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Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN Sep 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:16 John Coogan They want, if front, when frontier model weights move from an R&D facility to an inference facility, they want it to be placed on physical storage devices encrypted independently by both the US and China, so both countries have to sign off.
  • ▶ 19:33 John Coogan The goal is to, is to wake up China, wake up Congress, wake up everyone.

Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:09 unnamed speaker And, uh, I did this one where we built a three D battleship board for this U S China military competition, uh,

Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN Sep 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:09 unnamed speaker Rune had a good, ah, like, take about the robotics thing, which is where, like, all, all the Chinese robots, the demos, are all these, like, kinetic displays of, like, doing 2 times in the scene

Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN Aug 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:35 John Coogan Certainly in China, they have a number of, you know, Decacorns and, uh, Centacorns over there.

North Korea’s Secret US Workforce, Canceling the SaaSpocalypse, MSL’s Latest Exits | Diet TBPN Aug 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:47 John Coogan Also, the North Korean workers, they go to non-extradition countries, so they'll go to China and Russia and a few other countries, and then from there, they will be remoting into an American laptop, so it just looks like, oh, okay,…

Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:32 John Coogan Yeah, I mean, you go to the Daria thing, and it's like the guy's been hard on China, he's been anti-open source since day one.

Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN Aug 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:43 John Coogan Countries like China are, are bringing online one gigawatt of nuclear capacity every other week, which is insane.

More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN Aug 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:39 John Coogan The hugging phase incident was wait, China built a hospital in a week moment.

Hank Green Faces AI Backlash, OpenAI Math Advances, Million-Dollar Solo Firms | Diet TBPN Aug 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:03 John Coogan He has since switched to free open source models from China.
  • ▶ 28:16 John Coogan So if you're using Chinese open source and there's some regulatory risk, it seems like that's sort of what he's getting at is these things might not rely, they might not be available all the time, and then also some of these companies,…

The Collapse of Situational Awareness, Ferrari Luce Stays on Track for 2026 | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:38 John Coogan Everyone doubted that this would sell, and the Italian carmaker reports strong demand from China for electric model derided for its unconventional design. 2 times in the scene

U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:53 John Coogan China, meanwhile, has condemned the decision as 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:48 John Coogan I do wonder how this is going to play into all the other discussions that are going to happen at that U.S. visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:15 John Coogan Maybe it does exist, but, uh, when Dwarkesh went to China, it was such a funny observation. 2 times in the scene

RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:29 Tae Kim We had the CMXT IPO in China, and everyone freaked out over that.

Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 10:52 unnamed speaker Look, I want to send some eyewear to a factory in China.
  • ▶ 21:03 unnamed speaker He points to China, but he identifies any authoritarian government. 6 times in the scene

Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 5:19 unnamed speaker Critics, including some top executives at OpenAI and Anthropic, have argued that open models, many of which come from China, present potential risks in national security. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:08 unnamed speaker Or anti-Chinese open source. 6 times in the scene

AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN Jul 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:17 Jordi Hays He says, Ford has been distilling Teslas and Chinese EVs. 2 times in the scene

U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN Jul 21, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 John Coogan China, China, China, China is in the news. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:43 Jordi Hays You would ultimately see, uh, a lot of these, you know, Neo clouds unable, I imagine to, uh, serve the, you know, traditional Chinese open source models. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:20 Jordi Hays And I think that suing Chinese companies, it would be a complete and total waste of time. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:36 Jordi Hays Meanwhile, China is also thinking about export controls in the Financial Times. 3 times in the scene

Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN Jul 20, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11 John Coogan Uh, the timeline was burning up over the weekend, over, uh, the AI Cold War that's breaking out between the U.S. frontier labs and Chinese open source. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:08 John Coogan Is China getting TPUs?
  • ▶ 17:17 John Coogan Dean says, I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good. 5 times in the scene

Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models Jul 20, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:56 Tyler Cowen Of course, a lot of it will be from China. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:34 unnamed speaker BYDs all over Europe now, ah, but at the same time, many of the manufacturers have been hurt most by just losing the Chinese market, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:02 unnamed speaker Um, but there's, there's clearly, it feels like there's a potential slippery slope for, oh, well, if China's handling the open source models, then maybe they should have the data centers. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:07 unnamed speaker Like, there are a lot of, there are a lot of facts around the, there are, there are six AI tigers in China, and like, I just need to memorize what those six companies are, their histories, if I want to understand the industry.

Thinking Machines’ First AI Model, California Loses $3.2B to Texas, TSMC Adds $100B | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:38 John Coogan Didi Das says, Thingy Machines just dropped the best open-weight AI model outside of China, and obviously that is a big topic of conversation as business leaders in the United States have some policies and some reticence about using… 5 times in the scene

Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN Jul 14, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:19 unnamed speaker Reviewing code that China just sort of throws over here, open sourced because I mean, as we've seen with the Kimmy K two and GLM, uh, like if you tie someone up in an FDA like review for even six months,
  • ▶ 20:14 unnamed speaker Yeah, the, the, the meme is like China wins in this scenario.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit Jul 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:21 John Coogan Worth noting that the Justice Department has already cleared the merger while China and other international regulators have raised no comparable, comparable objections thus far.
  • ▶ 25:56 John Coogan It's like, specifically unifying rules with China. 2 times in the scene

Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:11 unnamed speaker They got there before China, which has been trying to copy SpaceX for years, and so lots of really solid progress.

China Considers AI Export Controls, SK Hynix $28B IPO, Banks Target Payment Business | Diet TBPN Jul 8, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The big news of the day is that China has taken a page out of Washington's playbook, potentially, and aiming to limit the export of AI models. 12 times in the scene

Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN Jun 30, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 unnamed speaker China resets 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:59 unnamed speaker Uh, and, and then you can see the red line are the, uh, are the Chinese models, which 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:25 unnamed speaker Uh, but then China sort of woke up and the deep seeks and deep seeks launch at the start of 2025, uh, and the game theory became way more complicated. 4 times in the scene

Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN Jun 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:34 unnamed speaker Uh, and then also, uh, US has held off on blacklisting China's deep seek more than a hundred firms and more than a hundred firms that are deemed security risks. 3 times in the scene

Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN Jun 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:42 John Coogan Three, the U.S. needs to stay ahead of China in the AI race. 2 times in the scene

Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time Jun 15, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 22:39 Gavin Baker Yeah, so I think what sovereign AI will look like for essentially all countries really other than the United States and China, although I think China is going to fall further and further behind, is just some sort of, you do, you use, um,… 4 times in the scene

Social Network Sequel Trailer, Fable 5 Sparks Safety Debate, SpaceX IPO Watch | Diet TBPN Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:28 unnamed speaker Has urged the SEC to halt SpaceX's IPO, citing governance risks, Elon Musk's control, and potential foreign, especially Chinese investment concerns.

WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN Jun 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker And China's waking up. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:23 unnamed speaker They're selling arms to Russia and China.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Tokenmaxxing & Taste Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:06 Alex Karp So there are some problems you could solve with this, like, I want to write a report on GDP growth in China, right?

Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN Jun 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:21 unnamed speaker Basketball shoes been made in China for a long time. 2 times in the scene

YouTubers Win at the Box Office, Bernie Wants Public Stake in AI, Anthropic Files S-1 | Diet TBPN Jun 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:07 unnamed speaker Um, and, ah, and the three fives from Google, like the closed source models have been on the frontier, and there's been the chart showing that the open source models from China have been sort of decelerating, or they're, they're just, ah,…

Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions May 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:03 unnamed speaker I think it gets in the way of, Dash, we're leading China.

SpaceX S-1, Anthropic Revenue Booms, OpenAI Cracks Erdős Problem | Diet TBPN May 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 John Coogan Uh, for illustrative purposes of sizing our addressable market, SpaceX excluded China and Russia from global estimates. 2 times in the scene

Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN May 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:19 John Coogan Uh, because I, I guess just like Hollywood can't file a lawsuit in China. 2 times in the scene

Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN May 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:55 unnamed speaker Like, uh, even China, China has the lowest replacement rate, one per, uh, per family or something like that. 3 times in the scene

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:22 John Coogan Uh, Anthropic put out a big, uh, essay today around, uh, different, uh, different resolutions to U S China competition in the age of AI.
  • ▶ 28:30 Jordi Hays You missed your opportunity to go to China this week and just simply post a picture and say, uh, thank you for, thank you to, uh, China for allowing me to be here in your incredible country during this incredibly significant visit. 2 times in the scene

Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:04 unnamed speaker Anyway, Jensen Wong is over in China.
  • ▶ 20:32 unnamed speaker It's all in flux as the Trump-China summit, uh, plays out on the front page of the Wall Street Journal every day this week because it is headline news. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:40 unnamed speaker Musk, who was not in the courtroom on Thursday because he was in China with President Trump, is asking for more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars in damages.

Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN May 14, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 2:15 unnamed speaker I mean, other than the fact that, like, that is the company that has maybe the most tension between the trade deals with China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:56 unnamed speaker Xi Jinping, on the other, on the other hand, uh, China's weak economy is an incentive for him to cooperate, and he'll hope to placate Mr. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:10 unnamed speaker Also tonight, Jensen Wong is flying on Air Force One with President Trump to Beijing to sell China the AI chips it will use to develop its own mythos level AI model as soon as possible. 6 times in the scene

Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN May 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:53 unnamed speaker I saw, or I heard about a version of this in China that's a mask that you wear that translates everything you say out of a speaker on the front, and I was hearing this, and I was just like, why is this not in America? 3 times in the scene

Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era May 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN May 12, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 10:53 Jordi Hays Let's head over to China.
  • ▶ 10:54 John Coogan What are they doing over in China? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:37 John Coogan And so that's why I called it like a potential fifty billion dollar IPO, just to sort of have some, some parallelism with the 500 dollar watch and the 50 trillion of IP of GDP meeting in China that we'll talk about later.
  • ▶ 20:40 John Coogan Well, let's move over to China. 7 times in the scene

Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN May 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 unnamed speaker President Trump raised concerns that Tan's close ties with China would compromise him and called for his ouster.
  • ▶ 31:33 unnamed speaker Deepseek is raising a monster seven billion dollar round at fifty billion valuation making it China's largest ever AI raise.
  • ▶ 31:56 unnamed speaker Deep Seek was founded inside of his hedge fund, one of China's most successful funds.

Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN May 6, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:22 unnamed speaker This is a win for China in particular. 4 times in the scene

China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN Apr 27, 2026 · 20 mentions

  • ▶ 1:26 Jordi Hays Over in Meta World, China has blocked Meta's two billion dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence platform Manus after regulators reviewed whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:09 unnamed speaker But, like, you know, maybe there's an angle where, like, distillation actually gets less important, because, you know, even if, you know, the Chinese can, can distill our models, they actually can't serve them, so it's like, 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:30 unnamed speaker China has ordered Meta to unwind its two billion dollar acquisition of AI app Manus as Washington and Beijing vie for dominance over the emerging technology. 13 times in the scene

Gary Vee Says the Smartest Investors Are Going Analog Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:02 Gary Vaynerchuk Yeah, we, you need everybody, anybody selling to the consumer needs to understand that China's going to do a trillion in GMV, a trillion in GMV this year and stuff sold.

Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 6:16 John Coogan In other debt-related news, Xi Jinping wants to use the International Monetary Fund to rescue the array of distressed Chinese loans around the world. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:59 John Coogan So stay away from the Choppelgangers unless you're, unless you're really down, you're lucky and you need, and you need a Chinese open source. 3 times in the scene

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 16:22 unnamed speaker China backs orbital data center startup with 8.4 billion in credit lines. 6 times in the scene

Apple’s New CEO John Ternus, Ferrari’s First EV | Diet TBPN Apr 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:25 unnamed speaker I think, you know, looking at what's happened in China with every phone manufacturer launching a car that's extremely impressive, uh, I would have loved to see Apple execute there, and I think that would have been very good for the…
  • ▶ 17:31 unnamed speaker Kind of like, you know, stuck in, in China in a big way, uh, that presents a pretty meaningful, uh, you know, risk to the business, and then sort of like overall dependency on, on Google, especially on some of these key products.

Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor x XAI, Netflix Stock Sinks | Diet TBPN Apr 16, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 14:43 unnamed speaker Chinese companies and Chinese labs and the Chinese government had access to the AI chips to train a model like Claude Mythos with these cyber offensive capabilities and run millions of instances of it with more compute. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:22 unnamed speaker But this does sort of undergird, ah, a lot of what Dwarakash has been saying about, ah, the, the, the risk of, of China and having strong AI and stronger control over the population. 3 times in the scene

Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN Apr 13, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 25:08 John Coogan Fortunately, I think people are starting to at least investigate what the path towards some coalition between different countries might look like, and Sebastian Maliby, author of The Infinity Machine and former guest of the show, uh,… 10 times in the scene

Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good Apr 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:53 unnamed speaker Uh, you were born in China. 3 times in the scene

Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN Apr 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:28 unnamed speaker In some other more positive news, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google are uniting to cop, uh, to combat model copying in China. 3 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor Apr 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN Apr 6, 2026 · 5 mentions

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:31 unnamed speaker Yeah, and NVIDIA has more, uh, probably more levers to pull if it, if it turns into a negotiation with China, like, we're, we're, we're tracking, like, the Manus story with Meta, and there isn't that much that Meta can give to China in… 3 times in the scene

Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN Mar 27, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:44 Turner Novak There's already comments in the chat about like, yeah, let China win. 5 times in the scene

The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione Mar 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:51 unnamed speaker I think the canonical example would be like the Chinese peptides, the retas, the stuff you buy online and inject, and it's based on some interesting scientific literature, but it hasn't actually been through the full FDA process yet. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN Mar 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:06 John Coogan What say do we have over, you know, if, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them? 2 times in the scene

Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It Mar 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:55 John Coogan Like, what, what say do we have over, you know, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:51 Tyler Cosgrove What about China? 2 times in the scene

Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 21, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 19:56 unnamed speaker Department of Justice announced yesterday three charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting-edge USAI technology to China. 5 times in the scene

Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:34 John Coogan But peaceful reunification, even if it was completely peaceful, and all the Taiwanese people just say, hey, we want to be part of China, and they all vote for it democratically.
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