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Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:54 unnamed speaker Uh, he, he gives a line from Sam Altman that is, uh, Sam says, I think that AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning. 2 times in the scene
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 6:57 John Coogan Sam Altman has a good sense of humor.
- ▶ 20:57 John Coogan Sam Altman's decision to declare a code red at OpenAI earlier this month may have caught the industry's attention, but it wasn't the first time that the artificial intelligence company has done a code red.
OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction
Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- ▶ 19:22 John Coogan Sam Altman teased it with a photo that at this point, you know, him and a bunch of, uh, him and a bunch of polos. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff
- ▶ 25:37 Jordan Higgins I saw somebody saying that, uh, the, the BG two interview with Sam may, they, they were claiming like, it's very possibly helped us avoid a 2002 1001 style.
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:12 unnamed speaker Sam Altman, of course, what was this, on GPT-Five day, August sixth, he posted a picture of the Death Star rising on the horizon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker That's the gap between Sam's the Star Wars Death Star vague posts and yesterday's announcement that Disney is investing one billion dollars into open AI and giving them a three-year license that allows users to generate
- ▶ 5:31 unnamed speaker Knowing Sam and Josh, they've likely negotiated to get Soar ChatGPT broad exposure across Disney properties, both online and offline.
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker You do something crazy, and then you throw the SOAR watermark on it just to take a shot at Sam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker The big question is, how will Sam Altman be perceived? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 unnamed speaker Scoop OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gathered news leaders for lunch in New York City on Monday. 2 times in the scene
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:33 John Coogan Really stick it to Sam, but he didn't, he says he's going out at 1.5.
Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:42 unnamed speaker Sam, Sam was, Sam looked like he was running away with it over the summer. 2 times in the scene
Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:23 unnamed speaker We'll all be like, we will stand with you, Sam Altman and Fiji-Simo.
- ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker This, this projection is factoring in Sam trying to also build SpaceX within OpenAI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 unnamed speaker Okay, it's good to have a space data center bet, and so you need a partnership, and realistically, Sam's not going to partner with SpaceX on it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:35 unnamed speaker I mean, this does, this does in some way, in some way mirror the Johnny Ive, Sam Altman video of, like, them getting coffee together.
Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:12 unnamed speaker They don't have a Sam.
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,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Jordi Hays So what, what Sam said in the, uh, internal Slack memo is he was directing more employees to focus on improving features of ChatGPT, such as personalizing the chat bot for more than eight hundred million people. 2 times in the scene
ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN
Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN
- ▶ 42:36 unnamed speaker Do you think Sam Altman paid twenty million for the Gordon Murray S one? 5 times in the scene
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker A 4.4 million dollar mission district home shared by investor Lockheed Groom, yes, Sam Altman's ex-boyfriend, and another tech investor named Joshua.
Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:13 John Coogan Sam Altman replied to one of our cards we put up, uh, on November, 22nd Sam Altman replied and said, cannot believe this is only two years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 unnamed speaker I saw this picture and my first thought was like, that's gotta be AI specifically because I don't think Sam is just walking down the Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of the day.
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:13 unnamed speaker Sam pulled it off. 4 times in the scene
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:40 unnamed speaker And then, ah, the tweet of Sam Altman saying we're bringing back Fora was August eighth, so it was one day later.
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- ▶ 25:00 Jordi Hays They wanna create, Sam, you know, alluded to a AI native Slack recently.
AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker It started when Sam Altman put out that post, like, super intelligence is just a few thousand days away. 2 times in the scene
Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The timeline is in turmoil over Sam Altman again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 unnamed speaker What does it mean for Sam Altman at open AI? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:41 Tyler Cosgrove Let's start, uh, with Sam Altman.
- ▶ 17:19 unnamed speaker Altman today.
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:52 unnamed speaker Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a, I don't know if he's a journalist, but there's a blogger who was trying to argue simultaneously that Sam Altman has never, like, created anything in his life, he's non-technical, like, he's not, he's not… 2 times in the scene
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 34:40 unnamed speaker Sam was pressed pretty hard on, on his, uh, spend commitments on Friday, and one of the justifications that he gave for why, like, basically, like, how they were gonna be able to spend that kind of dollars was something to the effect of,… 2 times in the scene
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 1:00 Satya Nadella I've known Sam for a long time, um, since his first company pre-IC days. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:30 Satya Nadella To me, I think, first of all, I think one of the reasons why, quite frankly, both Sam and I, I think, agree on this, which is, it's become a bit of a, a nonsensical word.
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 19:35 Brian Chesky I keep telling people, and I told this to Sam Altman, one of my best friends, that no one company can run the entire economy.
- ▶ 20:56 unnamed speaker Wait, so, uh, you asked, you told Sam Altman he can't control the entire economy. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:29 Jordi Hays First of all, let's say thank you to Sam Altman for constantly creating content. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Jordi Hays Sam's looking at that margin profile, just being like, Jensen, I'm so
Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
- ▶ 13:38 Jordi Hays Is that what, did you use that by, did you use that by the way to, to make that picture with, with, uh, Sam?
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker Yesterday, Sam Altman made waves with a post about loosening the content restrictions such that, uh, users would be able to create text erotica, and that put the timeline in turmoil, and a lot of people are very upset about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 unnamed speaker Sam Altman has replied to his, uh, his post about erotic content in ChatGPT. 6 times in the scene
How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 4:38 Andrew Ross Sorkin So sort of like what we see now, you know, whether you, Sam Altman or Elon Musk or whatever, that really, that whole kind of celebrity CEO that started then.
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 24:49 Ben Gilbert Wait, when you said, did you mean OpenAI and Sam went into, yeah.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 32:00 unnamed speaker Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:42 unnamed speaker I, I feel like for watching some of these, like I was watching the Tucker, uh, Sam Altman interview and, um, there's a certain level of polish that some of these, some of these, uh, CEOs have when they get to a certain level of media… 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 43:49 Jordi Hays Um, I, I think that Sam recognizes, I mean, every consumer tech entrepreneur has like realized how important it is to integrate at the hardware level, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:40 unnamed speaker The president, the first lady, Susie Wiles, Sergey Brin, uh, Gerilyn Gilbert Soto, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Anna Brockman, Safra Katz at Oracle, Gal Tarosh,
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 36:29 John Coogan I think Mark, I think Sam Altman said something to this effect saying that, uh, artificial intelligence will be superhuman at persuasion before it is truly super intelligent. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President.
- ▶ 2:21 John Coogan Yeah, I think, Mark, I think Sam Altman said something to this effect, saying that, uh, artificial intelligence will be superhuman at persuasion before it is truly super intelligent. 2 times in the scene
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 0:12 John Coogan Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting.
- ▶ 6:54 unnamed speaker Sam Altman fires back, says, this is a remarkable claim. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:06 unnamed speaker Sam is saying here, you never know. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 unnamed speaker So, they, ChatGPT quoted Grok saying that Sam Altman is right and said good bot.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:00 Jordi Hays Sam is, you know, renegotiating the deal.
- ▶ 54:44 John Coogan In the meantime, I will read this post from Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:12 Jordi Hays Sam also was talking about how a lot of people are using AI as like a confidant, like a, you know, a friend, things like that.
- ▶ 1:41:20 John Coogan We have Sam Altman, founder, CEO. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:48 John Coogan He said, uh, Sam Altman's doing the Apple stance TM.
- ▶ 2:22:27 Jordi Hays If, ah, you know, Sam does a lot of vague posting, but he was talking about the fast fashion era of Sass.
The State Of AI in 15 Minutes
- ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker We have Sam Altman, founder, CEO. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28 unnamed speaker Microsoft tried to do a trade deal during the 2023 chaotic trade deal, trade window that opened up post Sam Altman ouster, but he stuck with the OpenAI team, and now he's president of the company.
- ▶ 4:47 unnamed speaker Don't give the keys to Sam Altman.
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 24:37 Jordi Hays Sam also was talking about how a lot of people are using AI as like a confidant, like a, you know, a friend, things like that, and he mentioned that currently,
Google’s Genie 3 Builds Game Maps From a Single Prompt
- ▶ 2:05 unnamed speaker But like, there is a, there is a story out there that people are telling in the media in books that basically says Sam Altman got fired because he launched HGPT, right?
Microsoft’s Cloud Outpaces Its AI Growth
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker Sam is, you know, renegotiating the deal.
SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
- ▶ 6:13 Samir Chaudry And I think Sam Altman has created something that is meaningful enough to capture a lot of attention.
- ▶ 22:16 Samir Chaudry I just think that, um, you know, I, I did get, Colin and I did get the opportunity to spend some time with, with Sam Altman, uh, and I think, um, 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 1:47:15 John Coogan The layoff seems like reasonable downsiding, but, uh, deciding, hey, we're not even going to compete on the, on the most advanced semiconductors, which is what Elon, Google, Anthropic, Sam Altman, you know, every single company is like,…
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 2:32:29 Martin Shkreli I'm, I'm working on Elon, Zuck, Sam.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:38:58 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman was talking about that too.
- ▶ 2:43:53 unnamed speaker What's interesting is they're like Sam Altman at open AI and just the fact that open AI is a company, like there is kind of a mandate to like vertically and horizontally integrate, figure out code, figure out research, figure out devices.
ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 24:09 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman was talking about that, too.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:06:11 John Coogan Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:16 John Coogan Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some open AI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19:37 John Coogan The sentiment is backed by a former open AI staffer who worked closely with Altman and this, and said the CEO wanted to see buzzy announcements, announcements every few months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27:21 John Coogan Uh, Satwik Singh says, what Sam never understood was that Zuckerberg torched twenty billion over VR headsets with Nintendo Wii graphics and didn't even flinch.
- ▶ 2:55:02 John Coogan Um, but what, what do you think of, uh, Sam Altman's ability to get through this?
- ▶ 3:10:08 John Coogan Sam Altman slams meta AI's, uh, talent poaching spree. 5 times in the scene
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 11:39 John Coogan You don't want to be waiting around for, oh yeah, like at the next WWDC, they're going to improve it when Sam Altman shipped like it's 25. 2 times in the scene
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 6:07 unnamed speaker Uh, Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 unnamed speaker Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some OpenAI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 unnamed speaker The sentiment is backed by a former OpenAI staffer who worked closely with Altman and said the CEO wanted to see buzzy announcements every few months. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:18 unnamed speaker Uh, Satwik Singh says, what Sam never understood was that Zuckerberg torched twenty billion over VR headsets with Nintendo Wii graphics and didn't even flinch.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 1:57:29 Jordi Hays Some of the early writing, I feel like an even commentary on Sam Altman just
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 4:12 John Coogan This looks like he's about to go on stage and he has a lav mic and it's from a low angle, but like what lighting scenario created this photo? 2 times in the scene