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GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
- ▶ 49:29 Alex Kantrowitz I guess, like, part of me was wondering how much of this is kind of Silicon Valley-esque, right? 4 times in the scene
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 34:26 Campbell Brown I think people are also trying, there's a disconnect around what they're hearing from Silicon Valley, the message they're hearing from Silicon Valley, and their own experience, too, with AI, which is, oh, AI is gonna change the world, it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Alex Kantrowitz What's it been like going from, you know, the, like, basically TV studios to the heart of Silicon Valley, and now you're running a startup.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 21:39 David Cahn And then I think you have this broader sort of mega trend, which is like Silicon Valley has eaten the world in the last 50 years.
- ▶ 58:50 David Cahn Which is like, you know, I mentioned earlier, like, Silicon Valley is eating the world over the last 60 years.
- ▶ 1:03:50 David Cahn And yet, it really informs our day-to-day lives, especially in the valley. 2 times in the scene
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 3:59 Reed Albergotti And if you even, if you just step back and think about it, like no one in tech would, would brag, like no one in Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 55:56 Grace Shao You know, I just spoke to Pony AI CEO a couple weeks ago, and he, he basically was, you know, when Silicon Valley said, okay, autonomous driving is going to reach us in the next three to five years, he said 10 years.
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- ▶ 13:19 Alex Kantrowitz Tradition, typical, you know, Silicon Valley, uh, mode of spreading to the whole economy, there's also been this belief that they'll figure out the business model.
- ▶ 47:11 Ranjan Roy And actually, this is kind of like a bigger philosophical thing, I feel, in the Valley, where you hear all these people saying, like, even to just question something is bad, and you have to have unfettered optimism, and that's what's…
AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
- ▶ 18:59 Jürgen Schmidhuber Zombie unicorns in Silicon Valley now, you know, there are lots of companies that have officially, ah, a billion dollar plus evaluation.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- ▶ 32:55 Andrew Bosworth I'm not sure this person's ever Googled what a gulag was like, and how similar or not it is to a six-figure software job in Silicon Valley.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:39:31 Lauren Goode Yeah, and so, um, it's a good question that Alex has brought up, I think, where Silicon Valley is known for this really healthy, vibrant, risk-tolerant startup ecosystem, and when the bigs start coming in with tons of venture capital and,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00:53 Alex Kantrowitz And to be honest, most people in the Valley thought that that was an interesting side project, but most of the attention was on social media at the time.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 19:12 Lauren Goode Yeah, and so, um, it's a good question that Alex has brought up, I think, where Silicon Valley is known for this really healthy, vibrant, risk-tolerant startup ecosystem, and when the bigs start coming in with tons of venture capital and,…
- ▶ 21:21 Lauren Goode How you see that positioning, and anthropic's role in particular, changing the culture of the valley. 3 times in the scene
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 17:26 Alex Kantrowitz It always felt to me like it was a nice fantasy of Silicon Valley, but was just too hard to execute was never going to happen.
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 45:00 Alex Kantrowitz It's true, fake it till you make it, Silicon Valley style.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 46:07 Alex Kantrowitz It was a definite, like, welcome to Silicon Valley moment.
- ▶ 50:19 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but it is interesting what you're seeing in Silicon Valley today with like these 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 51:52 Alex Kantrowitz I was going to say something positive, but I'll just say this, that like Silicon Valley cannot get out of its own way on this.
How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
- ▶ 5:23 Alex Kantrowitz Now, I think Silicon Valley, um, kind of learned from you.
- ▶ 7:50 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I, I want to try to, and God help me, because I'm going to try to sit in the shoes of Silicon Valley here and think about what a more honest messaging around AI might be, and it's not the UBI type of messaging for the reasons that you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:14 Alex Kantrowitz This is kind of the thing that puzzles, I think, Silicon Valley folks. 2 times in the scene
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- ▶ 13:42 Alex Kantrowitz And there is a practice that's going on within Silicon Valley and outside of it.
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 1:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, this week we'll just go right into the business side of things because, Satya, in a way that you rarely see from a leader of a Silicon Valley company,
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 1:25 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but maybe this promise of a wearable device with AI infused is still just kind of this like dream that's happening in Silicon Valley and not very practical or useful for the average person.
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 24:22 Alex Kantrowitz He could expand the company's AI infrastructure, something its Silicon Valley peers are doing at a furious pace.
The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 10:31 Emil Michael Um, and those are kind of some, some more tangible ways of AI, and that's why I think if people understood that better, particularly in Silicon Valley, they'd go, that makes sense, like any big company would do, or any big organization.
- ▶ 46:01 Emil Michael Um, I know the culture of Silicon Valley, so I did take a lot of time to try to explain
- ▶ 51:56 Emil Michael Um, I think the, the balance is in a better place, and I think Silicon Valley, because of the fact that we're doing more outreach to them, there's more California companies, both Southern and Northern, are going to succeed here.
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 54:51 Alex Kantrowitz The private, or the practice is emblematic of Silicon Valley's newest form of conspicuous consumption known as token maxing.
OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 10:49 Aaron Levie What we and some think in Silicon Valley, because what's happened in Silicon Valley is we sort of look at all of the power of AI coding and, and because that's like the most economically useful task within Silicon Valley, we sort of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 Aaron Levie Well, so this is, this is where the diffusion, this general category is where the diffusion will be longer than, than where people in Silicon Valley think. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:35 Alex Kantrowitz While TBPN audience, well TBPN's audience remains modest, averaging around 70,000 viewers per episode across various online platforms, the show has become popular among Silicon Valley power players who consider it more supportive of their… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Liz Hoffman And I don't think that Silicon Valley in general has done a good job showing that they can be trusted with much of anything.
- ▶ 38:30 Alex Kantrowitz And I think like we talked a little bit earlier about how Silicon Valley can sort of have this
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 42:22 Alex Kantrowitz And soon after this moment where we saw all this improvement, there was another somewhat phenomenon in Silicon Valley, which was OpenClaw, right?
Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us
- ▶ 1:10 Alex Kantrowitz Silicon Valley might do exponentials.
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 28:20 Ranjan Roy I guess that's the question is, is what a Silicon Valley startup is using today.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 7:42 Ranjan Roy Kind of long simmering disdain for this kind of figurehead, the Silicon Valley tech bro, whatever it is, figurehead.
Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
- ▶ 36:49 Michael Horowitz I mean, this is a rough look for a Pentagon that has worked really hard across multiple administrations and in a bipartisan way to build ties with, build ties with Silicon Valley across the board. 2 times in the scene
Can AI Become Conscious? — With Michael Pollan
- ▶ 8:54 Michael Pollan Um, and as much as people in Silicon Valley like to say that,
- ▶ 13:52 Michael Pollan So I think we're in a realm that, um, is beyond our, the genius of Silicon Valley, such as it is.
- ▶ 14:08 Alex Kantrowitz Very few people within Silicon Valley, uh, do believe that even though you and I have both had interesting conversations with Blake Lemoyne, the former Google engineer who was fired, maybe in part because of that belief. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Alex Kantrowitz I think in Silicon Valley, there are plenty of insane things that go on.
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- ▶ 1:36 Alex Kantrowitz In the span of two days, hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped off the value of stocks, bonds, and loans of companies big and small across Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 40:10 Alex Kantrowitz This is from Rachel Horowitz at Silicon Valley Comms Professional.
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 2:49 Stephen Morris Because this is just one of multiple AI startups in Silicon Valley raising at the moment, not least XAI and OpenAI as well.
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 6:53 Bret Taylor So I think a lot is going to change, and I think the interesting thing in Silicon Valley, and as you said, I've been in this industry for a couple decades, is it's a race.
- ▶ 58:11 Bret Taylor And I think she's a mentor to like half of Silicon Valley for a reason.
Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- ▶ 35:34 Ranjan Roy No, because then you actually, it's like the famous Silicon Valley HBO episode where it's like, you never want to have revenue because then people will actually value on that revenue.
Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo
- ▶ 24:19 Michael Intrator We think of it from, and, and, you know, people have talked about how the founders of this company kind of look at the world with a different lens because we don't come from Silicon Valley.
AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell
- ▶ 30:50 Melia Russell They might be Silicon Valley entrepreneurs saying like, I think I have a, you know, a better alternative to, um, a legal shop that specializes in master service agreements or NDAs.
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz How does Silicon Valley, a place so known for out of the box and independent ideas, fall so often into groupthink? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06 Alex Kantrowitz And, and that is like a good intro into what we're going to talk about because, um, Silicon Valley is sort of like a petri dish for place for movements, like the one we're going to talk about. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 Alex Kantrowitz Gravitate to Silicon Valley and fill these houses. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Ellen Huet And relevant to this conversation is the way that this company, you know, reflects some of that, like, it's like a different take on some of that same ambition and ideology, and like, just the way that, um, Silicon Valley and San Francisco… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:06 Ellen Huet It's extremely Lindy, as some of the, uh, as some people in certain pockets of Silicon Valley would say.
- ▶ 33:29 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Silicon Valley, of course, like we've talked about, has this, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:36 Alex Kantrowitz And AJ, I mean, if you think about it, like, I mean, we, Silicon Valley, of course, is a place where they make big bets on things that are uncertain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:37 Alex Kantrowitz If Silicon Valley is a place, how does, how does Silicon Valley exist both as a place that, uh, is a fountain of original thinking and also a place where sort of susceptible to groupthink? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:31 Alex Kantrowitz One of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley last year was Juicero. 4 times in the scene
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 1:03:42 Alex Kantrowitz If you are with us on YouTube or Spotify, uh, next Wednesday, LNU at the author of a book titled the empire of orgasm is going to come on to talk about groupthink in Silicon Valley.
Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
- ▶ 0:00 Sir Nick Clegg You'd want surely politicians to do exactly the thing you've just said, which is hypocritical, is they take the money and they invite person X from Silicon Valley Y to the fishing weekend or the golf retreat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 Sir Nick Clegg And look, if there's any, if there's any, I think some of the tendency in Silicon Valley, and dare I say it amongst the sort of podcast and commentary at classes of saying, let's learn the lessons from, you know, the last 20 years of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Sir Nick Clegg So the conversations I had when I was still working in Silicon Valley, uh, with, with folk in Meta and elsewhere, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:05 Alex Kantrowitz I wanted to ask you whether we can trust Silicon Valley with super intelligence. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:36 Alex Kantrowitz Nick, I want to talk to you a little bit briefly before we get into, um, Silicon Valley's attachment with the Trump administration, um, how Silicon Valley buys influence in Washington. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 Sir Nick Clegg That a certain kind of distance will be restored between Silicon Valley and DC. 3 times in the scene
AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
- ▶ 58:12 Alex Kantrowitz If you're on Spotify or YouTube, Nick Clegg, the former president of global affairs at Meta, former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is coming on on Wednesday to talk about whether we could trust Silicon Valley with super…
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 28:52 Ranjan Roy Like I cannot imagine any of the folks involved in Silicon Valley or AI are going to be advocating for that, but, but so what does it look like?
- ▶ 54:39 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, obviously it's not every farmer, but I just think that that was like a pretty interesting line that shows just how, uh, how much people are using AI and how this has proliferated well beyond, uh, Silicon Valley.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 21:10 Alex Kantrowitz Part of Silicon Valley's fake it until you make it ethos is to get people to have skin in the game.
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 18:02 Alex Kantrowitz Which is like the typical Silicon Valley growth culture and this newer research oriented AI culture.
Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 32:38 Aaron Levie Um, you know, obviously Waymo, you know, got kicked off, I don't know, a decade, decade and a half ago, and only this year is it, you know, accessible in suburban Silicon Valley.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 47:15 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, obviously, this is something that's of interest in Silicon Valley as well.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 7:58 Amjad Masad But actually, if you look at the stats, entrepreneurship over time, uh, although we hear about what's happening in, in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, there's all startups every day, but the rest of the country actually, uh, you know, new…
- ▶ 53:52 Alex Kantrowitz Now on the rush to artificial general intelligence, which we've talked a little bit about, um, do you think Silicon Valley is the one that should sort of possess this or be the one that controls it? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- ▶ 57:55 Alex Kantrowitz Welcome to Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 1:54 Stephen Morris If that was the right call, this very much has consumed, uh, Silicon Valley and San Francisco recently with speculation about, will we actually see it this time?
- ▶ 30:25 Stephen Morris So you see kind of, uh, you know, the difference, you know, between being a private Silicon Valley tech company and a listed one, uh, you often get closer to the truth when someone is not put on the stand, but when somebody has asked…
- ▶ 41:44 Stephen Morris Um, so I'm getting to know how Silicon Valley works and how the sausage are made and who competes with who, who, who, who hates whom.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 36:21 Alex Kantrowitz In recent years, Silicon Valley companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity, have unveiled dozens of AI agents that have promised to do just that.
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat
- ▶ 5:07 Alex Kantrowitz We're in Silicon Valley, but it's a misnomer.
- ▶ 9:43 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, there are people here in the valley, in San Francisco, OpenAI, Anthropic,
- ▶ 32:39 Condoleezza Rice By the way, just biomedical or engineering or what happens here in the valley, but a lot of defense capability is going to be dependent on what we do in terms of innovation as well.
- ▶ 34:49 Condoleezza Rice And sometimes there's a little bit of a clash between the Valley and the way that the Valley thinks about things and the way that Washington thinks about things. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 34:33 Aaron Levie Um, one, one cool thing, actually maybe just a small anecdote, one cool thing is, um, Waymo just, uh, arrived in, uh, where I live in, in Silicon Valley in the peninsula, and, um, and you know, everybody in, in, in downtown SF has already…
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- ▶ 16:01 Ranjan Roy Uh, mainly because again, as the leader of team product for over team model, I think this is like a reminder that the, like the core of Silicon Valley is firmly of the belief that this, the model has to get better and better, and the model… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:20 Alex Kantrowitz A previously unknown Indian software engineer is now reportedly at the center of a brewing controversy in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- ▶ 45:01 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so this coalition among people who supported Elon and Trump together sort of, uh, coalesced in Silicon Valley, not all of Silicon Valley, but some vocal leaders, a lot of VCs, uh, think of Marc Andreessen, for instance, uh, some of the…
Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem
- ▶ 16:01 Anthony Scaramucci And, uh, I'm gonna use a Long Island expression that your Silicon Valley people won't know. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Anthony Scaramucci So he tried to, let me give a news flash to the Silicon Valley people listening in. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:01 Alex Kantrowitz We'll be back next on Friday to break down the week's news with a WWDC preview, and then I will be live or coming to you from WWDC in Silicon Valley next week.
Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- ▶ 0:19 Alex Kantrowitz We'll talk about this partnership between Meta and Andruil to build these war VR goggles, which is quite interesting and might signal a shift in Silicon Valley.
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