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Sam Lessin: Adobe's Figma acquisition will likely close despite scrutiny
“And it probably gets done, and even doesn't get done, whatever. Like, I don't think it really impacts the early stage market.”
Dave Morin: No AI agent system currently offers a multiplayer experience
“One of the things that no agent system has today is a multiplayer experience.”
Dave Morin: Waymo Vehicles Cost Between $250K and $500K Each
“I think these Waymo's cost on the order of 250 to 500 K a piece.”
OpenAI will never release a consumer hardware device
“I don't think there ever will be an open AI hardware device.”
OpenAI pushed out its head of revenue overseeing enterprise corporate business
“They pushed out their head of revenue, the woman who's doing the corporate business and just replaced her.”
Stanford: Nvidia H100 rental rates plunged from $8 to $2 per hour
“Like, the H 100 used to be eight bucks, or something like that, per hour, like two years ago, and now you can get it for two bucks.”
Lessin: Gwynne Shotwell donated hundreds of millions to Trump accounts
“And she did, and she donated hundreds of millions of dollars in SpaceX to Trump accounts.”
SpaceX reached a $2.5 trillion valuation as of June 2026
“We're at two and a half trillion dollars as of this taping.”
SpaceX IPO Is 4x Oversubscribed With $300 Billion in Demand
“It's Forex oversubscribed. There's like almost three hundred billion in demand. Including a lot of the Middle East.”
Lessin: AI survey shows lower approval rating than Jeffrey Epstein
“I believe that in a recent survey, AI has a lower approval rating than Jeffrey Epstein. It's, like, six percent.”
Morin: Dell was primary builder of xAI's Colossus superclusters
“Dell actually was the primary builder of the Colossus super clusters for XAI.”
Lessin: OpenAI won Elon Musk lawsuit because jury ruled he filed late
“We should mention, everyone knows, that OpenAI won a decisive victory in their Elon Musk trial. That came down to the jury deciding Elon was too late to file this lawsuit.”
Brit Morin: Sam Altman offers enterprises two free months of Codex tokens
“Sam Altman today tweeted that enterprises who want to move to Codex can get their first two months of tokens free.”
Morin: Only 4 million people use GitHub Codex
“There are only four million people using codex. That's like no one, literally no one. Is using AI engineering tools. No one in the grand context of the world.”
Lessin: OpenAI and Anthropic represent half of major cloud deal backlogs
“And then we charted of the, we just had earnings, of the backlogs in deals for Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and Amazon, what percentage are OpenAI's commitment and Anthropi's commitment? It's together, they're about half, ok?”
Morin: OpenAI Engineers Contribute as OpenClaw Maintainers
“They have actually a couple of people contributing from the open AI engineering team have been contributing as open source maintainers. Obviously Peter is the largest contributor and he technically works at open AI.”
Jessica Lessin reports Meta's Manus acquisition was unwound after Chinese government intervention
“And of course they interfered and they did quick soon after in terms of sort of challenging the deal, calling back some of the key team to China. So they were in clear integration limbo, and now the deal is off, and they're sort of unwinding it, but.”
Elon Musk pledged to donate OpenAI lawsuit damages to its foundation
“Musk has said he will donate the damages owed to him to basically, it wouldn't technically be a donation, but to the OpenAI Foundation. So he is not asking to be left with, like, a piece of this operating company or, like, cash in this bank account. He's basic…”
Lessin: Musk vs. OpenAI trial scheduled to start Monday over for-profit conversion
“This upcoming Monday is scheduled to be the start of the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial. The central question of which was, did OpenAI have the right to convert from a nonprofit to a for-profit, and what should Elon be compensated as well, having been one of the b…”
Elon Musk to get massive comp plan in SpaceX IPO
“The information reported this week, not only unsurprisingly, is he getting super voting shares in the SpaceX IPO, but he now Elon has a really aggressive comp plan as well that will give him tens of millions of shares if I think the market cap goes to 6.6 tril…”
Top 10% of startup valuations are 200% to 300% above 2021 levels
“The top 10% of startup valuations for Series D, C, B, et cetera, are now like 200 to 300% higher than 20 21.”
Carta data shows top 5% of seed rounds exceed $175M valuations
“Now the top five percent of seed rounds are topping a hundred and seventy five million dollar valuations.”
Carta data shows median seed rounds reaching $45 million valuations
“And even the 75th percentile or 50th percentile, we're talking about like forty-five million dollar seed rounds, which is insane.”
Rauch: Anthropic long refused to support agents.md, requiring claude.md files
“For example, I don't know if they've adapted yet, but Anthropic for a long time was not playing ball with agents.md. You could only call their instructions claude.md.”
Jessica Lessin: OpenAI raised $3B from retail investors in latest round
“OpenAI's Monster Fundraising, complete with three billion dollars in raises from retail investors.”
Dave Morin: One Billion People Are Currently Using ChatGPT
“There are a billion people today using chat GPT.”
Morin: Data shows AI tool usage degrades human memory and problem-solving
“Well, it's not only anxiety, Jess, but like there's actual now data coming out that people have been measuring people's, not only their memory, but their problem solving, like their constructive thinking and people, the more people are using all these AI tools…”
Morin: Nvidia contributed engineering resources to OpenClaw
“NVIDIA has been really helpful to OpenClaw over the last many weeks. They've actually brought engineering resources to the bear.”
Morin: China builds nuclear plants in nine months versus six US years
“They can put up a nuclear plant and like something like, what is it? Like nine months. It takes us six years.”
Dave Morin: New website creation is up 40% and iOS apps up 50%
“New website creation is up 40% year over year. New iOS apps are up 50%. GitHub pushes are up 35% in the US, 30% in the UK. These metrics were flat for years before late 20, 24. And we're now seeing like jumps in the production of all kinds of different softwar…”
Morin: Roughly one-third of YC's winter batch is building OpenClaw projects
“The word on the street is something like a third of the, of Y Combinator is open claw already. And they're winter class.”
Jessica Lessin: Garry Tan and tech leaders are organizing against wealth taxes
“I mean, what, what's interesting to me now is like their attempts to organize the tech community to fight, fight this more formally. I think Gary Tan at YC has been very vocal about that,”
Lessin: Polymarket Odds on California Wealth Tax Passing Jumped Significantly
“The polymarket odds of it passing have jumped significantly.”
Lessin: The Information broke that Amazon may invest $10B in OpenAI
“Did you guys see, by the way, the information breaking this week that Amazon is in talks to invest ten billion dollars in OpenAI?”
Morin: Jony Ive says OpenAI hardware project is under two years away
“There was a bunch of Lorraine Powell jobs trying to get Johnny to pin down a timeline. And he said, I can't talk about that. You can probably get more out of Sam than me. And then Lorraine said, Then she said, well, is it five years? And he's like, no, no, no,…”
Sam Lessin notes most Sequoia assets sit in Heritage, not venture funds
“The venture funds are still the venture funds, but like most of the assets are not in the venture funds. They're in heritage.”
Jessica Lessin says Apple and Google partnered for Gemini to power Siri
“Google and Apple are doing a Siri deal, so Siri is going to be powered by Gemini, essentially, until, until Apple, quote, figures it out, but it, there seems to be this pattern here of Apple realizing Google is, is pretty good at this stuff, and they'll be pre…”
Landesberg: 2025 will be most expensive wildfire year, topping $1 trillion
“There's a joint Senate committee that a couple of years ago said the cost was about just shy of a trillion dollars, and we already know that because of Palisades, 25 will be the most expensive year on record, so almost certainly over a trillion dollars of econ…”
Landesberg: Some decade-defining wildfires were escaped prescribed burns
“It is true that some of the biggest fires over the last decade have been prescribed burns that got out of control”
Lessin: Sam Altman says OpenAI is calibrating ChatGPT to allow erotica
“The other news was that ChatGPT is gonna work to more personalize this so that it can Add more or enable more erotica for its adult users. So I think Altman was actually saying they had gone too far in weeding out some content and that they're, you know, just …”
Morin: Top hyperscalers projected to spend $400B this year
“And the Meg seven, not Apple, but the rest of them met a Google, Amazon, et cetera, are projected to spend about four hundred billion this year.”
Dave Morin: Apple spends 10-20% of income on CapEx versus 50%+ for peers
“Apple spending something like 10 to 20% of income on this capex. Everyone else is like well north of 50.”
Lessin: Paramount bought The Free Press for $150M, naming Weiss CBS editor-in-chief
“Paramount, run by David Ellison, has bought the Free Press, a relatively new sort of opinion news magazine run by Barry Weiss for a hundred and fifty million dollars. And she is now the editor-in-chief of CBS News.”
Jessica Lessin: OpenAI and Google have struck a cloud deal
“And so now all of a sudden Google like open AI actually in Google. Have a deal. A cloud deal. It's, like, wild.”