U.S. government
also referred to as: u s government · us government
24 statements across 17 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · across every show →
Everything said about U.S. government, oldest first
Nov 14, 2024 neutral
Hays: Musk's Political Push Stemmed from Disrespect and Business Scale
“He, everything we just saw over the past however many months was just a reaction to being disrespected. As A person as a businessman, and it was almost a, with his level of ambition, it was a, it was something that he needed to do to reach his full potential b…”
Jan 25, 2025 neutral
Mar 8, 2025 bullish
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Continuing Resolutions Protect Defense Incumbents While Freezing Out New Startups
“Incumbents have their programs continuing to be funded, right? And so the, you know, Lockheed, Raytheon, et cetera, Northrop's, you know, might not be experiencing as much growth as usual, but, you know, they're, you know, they're generally, you know, continui…”
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Schneider: Huawei stockpiled AI chips made at TSMC using shell company
“Huawei was able to manufacture an enormous amount of chips at TSMC by basically creating a shell company, TSMC you know, deciding to look the other way about some Chinese firm manufacturing all these AI chips, and then the US government catching them and be li…”
Apr 1, 2025 bearish
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 bullish
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Ginn: Building GPUs is easier than the US government thinks
“Building GPUs is actually much easier than the US government thinks, which is why it, which is why Amazon's doing it, Microsoft's doing it, Facebook's doing it, Broadcom's now a trillion dollar company, and the second is that their actual ability on the Foundr…”
May 4, 2025
May 31, 2025 neutral
Coogan: DOGE Claims $175 Billion in Federal Savings Since Inauguration
“Doge said it had saved the government, one hundred and seventy-five billion from a combination of asset sales, contracts, lease, and grant cancellations, workforce reductions, and other moves made since January twentyth inauguration.”
Aug 30, 2025 bearish
Coogan: The US government is not equipped to run Intel
“I don't think the government's equipped to make the decision on how they should position against TSMC, where they fit in Apple Silicon versus TPU versus Tranium. Like, it just doesn't seem like government's set up to actually run this company more effectively …”
Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 positive
Aug 30, 2025
Intel deal lets US government buy 5% more if manufacturing sells
“David Shapiro, a former partner on the Wall Street firm, Watchdoll, Lipton, and Rosen, and Katz drew up the terms, including a provision that the government could acquire another five percent of Intel at a discount if the company sells the majority of its manu…”
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Coogan: Anthropic Clashed over Surveillance and Lethal Weapons Clauses Permitted to OpenAI
“So there were two main sticking points that they went back and forth on. No mass domestic surveillance, and no fully autonomous lethal weapons, and there's been a question as to why OpenAI was allowed to Include that language in their contract and say, like, h…”
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Thompson: Intel Chose Commercial Scale Over Custom Government Chips
“And Bob Noyce made the decision that we will sell to the government, but we're not going to design chips for the government. And the distinction there was you had guaranteed orders, which was great. The government would take your IP, and there was, and in his …”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Anthropic Commands SF Talent While OpenAI Aligns With America
“Anthropic has a local advantage in that most people, I think, in the industry are with them, and they have a national PR problem in that I think a lot of folks outside of tech don't understand why tech companies always try to Or resist helping the US governmen…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Sovereign Militaries Will Inevitably Seize Control of Frontier AI
“If AI is what it is, The people with guns are going to want to have a say. Whether that be domestically, whether that be internationally, that might be in the context of the U.S. Government just taking it, trying to kill your company because they feel you're n…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Government Cannot Afford Bespoke Frontier AI Due to CapEx Scale
“People, like, I was talking to someone, they're like, why doesn't the government just have, just get someone to make their own model? It's like, because it's, like, you talk about government contracts, we're, like, single digit billions. We're talking about fo…”
Mar 6, 2026 negative
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Coogan: U.S. Export Controls Bar Foreign Nationals From Accessing Anthropic Models
“The US government is restricting both Fable Five and Mythos Five from being used by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the US, including foreign national Anthropic employees, and so that's a huge compliance burden, very sudden, and that led Anthro…”