The Pentagon, every mention
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every year anyone John Coogan 8Catherine Boyle 8Ben Thompson 5Jordi Hays 4Shyam Sankar 2Trae Stephens 1Aaron Ginn 1
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The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:14 John Coogan New strategy of making cheap drones quickly and a sign that the Pentagon can change the way it does business to better prepare for modern conflict. 2 times in the scene
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:11 unnamed speaker The news is that Anthropic has been granted a preliminary injunction re the Pentagon supply chain risk designation. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:21 unnamed speaker After an anthropic employee inquired with Palantir about Claude's role in the raid, Palantir senior executive notified the Pentagon.
FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
- ▶ 24:24 Ben Thompson And AI, again, is going to, like, the idea that the NSA, by the way, this is my sort of, like, I had to admit this in the article, I was so confused why the Pentagon was so obsessed with domestic surveillance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:49 Ben Thompson They have agreed to the, to the Pentagon that they will be, the Pentagon will be limited by lawful capabilities, and they make their own judgments about weapon usage, and as I understand it, OpenAI is like, we will on our side be free to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:27 Ben Thompson but I think Google had Project Maven, which their employees objected to, and therefore that went to AWS, and then some combination of, I think the Pentagon is using Anthropic because that's what AWS uses.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 0:15 John Coogan The federal government will stop working with artificial intelligence company Anthropic, President Trump said, marking a dramatic escalation of the government's clash with the company over how its technology can be used by the Pentagon.
- ▶ 33:52 John Coogan Keith Raboy said, imagine Apple sold computers or iPads to the DoD and tried to tell the Pentagon what missions could be planned on their computers.
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:45 Jordi Hays It's kind of silly that everyone has a dashboard up and can tell when things might be getting a little more tense in the Pentagon.
The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:50 Jordi Hays The Pentagon has said that Anthropic will pay a price.
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 20:49 Catherine Boyle Um, but also it's, I just returned from Washington last week, had a host of conversations across the Pentagon, across Congress, and it feels like for the first time in probably 10 years since I've been doing this, that everyone is aligned,… 8 times in the scene
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 12:32 Shyam Sankar You know, it was Somerville who built the Pentagon in 16 months.
- ▶ 22:41 Shyam Sankar Uh, and what excites, so I think the Last Supper, people look at the Last Supper, which is this dinner at the Pentagon in 1993, where they said, hey, look, we have 51 primes today.
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 21:31 Aaron Ginn I just think that that's like a very American Western way of looking at the situation when the Pentagon says that it would take the entire People's, uh, People's Republic Army to, to take, like the entire, not, not, not 80%, a 120%,…
Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- ▶ 12:36 Trae Stephens We're not waiting for the Pentagon to tell us what to build.
Defense Tech vs. Silicon Valley
- ▶ 9:44 unnamed speaker Meanwhile, the long established revolving door between the Pentagon and the defense industry is being extended to venture capitalists and tech firms. 3 times in the scene
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 54:58 unnamed speaker I sit next to a guy from the Pentagon's AI Readiness Task Force.
The Future of Defense Technology
- ▶ 3:04 unnamed speaker Pirate Wires summarizes this by saying the Pentagon's
- ▶ 5:07 unnamed speaker Uh, and so in 2018, the Pentagon underwent a significant restructuring of its acquisition framework. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 unnamed speaker In his Martin Luther-inspired Defense Reformation, Shamm brilliantly lays out a strategy to end the Pentagon monopsony and flip the military to be a better customer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 unnamed speaker To wit, it took the State Department and the Pentagon nearly 30 months to finalize the sale of 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 unnamed speaker If you have a startup and you've developed this incredible product and then you have one customer, which is the Pentagon and they're like, okay, we're, we're excited about this, but, uh, you know, let's, let's start the process.
- ▶ 24:05 unnamed speaker Is right next to an airstrip, and, uh, and the, uh, Palmer was talking to, uh, I think Ed Ludlow at Bloomberg in this interview, and saying, like, oh yeah, we're right next to an airstrip, so we can, like, and one of the advantages, and Ed…
- ▶ 25:29 unnamed speaker I think Joe Lonsdale and the crew at the Pentagon.
New Hypersonic Weapons Funding
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker The administration has given the Pentagon the freedom to lean into new companies.
- ▶ 6:47 unnamed speaker It's a struggle to get, um, you know, and they've done very well in terms of getting, um, traction in the Pentagon, but, um, and so a lot of it is, you know, you just have to go and get some sort of general or admiral to come out and
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker The companies that have contracts now that are actually getting traction in the Pentagon, they are going to get more and more capital piled into them because there's this, there's a lot of pre-seed, seed stage companies that are, you know,…
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:10:46 Jordi Hays I would love to be a fly on the wall of the room in the Pentagon, and they're like, so you're telling me we're using a llama for our AI?
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 2:00:30 John Coogan Macy's says, accounting employee hid up to a hundred and fifty four million dollars in delivery expenses, and the Pentagon
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 2:04:45 John Coogan She says, uh, startups at the Pentagon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:50 Jordi Hays The Pentagon or the USG, right?
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:55:31 John Coogan So, uh, like the Pentagon had a initiative to, um, modernize technology using artificial intelligence, and they called it Project Maven, and, um, there were walkouts and, yeah, and, and Google was one of the contractors on the,