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Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:04 Jordi Hays Uh, over on Tik Tok, they're sharing a photo of the whistleblower and saying in every worldwide disaster movie, there's a dude that looks just like this, that nobody listened to.
OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:32 John Coogan There's this rumor that, that there's a boy band that's popular on TikTok. 2 times in the scene
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:25 John Coogan TikTok clips, Instagram clips, so they call it.
Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- ▶ 23:52 Jimmy Iovine Social media, unfortunately, like a thing like TikTok, uh, it's, it's, in a lot of ways, it's great because it gave artists power and a platform to market themselves, which is what artists want and need and should have. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 Jimmy Iovine Right now they gotta go to Instagram, TikTok, you know, it's like, it's like a silly game.
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:46 unnamed speaker You lose ground to TikTok and YouTube because they become the kid friendly one that the kids are like, oh, well, TikTok doesn't have any of these stupid restrictions. 2 times in the scene
AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:01 Jordi Hays The district had sought more than sixty million, and I guess the total payout was twenty-seven million because it was split between YouTube and TikTok and Snap.
Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:49 John Coogan We've seen all the complaints, um, and it might put TikTok at risk again.
Hank Green Faces AI Backlash, OpenAI Math Advances, Million-Dollar Solo Firms | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:26 John Coogan They built two extra data centers to be able to do the Reels algorithm, because if they didn't have that compute capacity, they could not have launched a competitor to TikTok on any normal time frame, because it was actually a compute…
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:29 John Coogan This is already happening on Instagram and TikTok.
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 32:16 unnamed speaker Like, they've never had a full monopoly on social media, even, with TikTok and Snapchat and, uh, LinkedIn and Twitch and YouTube and Netflix and the podcast feed and SMS and iMessage.
AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:26 unnamed speaker There's, there's somebody in Brooklyn, I think, put together like a whole, like, we're going to watch Instagram reels together, or like TikTok, so it's like short form film festival or something.
Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:18 unnamed speaker Urbex isn't new, but it's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and Tik Tok that spur others to create their own posts. 3 times in the scene
XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:48 John Coogan People are scrolling TikTok.
- ▶ 24:35 John Coogan You go to YouTube Shorts, or TikTok, or Instagram, and you're just being fed things, and you're not starting your journey with a, a, a, an affirmative declaration.
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:14 John Coogan Is it because the super apps are getting more super in the sense that you don't need, you used to need, you needed Snapchat for stories, you needed TikTok for vertical video, you needed YouTube for a long form.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:29 unnamed speaker I mean, there's a whole bunch of trend pieces right now about how IRL experiences are seeing higher than ever pricing in the face of, you could just watch the Knicks game on TikTok highlights, but people still forked over 5000 dollars to…
Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:50 unnamed speaker Uh, that would actually be very devastating to, uh, Facebook and YouTube and TikTok even.
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:41 unnamed speaker You want to be more like delegating instead of like consuming, like you're not going to be scrolling TikTok on that thing.
YouTubers Win at the Box Office, Bernie Wants Public Stake in AI, Anthropic Files S-1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker This was always unsatisfying to cinephiles though, because no matter how viral a TikTok
Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:55 unnamed speaker Uh, TikTok is a major point of this.
FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay
- ▶ 4:17 unnamed speaker TikTok, Instagram streaming, Twitch streaming.
AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:18 unnamed speaker Like the TikTok threat came and sort of went.
China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:51 unnamed speaker I'm not, it's not super surprising, given that, uh, we obviously forced the sale of TikTok, and this feels like somewhat of a response.
Gary Vee Says the Smartest Investors Are Going Analog
- ▶ 7:56 unnamed speaker You want to go on Instagram or Tik TOK and duke it out with like
- ▶ 26:15 Gary Vaynerchuk And TikTok shop and whatnot are doing real numbers in, in the U S and that is clearly going to be popping off any second with what they're going to do, which will lead YouTube to do what they're going to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:28 unnamed speaker I know you got to leave, but give me your 32nd outlook on TikTok post kind of acquisition, change in ownership. 2 times in the scene
Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone
Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:50 unnamed speaker When ChatGPT launched in November of 2022, it reached a hundred million users in two months, four times faster than TikTok and 15 times faster than Instagram.
Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN
The $6M Verdict That Could Kill Social Media
- ▶ 8:53 unnamed speaker The first among thousands of consolidated lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts, and state attorneys against Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 unnamed speaker Sora app was basically the same as TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snap, um, in terms of UI and UX design.
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:06 John Coogan You want to share it, you can share it on TikTok. 4 times in the scene
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:27 John Coogan TikTok parent pushing global expansion plans to tap Blackwell processors that are barred for export to China.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:48 unnamed speaker Paramount, Warner Brothers, HBO, CBS, TikTok, Oracle, uh, Silicon Valley's Taz.
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:11 unnamed speaker It's probably his first TikTok, but he's doing okay.
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 1:38 John Coogan There's people making tech talks about it now.
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:58 John Coogan There's people making TikToks about it now.
Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:26 John Coogan They're on Instagram, they're on TikTok, or they're doing sports betting, or watching TV, or watching Netflix.
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:00 John Coogan I was so pilled on the whole YouTube is the real competitor here, watch time matters more, think about screen time, Roblox is a competitor to Netflix, TikTok's a competitor to Netflix, Fortnite's a competitor to Netflix, but I don't think…
The SaaSpocalypse Is Over
- ▶ 9:06 John Coogan And I think the stock's down like 50%, and so, you know, yes, you can vibe code a video game, but the Roblox network and ecosystem is already at scale, and it's absolutely dominating, and they're monetizing a ton, and their monetization on…
$1M a Year to Live Forever? Bryan Johnson Explains
- ▶ 19:44 Bryan Johnson Well, I'm in my bed, like, you know, scrolling TikTok, and okay, well, that, that could be the source.
Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 11:14 Matt Schlicht You work with this bot, it helps you with things, and the same way that people have jobs and then they scroll TikTok and Instagram and X and they vent and they have friends,
- ▶ 17:25 Matt Schlicht Like, having AI producers automatically detect which places they should be pointing the cameras so that humans can see that content and then decide which things they find interesting, and then they can go distribute that on the human…
Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:47 Jordi Hays Sean Frank says, TikTok views are down.
Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:00 unnamed speaker TikTok is dead. 4 times in the scene
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:51 Jordi Hays What's going on with TikTok? 22 times in the scene
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:50 John Coogan I think he created TikTok, basically.
- ▶ 7:24 John Coogan The company's has the second largest independent short form video platform after ByteDance's Douyin, which is basically the Chinese version of TikTok.
- ▶ 11:07 John Coogan How are you going to keep up with the nine nine six schedule by dance, which owns the video app, tick tock and e-commerce giant Pinduoduo have some of the youngest recruits among Chinese tech companies.
Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:37 Jordi Hays They do have a nod to modernity with an active TikTok account featuring guest endorsements recently highlighting Uma Thurman wrapped in a pashmina and calling it one of the greatest, best New York institutions.
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 9:29 John Coogan So TikTok owner ByteDance is on track for fifty billion in profit in 2025. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:33 John Coogan It's literally ChatGPT threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp,
Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:14 unnamed speaker We already own TikTok. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN
- ▶ 40:05 unnamed speaker And so demand increases for like, what is the opposite of TikTok? 2 times in the scene
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:30 unnamed speaker When you're using like the Snapchat filter or like the TikTok filters, like sometimes they pop in and out, and if they pop out, like you're done.
Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:47 John Coogan You know, so many TikTokers are in Manhattan now doing stuff like man on the street stuff.
The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:14 John Coogan It's the Snapchat deal, the trying to buy TikTok, trying to buy Chrome, launching a venture fund, Bloomberg terminal. 2 times in the scene
Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy
- ▶ 1:53 unnamed speaker Where opportunities are for creators, uh, it felt like TikTok was the hottest place to, to, if you were going to be a creator, uh, TikTok was the place you could go break through, then Mark Zuckerberg copied it with reels, and, and YouTube… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:58 unnamed speaker It's, uh, you know, you gave us the basics on TikTok.
- ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker Uh, Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 unnamed speaker It always kind of feels like someone has to continue to try to spend a hundred million dollars to create a competitor to Twitch or YouTube or TikTok.
- ▶ 18:16 unnamed speaker That, that I can see, but I just, I just don't think if X really wants to compete with TikTok and Instagram and YouTube that they cannot monetize their content.
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:20 Jordi Hays Chad is an AI code editor that allows you to gamble, watch TikTok, and use dating apps while you work on coding tests.
How AI Will Change Gaming Forever | Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki Live on TBPN
- ▶ 7:20 Dave Baszucki And in the video market, whether it's short, um, UGC, you know, TikTok, YouTube, Netflix, you name it, that's relatively mature technology.
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:10 unnamed speaker Grok.com, instagram.com, fb.me, tiktokv.com, and open.substack.com.
How to Build an $11B Empire Selling Funko Pops | Whatnot CEO Grant Lafontaine Joins TBPN
- ▶ 16:41 unnamed speaker Because I know, ah, it's been widely reported that TikTok's been willing to just burn billions of dollars trying to get shopping working on their platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 unnamed speaker Yeah, I was reviewing his post, uh, uh, talking about the investment, and I was like, that makes so much sense, because he's been so immersed with even early stage, like Vine was so primordial in terms of, like, what TikTok became. 2 times in the scene
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 26:49 unnamed speaker There's this weird tension where everyone's brain rotted on tick tock watching 5:02 videos, but the Taylor Swift era's tour is the biggest concert and everyone's talking about it or the sphere in Las Vegas is this place where people go to…
Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- ▶ 16:25 Palmer Luckey But, but back when, back when tech news was about tech and not anti-tech, you know, they were covering all of these things, and, uh, again, you know, these days, millions of uniques, I mean, you can get that on TikTok with, with a good…
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 9:16 Jordi Hays It's like the last generation of even, even the TikToks of the world was like, okay, you can compete against American social media companies.
- ▶ 11:24 Jordi Hays Uh, what was your, uh, takeaway from the whole TikTok deal? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 John Coogan You literally go to the office and like TikTok is banned on the wifi.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 38:05 Peter Tuchman And we did this whole TikTok thing called Einstein Elementary.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 1:09:36 John Coogan And you probably at this point have the backing of like a state government, because that's the only way TikTok got going was, you know, so much energy and capital pl flowing in to actually, you know, break through the ship has sailed on… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:21 Dr. Drew Pinsky The Google store, the, uh, TikTok store all of, everything.
- ▶ 1:38:11 John Coogan Clearly a beneficiary of the social media boom of TikTok, of the unboxing culture, Timu culture, live shopping culture, flex culture. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56:41 unnamed speaker This is I think probably it's mostly due to tick tock.
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 4:13 John Coogan The, yeah, so Laboo clearly, uh, clearly a beneficiary of the social media boom of TikTok, of the unboxing culture, Timu culture, live shop culture, flex culture. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:46 unnamed speaker So this is, I think, probably it's, it's mostly due to TikTok.
Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker And you probably at this point have the backing of like a state government, because that's the only way TikTok got going was, you know, so much energy and capital flowing in to actually, you know, break through.
- ▶ 17:47 Dr. Drew Pinsky The Google store, the TikTok store, everything.
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 0:15 John Coogan We, we, we create, uh, we, TikToks, we create Instagrams, we create, uh, reels, all sorts of stuff. 6 times in the scene
Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- ▶ 6:15 Jordi Hays Perplexity was also bidding on Tik Tok earlier this year.
- ▶ 12:42 Jordi Hays They're offering to buy TikTok.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 12:23 Jordi Hays Various LMs through TikTok and X and Instagram, various platforms.
- ▶ 44:31 Jordi Hays Perplexity was also bidding on TikTok earlier this year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:02 John Coogan How yappy and how popular the fighters are, or is there something else going on at like a technological level where, like, I don't have to click any buttons to open Instagram reels or TikTok or YouTube, and with pay-per-view, it's like…
- ▶ 1:43:31 Delian Asparouhov They can go, you know, sort of pay on ads on Tik Tok, et cetera.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 12:22 unnamed speaker Various LMS through Tik Tok and X and Instagram various platforms.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 30:30 John Coogan Like TikTok or it's a hundred million dollar blockbuster with like fifty million dollars of VFX.
SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
- ▶ 9:15 unnamed speaker Yeah, and you can see in the, in the charts, I think, uh, ChatGPT is up at 30 minutes a day for the daily active users, and that's getting into TikTok numbers, and that's getting into Reels numbers, and, and so,
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 29:14 John Coogan And so X will typically be at the top of the news subcategory because it would be much harder to compete in the product in the social networking category against Instagram and Tik Tok.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 17:58 unnamed speaker X is famously in news, not in social networking, and so X will typically be at the top of the news subcategory because it would be much harder to compete in the product, in the social networking category against Instagram and TikTok, and…
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 42:50 Emily Sundberg There's a lot of Tik Tokers.
- ▶ 1:02:56 John Coogan Are you talking to any like TikTokers or content creators that are like, I want to build a business around this for politicians.
- ▶ 2:32:57 John Coogan We've moved into endless scroll, uh, where you actually don't need, like, if you're on TikTok, you're never pulling to refresh.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 32:54 unnamed speaker We've moved into endless scroll, uh, where you actually don't need, like if you're on Tik Tok, you're never pulling to refresh.
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