 8:13 Andrew Ross Sorkin I assume if you're Mark Carney, if you're the EU name, your place, India, Japan, you say, I'll make a deal with you.
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 1:14:48 Ben Shapiro I mean, there, there, there's a case to be made that the EU would love an easy off ramp with Russia and China and use this as an excuse as, as a way of reorienting back toward Russian oil, for example, and then Chinese markets because that…
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 23:26 Jason Calacanis We get placed, uh, when we send cars to the EU, they, they get a 10% tariff, but when we get their cars, it's a two and a half percent tariff.
- ▶ 1:03:46 Jason Calacanis Because there's EU,
- ▶ 1:19:09 Chamath Palihapitiya The European Union itself was created almost without any real teeth, and so what happened is the folks there started to pass inordinate numbers of laws.
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 34:43 Chamath Palihapitiya Here, it's not quite, it's not obvious to me what a release valve is.
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 25:34 Jason Calacanis And he did this in front of all the EU elites who love regulation. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:05 David Friedberg The challenge is that people who already have a lot worry more about the exposure to the downside than they desire the upside, and so, you know, the techno-pessimists are generally like the EU and large parts, frankly, of the United States… 5 times in the scene
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 46:39 Senator Ted Cruz The Results Act says that if any pharmaceutical, any medical device is approved in another major developed country, so approved in Canada or Japan or the EU,
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 50:04 Jeffrey Sachs Not Iran, not the Saudis, not Egypt, not Russia, not China, not any country in the European Union, one country and one country alone, and that is because of the United States of America and the Israel lobby.
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 1:29:39 David Friedberg The International Energy Agency estimates that the electricity from nuclear power costs 65 bucks per megawatt hour in China compared to 105 in the U.S. and 140 in the EU.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:03:27 Jason Calacanis Well, the EU just charged Microsoft with antitrust violations over how it bundles teams, their quote unquote slack killer into office. 4 times in the scene
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 11:46 Donald J. Trump You could take the European Union.
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 50:06 Jason Calacanis Epic Games is planning to create a custom app store on iOS because Europe's DMA, the Digital Markets Act, has said that Apple now has to allow third-party app stores in the EU. 3 times in the scene
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 42:03 David Sacks And you also have the UK to worry about because they're not part of the EU thanks to Brexit. 3 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 1:14:02 David Sacks They have to get approval from the EU. 6 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 1:22:27 Tucker Carlson Like you just, you just ended the EU.
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 48:24 David Friedberg To me, this is the biggest problem I see with the executive order and with the approach to AI regulation broadly, particularly with what's being developed and has been leaked in terms of what's being developed out of the EU, which is that…
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- ▶ 50:43 Jason Calacanis And so, tangentially related to the speech issues in the EU, officials held a meeting to discuss enforcement of the DSA, or Digital Services Act. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:49 David Sacks It delegates the power to define it to this group of Eurocrats led by Theory Breton, and they're meeting this week to hammer it out.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 54:33 Jason Calacanis So M and A seems to be being taken off the plate by not just Lena Khan, but also the EU is, is seems to be turning the screws.
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 20:19 David Friedberg Uh, and this is, this is in the EU and the U S that it seems this is going to be the case.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 50:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Obviously there's a lot to do with, you know, language and currency, and there's a whole bunch of issues rolled up into why the UK left the European Union. 4 times in the scene
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 20:13 David Friedberg And I just sent you guys a, a link to the, you know, the EU has been working towards passing this AI.
- ▶ 39:09 Jason Calacanis That's their fear is, and that's the fear of the EU. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 47:10 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We've known, you know, if you look at WHO protocols or CDC protocols, the EU, the NHS in Britain, all those, they all had protocols for how to manage the pandemic.
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 34:49 Jason Calacanis And I think the EU is starting to work on that as well.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 39:41 David Friedberg The fines in the EU are extraordinary.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:25:19 Jason Calacanis This is following moves by Canada and the EU and Taiwan.
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 23:09 David Sacks Okay, so shifting gears, Microsoft has just been sued on antitrust grounds, or rather there's a probe by the EU, and this was based on a complaint actually from Slack. 4 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 10:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, and I think that the biggest political loser outside of the United States was probably the European Union.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:20:18 Jason Calacanis Would you describe this Friedberg as because we are seeing the EU, you know, they remember they made that decision. 2 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 32:41 Jason Calacanis and what should the EU be doing now that they're not doing? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Jason Calacanis Okay, the big lesson here is they need, the European Union needs to learn the lesson of energy independence and not spending more money with Putin.
- ▶ 45:38 Jason Calacanis It would be absolutely fantastic if the lesson the European Union learned here was, let's not be dependent. 2 times in the scene
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 53:31 Chamath Palihapitiya But as a result of that, EU Nat Gas has just gone absolutely nuclear and just closed at all time highs.
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 44:24 Jason Calacanis Uh, if you look at the U S becoming a net exporter, uh, of energy, uh, it's quite possible the EU could become that as well.
- ▶ 53:30 David Friedberg Because when ammonia ends up in the water, it kills life, and so there's this green algae, and no fish, and everything dies, and so that's what the Dutch are trying to regulate, and the EU generally has been trying to regulate, is the… 2 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:25:22 David Sacks The EU's GDP is 10 times greater than Russia's. 2 times in the scene
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:09:12 David Sacks And so goods go by rail from the Russian mainland to Kaliningrad, and they've been stopping these goods because they say they're under EU sanction.
- ▶ 1:20:16 Jason Calacanis I don't understand the EU of cutting all of their energy and then becoming dependent on Russia, then creating a ban and sanctions, but then they made a carve out that oil delivered by pipeline. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:07 David Friedberg Yeah, and by the way, to your point, Sachs, also, you know, there continues to be escalating issues with debt and concerns about debt repayment across the EU, and while Germany is, you know, looking to the US for support and worried about… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:39 David Sacks I mean, if you look at the EU, okay, as an entity, they have almost the same GDP and output as the U S and if you compare them to Russia, their economy, their, their GDP is 10 times greater than Russia.
#AIS: MP Materials CEO James Litinsky on rare earths, supply chain, and energy independence
- ▶ 23:25 Jason Calacanis The, the people in the EU, people in the United States, they want the energy.
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 14:04 Antonio Garcia Martinez Usually I'm, I'm both EU-US citizen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:54 Antonio Garcia Martinez If you listen to them, seems to be a liberal democratic Ukraine that wants to join the greater EU Western sphere.
- ▶ 32:15 Antonio Garcia Martinez So when I was coming back from Ukraine, and I was crossing back, and suddenly I was, obviously I wasn't really a refugee, but I was in the refugee line, along with all the Ukrainians leaving, and you're at the border, it's the middle of… 2 times in the scene
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 26:53 David Friedberg Europe is finally the EU is finally coming back to the GMO problem and saying, you know what precision gene editing can actually be beneficial to growing that more stuff.
- ▶ 1:06:51 Jason Calacanis And our focus, I think the ultimate checkmate should be Biden coming out and the EU coming out and saying, we are going to start a race to resiliency. 3 times in the scene
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 1:18:49 Jason Calacanis Well, you also have the EU working together in unison, and they seem to be, maybe they're going to become a bigger actor here because of this, right? 3 times in the scene
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 20:00 Jason Calacanis Would terrorize the Saudis and the Russians if all of a sudden the EU said, we are going to go massive solar, massive nuclear, and we're going to be energy independent.
- ▶ 42:15 Jason Calacanis Or if the EU and NATO had done it, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:58 Jason Calacanis And just to look at the EU versus the US in terms of gas mileage, um, which is just stunning. 4 times in the scene
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 20:05 Chamath Palihapitiya And the EU.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 46:50 Balaji Srinivasan You have this AUKUS thing where it looks like France is now pulling off and, you know, from, from NATO or the EU is doing their own thing.
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 40:51 Jason Calacanis Our chances alone, it's not worth it with a group of Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the EU, we should be defending Taiwan in my mind.
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 32:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Then you're fighting antitrust at the EU level.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 1:17:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Apple just got sued by the EU today.
E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act
- ▶ 38:43 David Friedberg So I think it was proposed in the EU that you would need to get a 4 times in the scene
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 20:49 Chamath Palihapitiya It's going to take almost two years to close, and Google's already making concessions, antitrust concessions to the EU for, you know, this is a one trillion dollar company trying to buy a one billion dollar company.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 17:00 Jason Calacanis What is in China's best interest, what's in the EU's best interest, and what's in America's best interest might be radically different, and they are literally funding them, correct, Shumov?