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Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:44 Alex Kantrowitz He's actually been in Washington DC talking to government officials about what's to come, uh, for open AI.

Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode Jul 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:51 Alex Kantrowitz The touch was so light that the on-field refs did not spot it, and even with high-def, four-k, seventy-five-inch TV in my DC Airbnb, I could not detect any change in the trajectory of the ball.

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments? Jun 16, 2026 · 1 mention

How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe May 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:20 David Plouffe Like, I would trade everyone in Washington for 535 people under the age of 30 in a New York minute. 2 times in the scene

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 · 1 mention

Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us Mar 26, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Alex Kantrowitz Washington does linear or backwards sometimes. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:20 Senator Mark Warner Um, and I find where some of these companies are willingness to participate, and at least they've told me they're willing to participate through, through that kind of review and oversight, but it really is going to take, um, you know, both…
  • ▶ 40:11 Alex Kantrowitz I'm going to be in DC, uh, in a couple of weeks from now, and I'd love to interview one of your Republican, uh, colleagues.
  • ▶ 45:08 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, it was, it was great having you, and I'll tell you, social media, um, that beat took me about 10 years before I ended up in D.C. covering hearings, and the speed at which I had to, you know, call and say, we got to talk about A.I.…

Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable Dec 23, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell Dec 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:24 Melia Russell It's, it's, I know Latham and Watkins rolled out an AI Academy recently for their entire first year associate class where they brought 400 lawyers into a conference, um, hall in Washington, DC, and for two days they sat through product…

Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 7:54 Sir Nick Clegg I would say to Sam Altman, listen, if you don't want to spend most of your time giving evidence in D.C. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:09 Sir Nick Clegg And it's one of the reasons why this fashion at the moment, certainly in Silicon Valley and DC, this sort of ultra libertarian thing of any kind of constraint, any kind of regulation is unacceptable. 2 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.

Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases Sep 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:05 Alex Kantrowitz I unfortunately have, uh, some news to report to you here, which is that there is a big group that seems to be using it for thought partnership, and that is the U S government, uh, the city that, or region that had the most clod adoption… 2 times in the scene

Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise Sep 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:19 Bill Vass Uh, we have a lot of traffic circles here in, in, uh, Washington DC.

Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars Jul 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:18 Stephen Morris You know, they, they have huge lobbying apparatus, you know, in, in Washington and around the world to try and influence policy.
  • ▶ 33:03 Alex Kantrowitz Grid operator PJM, which covers 13 states and Washington DC, said Tuesday it produced an energy supplies for 329 dollars and 17 cents per megawatt day, a 22% increase compared with the previous year.

Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat Jul 16, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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

Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:47 Ryan Petersen I think that's the thing that everybody seems to get wrong in DC all the time.
  • ▶ 42:49 Ryan Petersen I'm not familiar enough with how the sausage gets made in Washington, but there's, um, some bills circulating to, uh, ban foreign importers of record.

Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like Jun 25, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:32 Tom Lee Yeah, look, that could, you never know Washington, because you know what, there's a lot of misdirection. 3 times in the scene

Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack Jun 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:39 Alex Kantrowitz And Anthony, I think did a very good job explaining why Elon fell out of favor in Washington.

Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem Jun 4, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 13:28 Anthony Scaramucci Like, people say Washington is a swamp. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:11 Anthony Scaramucci To the interests of America and its citizens, but very good short term for these pigs in Washington free feeding at the trout. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:40 Anthony Scaramucci So you have to really understand what they do in Washington, which Elon does, and he's looking at it, and he's saying, okay, this is catastrophic for my fellow citizens of the United States. 2 times in the scene

Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed Jun 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:39 Alex Kantrowitz That was curtailed, so limited to just a 69% increase that was curtailed by Washington's new limits on China chip sales.

Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23 Alex Kantrowitz So, uh, first of all, punch bowl news, a publication in Washington, DC reported that Amazon is going to start displaying how much an item call items cost is derived from tariffs right next to the product products, total listing price.

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck Apr 28, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11 Alex Kantrowitz So by the way, for those tuning in on video, I am in Washington, D.C., so I'm, I got a kind of a funky background here in the hotel, and I'm talking in like a TikToker mic, but we're gonna make it work. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22 Alex Kantrowitz And then we're gonna talk a little bit about some of my observations from being in D.C. when we get to the antitrust stuff at the end.
  • ▶ 54:53 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so speaking of chapters of love and hate, we had a very interesting moment happen here in Washington DC this week.

Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony Apr 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:03 Alex Kantrowitz And I just thought this week was a week of contrasts where you had Mark Zuckerberg in DC trying to testify about what Facebook, uh, has become and what it's up to.

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao Apr 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:41 Reed Albergotti That's how you, that's how you, you know, create sort of creative destruction, disruption, and it's, it's sort of why, like, to bring it to, like, what's going on today, um, you know, in Washington, it's like, why, when, you know, you…

Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 18:05 Saagar Enjeti It's a very non-Washington way of operating. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:51 Alex Kantrowitz This is a question that I have, that's been sitting with me and it's like nice to have somebody who knows Washington to field it. 4 times in the scene

What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About Jul 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:54 Lawrence "Larry" Lessig So anybody who expects you're gonna set up an infrastructure of safety regulation in three to five years just doesn't understand how Washington or the real world works, right?

Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark May 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:23 Jack Clark But, uh, when I go to DC at the moment, I watch on, on, on United Airlines, there's Chernobyl on HBO Max. 2 times in the scene

Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain Nov 9, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:02 Simon Balmain Probably since the stuff, uh, in DC, honestly, and after he got called into Congress and all that stuff.

Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine Nov 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:18 Saagar Enjeti And there were a lot of people in Washington who worked very, very hard in order to bring that type of legislation and initiative to the fore on a bipartisan basis.
  • ▶ 36:59 Saagar Enjeti I want to be clear that everything I'm saying is an absolute minority position in Washington, and then my view has absolutely zero power in the US political system.

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency Sep 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:42 Frances Haugen Um, the telegraph did not cause the Civil War, but they believed that the telegraph influenced when the Civil War was, because for the first time people could, could actually see that the opinions in DC, the opinions in other parts of the…

Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:25 Max Chafkin There is this kind of like, um, talking to, to DC people about Teal, you know, they kind of often talk about him as this kind of cipher because he doesn't behave in, in the normal ways he saw.
  • ▶ 1:03:12 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Paul's, Paul's supporter preferred the old Ron Paul, the Ron Paul who talked like the one of, one of Teal's old Stanford review columnists who published a newsletter talking about Paul that said, 95% of black men in Washington, D.C.

Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine May 6, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:37 Sridhar Ramaswamy And, uh, we'll get into Neva, uh, you know, a bit as we are talking about it, but to me, um, this kind of growth, this kind of impact, um, uh, sets up some interesting dynamics, both in Washington and in beyond, and in terms of…
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