Taiwan, every mention
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More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:36 John Coogan Taiwan's TSMC, which makes more than 90% of the world's most sophisticated chips, including those who have been used in the booming AI sector, now have at least the prospect of a credible alternative supplier.
AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:12 Jordi Hays Like, why can America tell Taiwan where to send chips if the chips are made there?
YouTubers Win at the Box Office, Bernie Wants Public Stake in AI, Anthropic Files S-1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:23 unnamed speaker Uh, NVIDIA CEO made several announcements during his keynote speech at Computex, Taiwan's annual technology expo.
Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:52 unnamed speaker World of like, okay, Taiwan risk. 2 times in the scene
Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:11 John Coogan What their Taiwan policy is, how they will interact in the Middle East.
Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor x XAI, Netflix Stock Sinks | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:05 unnamed speaker I think it's part of Taiwanese culture to want to be loyal to all clients and don't have favorite winners.
- ▶ 19:03 unnamed speaker The only thing that they are, like, talking around is just Taiwan as a particular turning point and, and how their various positions flow through to Taiwan policy and where 3 times in the scene
Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:52 unnamed speaker Like, we still need to be in Taiwan.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 35:58 Thomas Laffont I've personally been to Taiwan many times, visited TSMC.
FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race
- ▶ 17:13 unnamed speaker If the best, if the best, uh, you know, uh, semiconductor engineers or, or, uh, technicians are in Taiwan, and they see it as a national, uh, you know, urgency to, you know, bring, you know, stability to the country, both economically and…
SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:59 John Coogan Taiwan from exporting them. 2 times in the scene
Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- ▶ 6:42 John Coogan Sort of, pull our weight with our intellectual property laws to stop Taiwan from exporting them. 2 times in the scene
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:55 unnamed speaker And, uh, the, the, it's possible it's a family, family owned business in Taiwan.
Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:16 Jordi Hays Particularly important, especially this morning, uh, the, uh, I guess the CCP put something out in the last 24 hours basically saying, hey, Taiwan is going to have an energy crisis due to the broader, uh, global energy crisis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 John Coogan I've started having conversations with, I mean, I'm using chat GPT, but I wanted to just, I wanted to get up to speed on Taiwan and the, the, the, just the, like, what was the reason for the original civil war and stuff.
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:51 unnamed speaker Why would China invade Taiwan when they need to keep TSMC's manufacturing facilities online? 5 times in the scene
Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:25 Jordi Hays And last, but certainly not least, DG asks, what is the likely Taiwan event, and what would be a leading indicator for it?
The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
- ▶ 4:02 Ben Thompson That's why I brought up the, the Taiwan China thing.
- ▶ 5:28 John Coogan Can you unpack a little bit more of that, uh, that tweet that you posted where you did the find on the Dario article for Taiwan and saw that wasn't mentioned? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Ben Thompson Yeah, I mean, this is, you know, it's hard to, and I speak for myself personally, I obviously have the biased angle because of Taiwan.
Full Interview: Bill Gurley Thinks College Kills Creativity
- ▶ 21:21 John Coogan At the same time, I feel like, ah, I've been worried about a confrontation over Taiwan for years.
FULL INTERVIEW: Ethan Thornton: War With China Will Be Over in DAYS
- ▶ 5:41 Ethan Thornton To Taiwanese semiconductor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 unnamed speaker What is your like P doom on Taiwan or, or, or timeline? 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 6:35 Bill Bishop For 2027, the centenary goals, which are the, it's the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, where they want to be, you know, some people say they want to be able to invade Taiwan.
- ▶ 15:23 Bill Bishop Stark language around Taiwan, um, and specifically around US arms sales of Taiwan, because the US sold 11, you know, announced an eleven billion dollar arms sales package to Taiwan back in December, which was, at the time, it's a very… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:46 unnamed speaker Uh, how does China frame the Taiwan question internally? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:03 Bill Bishop I mean, I think that the Chinese helped, uh, Takeichi because their, um, their reaction to her comments in, in early November, which again, she said, she reiterated the Japanese position on sort of a Taiwan contingency, so to speak.
The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:33 unnamed speaker oh yeah, it's, it's, it's as effective as what's in Taiwan.
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 16:50 Dylan Patel Um, but in Taiwan,
- ▶ 28:13 Dylan Patel There's, there's, or, or just take over Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
The AI Power Backlash, the NYMag David Ellison profile, Google Personal Intelligence | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:37 unnamed speaker So we're still waiting on this Taiwan trade deal.
Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:26 John Coogan The, the rare earth element picture, and Taiwan, and we also work through the soybean issue, and we work through, you know, a whole bunch of different export things all at once, instead of just doing like one off, one deal after another in…
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 39:16 David Rosenthal We flew to Taiwan and we're like, you know, that's, uh, and, and that performed very well. 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 1:02:44 unnamed speaker They're, they're manufacturing partners at Taiwanese company.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:22:21 Ben Thompson The, the problem here is, uh, TSMC is located in a country called Taiwan, um, which you know what it is today, but five years ago, it'd be like, what, Thailand? 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 1:50:31 Sholto Douglas Um, you know, we've got, uh, you know, Taiwan in between China and the US, and it produces the most valuable material in the world.
The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 2:24 Delian Asparouhov Are all kind of, you know, um, related to some of the Trump tariff stuff where basically what he's done is effectively like implemented the trade war that would have happened if a hot war with Taiwan had started to start to basically… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Delian Asparouhov Like what lever to pull, like at least in like the whole, like, you know, sort of Taiwan, et cetera. 4 times in the scene
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 2:19 Aaron Ginn Oh, yeah, well, I mean, well, I think it's positive, uh, because I, I think that the approach that Americans understand is that the way that China, uh, and so, like, I'm a Chinese exile, my family fled communist China, we fought for, uh,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Aaron Ginn They have around 20, 20 or 30. 5 times in the scene
Why the Moon Matters More Than Ever | John Gedmark on TBPN
- ▶ 0:31 John Gedmark We announced a new satellite for Taiwan, and this is a special kind of, of dedicated satellite in a high orbit that is called geostationary orbit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:28 unnamed speaker Can Taiwan just go, please just buy now? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:16 John Gedmark Use of this Taiwan satellite today, actually.
- ▶ 24:29 unnamed speaker Do you have any, do you have any insight into how Taiwan and the Taiwanese government views civil military fusion? 4 times in the scene
You Shouldn't IPO - Here's Why | Everett Randle on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 3:49 Everett Randle Are immensely relevant for, for startups and tech, like obviously everything around Taiwan and just like semiconductors generally. 2 times in the scene
What the New TARIFFS Mean for Tech | Logan Bartlett on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 9:29 Logan Bartlett It's such a complicated global supply chain that, um, I do worry about the, um, like, I, I think, and I've heard anecdotally from some of the big foundation model companies that, um, the different tariffs and the, the issues that you have…
Why 2027 and 2049 are KEY YEARS | Akhil Iyer on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 3:13 Akhil Iyer So this is the Asia-Pacific four-star command that's really in charge of protecting U.S. interests and deterring would-be adversaries, namely the PRC, from conducting actions, whether that's Taiwan or, or, or elsewhere.
- ▶ 8:20 unnamed speaker And I think I'm going to be able to get a contract because the, you know, the DOD doesn't want extreme vendor dependency on like one or two old primes versus, you know, looking at 27, 20, 27 in Taiwan and saying, Hey, we want to build a.
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 11:36 Delian Asparouhov But if you're pushing on milestones now, is it relevant to Taiwan if people are thinking about that needing to be ready in 20, 27, 28?
Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker.
- ▶ 17:51 Augustus Doricko So in any circumstance where we can buy American or from an American colony, like Taiwan, I'm pro, um, when it comes to like immediate supply chain in Gundo, I think everybody has, or has already, or is having a part made by range view,…
The Truth About Chinese Manufacturing (De Minimis)
- ▶ 9:06 Jordi Hays It's, it's maybe, maybe Malaysia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam, et cetera, adopted similar
The Future of Defense Technology
- ▶ 14:35 unnamed speaker Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan. 3 times in the scene
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker I mean, the real hardos, they want to go straight from Taiwan.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:18:34 John Coogan I mean, he's also out there on the front lines living in Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 1:01:48 unnamed speaker It had the backing of the Taiwan government.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 14:07 John Coogan He grew up in New York City, son of Taiwanese immigrants, and now he's 52 years old.
- ▶ 53:14 Jordi Hays Everybody's like, oh, they're gonna create these drone swarms, but imagine you're just an infantry, you know, person in, in Taiwan, and this literal Chinese dragon is flying above you, and they're all have bombs strapped to them.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 10:02 John Coogan He's, uh, lives in Taiwan and, and has spent a lot of time in China, and he said, like, the biggest difference between, like, the way the Chinese government works is that they compel the best and brightest to work in the government, and a…