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Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:15 unnamed speaker Uh, yesterday, Amir over at The Information reported that OpenAI is quietly, quote, quietly using loop transformers that don't show the model's thinking when scaled up, but they make the model more efficient. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:06 unnamed speaker If you're skeptical of the AI safety camp, the information's reporting is inaccurate.
- ▶ 25:25 unnamed speaker By up to 18 months, which is a profound game changer, he wrote in his post, uh, responding to a report from the information.
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:39 unnamed speaker Uh, the information reported this.
Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:46 John Coogan The, uh, the information has been reporting on, uh, even Claude is in the dark about Dario Amadei's wife and her influence at Anthropic. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 John Coogan Not even close, but the information has the exclusive.
North Korea’s Secret US Workforce, Canceling the SaaSpocalypse, MSL’s Latest Exits | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:45 John Coogan The newer company that is more, uh, in the headlines these days is the information is reporting that Canva is slipping into a similar situation because a lot of Canva designs can be one shot by image models like ChatGPT images, Indiana…
Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness
- ▶ 34:49 Martin Shkreli I mean, to give the devil their due, the information is also quite good at, you know, this type of thing, and they are particularly good at, at scoops on OpenAI, but the, uh, which I still haven't unraveled how, how, but they're obviously…
RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:48 unnamed speaker Like the information put this like pro open source, anti open source, uh, chart together, and it was very much like if you're, if you're a lot, if you're a, if you're a big investor in front, in closed source frontier labs, you're on this…
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:45 unnamed speaker Zero Hedge said, Meta puts limits on Claude and Codex fearing distillation, the information.
Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:21 John Coogan Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:24 John Coogan Meta is doing a one 80 according to Amir over at the information, trying to be the vanguard of token minimizing.
Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:06 unnamed speaker Now on the cusp of a sixty billion dollar bailout, Laura over at the information.
SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:24 unnamed speaker Uh, has some financials, uh, going out in the information, uh, today. 2 times in the scene
Meta’s AI Comeback Moment, Claude Mythos | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:35 unnamed speaker The, the news this morning, uh, meta platforms and the information meta platform has taken down an internal employee built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
- ▶ 13:08 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, there's a, there's a crazy bull case for NVIDIA in the information, uh, arguing it should be worth, what, 22 trillion dollars. 2 times in the scene
Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker This is from the information, uh, over a recent 30 day period, total usage on the dashboard topped 60 trillion tokens, and this sparked a huge debate over how much is Meta actually spending with Anthropic.
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:50 unnamed speaker Amir over at The Information said, leading indicator of AI adoption, drug companies like Novo Nardisk
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:56 John Coogan He's coming on the show in person to discuss it, but the news broke in none other than the information. 4 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 27:22 Bill Bishop I think it was the information reported it's being trained on Blackwells.
Anthropic’s Trust Nuke, OpenAI’s new releases, Google Claims AI Crown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:23 Jordi Hays According to the information, upcoming avocado model from Meta is referenced as the most capable model to date internally. 2 times in the scene
Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:58 John Coogan There is other news from the information.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:26 John Coogan This aligns with what the information has been leaking.
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:11 Jordi Hays Uh, Wall Street Journal and the information first reported about a possible IPO last Friday, and Bloomberg followed that up on Tuesday evening with a report suggesting a 1.5 trillion dollar target valuation.
The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:47 John Coogan The, the code red, like, leak from this, the, the information reported, it was clearly, like, some sort of all hands that Sam Altman was, uh, you know, holding a town hall with the rest of the OpenAI team, and he's kind of just saying,…
ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker Jensen called Altman and initiated the ten billion dollar deal after he saw the information about, ah, the information article about OpenAI testing TPUs. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:01:36 Jordi Hays Uh, it was reported yesterday by the misinformation that, uh, reflection, reflection, uh, the misinformation reported that reflection, uh, one-year-old startup, uh, we've had, uh, the CEO on before he's in talks to raise one billion to… 2 times in the scene
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 6:13 John Coogan What's interesting is that, uh, SSI, not in the conversation here yet, uh, also, uh, Thinking Machines, not in the conversation yet, and when you think about Thinking Machines, that recent, uh, information article about, um, Mira Morati…
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 41:35 John Coogan So the, uh, the information has an article here about a little known startup that has surged hint, hint,
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:44:01 John Coogan Um, this is from the information.
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 29:02 unnamed speaker Like a real test will be can Tome compete with, uh, Salesforce when Salesforce has this sort of dis, dis, you know, army of people like jamming, uh, comparable products, you know, uh, and actually for, you know, there were some news in the…
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 18:25 Logan Bartlett And so I, there was an information report. 2 times in the scene
Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.
- ▶ 9:58 unnamed speaker No, we subscribe to the information.
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 1:11 Jordi Hays I mean, every single round for a minute there was, you basically would, you would read a ramp fundraising announcement, you'd, you'd close the information, and then they'd, you'd get a notification on your phone that said, scoop,
HUGE Humanoid Robots Funding for 2025 ($40 BILLION)
- ▶ 2:32 unnamed speaker Uh, I'm sure you dealt with these, but Natasha Mascarenos over at the, uh, information has a breakdown of what's going on, so let's read through that.
Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback?
- ▶ 20:12 Austin Petersmith There's an article in the information breaking it down, but first I wanted to pull up, uh, what the stock has been doing.
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 29:17 John Coogan Elon posted an early grok three screenshot saying he asked what he, what grok three thought of the information and it said it's garbage. 3 times in the scene
The Truth About Chinese Manufacturing (De Minimis)
- ▶ 13:07 John Coogan Uh, and so the information, uh, uh, reported previously that Amazon plans to launch a section of its shopping site featuring cheap items that will ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China.
The Character AI Controversy (Role Play)
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 48:05 John Coogan And so there, the, the information tried to answer that.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:52 John Coogan Um, as, as of this recording might be a 10 K now, uh, we'll, let's go through the wall street journal article to give some basic facts and then we'll, uh, cover the, the, some Ben Thompson analysis with the information or the…
- ▶ 27:22 John Coogan The information wrote about OpenAI's frustration with Microsoft's GPU availability and the role that played in OpenAI's last fundraise in October. 2 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 16:40 John Coogan So, uh, let's start with just setting the table a little bit with this article from the information, kind of giving an overview of the current status.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 0:08 John Coogan Today we are putting the information in the truth zone. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 John Coogan Uh, so let's go to the misinformation or the information as they like to call themselves.
- ▶ 31:13 John Coogan Anyway, you got anything else on, uh, the information article you want to talk about?
- ▶ 37:23 Jordi Hays Every, every Saturday morning, the routine is if we sit down, we open the information app on the family iPad. 2 times in the scene
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 17:20 Jordi Hays And so nobody, the rival VC won't know what hit them until they're in the information on Monday.
- ▶ 36:41 Jordi Hays Which our friends at the misinformation like to do quite a lot.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 9:53 John Coogan We've, we've talked about the information's gift guide before it was an absolute disaster.
- ▶ 45:06 Jordi Hays And then, uh, lastly, you know, if said technology journalist is not already working at the information or newcomer, I would get them subscriptions to both so that when newcomer and the information get scoops, they can just quickly… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:03 John Coogan The information runs a provocative headline asking if SpaceX's valuation is irrational, but their math is off by a factor of a thousand. 5 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 24:26 John Coogan They say, on November, the information reported that a young former startup manager turned partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia's rival was leaving to start her own fifty million dollar seed fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36:39 John Coogan Uh, it had some crazy code name that the information leaked, and everyone was like, oh, this is gonna be insane, like.
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 2:24 unnamed speaker Yeah, and the timeline for us was, was wild because I think we, it must have been a week ago today that we released the bit on Taylor joining the information, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 unnamed speaker That the information had hired her on a contract basis. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 unnamed speaker I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if the information has a sponsorship with AWS.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 35:41 John Coogan And, and I think, I think she's been profiled in the, in the information and there's a little bit of a thing where, um,
- ▶ 47:55 Jordi Hays It's not really worth talking about, uh, relationship drama among, among VCs that we can leave that to the information.
- ▶ 1:43:09 John Coogan Uh, Paula, who I, I believe we covered earlier in the show, says, I subscribed to the information just so I could read this specific article, and, uh, and it's a quote by Marc Andreessen's, uh, wife, who says, she calls her husband's giant… 2 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 3:27 John Coogan That's, that's one of the worst sentences I've ever read in the information. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:22 John Coogan By the information. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:52 John Coogan The information or tech Twitter every day is our sports.
- ▶ 2:18:40 Jordi Hays The information, put together a gift guide.
- ▶ 2:30:28 John Coogan You can think of it as kind of the inverse of the information.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 0:12 John Coogan Taylor Lorenz, yes, misinformation herself is officially making the move from the Washington posters to the San Francisco information. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Jordi Hays And so they just dumped literally billions into, and the information, the San Francisco information was the, at the forefront of kind of covering that they've had probably hundreds of articles at this point that have referenced the creator… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:34 Jordi Hays She's been at The Atlantic, The Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Information. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:59 John Coogan The information. 3 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:36:49 John Coogan And this is from the Morgan Stanley and the information reporting.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:40:30 John Coogan Brody told the information in an interview Tuesday that he's moving over to Suno.
- ▶ 2:21:20 John Coogan He says, as heavily researched as the information, and I believe he's calling out, uh, Sam Lesson? 2 times in the scene
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 6:01 John Coogan The information. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 John Coogan Yeah, and she's writing a piece for the information. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Jordi Hays So I think one of the things, Taylor is obviously one of the top technology journalists in the world, otherwise she wouldn't be writing for the information.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 0:20 John Coogan Newcomers writing about it, the information stuff with it.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 35:24 John Coogan Like the information should be telling this story because it's one of the most interesting stories in tech in the last few years.
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 18:48 John Coogan Yeah, the information really snubbed him.