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Morin: Elon Musk bought $40 billion in 'house ads' to buy America
“He bought forty billion in house ads for himself so he could buy America.”
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Morin: FTC Chair Lina Khan has completely stopped US tech innovation
“Yeah, she's been successful in completely stopping the innovation cycle in the United States so that nobody can get acquired.”
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Dave Morin: Trump Media SPAC is the most insane pump-and-dump ever
“This is like the world's most insane pump and dump of all time, like.”
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Dave Morin: Anthropic Is the Anti-Free Speech AI Company
“Sam, we've always known that Anthropic is the anti-free speech company.”
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Dave Morin argues anyone under 21 should be banned from social media
“Probably under 21, you shouldn't be allowed to be on social media. It's that bad for mental health.”
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Dave Morin argues that Roblox should be completely banned
“And Roblox, like, I actually think Roblox should just be banned.”
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Morin: AI makes lightweight UI tools like Airtable and Retool obsolete
“The reality of Airtable and tools like it Is that AI has made it, you know, there's like other businesses that were really, really flying, like in the Airtable days, like Retool and these kind of lightweight UI layers that made it easier to interact with datab…”
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Morin: Frontier AI research labs will fail to find product-market fit
“LLMs are only going to carry us so far into AI, but all of these labs are not going to find product market fit and business value. Like it's just not going to happen.”
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Morin: Anthropic Is Guided by Anger and Spite Toward OpenAI
“So much of what anthropic does is guided by anger and spite towards open AI and the people involved in open AI.”
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Dave Morin: Frontier AI Models Can Hack Any Hardware System
“There's no hardware that you can't hack with one of these things.”
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Developers are quietly replacing Claude Opus 4.8 with open-source GLM 5.2
“Everyone that I've been interacting with and many people across the open clock community are switching it out for Opus four dot eight and they don't notice a difference.”
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Dave Morin: AGI is not happening at frontier AI labs
“AGI is not happening at any of these places.”
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Morin: GLM 5.2 is as good or better than frontier models at coding
“I was testing it, doing the exact same coding tasks that I'm doing with frontier models. It's like as good or better.”
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Morin: Huge investment positions in frontier AI labs look shaky
“So like, what does that mean for all of these enormous positions that are out there in these frontier labs? I think it's kind of shaky.”
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AI reverse-engineering will make all software effectively open source
“I'm hearing that they can reverse engineer any software binary. And so like software is no longer open Closed source. All software will be open source going forward because you can just rip open any binary and reconstruct the software.”
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Forensic experts proved China is funding opposition to Utah data center
“And then he hired forensic experts to go and factually prove that it is China actually funding all of this opposition in Utah. And he actually mapped it a lot. You can go look on his Twitter and Instagram and he shares all of the data. And apparently has now s…”
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Dave Morin: Google's new AI model is worse than top competitors
“The most reason, the model's not even competitive. What's not competitive about it? It's not competitive. Like, it's just less good than every conceivable benchmark. It's less good than five, five and, ah, four, seven. Like, meaningful. Like, you wouldn't use …”
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Morin: Anthropic faces platform problem as downstream companies lack revenue
“And it's just the truth. Like Anthropic is making all of the money and none of the companies being built on top of it are making revenue that exceeds their revenue. And so you've got a really serious platform problem.”
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Dave Morin: OpenAI has compute advantage nobody else matches
“It's just that they have the compute and nobody else does. They can use it as a strategic weapon.”
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Morin: AI could reduce software-driven inequality over the next 20 years
“I think this is, there's like a likelihood that the inequality that has been driven by software entrepreneurship up until this point is that kind of a local maxima and that because today anyone in the world can create software at a pace that was impossible six…”
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Morin: Tech layoffs stem from pandemic overhiring, AI is just an excuse
“Everybody is doing this because they overhired in the pandemic. AI is a convenient excuse.”
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Dave Morin: AI Labs Used Christian Theological Doomerism to Market AI
“They've only used the doomer kind of, we've talked about it at length on this pod. Like it's like a Christian theological doomer. Like we are creating a God. You should fear it. They've used this one version of a message. It's actually ancient spiritual techno…”
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Dave Morin hears frontier AI labs are lobbying to federally ban open-source
“Well, what I'm actually hearing is that they're trying to make open source illegal at the federal level.”
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Dave Morin argues China is rapidly outpacing the US in open-source AI
“Chinese innovation and open source models is really rapid and really impressive. Like these guys are doing extremely good work extremely quickly. And by the way, there's no great open source American model that is Truly open source.”
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