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Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos Aug 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:03 Alex Kantrowitz I'm sure what Elon Musk did to X probably was in their minds, although who knows if that's a success or not. 2 times in the scene

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 14:22 David Cahn And so I do think, and if what it's worth, and this is why I talk about kind of the game theory and logic of the people leading these companies, you look at Sundar, you look at Satya, you look at Sam, you look at Elon, you look at Dario. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:10 David Cahn I'm not a grand master like Elon Musk, but it's like, how do we work on our strategies that we do a good job at the end of this cycle?
  • ▶ 32:09 David Cahn Where you have a committee around the table, and everyone has a different opinion, that's actually much more challenging, because you actually can't consistently execute a strategy, at least for Dario, and I think for Sam, and I think… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:16 unnamed speaker Like, your supply chain partners were bad, everything was too expensive, the math never worked, and Elon just squeezes vertical integration, vertical integration, vertical integration.
  • ▶ 59:07 David Cahn And Elon is almost this, like, meta commentary, which is, like, if you move civilization forward, then you, like, make a lot of money. 9 times in the scene

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 3 mentions

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:40 Grace Shao I, I am not a semi expert, so I can't comment too much more on the technicalities, but I think even Elon Musk recently came out during a economist interview saying he said something in the lines of, I believe China will figure out bloggery…

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get? Jul 27, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 43:01 Alex Kantrowitz You know, does Elon go full circle and acquire OpenAI?
  • ▶ 50:18 Ranjan Roy Elon Musk, everyone was, not just became a trillionaire, but a multi-trillionaire. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:22 Ranjan Roy Elon told us it would still require the appropriate processes, but I think we're going to get a lot of, even though I don't even know what that would mean in the world of Elon in terms of like his ownership and control over both companies. 3 times in the scene

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:35 Alex Kantrowitz That makes my partners, my enemies, Elon Musk, you know, founder of opening. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown Jul 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:01 M.G. Siegler To admit like Elon had to on, on, uh, on, you know, um, in the courtroom, right.

Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases Jun 29, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 24:15 Alex Kantrowitz Top of mind is what happened to Elon Musk's SpaceX after its IPO this month. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:44 Ranjan Roy I will say that first week of the post IPO, there are moments in any kind of cycle you remember, and that's going to stick with me when you saw like, I mean, Elon Musk is a trillionaire now. 2 times in the scene

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 38:26 Alex Kantrowitz You don't think Elon took some of their money because he pitched the market on an AI company and that's where the money got funneled into? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:45:17 Lauren Goode What you're building now, but also if you had, if you have a pie in the sky, like Elon Musk data centers in space type ambition, I want to hear about that too. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:00:26 Alex Kantrowitz In 2015, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk and Sam Altman started a nonprofit called OpenAI, and the plan was to pursue artificial general intelligence.

Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger Jun 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:46 Lauren Goode What you're building now, but also if you had, if you have a pie in the sky, like Elon Musk data centers in space type ambition, I want to hear about that too.
  • ▶ 30:18 Mike Krieger I, I by far from a data center expert, but I talked to somebody who is a like a person who sends things to space who is not Elon Musk.

SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War Jun 15, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz SpaceX IPOs soars and makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire.
  • ▶ 1:13 Alex Kantrowitz That would be Elon Musk. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:25 Ranjan Roy Now, so what you are saying is the only way we can do this is to have a highly orchestrated, um, conglomerate of kind of self-interested companies enrich us into the world's first trillionaire at the expense of the mainstream retail… 3 times in the scene

Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public Jun 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:58 M.G. Siegler With Elon Musk and SpaceX of leading up to the SpaceX IPO, it's all of a sudden,
  • ▶ 1:01:21 M.G. Siegler And when I saw that leak last week about opening, I doing that, I thought it was both for optics because obviously they, they would take any, any chance they can get against, uh, uh, going after Elon, their, their foil, um, you know, to…

AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 7:04 Dick Costolo Elon 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:02 Alex Kantrowitz So if Elon is somebody that can sell a vision, Sam Altman is not. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:16 Dick Costolo And the, and the, the public's perception that Claude Code is like the, the, irrespective of what I just said about Codex two minutes ago, that Claude Code is like, this is the, this is the great unlock, and gonna be the real game changer,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:53 Dick Costolo Because, you know, you've got, I mean, what if, what has Silicon Valley spent, you know, the last two weeks gossiping about the Elan, Sam, Brockman, you know, Brockman diaries.
  • ▶ 44:37 Dick Costolo Sorry, no, don't mean to insult Ilan by saying loads of engineers. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:55 Dick Costolo By the way, you can be, look, look, Elon has got more money. 2 times in the scene

Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI May 25, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Ranjan Roy Uh, Eric Schmidt's getting booed, and Elon Musk has found the largest addressable market in human history.
  • ▶ 10:21 Ranjan Roy Um, so they're already getting out there, and Elon Musk is Elon Musking in ways that
  • ▶ 32:03 Ranjan Roy I, well, it's more, again, like, I genuinely believe over a multi-year period, overall AI is going to become maybe not Elon Musk's 28.5 trillion dollar TAM for SpaceX, but something dramatic.
  • ▶ 36:57 Alex Kantrowitz SpaceX shows a 4.3 billion dollar loss as Musk targets a record IPO. 3 times in the scene

How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe May 22, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:36 David Plouffe They see this and they say, wait, the people who are building these products are telling us, well, Elon says there'll be no jobs. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:25 David Plouffe So the other way that, the other thing I think is interesting about the economic argument is, you know, Elon will go so far as to say we won't need plumbers and electricians either eventually, but he's really alone in that regard.
  • ▶ 15:26 Alex Kantrowitz And does this extend beyond, you know, Sam and Elon talking and Dario? 2 times in the scene

Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier May 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank May 18, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Alex Kantrowitz We're going to go deep into the documents coming out of the Musk versus Altman
  • ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz It sure is, because, you know, one of the, we'll see what happens with this case with Musk and Altman and whether the verdict is consequential or not, but certainly the documents coming out of the case are consequential, and give us a…
  • ▶ 25:12 Ranjan Roy And that was even a different kind of type of person where like Jason Calacanis and others would kind of like grovel at Elon Musk
  • ▶ 53:13 Alex Kantrowitz In the Satya and the Musk Altman trial.

The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? May 11, 2026 · 30 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 Alex Kantrowitz We also have lots of stunning revelations from the OpenAI Musk trial and a number of big layoffs happening in the tech industry.
  • ▶ 1:43 Alex Kantrowitz Anthropic will use all the computing capacity from SpaceX's Colossus One data center in a new agreement with Elon Musk's rockets and artificial intelligence company. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:42 Alex Kantrowitz And it is going to be this heavyweight business story between two companies with a tremendous history and, and Elon Musk now stepping in and saying, if I can't win, I'd like the, uh, and the enemy of my enemy to win. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:08 Ranjan Roy On the Elon side where we reserve the, so just as SpaceX launches hundreds of satellites for competitors with fair terms in pricing, we will provide compute to AI companies that are taking the right steps to ensure it is good for humanity. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:49 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so before we go to break, we have to go to break because we're going to need to spend at least a good chunk of our time now reading from the open AI, uh, an Elon trial and some of the evidence there.
  • ▶ 41:27 Alex Kantrowitz And yeah, he's definitely in control, but the question is like, can Elon still use this sort of, I mean, it's interesting that this drama is coming out now. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:53 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, Elon Musk and Dario can partner all day long, but it's a bunch of fooey.

Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate? May 5, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01 Alex Kantrowitz We might even cover the Musk Altman case because we have some, uh, breaking news on that front, and it's great to welcome you back to the show, MG.
  • ▶ 15:10 M.G. Siegler The reality is like, in order to try to catch up, we would have to spend like Elon has been doing right. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:51 Alex Kantrowitz It seems like anybody who can say the sentence open AI would not exist without us tends to get very annoyed at open AI, whether it's Elon or Microsoft or whatever it might be.
  • ▶ 46:55 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Elon Musk famously said they don't have the money and, uh, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:26 Alex Kantrowitz We, I, we were talking about potentially covering the Musk Altman trial, but I think when you're on in June, we'll actually maybe have a verdict to discuss.

OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban May 4, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk and Sam Altman meet in court, and Anthropix valuation is approaching one trillion dollars. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:44 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but, but it'll be, it'll be a very interesting, uh, battle as it, as it continues to play out, um, on the, uh, you know, as opening eye does this, of course it has the, uh, thorn in its side of Elon Musk.
  • ▶ 23:04 Alex Kantrowitz Between OpenAI and Musk this week, and if you have any thoughts on whether this trial will lead to anything of consequences, of course, Musk is suing OpenAI for taking his money, going from a charity, from a for-profit, from a charity to a… 24 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:10 Ranjan Roy And it's a very, the Musk-Altman trial reminds us this is a very, very small group of people that have known each other, competed against each other, 2 times in the scene

Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan Apr 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:22 Mark Cuban There's gonna be displacement, there's no question about it, but I'm not, you're one of those people that says, jobs will be optional, like Elon Musk said, or, um, 50% unemployment, no.

Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot Apr 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:45 Alex Kantrowitz Remember, they acquired, ah, the, or they, the Aqua higher-zitioned the top talent from Grok, not Elon's Grok, but this Grok company that's meant for inference, and that was one of the big

More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit Apr 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:18 M.G. Siegler Uh, for maybe for Elon Musk's birthday. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:29 M.G. Siegler And then, you know, all this stuff happened, a lot happened obviously in the subsequent months, but like certainly with, um, with Elon spinning up XAI and, and how we got that data center up so quickly.

OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure Apr 6, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 28:56 Alex Kantrowitz I definitely want to talk about the SpaceX IPO because, uh, Elon Musk and co have filed for that IPO.
  • ▶ 31:02 Alex Kantrowitz The company's acquisitions of, of Musk's XAI company valued SpaceX at 1.25 trillion, uh, in February. 5 times in the scene

Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us Mar 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:51 Senator Mark Warner And everybody says yes, but then you get, you know, Elon at Grok saying, no, we, you know, we're going to be an outlier.

OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund Mar 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:33 Ranjan Roy There's also the part that says researchers specifically highlighted a recent interview with Elon Musk, citing his belief that applying 10 X to compute LLM training will double the model's intelligence.

Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin Mar 18, 2026 · 1 mention

AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:19 Ranjan Roy Again, I think so much of this branding problem is around when it is Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and even, I mean, I guess Dario is kind of seeming to be the good guy in the, the, the narrative over the last couple of weeks, but, but it's,…

The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum Feb 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:10 M.G. Siegler That's sort of a interesting end run around by Elon to all of a sudden have potentially a, uh, an, an AI play rather than just the space play, uh, to go public in, you know, as rumored in June or maybe July, uh, of this year. 2 times in the scene

The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO Feb 2, 2026 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 2:57 Stephen Morris And I think what this proves, like, three hundred and fifty billion valuation is, of course, above Elon Musk's ex-AI at two 50, but as you said, like, far below the rumored seven hundred and fifty billion valuation of OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:23 Stephen Morris But it sets up a really interesting twenty-twenty-six and twenty-twenty-seven, because they're all hiring advisors, you know, one of the, the talk of Davos were bankers and lawyers buzzing around trying to win lead roles on all of these… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:05 Stephen Morris A single customer that has a lot of noise around it and increasingly has competition from Google and Elon Musk and Anthropic. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:59 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, let's talk about Apple quickly, and then the Amazon layoffs if we have a moment, and then we'll get into Elon.
  • ▶ 46:30 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, people are thinking it's gonna be in June, which will coincide with Elon Musk's birthday and some planetary alignment, where, uh, on June eighth and ninth, Jupiter and Venus, this is going again to the Financial Times, thanks for the… 13 times in the scene

Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra Jan 28, 2026 · 5 mentions

OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin Jan 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing Jan 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:49 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk has talked about how the reason for building Neuralink is brain computer interface company is 2 times in the scene

AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball Jan 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:50 Alex Kantrowitz Just a, a, it's almost a personal reaction to Sam of distrust and, uh, now maybe part of this is because of his feud with Elon and there's a lot of Elon fans out there and he did, you know, he did take a nonprofit and turn it into, you… 3 times in the scene

CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market Dec 23, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 17:12 Jim Cramer Uh, have they, uh, figured out if they monetize, uh, WhatsApp, that would be like a, that would be like Musk monetize, Musk monetizes, but it doesn't go to, you know, cause it's a separate bucket. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:32 Jim Cramer I think, I think that it's very important that works, and I, by the way, when I think about Musk, what I think about it is the battery division. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble Dec 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:36 Alex Kantrowitz I have to tell you, my, I'm, I am taking the, uh, the Sam Altman approach to Bob Iger and, and not the Elon Musk.

Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push Dec 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:18 M.G. Siegler And we might see, I mean, obviously we're going to have Elon Musk try to come back into this, this, uh, equation. 2 times in the scene

Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit Nov 24, 2025 · 7 mentions

Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:50 Gil Luria It's because they know they're competing with Meta, and with Google, and with Elon, people that have a lot more resources than they do.
  • ▶ 27:08 Gil Luria And again, even if you took out the bad players that are lending, that are borrowing money to build data centers, you still have Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Elon using cash flow to build data centers.
  • ▶ 33:30 Gil Luria This is where Mark Zuckerberg lives, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Mode.

OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity Nov 10, 2025 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk gets a one trillion dollar pay package to build an entirely new Tesla, and Amazon sues perplexity.
  • ▶ 0:38 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk also won a one trillion dollar pay deal that obviously goes in different steps, but is, uh, has finally been passed by Tesla.
  • ▶ 14:23 Ranjan Roy and then we're going to talk about the Ilya Sam, uh, uh, battles of the past, but it's almost like she, she shows up at open AI and suddenly her entire comm strategy is like, uh, Elon situation or, or just kind of this kind of like, you…
  • ▶ 31:05 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe we can run under Elon's new third party.
  • ▶ 34:44 Alex Kantrowitz Well, one person that might be able to backstop OpenAI is Elon Musk after he got a trillion dollar pay package approved. 20 times in the scene

OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival Nov 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:48 M.G. Siegler The everything app to steal from, you know, what the, the narrative that Elon's trying to do, and that would be a nice like poke in the eye and they, you know, are able to sort of, uh, yeah, come, come up with some sort of narrative, uh,…
  • ▶ 37:55 Alex Kantrowitz Like maybe a company like grok, not Elon Musk's grok, but grok, the, uh, inference chip.
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