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AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI Sep 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:54 unnamed speaker Outside of SF.

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

  • ▶ 1:46 unnamed speaker This is my favorite building in San Francisco because it was built

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

  • ▶ 19:18 John Coogan Hey, Julian Weiser, I know him, uh, says the bar is getting, the bar for getting started has never been lower, said Julian Weiser, who runs a San Francisco-based accelerator for solo founders working in tech. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 18:49 unnamed speaker Of AI across companies is still pretty limited in terms of the amount of people that are using it, the time that those people are using it, like, there definitely is a San Francisco bubble of startups where everyone is using AI a lot, but…

Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:30 unnamed speaker Keith Rabois saying like, there will never be another unicorn started in San Francisco or like, or like working from home is not doable.
  • ▶ 27:10 unnamed speaker Uh, enough pyrotechnics to level San Francisco if things went wrong.

AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN Jul 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker Uh, we're on the road at SF today.

U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN Jul 21, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 14:32 John Coogan If you, if you personally serve Xi Jinping the next time he's in San Francisco, uh, meeting with a, a world leader, you show up.
  • ▶ 20:12 John Coogan Dave Eggers offers a hand so I can clamor aboard his twenty-three-foot sailboat moored in the shadow of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. 3 times in the scene

Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:52 Jordi Hays Um, we have, uh, the laptop detailing company of San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

China Considers AI Export Controls, SK Hynix $28B IPO, Banks Target Payment Business | Diet TBPN Jul 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:06 unnamed speaker Yeah, there was a building, was it in San Francisco, the Millennium Tower? 2 times in the scene

Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN Jun 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:36 unnamed speaker They want to make standalone spas, or they want to make a first one in San Francisco that's like a flagship, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:10 unnamed speaker He bought a street in San Francisco and auctioned it off, and Notion bought it, and now the Notion way is officially born.

Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever Jun 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:01 unnamed speaker And you can probably offer more feedback and advice on just, like, how to tell a story as a company that resonates outside of this tiny little, you know, enclave in San Francisco.
  • ▶ 16:04 Jake Paul So just by running it like a proper SF startup, we've, amongst many other things, but we, that's where the, why we've been able to become the number one promoter in the sport in four years when a lot of these other people have been doing…
  • ▶ 21:06 Jake Paul And I've told my friends, you know, we met, we were in SF with, um, the merge labs guys and Alex Blania was like,

Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN Jun 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:10 unnamed speaker That being said, just to set the table on the critique, like a lot of people outside of tech are critiquing it because a lot of SF people in tech are saying taste is so important and the outsiders don't see San Francisco tech as being… 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 31:50 John Coogan I think it might be research ideas that are more locked down now in, in, in tighter controlled circles in San Francisco.

Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN Jun 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:19 unnamed speaker Uh, they've hired a 150 people across San Francisco, London, and Zurich.

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

  • ▶ 18:33 unnamed speaker It could just be that they like San Francisco, but, uh, I, I like.
  • ▶ 26:40 unnamed speaker Just crime in San Francisco, period. 3 times in the scene

Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN Jun 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:59 John Coogan There's been a bunch of, there's been a bunch of weird studies where like when you zoom out, you look at Gen Z home ownership and it's actually pretty high, but that's driven by non coastal cities because people move to San Francisco,…

Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions May 29, 2026 · 1 mention

Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN May 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:34 unnamed speaker Is voting right wing, and then data center comes to town, and they see it as, you know, just making their town worse off, and benefiting, like, the coastal elites, and, like, the SF tech pros.

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN May 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:32 unnamed speaker Do billboards in San Francisco work on you? 2 times in the scene

Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN Apr 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:13 unnamed speaker If you're not familiar, it's an American professional baseball team, uh, based in San Francisco.

Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:47 unnamed speaker I grew up all over the US and now SF based and always down to nerd out about AI science and history. 2 times in the scene

Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN Apr 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:29 John Coogan Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than four billion dollars. 2 times in the scene

Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN Apr 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:37 John Coogan Over the weekend in San Francisco, which I'm sure you all saw, there were a variety of attacks.

Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone Apr 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:19 Andy Dunn That's live in Chicago, Austin, San Francisco.
  • ▶ 9:11 unnamed speaker I love your idea, but you're, you're absolutely, I'd love to invest, but I think you're kind of crazy to not move to SF or move to New York or et cetera.

SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN Apr 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:49 unnamed speaker Uh, and, and this is from the, the Human X conference in San Francisco.

Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN Apr 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:03 unnamed speaker It has invested big in cities where it has found business friendly, friendly leadership, including Detroit and San Francisco.

AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN Apr 1, 2026 · 1 mention

The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained Mar 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:28 unnamed speaker So all of those secrets that went into like making Opus Two good, those have been commoditized, they've been discussed at the house parties in SF, the researchers have moved from one place to another, so everyone knows these, they've…

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:03 unnamed speaker And it also feels like in, at least with XAI, if all the researchers are in San Francisco, you can sort of just like walk across to the coffee shop, poach someone, but if

Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:18 unnamed speaker Cause you need to be like inverse what like San Francisco hours are, right? 2 times in the scene

The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione Mar 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:23 Martin Shkreli Uh, the people that are take peptides and have these peptide stacks are mostly people in SF, maybe New York. 3 times in the scene

Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:41 unnamed speaker Flat two hours right now from San Francisco.

Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN Mar 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:49 unnamed speaker We gotta go over to SF with Martin Scrawley. 3 times in the scene

AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN Mar 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:18 unnamed speaker I was in SF. 3 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup Mar 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:49 Travis Kalanick You know, like the, the first driver ops guy that we brought in, in San Francisco in 2010, we basically took 200 cards and put names on them, and we said alphabetize them.
  • ▶ 37:16 unnamed speaker Do you, do you push into back into SF go back to being the king?

Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:15 unnamed speaker Dylan Patel said, being in SF is like being in Wuhan right before the pandemic.

Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN Mar 6, 2026 · 7 mentions

The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross Mar 5, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:32 unnamed speaker Daniel Gross asked, is, is San Francisco the new Detroit? 7 times in the scene

Netflix Lost. Now What? Mar 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:05 unnamed speaker Uh, this was yesterday, uh, up in SF.

FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW Mar 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:26 Ben Thompson Now, there's obviously these dynamics of competing for the same talent base, being in San Francisco, you know, the, this is part of, I think, Anthropic's, Anthropic has a local advantage in that most people, I think, in the industry are… 2 times in the scene

Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN Feb 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:22 Tyler Cosgrove Uh, you know, very San Francisco coded, like vaguely EA, maybe say PS people where this is like, okay, they're like a financial research firm.

REACTION: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis Feb 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:14 unnamed speaker Like, the A&M people are, like, uh, you know, very San Francisco coded, like vaguely EA, maybe, say PS people, where this is like, okay, they're like a financial research firm.

The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN Feb 19, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:16 unnamed speaker It's taken over San Francisco.

$1M a Year to Live Forever? Bryan Johnson Explains Feb 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:39 unnamed speaker The Chinese peptide thing is a whole meme in San Francisco.

Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN Feb 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:19 Jordi Hays Classic Super Bowl ad, right, easy to understand, celebrity popular character, plus a bunch of the super internet native stuff, like physical activation, and then localized activation, so you had people, the Super Bowl is NSF, you have… 2 times in the scene

The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:21 unnamed speaker Mine was like, eight 30 Market Street in San Francisco.

SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN Feb 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:49 unnamed speaker San Francisco is getting its first nuke scan.

FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI Feb 3, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:26 Dylan Patel You know, if you believe AI is going to be, do what I think many, at least in San Francisco, think it's going to do, which is, like, completely revolutionize humanity, and cause GDP growth to accelerate, um, do you want to have China also…
  • ▶ 33:52 Dylan Patel Live in San Francisco and like fully breathe and live and understand it. 3 times in the scene

Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:23 John Coogan Be in SF and meet with, ah, all of his counterparties, all the, all the heads of, ah, of the labs and understand how he fits into the ecosystem.

Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN Jan 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:41 Geordie (Jordi) Paula says SF escape room called the permanent underclass, and it's just a room with a laptop and Claude code installed.

Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN Jan 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:01 John Coogan I have to say, I love that Waymo operates from San Francisco to the South Bay.
  • ▶ 24:48 John Coogan San Francisco, during COVID, everyone was moving out and there was a real 2 times in the scene

The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN Jan 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:48 unnamed speaker Bunch of people, a bunch of San Francisco elite tech guys, their fancy cars promise to build AI for humanity.

AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN Jan 10, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:59 unnamed speaker He did aura farm San Francisco a little bit.
  • ▶ 24:33 unnamed speaker I think A-sixteen Z needs to build a, like a massive gold, uh, super structure in the heart of San Francisco, just carve out
  • ▶ 29:56 unnamed speaker Price of SF real estate is going up.

CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN Jan 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:34 unnamed speaker So he chose to debut the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco on January ninth, 2007.
  • ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker Uber expects to offer the service in San Francisco.

TBPN Year in Review Dec 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:07 John Coogan The San Francisco-based startup leaderships has made the same decision previously, explicitly instructing employees to drop lower priority tasks and concentrate on a single goal.

Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:19 unnamed speaker He said, SF is over.

Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN Dec 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:17 John Coogan Even just the reducing the time from San Francisco to LA from a six hour drive to a one hour flight, all of a sudden people can go up and do business, come back the same day.

Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN Dec 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:41 unnamed speaker Dozens of programmers and AI researchers from his San Francisco based company had been trying four months to train a version of Descartes flagship AI powered, uh, video generation application known as Lucy, uh, that would be able to render…
  • ▶ 12:00 unnamed speaker San Francisco's beloved albino alligator has passed away at age 30.

Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:40 unnamed speaker San Francisco's tech leader about to hard pivot into vault custody, private security, zero public flexing, because this heist wasn't random.

The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN Nov 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:33 John Coogan There's like 40 people that are looking for houses in the five to seven million dollar range in North San Francisco, and there's none for sale.

Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN Nov 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:43 unnamed speaker Um, here's one where someone took an, uh, a map, a Google map screenshot, and just turned it into, uh, an RPG style map, a San Francisco monster map.

Silicon Valley vs The Vatican, Bryan Johnson’s Shroom Trip | Diet TBPN Nov 11, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:50 unnamed speaker The moral discernment company of San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:37 unnamed speaker Carlo Acutis, the programmer saint at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24 unnamed speaker In San Francisco and barely be profitable and then we'll probably need another decade.

Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16 Drew Houston I mean, that's really what's, and Carpathie talked about that on why agents are going to be further away than people think, and so, but, I mean, I think it's, I mean, SF, it's, like, pretty well established, so I think that's probably a…

OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN Oct 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:39 unnamed speaker It's a, it's a New York, is there one in SF too? 3 times in the scene

Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:10 Marc Benioff So come here to San Francisco or come to one of our world tours all over the world.

Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:09 Ben Gilbert We don't have an agenda yet, but, uh, the Friday before the game in San Francisco.

Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI Sep 27, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption Sep 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:37 unnamed speaker And what we're doing with our first product is creating a 24 seven call center that's available to anyone from if you're in San Francisco.

Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew Aug 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

How LABUBU made BILLIONS Aug 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:28 John Coogan Yes, if you've been at the PT lectures in SF for who the Antichrist is, I think we got a lead here.

Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained Aug 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:12 John Coogan Founded in 2022, San Francisco, San Francisco based Perplexity recently released its own web browser called Comet to some of its users.

Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot Aug 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:28 John Coogan Found in 2022, San Francisco, San Francisco based perplexity recently released its own web browser called Comet to some of its users.

9 Mansions Every AI Researcher Should Own Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:37 unnamed speaker Known as Sonoma Summit Ranch, the ranch is perched at the top of Sonoma Mountain, about an hour from San Francisco.

Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5 Aug 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:42:35 John Coogan A lot of people say, 1.5 million, that's not enough for a big house in San Francisco.
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