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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal Sep 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:28:12 David Sacks Um, and we can talk about why, but since the war started, but China gets most of its oil from the Middle East, Persian Gulf, and from Russia.

Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats Aug 12, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 9:23 Rahm Emanuel If you wanted to do, the reason I laid out in my speech in the Middle East, in Israel, the twenty-three-state solution, China, Russia, or Europe cannot do that.
  • ▶ 17:58 David Friedberg Yeah, and where do the Middle East nations fit into that equation? 4 times in the scene

China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan Aug 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:11 Dino Mavrucas We're talking to, um, our allies in Asia, obviously in Europe and in the Middle East right now about getting not only our products there, but also how do we stand up, you know, domestic production in those countries?

The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:00 Jason Calacanis The field has been changed with drones in a way, and at a velocity, no pun intended, that I don't think anybody anticipated because of what's happened in Ukraine, and now we see in the Middle East with the war with Iran.

Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters Jul 18, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:06 Jason Calacanis I mean, some of those allies have unlimited energy, Middle East. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:11:25 David Friedberg This is not, to your point, as prevalent in the Middle East, where you have monarchies and governments that aren't ruled by democracy, but in democracies, we see this anti-data center movement taking hold.

Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs Jul 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:36 Andrew Feldman And they're being built, they're being built across the US, they're being built in Canada, they're being built throughout the Nordics, they're being built here in Paris, and throughout France, in Europe, in the Middle East, in nations that…

Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?! Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:28 Nate Silver Democrats, um, are facing a very unpopular president, an economy that voters have a lot of anxiety about, Trump, no new Middle Eastern wars.

World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis? May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño May 15, 2026 · 1 mention

How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch May 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:21 Charles Koch You remember the war in the Middle East and everything, and they had gotten us into all kinds of wild, reckless trades, so that could have bankrupted the company, the company.

Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom May 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:47 Jason Calacanis And you've been, let's be honest, Saks, you have been, on this podcast, you've been moderately critical of that company, and Dario himself, for being, um, you know, a little P-Doomer, a 110, and on your X account, you've been even a little…

Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas Mar 17, 2026 · 4 mentions

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:49 David Sacks And if that happens, it won't really matter if the straits get reopened because you won't be able to restart oil and gas production in the Middle East.

They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means Mar 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:27 Paul Atkins Uh, when I travel through Europe or, uh, Japan and, uh, and the UK and, and, and Middle East and whatnot, people really envy our huge capital markets and how robust they are, uh, how fair they are.

“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War Mar 9, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 8:20 Graham Allison I think actually maybe painted a pretty, uh, I mean, the upside of this picture, if, if it's successful, and I hope now that we've gone into it, it would be, would be redefining security in the Middle East for a generation. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:45 Jason Calacanis If things were to go extremely well, and Iran went from a monarchy to a dictatorship, and now in this third act here in the modern day to a democracy, and you actually had a democracy with ninety three million citizens in the Middle East,…
  • ▶ 12:55 Graham Allison Gave a speech about, well, how wonderful it'll be when Iraq is a democracy and market economy, quote, radiating stability through the Middle East. 2 times in the scene

Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom Mar 7, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 20:25 Jason Calacanis We're, we're all praying for the people of Iran to have a democracy, and what an amazing moment will be when you get to return in whatever capacity and help this transition, and ninety-three million people who have been suffering will be…
  • ▶ 29:07 Jason Calacanis I'm curious, Shervin, you've spent a lot of time in the Middle East. 4 times in the scene

War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:22 Emil Michael Um, lots of ballistic missiles, uh, that are aimed at every country in the Middle East, as you've seen, they've attacked them.
  • ▶ 29:06 Jason Calacanis Does Israel have too much influence over the United States with regard to these actions in the Middle East?

Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot Feb 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:48 Jason Calacanis And it's such a good point, Chamath, because you were recently in the Middle East and I've been there a bunch.

Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 Jan 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:44 Jeremy Allaire You know, the technology of these networks, there's an opportunity actually to, to develop versions of this that are more geopolitically neutral, geo-economically neutral, so that if you're from India, or you're from Brazil, or you're from…
  • ▶ 1:35:44 Adam Goldstein Um, the Middle East, GCC has been, you know, very active.

Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:46 Jason Calacanis We're seeing, we're living in a time where we're seeing freedom of speech expression go down in Europe and go up in the Middle East.

Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs Jan 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:49 Jason Calacanis It's the second largest in the Middle East behind Egypt, I believe. 3 times in the scene

Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026 Jan 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:08 Hemant Taneja If you go around the world today, right, you, you go to Europe, you go to the Middle East where, um,

All-In's 2026 Predictions Jan 10, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 57:01 David Friedberg But a lot of people think that Iran is part of the destabilizing force in the Middle East. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:21 David Friedberg Some big change in the Middle East, but this could be the biggest rewriting of the Middle East in a long time. 2 times in the scene

All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special Dec 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:58 Jason Calacanis I mean, it does say something about society when comedy is appreciated more in the Middle East than it is in London.

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:46 Jason Calacanis And then a bunch of other folks coming in, including, and we'll get to this, uh, some Middle East, uh, sovereign wealth funds.

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:43 Chamath Palihapitiya The money that was committed from Japan to South Korea to the Middle Eastern countries, you're talking trillions of dollars.
  • ▶ 46:08 Jason Calacanis We're talking about wars ending and great job in the Middle East, uh, for Trump and Jared and the, and the team border security, immigration, of course, a big win in terms of shutting the border.

Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower Nov 4, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Jason Calacanis I've been spending a lot more time in the Middle East, in the region. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:25 Tareq Amin But I will tell you, I think many companies do not see the Middle East the way I see it today, and they don't understand the requirements and the needs of what we have to do to build the depth and the talents.
  • ▶ 24:43 David Sacks But what I can tell you, we, I went with the president on the trip in May to the Middle East and number one, like you said, the business culture in Saudi Arabia is very Americanized. 2 times in the scene

Triple H on How WWE Evolved: Trump, The Rock, and the Rise of the Antihero Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:13 unnamed speaker Which, by the way, many have made because of the U.S. involvement in Middle East and Middle East politics, and the U.S.'s absence of involvement in politics in countries that are not oil rich.

Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House Oct 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:57 Joe Manchin so I think the president has to move this, and I've said this, our great country, and the president with his leadership over in the Middle East is able to get Hamas and the Israelis to sit down and make a deal.
  • ▶ 1:01:45 Joe Manchin He is the perfect president for the Middle East.

Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally Oct 10, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:10 David Sacks So that, that is what apparently has been agreed to, and the Middle East has a way of disappointing you. 8 times in the scene

Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech Oct 2, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:35 Ro Khanna So I guess my point is, well, why not just then say, okay, that's, that's good, or I've been very critical of, uh, the president's policies on the Middle East, and I was, I've been critical of the policies of Biden on the Middle East, but… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:06 Ro Khanna Uh, differences on him on, on, on, on, on the Middle East.

Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies Sep 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:28 David Friedberg Such instability in the Middle East historically has not gone as we thought it would or hoped it would.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:37 Alex Karp I don't think, like, and why are we teaching the Arab Middle East how to live better?

Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025 Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan Jul 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:44 Donald J. Trump When I traveled to the Middle East in May, every leader I met was thrilled to do business with American tech firms and with America, and they were all thrilled to meet me, believe it or not.

Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:59 James Litinsky Um, I will say that I think one of the big drivers of our deal was the, as we've seen, um, in Ukraine, in the middle East, the future of warfare,

Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:32 JD Vance I mean, you've heard the president say this before, you know, we, we'd love a Middle East where we have to spend a little bit less time and a little bit less money and our regional allies, both, you know, Israeli and Arab step up in a…

Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs Jul 11, 2025 · 1 mention

12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner Jun 28, 2025 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 12:14 David Sacks They also, by eighty-something percent, don't want to get dragged into a new forever war in the Middle East, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:01 Chamath Palihapitiya He wants to see them improving the lives of their people, because he realizes that a stable Iran is a stable Middle East.
  • ▶ 18:43 David Friedberg Needs to change is going to suddenly say, hey, let's take a beat and walk away from this and we'll all kind of have peace in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:29 David Sacks We've had plenty of experience with that in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:36 Chamath Palihapitiya So I think what the market realized was, okay, now the Middle East is the closest it's ever been 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:17 Jason Calacanis So, this time around, when we look at our Middle East policy, it is not informed by our need for that oil. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:11 David Sacks And I think that even, you know, over the last couple of weeks, you saw that substantial majorities of the American people did not want to get into a new Middle Eastern war.
  • ▶ 1:17:52 Jason Calacanis You think about the flight to the Middle East or Singapore, Asia.
  • ▶ 1:18:43 Jason Calacanis Obviously, you got the ceasefire in the Middle East.

Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran? Jun 13, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes May 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO May 24, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 2:19 David Sacks President did a trip to the Middle East.
  • ▶ 19:43 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, we'll talk about what happened in the Middle East, but when the rubber meets the road and you actually have a shortage of electrons, because these financial actors, they're not, you know, and in fairness to them, they're acting…
  • ▶ 57:09 Jason Calacanis We covered Trump's trip to the Middle East last week, but our bestie Saks was there as well.
  • ▶ 1:05:18 David Sacks And so I think he's right with respect to the Middle East. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:16 David Sacks And it's, it wasn't the, the neo-cons, the interventionists who have led to so much progress in the Middle East and in the Arab world.
  • ▶ 1:32:10 Jason Calacanis You were in the Middle East last week.

Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro May 17, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:01 Jason Calacanis Today on the All In Podcast, we're joined by our friend Ben Shapiro, and we have a full docket, including Trump's trip to the Middle East, the executive order on pharma benefits.
  • ▶ 7:51 Jason Calacanis And, uh, Ben, you've been covering this Trump Middle East trip, uh, all week, so let's get into that as our first topic here. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:52 Ben Shapiro What he's doing in the Middle East.
  • ▶ 41:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I think we started with a real bang in the Middle East, and I just encourage the administration to go and finish the job and get as many bilateral deals done as possible and reset how important the United States is as a partner.
  • ▶ 1:13:43 Ben Shapiro I mean, let's be very clear about what's going on in the Middle East.

Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World May 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:32 Jason Calacanis And the third thing, because I've been talking to a lot of geographies in the Middle East, Japan, Australia, Singapore, et cetera, Asia.

Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC May 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:18 Doug Burgum And now, as you say, the only one larger in the world is in the Middle East.

Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:48 David Sacks I mean, you look at the forever wars in the Middle East, we had interventions and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.

Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon Apr 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO Mar 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23:33 Jason Calacanis We look at the world much differently now since we have energy independence than we did under Bush and, and these, uh, foreign wars, you know, in the Middle East.

Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy Mar 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:43 Jason Calacanis Oh, I think people with twenty million who are overseas in Venezuela or the Middle East would spend five million on it.

All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC! Jan 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:20:37 Donald J. Trump I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

The All-In Holiday Spectacular Dec 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:16 unnamed speaker From continued wars in Europe and the Middle East to continued battles on the home front.

New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale Dec 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:26 Jason Calacanis Yeah, they, they've raised a tremendous amount of capital, a lot of it from the Middle East, and they're supposedly going to build Colossus to a million GPUs is the state of gold, 10 times bigger than it is currently.

Trump wins! How it happened and what's next Nov 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:58 Chamath Palihapitiya We have never been closer to substantial and sustained peace in the Middle East in any era of government under any president than we were when Jared Kushner on behalf of Donald Trump negotiated those agreements.

Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:23 Jason Calacanis Sachs, if we are able to get a bunch of these SMRs built here in the United States, maybe if Europe follows suit, what would this do on a geopolitical basis into our relationship with the Middle East, our energy independence, and of course…

Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris Oct 3, 2024 · 1 mention

OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war Sep 27, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:20:49 David Friedberg I think by the time the show airs, Israel's incursion into Lebanon is going to get bigger, it's going to escalate, and by next week we could be in a full-blown multinational war in the Middle East, and if I am, you know, a betting man, I… 4 times in the scene

Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:40 Chamath Palihapitiya And now to your point, you have wars in Europe, you have wars in the Middle East, you have this potential thing, sort of Damocles hanging over us in China and Taiwan.

Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:57 Kyrsten Sinema You know, I'm, I'm quite close with the pro-Israel community, not just in Arizona, but nationally, because Israel is our only democratic partner in the Middle East, and is one of the best partners to the United States, and has been since… 2 times in the scene

Bari Weiss | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:33 Bari Weiss That's sort of a view from someone that was in the Middle East Bureau of the AP and seeing the roots of this back in 2005, 2006.

Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit Sep 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:13 John Mearsheimer And furthermore, by getting bogged down in Ukraine, and now bogged down in the Middle East, it's become very difficult for us to pivot to Asia to deal with China, which is the principal threat that we face.
  • ▶ 46:42 unnamed speaker Let me just ask one, because we're a little bit, I know we were going to try and talk about Middle East for a good chunk of this.

JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 10, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:47 David Sacks He was gung-ho to go fight America's enemies, and he enlisted in the Marine Corps, and went off, uh, to serve in, in the Middle East.
  • ▶ 19:50 David Sacks It destabilized the Middle East.
  • ▶ 35:05 Chamath Palihapitiya They're coming from places in, you know, near, around near Asia, and a lot of places that you wouldn't normally think people coming from, Middle East, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
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