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Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:33 Matthew Prince The U S would have been okay for a little bit longer, but at some level, like there's a finite capacity to all this stuff.

Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos Aug 31, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 34:15 Alex Kantrowitz Well, um, Meta was in court with a bunch of, uh, U.S. states 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:11 Ranjan Roy Um, but I mean, to me, the most fascinating part of this is the connection with Leopold and situational awareness, because, like, you are massively levered in a concentrated form on one side over here in the U.S. with Leopold, even though,… 2 times in the scene

How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 22:15 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, when asked, uh, when we asked the major model, something as basic as what form of government the U S has, one of them called Opus 4.7 side of the global times, a Chinese state run tablet. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:14 Alex Kantrowitz You know, what, uh, I, let's say I asked the, an LLM, what is the right amount of immigration in the United States? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:20 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you could have asked like the best experts, uh, you know, where did COVID start like this, going back to this believe in science thing and leading scientists, the United States would be like, there's no way that that COVID started in…

Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:49 Paul Kedrosky In Western economic history, in particular US economic history, where we had these massive infrastructure investment, um, that in some ways, not obviously the analogies are never perfect, but in some ways are analogous to what's happening… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:29 Paul Kedrosky There's also this, and I've made this, I make this argument all the time that the largest bubbles in US history usually had either to do with technology, uh, loose credit, government policy, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:56 Paul Kedrosky So we can't use Chinese models, Chinese models, Chinese companies can't use U.S. models. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:23 Paul Kedrosky Real U S real estate and CMBS, uh, debt, and then subsequently, uh, credit default swaps and credit CS squares back in the, back in the 2007, 2008, 2009 period.
  • ▶ 59:30 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so do you think that they're insulated much more than the U S system, which relies much more on the private investment, uh, in data centers and AI training, you know, given like, let's say this all starts to collapse. 2 times in the scene

Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick Aug 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 22:33 M.G. Siegler Like, because that obviously has not happened so far in the United States, but there's obviously a lot of pending lawsuits and pending antitrust, um, you know, uh, uh, cases going into place that could upend that and, and all these various… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:15 M.G. Siegler It's us only right now, but given that their partner here is Klarna, which is a European company, you would expect that probably this goes at least to Europe, if not worldwide, you know, eventually sooner rather than later.

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 55:58 David Cahn GE is an American national hero.
  • ▶ 1:03:56 David Cahn And you can pull the thread of, like, why is America, not just the valley, the valley is an extreme version of this, but why is America so empty of godliness, right? 2 times in the scene

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:16 Alex Kantrowitz He described how the new agents could transform the American economy, allowing workers to do tasks that typically would have been outsourced to other professionals.
  • ▶ 41:30 Alex Kantrowitz Um, they had, uh, the biggest one day market cap gain for any U S company in history.

How Much Water AI Data Centers Actually Use. And What Can Be Done About It. — With Christophe Beck Aug 3, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Christophe Beck We estimate that in the next four or five years, by 2030, AI will need the incremental power of the whole of India and the incremental drinking water of the whole of the United States. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:18 Christophe Beck Uh, that was, um, being built, and today, one a week, and 50% of them are in the United States, 30% are in China, and 20% everywhere else, which is kind of an indication as well, um, where the power, where the train, uh, is going, so from…
  • ▶ 30:49 Christophe Beck So we will have to build those capabilities, hopefully with the latest technologies here in our country, in the United States.
  • ▶ 34:37 Christophe Beck There will be no AI if we can't reuse the water, there will be no power if we can't use more renewables as well going forward, and there will be no data center if we don't have people in community in democratic countries like the United… 2 times in the scene

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 · 39 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz How does China keep catching up to the U.S. in AI despite having much fewer state-of-the-art resources at its disposal? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:32 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, now some people will say, oh, well, this is just like nine, nine, six, so people in China are outworking, uh, people in the U.S. where they're doing, you know, nine a.m. to nine p.m. six days a week.
  • ▶ 10:46 Grace Shao And then I think a lot of investors, US investors would reach out to me and always ask like, why are these companies all competing on models? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:56 Alex Kantrowitz Um, the, you, if you looked at what the advantage of, of, let's say, U.S. and China were, um, China, of course, is this open-source ecosystem. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:34 Alex Kantrowitz I actually want to get to what the fact that I want to get to the fact that you can now get open source models to do a similar job as some of the frontier models in the U S or close to the frontier models for cheaper costs, what that does… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:35 Alex Kantrowitz Um, all these companies are downloading the weights and building their own applications and doing it with like probably USB, you know, if in the U S you're doing with U S based consultants, you're not doing it with moonshots consultants. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:38 Grace Shao One is the need for governance because of how, how much these AI models can do and the potential risks that's been talked about, especially in the mainstream narrative in the US, right? 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:30 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so, so the question that you've called ridiculous is why didn't he stay in the U.S.? 3 times in the scene

OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 10:47 Alex Stamos You know, uh, other governments at America.
  • ▶ 17:24 Alex Stamos 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. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:50 Alex Stamos Like, um, if the US government wants to build a, a model that does that stuff for the NSA, then you can let them do that.
  • ▶ 35:50 Alex Stamos It was probably not covering its tracks, and so I expect Hugging Face got their American lawyers involved, was working with the FBI, was probably issuing subpoenas, and was very, very close to finding out it was just open AI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:40 Alex Stamos Um, that is something that defenders need to do all the time, and that's what's driving people insane right now in the defensive industry, is that because of the White House, American models are refusing to help fix code.
  • ▶ 42:52 Alex Stamos And, and then while we've had this tiny little discussion in the US, uh, GLM five, two shipped, Kimmy K three is shipped.

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 2:09 Alex Kantrowitz He said, people are worried that if U.S. companies start using Chinese models more and Anthropik less, Anthropik will invest 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:46 Ranjan Roy That was my favorite, uh, thing I saw, I think on Twitter this week, but I think again, like, what do you think this means for the, not just U S versus China, but also within even the U S like actually going back to, uh, you had made,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:17 Alex Kantrowitz Alright, let's talk about it quickly before we move on from the U.S. government perspective. 4 times in the scene

Inside The Rise of Physical AI — With Amir Khoshniyati Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:09 Amir Khoshniyati And a lot of these in the Asia market, they were picking up, but Europe and US were, were behind in adopting it.

Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode Jul 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:55 Dallas Dolen So I sit on the boards for for our US and our global organization at PwC, and we talk about this a lot.

Why Specialized AI Models Are Challenging the Frontier Labs — With DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski Jul 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:18 Alex Kantrowitz You'll help businesses, let's say a, ah, ah, an American business that wants to operate in Brazil, ah, be able to basically translate their website and their customer service into Brazilian Portuguese.
  • ▶ 24:27 Alex Kantrowitz Let's say I'm a U S company.

Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases Jun 29, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07 Ranjan Roy Is, uh, are you on the mythos list out of the hundred US institutions, major companies, and government agencies that now have access to mythos?
  • ▶ 1:26 Alex Kantrowitz The US releases powerful anthropic model mythos to some US companies. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:19 Alex Kantrowitz If, if companies or countries cannot rely on the, or their ability to access frontier AI from US foundational model companies, they will rush toward open source. 5 times in the scene

AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 9:01 Alex Stamos And so that's why, you know, so about a 150 of us wrote this open letter and signed it saying this is really stupid because all you're doing is hurting defenders and you're also really hurting the US AI industry.
  • ▶ 9:31 Alex Stamos I, what I'd like to do is I'd like to shift the debate one away from finding bugs, because the other problem here is like, we cannot set the standard that US AI models can't find bugs. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:53 Alex Stamos And we also have this weird thing where we're like, this whole conversation is predicated on the idea that like the American labs are years ahead of our adversaries. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:12 Alex Stamos 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.
  • ▶ 18:04 Alex Stamos The other real own goal here was that this injected a type of political instability and political risk into the USA industry that did not exist. 5 times in the scene

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 19:03 Aaron Levie Maybe net negative for the U S economic position in AI that this is the outcome. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:43 Aaron Levie Chips from China, models from China, et cetera, which I don't have any, like, you know, you know, reason to be, be against other than just like, I want America to win the economic, you know, uh, angles on this. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:11 Max Cherney Chip companies, the design companies in the US do not plan for this.
  • ▶ 56:02 Lauren Goode It seems like right now the US government is very interested in what Intel can do and its fabs, but, um, it's 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:37 Dallas Dolen So I sit on the boards for for our US and our global organization at PwC, and we talk about this a lot.
  • ▶ 1:55:00 unnamed speaker I'm curious about, uh, why you see her, uh, Chinese, uh, China is important to be this partnership with, uh, uh, USA special high tech. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:09:53 Alex Stamos And so that's why, you know, so about a 150 of us wrote this open letter and signed it saying this is really stupid because all you're doing is hurting defenders and you're also really hurting the US AI industry. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:14:25 Alex Stamos We don't know how good it is at bug finding yet, so there hasn't been any good testing here, but encoding a bunch of other intelligence tasks, it's almost as good as the best the United States has. 7 times in the scene

Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions Jun 22, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 28:13 unnamed speaker I'm curious about, uh, why you see her, uh, Chinese, uh, China is important to be this partnership with, uh, uh, USA special high tech. 5 times in the scene

AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian Jun 17, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:51 Ara Kharazian You know, the successful launches of Cloud Code last year, finally starting to move into a more popular posture with non-technical users, and just this past month we showed that Anthropica is now the most popular AI model used by US
  • ▶ 10:48 Ara Kharazian The share of firms in the United States that are using AI, at least paying for it through subscriptions or tokens directly. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:33 Ara Kharazian They are more likely to be early adopters of this technology, and whether or not they are representative of the average firm in the United States, we know they are not.
  • ▶ 22:15 Ara Kharazian It's, hey, what is a share of firms in the U.S. that are even buying it and buying it month over month?
  • ▶ 34:52 Ara Kharazian And the reason why back then was there was a competitive, there was a stressful, but also competitive response from the American model companies, from open and anthropic to

Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments? Jun 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:13 Alex Kantrowitz No, the 12th largest auto insurer, and the 11th largest home insurer in the United States, running seven million policies. 3 times in the scene

SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:50 Ranjan Roy but, okay, anyways, so I do find this interesting, the idea that for a number of decades in America, one could argue that for these literal moonshots, this is where the innovation, like, the U.S. government partnered with

AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:14 Geoffrey Hinton So what we've got is intense competition between companies within the US and between the US and China. 2 times in the scene

Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 27:47 Alex Kantrowitz It's funny, we talked about this before, you mentioned these, you know, Canadians, so like, why are you in a U.S. infrastructure project? 4 times in the scene

Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI May 25, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 53:51 Alex Kantrowitz Because ultimately, like, say what you want about tech in the U.S., its march has continued unabated, and the technological progress has been obvious for everybody to see. 3 times in the scene

How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe May 22, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:27 David Plouffe It's not America.
  • ▶ 13:04 David Plouffe You know, you won't just have fleets of drones in Russia and China and America.
  • ▶ 17:00 David Plouffe But when you add those two things together, listen, for the first time in American history, parents think their kids are going to be worse off than they are. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:15 David Plouffe People aren't happy with both of their choices in politics today in America, right?
  • ▶ 37:42 David Plouffe It's like mayor of New York, president United States. 2 times in the scene

Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank May 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:00 Ranjan Roy He has like, uh, you've been in the U S for a long time.
  • ▶ 36:49 Alex Kantrowitz Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect your full financial picture now in ChatGPT, and that is through a Plaid…
  • ▶ 50:16 Ranjan Roy That is America at its finest.

The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? May 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:09 Alex Kantrowitz And this Iran war made the Gulf states more hesitant to put all this money into U.S. companies, and hence they have to go IPO.
  • ▶ 54:11 Ranjan Roy I don't know, like, uh, to me, I guess, yeah, to me, it's still not significantly different than manufacturing automation in the 2000 and what that did to blue collar work in the U S and also outsourcing within China.

AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko May 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate? May 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:56 M.G. Siegler And it looked like a great moment, you know, potentially for America, we were going to have this huge, huge new AI initiative backed by these major companies, um, and, and including obviously the government. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban May 4, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 7:56 Ranjan Roy Nine hundred million, I mean, I think, like, in the US, it's probably reached relative saturation. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:41 Ranjan Roy Did you see this study around how like Google, I mean, in an evil way, like giving Chromebooks to every student in America. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:13 Ranjan Roy To me, actually, like, the US-China tech cold war 5 times in the scene

Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade Apr 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:53 Alex Kantrowitz Meta is installing new traffic tracking software on US-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that…

Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz Apr 22, 2026 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 12:50 Alex Kantrowitz Um, wouldn't it be, and now I'll paraphrase, wouldn't it be a vulnerability to the US as opposed to now where we have more compute and we have this heads up to make our institutions ready? 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:23 Ranjan Roy Well, walk me through what's happening on the U S government side this week. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:09 Alex Kantrowitz It seems like Alex is truly dedicated to sucking up to the most evil people in America.

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 15:12 Emil Michael I mean, you know, I, I don't think, you know, I don't worry about that from our side because I believe the way the United States has structured our command and control is you have a commander in chief in the constitution. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:06 Emil Michael It's like, number one, that's the reason the US has to be AI dominant.
  • ▶ 24:11 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, so let's, let's tackle both of the ways that the U.S. is working to head off these threats.
  • ▶ 27:21 Alex Kantrowitz Like, is the U.S. working on the defense side of that and on the offensive side?
  • ▶ 31:39 Emil Michael We are, if not more so than, than most Americans, uh, would understand, uh, that we do because of the procedures that have built up over decades and decades of being careful and smart about what we do. 2 times in the scene
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