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

  • ▶ 14:00 John Coogan Uh, I think, I mean, we're talking to, uh, uh, uh, uh, someone from OpenAI's robotics team,
  • ▶ 23:03 John Coogan He recently just joined the board of OpenAI and, um, and, uh, Tyler Cowen, you know, has this quote, if you're a doomer, why aren't you short the market?

Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN Sep 10, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:02 Jordi Hays Uh, Anthropic and OpenAI have quickly built multi-billion dollar businesses around agents capable of performing complex computer tasks, but most of that usage is driven by software coding or other business applications.
  • ▶ 28:18 Jordi Hays I spent the last three years doing pre-training research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN Sep 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 John Coogan Remember, last year was the year of the IMO gold medals from both Google, DeepMind, and OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:50 John Coogan You can just ask codex or any AI agent to go and do it and it'll just do it and come back to you.

Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI Sep 8, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker We have Greg Brockman, the co-founder and president of OpenAI with us. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:04 unnamed speaker And, but I am wondering about the merge and how you bring together codecs,
  • ▶ 11:16 unnamed speaker And I think something that open AI can, can do a lot better is like when people talk about like everyone in AI wants to be like the apple of AI from a marketing standpoint. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:03 unnamed speaker and I was like, should I run this as a local codex thread or in the cloud?
  • ▶ 16:07 Greg Brockman Being able to have that image generation capability in the middle is something that's very unique to OpenAI relative to, um, to some of our competitors, and I think that you're able to then produce much better artifacts downstream, and so…
  • ▶ 21:46 Greg Brockman And if you look at what's happened, that the team, like one thing OpenAI does very well is we make long-term investments on things that really matter, and we do the grind. 6 times in the scene

Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN Sep 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:45 unnamed speaker No, it might've been O one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker We know that OpenAI bought, quote, tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios to do computer use training on, and so the question is, is it only good at Blender?

Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN Sep 4, 2026 · 4 mentions

Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal Sep 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:11 Pablo Torre No disrespect intended to the latest person who got bidded up between, you know, Meta and OpenAI and Anthropic or whatever.

Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN Sep 2, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:53 unnamed speaker Anyway, uh, former OpenAI staffer Joshua Akheim said, made an additional point here, coordinating everyone around a technique this brittle is, is, is about as bad a safety or strategy posture I could imagine. 4 times in the scene

Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN Sep 1, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker OpenAI has reportedly bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios for reinforcement learning and training computer use agents, while Anthropic rents Mac minis through AWS. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:46 unnamed speaker I had Codex 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:05 unnamed speaker Descartes, six to seven billion, along with SPX, SpaceX, Andurl, Anthropic, Ramp, OpenAI, Databricks, and others on the IPO path.

Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN Aug 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:01 John Coogan The, the interesting post that this made me think of this whole conversation was from Patrick Collison, uh, back in March of March, March 11th, and I don't remember what was going on March 11th, but I imagine it was some open eye drama,…
  • ▶ 28:01 John Coogan One factor is the enormous amount of new wealth being created by the AI boom as employees at companies like OpenAI, Ananthropic, turn startup equity into fortunes, and pour some of that money into local real estate.

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

  • ▶ 8:52 Jordi Hays Uh, Jahu, you, uh, went from OpenAI to MSL, uh, was one of the first high profile, uh, uh, exits in that whole saga.

Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN Aug 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:15 John Coogan Nat Friedman's not here anymore, but we have a really strong relationship with open AI for the models and Azure in the enterprise.
  • ▶ 30:32 John Coogan Uh, OpenAnanthropic will wind up doing deals with them.

AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Aug 8, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 7:15 John Coogan Uh, Mark Gurman's been reporting on opening eyes first consumer device. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:16 John Coogan Like, you can see the ChatGPT work, ChatGPT codex, ChatGPT, like, coming together into one product, but there's a world where this product launches with voice mode, and it's not really capable of linking to a cloud codex instance and… 4 times in the scene

More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN Aug 6, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 2:23 John Coogan The OpenAI hugging face incident, uh, has been investigated multiple times now. 13 times in the scene

Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN Aug 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:19 Jordi Hays Uh, and then he says, PS, open AI accomplished their original goal. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:27 John Coogan Just sent an internal memo that's designed to end token maxing and makes OpenAI's GPT, GPT, the default model for internal use.

Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN Aug 5, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 unnamed speaker Now it'd be very quite easy to just do all of that, uh, in codex or your favorite agent.
  • ▶ 19:16 unnamed speaker OpenAI is firing back at Apple. 10 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 1:49 John Coogan We've been seeing this for a while, but the latest version, uh, of the story comes from Noam Brown, polynomial, over at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene

Leopold Stays in the Game, Big Tech Earnings, OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices | Diet TBPN Jul 31, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:36 unnamed speaker Take us through what's going on with, ah, OpenAI, ah, pushing the model frontier access across efficiency. 3 times in the scene

The Collapse of Situational Awareness, Ferrari Luce Stays on Track for 2026 | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:01 John Coogan Uh, Ashenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher, rose to prominence after publishing his twenty-twenty-four essay series, Situational Awareness, the billion-dollar PDF, as, uh, Wilmanitis put it, I believe, uh, which argued that rapid AI…

Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness Jul 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:25 Martin Shkreli Um, you know, nobody knows what will happen, but it's certainly, uh, while you're right that, you know, the Anthropics and OpenAI's are having record business results, so is Microsoft and Google and Meta for that matter.
  • ▶ 18:53 unnamed speaker We were joking in like Q four when, you know, they're prior to like coding agents really starting to rip, you know, open AI revenue growth had like slowed a little bit and like, there's some jitters and, and a lot of this stuff wasn't, you…
  • ▶ 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…

U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:58 John Coogan You, you can get to a place where there is, ah, a national champion in America, but if, if Grok stopped training and there were no more XAI LLMs, like, there would still be a massive competition between OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google,…
  • ▶ 15:12 John Coogan And, uh, I, I think even some meta researchers signed that as well, but there's like a wide group from, uh, OpenAI, Anthropic, a bunch of other firms, Google, uh, that all signed.
  • ▶ 27:06 John Coogan Net-net public markets would probably be trading differently if they saw the open AI, Anthropic, Grok cursor, and open source numbers over the last,

RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 8:25 Tae Kim Um, OpenAI signed on.
  • ▶ 12:21 Tae Kim Uh, people inside, uh, OpenAI, and definitely Anthropik. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:07 Tae Kim Uh, the two main frontier AI model companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, I'm gonna say, I think this is roughly accurate, are doing a hundred twenty billion dollars combined in ARR. 3 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 2:08 unnamed speaker NVIDIA has open models, Microsoft, and they own a lot of open AI.
  • ▶ 4:22 unnamed speaker Whereas we've been hearing about, okay, Anthropic and OpenAI are going to Washington D.C. sharing the new model capabilities. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:27 unnamed speaker And, uh, OpenAI, Thinking Machines, SpaceX, uh, Snowflake, Siemens, ServiceNow, SAP. 4 times in the scene

AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN Jul 24, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 7:54 unnamed speaker And OpenAI boosts cloud spend to seven hundred and fifty billion. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:33 unnamed speaker Uh, could have seen them go into OpenAI or really any, you know, even, even an, an Amazon, right?
  • ▶ 22:35 unnamed speaker Speaking of conjecture, there's a lot of conjecture about what OpenAI is releasing today. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:43 unnamed speaker Tomorrow is feeling codex-y. 2 times in the scene

AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN Jul 23, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52 Jordi Hays By digging into the Hugging Face story, OpenAI and Hugging Face, out of the sound, out of the sandbox, into the fire, says, uh, our newsletter, tbpn.com. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:47 unnamed speaker Imagine being able to do that with codex now. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:15 Jordi Hays I think it's two anthropic researchers, two open AI researchers, three Google researchers, some Berkeley folks, ah, and, ah, and some Max Planck Institute for 2 times in the scene

Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company Jul 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN Jul 21, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05 John Coogan OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting that they will lead to, quote, a dystopian AI future and present unacceptable security risks… 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:04 John Coogan The anthropic models don't seem to be correlated with the OpenAI models, although the OpenAI models are correlated with the, with, with each other. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:51 Jordi Hays The big question is, are you bringing on your, you know, smart, portable beaker, maybe from a, from an open AI, are you bringing that on the plane and talking to it the whole time?

Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:39 John Coogan Also, it did very well in the front end arena, which was interesting, because that's, I mean, it jumped ahead of everything there, and that feels like a particular, like, it's, it'll be interesting to see, because you see more and more…

Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:44 unnamed speaker Like at the very basic, like if you wanted to ask ChatGPT for one image, you can now ask Codex for

Thinking Machines’ First AI Model, California Loses $3.2B to Texas, TSMC Adds $100B | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:04 John Coogan So thinking machines lab first, uh, the first model is an open weights model designed to chip away at the lead of open AI and anthropics as the wall street journal. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:49 John Coogan This is the only open weight model that, that's trained without distilling for OpenAI, from OpenAI or Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:18 John Coogan How did OpenAI Sol finally learn design taste?
  • ▶ 11:42 John Coogan Uh, especially if you don't come with like an opinion, if you come like, uh, we made a whole vibe coded website in codex for just the latest episode of Nick Bostrom on Joe Rogan.

Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 10:05 John Coogan Um, anyway, there is, uh, news out of open AI.
  • ▶ 10:39 John Coogan OpenAI envisions it as an AI companion that gets to know its owner, understands their habits, and it can even draw on personal information like email to provide more useful assistance. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:56 John Coogan Um, but if you've been using codecs and you are running codecs on, or just the new chat GPT app, which is fully codecified, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, this was another, um, idea I had for an OpenAI device.

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

  • ▶ 7:02 unnamed speaker This feels like something that has been proposed many, many times, but maybe I'm just misremembering the AI 27 people and the AI twenty-forty people and the OpenAI white paper and what Anthropic said, like, it feels like we've seen this… 2 times in the scene

Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit Jul 13, 2026 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 0:08 John Coogan Mark Gurman broke the news that Apple is suing OpenAI. 22 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:23 unnamed speaker This case is about Apple's former employees stealing trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:21 John Coogan So if you look at who signed this, you have a ton of people from OpenAI, Anthropic, Stanford, uh, Meter, uh, like every, Harvard, like every lab.

GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN Jul 11, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 7:56 Jordi Hays He then goes into Codex. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:15 John Coogan Michael had a very funny interaction where he got banned for OpenAI for cyber abuse. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:55 Jordi Hays We believe Meta is the only hyperscaler slash Neolab on track to be world class at all three, and therefore has the best chance of catching up with Anthropics slash OpenAI.

Model Mayhem: OpenAI’s 5.6 and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 | Diet TBPN Jul 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 unnamed speaker OpenAI, uh, just released GPT-Five-Point-Six.
  • ▶ 4:54 unnamed speaker I think this is, I mean, this is hosted on the OpenAI blog, but I think the, the idea is that you could vibe code this in the latest GPT 5.6 in the app, in ChatGPT, and then deploy it and have someone, are you trimming the sails…
  • ▶ 11:05 unnamed speaker Of course, people are joking about the lead is widening because, um, the, the anthropic and open AI version numbers over time, GPT six is predicted.
  • ▶ 18:23 Jordi Hays So they're buying, they're getting access to models through Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN Jul 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:45 unnamed speaker Images Two from OpenAI has been really good, and like, they're, they're honestly getting to the point where
  • ▶ 19:57 unnamed speaker Uh, GPT Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human AI interaction, launched today from OpenAI, rolling out to ChatGPT starting today, taking shots at that guy on Instagram who's unsatisfied with legacy voice models. 2 times in the scene

China Considers AI Export Controls, SK Hynix $28B IPO, Banks Target Payment Business | Diet TBPN Jul 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:45 unnamed speaker Open AI has also reportedly faced government pressure around the rollout of its next frontier models.

Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN Jul 3, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:04 John Coogan OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration a five percent stake. 4 times in the scene

Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN Jun 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:57 unnamed speaker So unlike models from Anthropic or OpenAI, Zipu's GLM 5.2 is open weight.

Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN Jun 27, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 18:18 Jordi Hays Like, the market is not, is clearly not, like, sending signals like, hey, we're really excited for you guys to, like, pivot into enterprise and, like, spend hundreds of billions of dollars competing against Google, AWS, Microsoft, Google,…
  • ▶ 24:04 John Coogan Uh, OpenAI limits access to new models, citing government security concerns. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:08 John Coogan There's other OpenAI news. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:14 John Coogan Jalapeno is purpose-built for LLM workloads, powering ChatGPG codex, API, future agentic products.

Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN Jun 19, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 19:45 unnamed speaker You're going up against OpenAI.
  • ▶ 20:01 unnamed speaker Because Noam Shazir, the legendary AI researcher, formerly of DeepMind, has joined OpenAI. 6 times in the scene

Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever Jun 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:24 Jeff Woo We're pretty AI maxis here, so we're in OpenAI, and then going down that stack, right? 2 times in the scene

SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN Jun 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:43 unnamed speaker Obviously, uh, you know, OpenAI, it's a big Cursor investor, Thrive, A-Six-Z, uh, KOTU, uh, and, and others that, um,

Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN Jun 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:51 John Coogan We haven't seen many breakout charts of how much revenue is domestic versus international, but we have seen reports of, uh, OpenAI and Anthropic doing big deals with international companies.

Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time Jun 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:39 Jordi Hays Like we've seen between OpenAI and Anthropic, there's this tension of like, you gotta be on AWS.
  • ▶ 9:40 Gavin Baker I think that's why OpenAI is cutting codex pricing, simply because coding, you know, coding tokens are so valuable, and if you don't have enough of them, you may not be able to get into this RSI loop that, that everyone is, you know,
  • ▶ 24:19 Gavin Baker Somebody told me it only took a 160,000 reasoning traces from O-one and O-three to get the original DeepSeek.
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