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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 52:17 David Sacks I mean, I've told you guys before that Trump is ultimately the best friend of innovators in Washington. 3 times in the scene
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 0:19 Jason Calacanis He did a little run to DC.
- ▶ 45:37 Jason Calacanis You dipped your toe there in DC.
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 1:30 David Friedberg No, you and I, I mean, just for the audience, you and I both happen to be in DC right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:42 Eric Weinstein So now you have this different problem, which is, is that you've got all of these B minus policy people in Washington, particularly in the covert community, not the intelligence community, but the covert community inside the intelligence…
- ▶ 1:29:49 Eric Weinstein And before you turn up your nose at this, consider doing what I did, which is to come for a few days to Washington, D.C., and utter the dangerous words, how can I help?
Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios
- ▶ 50:44 David Friedberg Chips, progress with China, open models, that's kind of dominating the conversation in DC, dominating the conversation in the world, and I feel like we're leaving behind some of these really important advances that we need to be making in… 2 times in the scene
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 37:03 Jason Calacanis They're going to ban Waymo's in New York, Boston, DC, and they're going to limit them with licenses.
- ▶ 1:08:02 David Friedberg And I've been to DC enough now to know that no one actually acknowledges or cares about this point that they all think that their job is to get more money out of the government for their constituents, every single person in every party.
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 31:01 David Sacks Well, I experienced this when I got to Washington and, you know, all the former Biden people had just moved over to Anthropics government affairs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:22 David Sacks In the fact that Dario did not get his way in Washington for the most part.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 1:10:25 Brad Gerstner I will tell you that this will irritate people in Washington who feel that this, along with distillation and other things, um, could be the export of chips, all of which at a certain level makes sense, cause people to wonder whether or not…
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 8:57 Jason Calacanis You were in, you were in DC at the time.
- ▶ 1:23:25 David Friedberg This is not just one side and the other, because fundamentally, if you go, I've spent a lot of time now in DC, I think everyone's well-intentioned in the White House and the administration in trying to reduce federal spending.
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 30:26 David Sacks And the reports are that Sam is going to Washington over the next week to go talk about GBT.
- ▶ 1:05:38 Jason Calacanis I mean, if you go to Washington and you lay down with the dogs, don't be surprised if you wake up with the fleas, like you, they decided to engage in this, you know, so they, they may have poked the tiger.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 0:42 Brad Gerstner And, uh, spent some time in D.C. this week.
- ▶ 55:31 Jason Calacanis Chinese authorities are deeply worried about the potential for mythos to exploit software vulnerabilities and that Washington might deploy a model against Chinese interest. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:10 Jason Calacanis All right, let's talk about your time in D.C.
- ▶ 1:03:13 Jason Calacanis Brad Gerstner went to D.C., everybody, and a huge 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:44 Brad Gerstner They want to control all that money in Washington and decide who gets it right. 2 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 30:04 Jason Calacanis If you think about what this competition's about to do, and you've been very vocal about this in your time in Washington, D.C., we want to have a level playing field.
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 37:10 David Sacks So first of all, like you said, Dario came to Washington a few months ago, this was back in April, and basically said that he had created a cyber weapon called Mythos.
- ▶ 1:06:09 David Sacks And I think Dario went to Washington very early on and convinced key officials in the Biden administration of this idea that AI was extremely dangerous and needed to be controlled by the government in some sort of like merger between 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:08 David Sacks To go to Washington and freak everybody out like this. 2 times in the scene
Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner
- ▶ 16:43 David Friedberg And it seems to me, every time I visit D.C., I leave profoundly unhappy because I meet with people in Congress, and this is a notion that seems to be diametrically opposed to their viewpoints, that everything is about doing more for people.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 49:48 David Sacks So one is that 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.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 22:47 Spencer Pratt I go to Washington.
Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
- ▶ 30:57 Brad Gerstner I want to see DC stay out of the way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:05 Brad Gerstner The approval regime, this idea that you're gonna have to share every model with an FDA in Washington, and they're going to have to pre-approve the model is a disaster. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:04 David Sacks But what they're trying to do is use that issue to try and create a permanent new infrastructure in Washington.
- ▶ 1:05:53 David Sacks Models would have to go to Washington to get approved if they were trained with some number of flops, and then every sale of a GPU worldwide would have to be licensed from Washington unless it fit into some narrow exemptions. 3 times in the scene
How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
- ▶ 7:02 unnamed speaker If you look at Washington, D.C., we have our nation's Congress.
- ▶ 1:08:26 Matt Mahan 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…
- ▶ 1:11:35 unnamed speaker Will ultimately increase the Democratic Party's voting base and lock them into power in D.C., lock them into power in these states, turn more states blue, etc.
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 41:04 Shervin Pishevar So my father came to Washington, D.C., where I am right now, and I grew up here on 16th Street in Washington, and he got his master's degree at Catholic University, uh, in 1976 to 1978. 3 times in the scene
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 35:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Three decades and trillions of dollars to your friends in Virginia, Maryland, and DC.
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 1:19:30 Jason Calacanis So let's just get some esprit de corps and teamwork going in Washington, DC.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 40:47 David Sacks But look, as we know, it's very hard to get Washington to go along with that because there is just a lot of spending pressure in Washington. 2 times in the scene
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 1:06:07 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Almost as soon as we did that deal, I keep hearing from my friends, like, you know, SBF badmouthing us in the Washington circles in the US, et cetera.
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 1:04:43 David Sacks How much the policy debate in Washington has indexed on a single use case.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 2:21 Jason Calacanis I remember under the Biden administration, the 46th administration, you went to DC, and were like, I'm here, I would love to talk to you, and they were like, yeah, we don't want to talk to you.
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 36:20 David Sacks In Washington, which has much more of a command and control type of mindset. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:38 David Sacks This, this idea of Orwellian AI is not going to be a problem, but I do worry that at some point in the future, if you had a different regime in Washington, you know, if the federal government started to pressure AI companies to build in…
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 1:04:04 David Sacks First in California and then in Washington.
Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
- ▶ 1:14:42 unnamed speaker But I'd love to hear the view on balancing those benefits against the risks to consumer health, and there's an incredible amount of lobbying pressure from ranchers and animal agriculture against these systems that I'm assuming is starting…
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 1:03:47 David Sacks So they will go to the feds, and I think they're all just trying to hold on until they can get Democrats elected back in Washington.
- ▶ 1:26:50 David Sacks I haven't heard a lot of conversation about that in Washington.
Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
- ▶ 40:38 Scott Bessent The Fed just prints its own money, and it has its own budget, and as I talked about it in the article, it has its own police force, it has its own, you know, we've seen the big cost overruns at the building, uh, here in D.C.,
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 0:44 David Sacks Yeah, there's not a very high bar in Washington, as you know.
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 6:37 Jason Calacanis Assess the playing field as you see it from DC.
- ▶ 29:09 Jason Calacanis They're allowed to split time between their day jobs in D.C.
- ▶ 41:23 Jason Calacanis Do we want to have lawyers and academics with no experience in the real world setting policy in Washington DC? 5 times in the scene
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 17:50 Jason Calacanis D.C. meeting with, uh, I don't know who.
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 22:32 David Sacks In Washington and the states are making a bunch of bad decisions with respect to AI. 2 times in the scene
AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- ▶ 24:39 Ari Emanuel Why do you think one's in Chicago, one's in Washington, one's in LA?
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 25:11 David Sacks When I got back to Washington, I was really surprised at how controversial it was that we wanted to do business with the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia in particular.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 11:56 Pete Buttigieg So instead of sitting there in Washington saying where all the chargers ought to be built, we send the funding to the states. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:43 Pete Buttigieg Do you feel safer about the fact that a Latino doctor crossing the street in Washington, D.C., uh, is getting hassled or harassed because they're brown? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:36 Pete Buttigieg I mean, 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.
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 13:17 David Sacks If you look at the cities where it's been very successful, so Muriel Bowser, who's the mayor of DC, obviously she wasn't thrilled about the president sending in the National Guard, and she said so publicly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 Chamath Palihapitiya Did you guys see this interview with this woman in D.C. who was describing what it's been like in D.C. over the last 40 years and see the changes? 4 times in the scene
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 20:23 Andrew Ross Sorkin On the other side of the story in Washington is a guy who you probably heard of or know named Carter Glass.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 16:22 David Sacks And that's why you see in places like Chicago or Washington DC, enormous amounts of, of violent crime. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Jason Calacanis And, um, if you look at this Washington Post story, I'll send it to you for post, 61% of people said in DC, according to the Washington Post's survey, that 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 David Sacks You don't see this violence in red cities, and you don't even see it in the blue cities, which have offered to cooperate with Trump, like Memphis or like DC.
- ▶ 39:48 David Sacks I'll just note that in DC, DC is the city where Trump was first able to basically get involved in trying to stop the crime because he was able to bring in the National Guard, and everyone understands that the feds run DC, so he has a free… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:08 Brad Gerstner None of this would be happening if Washington had not unlocked power
- ▶ 1:14:24 David Sacks With excessive regulation at the state level, excessive regulation at the federal level, they want the bureaucracies in Washington to manage and improve everything.
Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
- ▶ 15:57 David Sacks And I think that's what's led to a much more hawkish environment in Washington.
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 1:28:17 Jason Calacanis Great to see you, Chamath, who had to jump, David Freeberg, and of course, my bestie, my bestie, David Sachs, our czar, getting it done in D.C. for the country.
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
- ▶ 31:50 Jason Calacanis When you're in DC, people come together and say, you know what?
Rick Caruso on California’s Collapse: Broken Leadership, LA Wildfire Failures & the Fix
- ▶ 21:32 Rick Caruso Well, my take on it is sending in the National Guard in Washington, D.C. is a very different situation than sending the National Guard into L.A. or Chicago, because Washington, D.C. is a federal territory, so that's different. 2 times in the scene
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
- ▶ 19:12 David Sacks And believe it or not, there are a lot of people in groups in Washington right now who are calling for literally every sale of a advanced semiconductor worldwide to be a licensed sale, uh, because they think that GPUs are like plutonium or… 2 times in the scene
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 22:18 David Sacks And I think it created almost like a panicky atmosphere in Washington among policymakers.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- ▶ 7:51 Vlad Tenev I mean, just, uh, by nature of how many times I've been to Washington, uh, the last administration didn't invite me to the White House once.
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 29:02 unnamed speaker Uh, this is a big part of the AI summit we held in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago, and it seems to be the number one topic everyone talks about in tech nowadays.
Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
- ▶ 1:35 Jason Calacanis You're in Palo Alto, and, um, not Washington, D.C. 4 times in the scene
Nasdaq CEO Reveals the Next Era Of The Stock Market - Adena Friedman | All-In Summit
- ▶ 12:53 Adena Friedman What's happening now in Washington is the potential for rules of the road, and that gives us an opportunity to participate in a market that really has not been available to us.
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 13:36 David Friedberg Have you gone to D.C. since President Trump? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Tucker Carlson If you do that to lawyers and nonprofit sector employees who I lived around in D.C., you will get a revolution, and I mean that.
- ▶ 58:17 Tucker Carlson It was at lunch at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright
- ▶ 23:35 Chris Wright So, yes, I came to Washington.
- ▶ 28:46 David Friedberg Every time we go to D.C., we hear Doge, is Doge dead? 3 times in the scene
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 0:04 David Sacks I'm in D.C. today, so it's a, it's a government day.
- ▶ 4:53 David Friedberg No, but I was in D.C. this week.
- ▶ 44:59 David Sacks He got the highest approval rating he's ever had just in the last week, and a big part of it is because of the reduction in crime in D.C. 4 times in the scene
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
- ▶ 0:15 Rand Paul He said, when you go back to Washington, make sure they know that war with China is not inevitable.
- ▶ 8:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Does that make it hard to operate in D.C. to, to be fusion? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:46 Rand Paul And interesting, and I don't know if this commander, but I met with one of the Pacific Fleet commanders, I don't want to name him, because I don't want his conversation, but he said, when you go back to Washington, make sure they know that… 3 times in the scene
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 11:39 Jason Calacanis And, uh, important note, there is an emergency hearing set for, um, Friday morning in DC.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 41:57 Jason Calacanis And then obviously Trump is cleaning up DC from a very first principled basis.
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 48:56 Senator Eric Schmitt I guess I would say the ascending wing of the Republican party on this kind of realism versus, um, this kind of Wilsonian adventurism that's dominated permanent Washington for a long time, just to tell them the truth, which is not what…
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 48:53 Jason Calacanis Trump sent the National Guard into DC. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:49 David Sacks Well, here's the thing is, if you actually spend time in D.C., then you're very happy about these changes. 5 times in the scene
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 27:32 Jason Calacanis When you hear this discussion that we had in, in DC last week, when you hear technologists like ourselves, who obviously are investing in this, this is our book of business right now.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 1:55 Jason Calacanis We had an amazing time in, uh, DC last week, and we'll get into that, but, uh, Hey, Freeberg, you crushed it on all those incredible speakers last week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:03 Jason Calacanis I had a great time in DC.
- ▶ 32:40 David Sacks We let J Cal into Washington, and now look what's happening.
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 6:57 Donald J. Trump For organizing this very important summit, and especially for putting it in D.C. where it's a little bit easier.
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