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3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2026 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 30 times in 13 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 30 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
- PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
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Mar 16, 2026 neutral
Alex Kantrowitz: Governments cannot practically enforce bans on large language models
“They won't be banned. It's impossible. I mean, how can you ban them? Are you going to go and take your, is the government going to go grab your Mac mini out of your office where you've downloaded a version of deep seek and be like, all right, right to the poke…”
May 7, 2026 bullish
Shevelenko predicts powerful reasoning models will run locally on Mac Minis
“Well, I certainly think that as models get more powerful, you will certainly be, and as, you know, local CPUs get more powerful as well, you're going to be able to distill powerful reasoning models to a size where they can run on a Mac mini.”