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Q moment of reckoning for the tech industry on a lot of fronts. What do you think of that? And I'm not, and perhaps you haven't, you, you haven't been thinking about it as much as I have just with our different jobs, but But you're on the board of Snap. You're very close to a lot of tech founders. What do you think this moment means for, for Silicon Valley?
A It's a great question, and I'm definitely not in the heart of it like you are. I do think that there is enormous anxiety around, uh, the speed with which the Chinese have caught up with AI, and that sense of, oh my goodness, they're doing it cheaply, they're doing it effectively, they're doing it quietly, and, um, that is what I'm hearing from My friends in Silicon Valley. I think actually, um, the White House appointing an AI czar in David Sachs and Sriram Krishnan going, going in there, you know, arguably we should have been on this five, 10 years ago, and we've been slow, and what I'm hearing from everybody is that, um, you may not like David Sachs, you may not like Sriram Krishnan, but at least they're there, and they're trying to accelerate Um, and of course there's anxiety around, well, you know, from some people we need more regulation, and then there's anxiety that we've got too much regulation, and certainly, arguably, under the Biden government, there was too much regulation, and they didn't feel at all business friendly. I certainly felt frustrated when I was working briefly in finance, having to deal with all sorts of government agencies that, that You, you were, it was shocking how unresponsive they were, and yet they are arguably representing us. Uh, so I'm not unsympathetic to the need to speed up around, certainly around regulation, but what I'm hearing is the g…
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Q listen. Joanna and Samantha Bee have a wonderful Daily Beast podcast, and I feel like you're always saying, how crazy is this story? How crazy is this story? And, and so I'm, I'm curious what is sort of at the moment, you know, work that you have done or things that you've seen that have really jumped out at you as sort of epitomizing this Shakespearean nature of the moment.
A Well, I think what we, first of all, thank you for all that. That's nice. And, you know, I think what we try and do, and what, um, certainly Ben Sherwood, who's my business partner, along with Barry Diller at the Daily Beast, what we try and do is focus on the characters and the people. There are lots of people out there writing about policy. There are lots of people chin-stroking about what should happen, what I'm interested in, and what Ben and Hugh And the Daily Beast team are interested in is the rivalries are other human instincts that make all this play out. So you've got the richest man in the world. You've got the most, the man, and obviously that's Elon, and we can come on to what, what this association with Donald Trump and what he's been doing at Doge, how that has personally impacted him and his brand. Cause actually I think it's an uncovered story. I think what's fascinating is the, you know, to some extent it's the seven deadly sins. It's betrayal. It's, uh, greed. It's power. It's ambition. It's lust. It's all of it. And we started, you're completely right. We started a year ago at the Daily Beast, and we actually started on the first day of the Stormy Daniels trial, and we thought it will never get better than this. You know, for a smart tabloid, what, what could be better? It's got all the elements. And in fact, that who even remembers the Stormy Daniels trials…
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