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Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- ▶ 29:52 Alex Kantrowitz It shows, of course, Silicon Valley getting, like, fully getting back and, or getting into war technology. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 6:17 Alex Kantrowitz I think that the bigger news here is that it just signals that if you look around Silicon Valley, we had announcements from Google this week about this assistant that they want, not just to be a chat bot, but something that's with you in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Alex Kantrowitz The in Silicon, I was in Silicon Valley all week.
Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 46:13 Alex Kantrowitz You quote tweeted one of these tweets, uh, is the push to optimize AI for user engagement, just metric chasing Silicon Valley brain or an actual pivot in business model from create a post-scarcity society God to create
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 31:01 Grace Shao We were talking about it recently and he was so reluctant to try out AI.
Tariffs and Turmoil: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on What Trump Is Thinking, And What Comes Next
- ▶ 31:56 Alex Kantrowitz Like, is that the vibe that you get in Silicon Valley from tech CEOs that just everywhere you look, there's, there's a challenge.
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 0:07 Alex Kantrowitz The CoreWeave IPO leaves some concerned that the AI run is ending and the Silicon Valley's monopoly coming to a close.
- ▶ 43:13 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, but before we go, I want, I definitely want to get to your story about, um, the future of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Brian McCullough So the argument that I'm making is that Silicon Valley for at least 30 years 11 times in the scene
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- ▶ 58:25 Yann LeCun Certainly, Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 25:05 Reed Albergotti But I think there's this, like, this other thing that's happening, which is, like, all these VCs in Silicon Valley supported the Trump administration, and, you know, they felt like the Democrats were, were kind of anti-tech, they were…
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Let's check in on Silicon Valley's Trump embrace, the US-China AI war, Apple products, TikTok, and plenty more with Breaking Points host Sagar Njeti.
- ▶ 23:46 Alex Kantrowitz I have one more question for you about Silicon Valley and the Trump administration, and then we're going to move on to AI. 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
- ▶ 57:26 Rev Lebaredian It's strange in general for most companies, but particularly for Silicon Valley tech companies, uh, people move around a lot.
Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Kantrowitz And, and, you know, I think that a lot of Silicon Valley is asking what could go right, and they have to find things that go right. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:14 Reid Hoffman But this is actually one of the reasons why Silicon Valley tends to create so many of the technology companies that dominate the globe, because if you take an overly kind of classic DCF analysis, business school prof analysis, et cetera,…
- ▶ 7:14 Alex Kantrowitz The traditional names in the valley were not involved. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Reid Hoffman As we talked about earlier, can be a classic Silicon Valley position.
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 9:04 Alex Kantrowitz All of Silicon Valley without those, uh, export controls couldn't do this or didn't do this.
- ▶ 15:14 Alex Kantrowitz So there's one sort of big question that I think needs to be asked here, um, which is there's been this, all the Silicon Valley, and you point to this in your piece, all Silicon Valley has been operating on effectively the scaling…
- ▶ 27:18 Alex Kantrowitz One is, uh, Silicon Valley will continue to spend these billions and they might get, you know, uh, incrementally better, uh, performance and stay slightly ahead of the open sources of the world, deep seeks of the world that can just…
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 2:49 Casey Newton You know, you look at the history of Silicon Valley, and it is a story of companies that were deeply unprofitable for a long time that are now some of the biggest companies in the world, right?
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 13:30 Parmy Olson I think it's really interesting because there's this race in Silicon Valley to make everything more and more capable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:19 Parmy Olson And the reason I say that is because last week I talked to some people in the valley and
- ▶ 46:54 Parmy Olson Um, he, even after his company's first startup looped, essentially failed by Silicon Valley standards, he somehow managed to create this incredible respectability around himself among 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 5:03 Alex Kantrowitz If you have something like a Thrive going in, basically against the grain, buying shares, and then, um, leading, uh, you know, the next round, the indication is that the rest of Silicon Valley isn't so eager to put as much money into…
- ▶ 19:07 Alex Kantrowitz So, but I do think that they also like everybody in Silicon Valley know that you need to hype something a little bit.
The Path to SuperIntelligence & Escaping the Simulation — With Nick Bostrum
- ▶ 2:28 Alex Kantrowitz You know, there's a philosophy in Silicon Valley and some people dismiss it, but I think, you know, they should give it credence because a lot of the money is behind it, that it's called effective accelerationism.
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke -- The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup
- ▶ 23:24 Thomas Domke It's incredibly exciting that we have Silicon companies in Silicon Valley again.
What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
- ▶ 20:34 Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Uh, real in Silicon Valley that you've got to build around.
- ▶ 41:57 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, that's like, I guess, sort of traditional Silicon Valley thinking, but I'm curious what you both think about that.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Dumb Money, Day Trading, and Retirement
- ▶ 39:32 Vlad Tenev Um, we're here in, in Silicon Valley where we have a great team of engineers that obsesses over these things.
Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
- ▶ 0:01 Alex Kantrowitz Let's dig into Silicon Valley's religious war between the effective altruists and the accelerationists in a deep discussion with a fantastic group of guests that's coming up right after this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:24 Ryan Broderick And you'll see kind of references, sly references to this idea still kicking around, uh, Silicon Valley because it's like a very seductive idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Molly White You know, effective altruism and to an extent effective acceleration, or sorry, the other way around, effective accelerationism and to an extent effective altruism are really just sort of a rebranding of a lot of the same philosophies that…
- ▶ 25:00 Ryan Broderick Like, and then that it's happening, having ripple effects across Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 32:49 Alex Kantrowitz Right, but more broadly in Silicon Valley, like how is this going to evolve?
- ▶ 39:51 Molly White I think it is mostly a rebrand of, you know, move fast, break things, which has been Silicon Valley's, you know, mantra since early Facebook. 3 times in the scene
Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- ▶ 19:47 Alex Kantrowitz But there's also this, like, you know, this, there's such a tolerance for bad data leaks in Silicon Valley.
The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- ▶ 28:07 Alex Kantrowitz Outwardly constructive relationships with Silicon Valley royalty, but when he tried to sell them on the actual product that he bet his whole life on, it was a no.
- ▶ 37:47 Rob Copeland Um, but the, uh, I will say this whole Silicon Valley mentality, which has now taken over the workplace, like writ large, just act like an owner.
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 12:27 Gaurav Nemade That was the, the, the nightmares of Microsoft days still haven't left the valley, I feel, or at least hadn't left the valley back then.
- ▶ 20:13 Gaurav Nemade The nightmares of Microsoft, they were still looming, uh, in the Valley and especially in Google.
SBF's Last Stand — With Molly White
- ▶ 38:36 Alex Kantrowitz So they're a very powerful group in Silicon Valley.
Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
- ▶ 38:25 Astro Teller Not the cool thing to say in Silicon Valley, but I just don't believe that any of us are better than random at predicting the future.
David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
- ▶ 36:01 David Friedberg Um, there is not a smart Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 1:40 unnamed speaker Um, he's, he's been very close with them and, uh, I was in Silicon Valley myself, uh, and it's easy to digest some of the information out there, but Alex is right, really at the pulse of these organizations. 2 times in the scene
Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
- ▶ 8:32 Blake Lemoine Uh, but I also happened to know a civil rights attorney here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 10:17 Blake Lemoine Hypothetically decide, oh no, we're happy letting Silicon Valley billionaires make all of these decisions for humanity. 2 times in the scene
Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
- ▶ 31:02 Erik Brynjolfsson One of the things I love about being out in Silicon Valley is I run into a lot of mission-driven companies and individuals who, um,
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
- ▶ 0:14 Alex Kantrowitz Of the brand new book just hit shelves yesterday, it's called The Contrarian, Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02 Alex Kantrowitz Has he built the most impressive companies in Silicon Valley? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:32 Alex Kantrowitz And, um, you know, he grew up in Silicon Valley, if I, if I remember correctly, and people didn't treat him well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 Alex Kantrowitz So it's largely accepted as fact that Silicon Valley portrays itself as a save the world type of companies versus we're just doing this, uh, to make money. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:26 Alex Kantrowitz He is the author of The Contrarian, Peter Thiel, and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
- ▶ 42:48 Max Chafkin Elon had already sold a company at, he had Mike Moritz, who is the, you know, most respected venture capitalist in Silicon Valley behind him.
- ▶ 51:12 Alex Kantrowitz He's the author of The Contrarian, Peter Thiel, and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.
- ▶ 1:09:56 Alex Kantrowitz When in the watch party for the election was how angry people in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:54 Alex Kantrowitz Difficult subject matter, like we spoke about, and it's, uh, it's well-rounded, it's good, it's engaging, well-written, packed with facts, and definitely enlightened me to a lot of stuff that I hadn't known previously about Silicon Valley… 2 times in the scene
Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
- ▶ 0:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you are running one of the most fascinating companies in Silicon Valley today.
- ▶ 27:40 Alex Kantrowitz Some people who disagree with the direction that their companies have taken to like write a book and go on some media tour and become like a dial a quote person in Silicon Valley.
Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
- ▶ 29:18 Wael Ghonim Like I've been in too, too many of these like settings where we get like top, top people from Silicon Valley and we're sitting down to discuss how can we fix democracy?
- ▶ 1:01:19 Alex Kantrowitz And I know there are like some investors out there that are receptive to thinking outside of the way that has been traditionally, uh, thought in Silicon Valley where like impact on society matters, you know, as much as, as profit and…
- ▶ 1:06:03 Alex Kantrowitz Well, look, I, I, I think that for all the Silicon Valley companies talking a big game about how to be responsible and how to think differently.
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