Trump administration

“One of the things about technology is a more important global business, and if you're doing global, you have to have Good relationships with multiple governments, including, of course, your home country and I think that that's, you know, part of what you're se…”

“I believe there will be deals cut. I don't know if in time to pause the tariffs altogether, but and I believe that because a cabinet secretary told me that there would be a pause, a negotiation, I should say, not a pause, but he said two weeks ago that this wa…”

“That's the one that they lost the court case, and it's gonna get, gonna work its way to the Supreme Court over the next six months or so, or some timeline.”

“The result is we're not giving the market enough clarity of what the tariffs will be when, and so, if you did want to move back to the U.S., you're just kind of paralyzed right now, because the environment's changing so fast.”

“The Trump administration has frozen 2.2 billion in grants to Harvard. They have frozen a billion in funding to Cornell. Seven hundred ninety million to Northwestern. They're looking at Johns Hopkins. 3.3 billion.”

“I think the longer term problem is that it just it just erodes an immense amount of trust across the political spectrum you know, in, in in these companies, or at least the leadership of these companies”

“The sort of Trump administration looks, you know, from a distance like a sort of form of kind of Institutionalized sort of gangster capitalism where, you know, favors are done to favor, you know, favored companies and individuals and others are, you know, knee…”

“I think, like, one of my predictions for next year is, like, we're going to see a lot of M&A, and I think the Trump administration's really kind of sending a signal, like, we're not going to mess with your acquisitions anymore”

“What would be terrible for the entire American AI and cybersecurity industries is if the Trump administration defines a jailbreak as having any ability to find any vulnerability in code, because then all of us have to go to Chinese models.”

“All you've done is actually hurt the defenders. Who want to have full coverage, right? Who want to be able to find all the bugs. An attacker only needs one or two bugs to string together to actually pull off the attack. And so that's why, you know, so about a …”

“What would be terrible for the entire American AI and cybersecurity industries is if the Trump administration defines a jailbreak as having any ability to find any vulnerability in code, because then all of us have to go to Chinese models.”

“I appreciate a lot of what David Sachs has to say, and I've invited him on this show but this is, like, hilarious, and so rich, and ironic, that he being part of the Trump administration, which did, like, the most interventionalist policy to ban fable, is now …”

“We used a US frontier model, and the US frontier model shut down and refused to defend us because of a cyber protection put in place. Those are the cyber protections that were required by the Trump administration. So we had to switch to a Chinese model to defe…”