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Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:47 unnamed speaker Uh, two days ago, or this was when this was written, this was August 26th, Meta announced settlements with attorneys general representing 48 states and the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories, so there were only two states that…
- ▶ 15:16 unnamed speaker And so he was able to negotiate Washington and all of the different
AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:52 John Coogan Uh, so a bunch of the big tobacco companies versus, uh, 46 of the United of the U S States, the district of Columbia and several territories, the States agreed to end major lawsuits against the tobacco companies.
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:10 John Coogan Is it, obviously he's working on isomorphic labs, but he also probably be writing more blog posts, potentially testifying or talking in Washington.
- ▶ 27:48 John Coogan Since Washington stepped in, as you know, Jordy, um, Intel has pulled five billion of investment from NVIDIA, two billion from Japan's SoftBank, and its shares have more than quadrupled, trouncing those of rivals.
Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:51 John Coogan Uh, there's been a lot of back and forth in Washington about the interpretation of that essay.
- ▶ 28:42 John Coogan U.S. models would trigger Washington, that there might be pushback in Washington, D.C. over this.
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:24 Jordi Hays Yeah, I'm, I'm, I saw a bunch of people that were sort of saying that they didn't like this, that it was, you know, protectionist, and, and, uh, that there must have been some American humanoid or robotics companies that were pushing,…
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, and so defining that is going to be what, that's going to be the conversation that plays out in, in DC. 2 times in the scene
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:13 unnamed speaker We're now one month later and we have an open source model that doesn't, by definition, have to go through any discussion or any discussion in D.C. 2 times in the scene
AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:58 Jordi Hays For me, Washington needs to step in.
- ▶ 31:03 Suno AI (Singer) Washington needs to stay.
Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
- ▶ 36:14 Travis Kalanick Like I remember we went to DC and the taxi system, the, the liability on a ride, if you took a taxi, it might still be this way to this day was like 25,000 dollars in a taxi. 2 times in the scene
U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:50 John Coogan So, Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multi-billion dollar question.
IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:24 unnamed speaker If you tell Washington DC, AI models are very good at hacking computer systems, and they're going to get better at hacking computer systems, there's not really much for them to do with that, because hacking computer systems are already,… 3 times in the scene
Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:06 unnamed speaker Uh, due to the DC
China Considers AI Export Controls, SK Hynix $28B IPO, Banks Target Payment Business | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The big news of the day is that China has taken a page out of Washington's playbook, potentially, and aiming to limit the export of AI models. 2 times in the scene
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:37 Jordi Hays Washington, D.C. 3 times in the scene
Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
- ▶ 21:33 Gavin Baker Uh, how do you think the events of, of last week with Anthropic and DC update, uh, different countries on their own sovereign AI play?
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:19 unnamed speaker The topic of conversation in DC has, uh, it's still in AI world, but instead of talking about, uh, approving models before the release today, it's about the bio threat.
Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions
- ▶ 33:35 Brad Gerstner He was able to go to Washington and actually get a law passed.
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:12 unnamed speaker If all of a sudden it's like, oh, well, if you want to do a neo lab, set up an office in DC, get your licenses, then you can start training.
Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- ▶ 2:52 Mike Isaac I covered some cases in DC and I can't even bring a laptop or phone in those courthouses. 2 times in the scene
China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:30 unnamed speaker China has ordered Meta to unwind its two billion dollar acquisition of AI app Manus as Washington and Beijing vie for dominance over the emerging technology.
Apple’s New CEO John Ternus, Ferrari’s First EV | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:03 unnamed speaker I, I mean, uh, maybe Warren Buffett's in a different world because he's more of an investor, maybe doesn't need to travel as much, doesn't need to be in the arena shaking hands, kissing babies, doing product launches, you know, being in…
Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:26 unnamed speaker Uh, we've seen, we've seen a few of those like AI leader gatherings in DC where you see Tim Cook and, and Sundar and Sam Altman and Dario and all the, the whole, all the leaders are together.
The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:12 John Coogan They set up a, I think their whole headquarters was in DC.
The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- ▶ 9:11 John Coogan They set up a, I think their whole headquarters was in D.C.
FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race
- ▶ 12:08 unnamed speaker Is that, is that at some point, the labs and, and Google, like, like, we're across TPU, extra GPU capacity, NVIDIA, the new R, like, there's just so many buyers of lab capacity, of fab capacity now, that you could imagine everyone coming…
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:25 unnamed speaker You know, uh, all this, uh, all this nonsense in, uh, DC has been, uh, a huge, a huge side
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:00 John Coogan I was telling Tyler Cosgrove, who is out of the studio today, he's in Washington, D.C., he's got to demo this.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:37 unnamed speaker And the joke being dropped at a defense tech event in DC goes to show how many different industries from tech to politics are keeping an eye on the M&A drama unfolding in Hollywood this month.
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:30 unnamed speaker If you are trying to make it in DC, you gotta open up the front page of the Wall Street Journal because there's a tip.
Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:28 Jordi Hays Given Washington's sweeping power over companies like NVIDIA and AMD, the draft framework sets licensing rules based on shipment size from simplified reviews for small orders to government level approval for massive deployments,…
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker There was this whole political angle in DC about how interested would Trump be in the deal.
Netflix Lost. Now What?
- ▶ 3:22 unnamed speaker There was this whole political angle in DC about, uh, how interested would Trump be in the deal, and apparently, uh, as soon as he found out that, that Netflix was not interested in the cable TV assets, he became less interested in the…
Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:00 John Coogan What does this mean for the future of the relationship between tech and, and, ah, Washington DC?
- ▶ 22:14 Marc Andreessen Uh, in D.C. in May, uh, where we, we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 3:55 John Coogan What does this mean for the future of the relationship between tech and, and, ah, Washington DC?
- ▶ 34:03 Marc Andreessen Uh, in D.C. in May, uh, where we, we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.
Nvidia Earnings, Paramount Emerges Victorious, Block Layoffs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:39 John Coogan You know, DC.
Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:52 Jordi Hays And, and, and zooming out when you look back at the news from a month ago, it seemed obvious that the next step was to spend a lot of time in Washington.
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:53 John Coogan I thought that was in D.C.
AI Isn’t Covid, FBI probes Tai Lopez, Mistral’s $2B Sweden bet | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:53 Jordi Hays As political ties with Washington fray, governments in the region are increasingly wary of relying on Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet, which dominate AI infrastructure, data storage, and cloud
Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com
- ▶ 16:47 Kris Marszalek Um, I've been, uh, in DC last week and then I stopped over in Silicon Valley.
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- ▶ 0:12 Bill Bishop Uh, it's going pretty well, although it feels like we're in the, near the North Pole here in DC.
- ▶ 8:00 Bill Bishop Haven't found anyone in D.C. who actually thinks it is.
- ▶ 15:49 Bill Bishop Being prudent around arms sales in Taiwan last week was specifically because the U.S. was working on a big arms package the Chinese had found out about, and the Chinese ambassador here in D.C. had basically gone to the White House and…
Anthropic's secret strategy behind its Super Bowl ad campaign
- ▶ 7:40 Jordi Hays It increases like the public's, like general scrutiny of the ads rollout, and then Washington too is another factor.
Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:58 John Coogan So he joins, he moves to DC, gets involved in politics in two and two, and he joins the fed in 2006 at 35. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:38 Jordi Hays D.C., Wall Street, and Silicon Valley.
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:20 unnamed speaker And predicted that Washington's geopolitical rivals would launch a gold-backed alternative to the dollar.
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:35 John Coogan The company said Thursday, resolving a years long fight to address Washington's national security concerns.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:11 unnamed speaker Will AI create the productivity acceleration that is honestly this hoped for in Washington and in the halls of government around the world as a ways to overcome
The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:09 unnamed speaker I know this sounds crazy, but I think at some point states will just say, like people, citizens will be like, why am I sending 30% of every dollar I make to bureaucrats in Washington, uh, that hate me?
The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:40 Jordi Hays Yeah, it's just massive, massive infighting, uh, governors, you know, you know, constantly going to war with, with Washington constantly, right?
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 10:32 John Coogan Despite Washington's scrutiny, TikTok has expanded globally at a rapid clip, including in the US.
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:35 John Coogan So you can actually get from DC to London in like two hours because it's a supersonic jet.
Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:36 Jordi Hays It's hard for him to argue, go over there or go to Washington and argue.
ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:43 unnamed speaker If you partner with them in some ways, like you would expect to get more of a read on where they're spending time in DC, what they're seeing.
Silicon Valley vs The Vatican, Bryan Johnson’s Shroom Trip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:30 unnamed speaker Uh, a lot of people were, like, jumping on the bandwagon, and there was this one by Page, Michael Page, says, Reminder that Mark is bringing this level of serious and nuance on what might be the most complex and high-stakes policy topic of…
Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:56 unnamed speaker You have every incentive to ask your person in Congress and your Senator, the people in Washington to do everything they can to support your mission.
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 20:49 Catherine Boyle Um, but also it's, I just returned from Washington last week, had a host of conversations across the Pentagon, across Congress, and it feels like for the first time in probably 10 years since I've been doing this, that everyone is aligned,… 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 1:25:36 unnamed speaker He was at this dinner in DC.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 1:05 John Coogan President Trump said, uh, the government is taking nearly 10% stake in Intel, capping a two week frenzy in Washington over the future of the company.
- ▶ 5:31 Jordi Hays They immediately contacted the White House for a meeting, and Tan flew to Washington huddling with advisors for hours on Sunday, August
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:57:44 Delian Asparouhov For sure, when it comes into, like, policy, and I'm in D.C., and I, like, need to, you know, sort of report to, you know, the Security Council that, you know, Bill Gurley is a, you know, sort of Chinese spy, and, like, the investments that…
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:31:40 Marc Andreessen And by the way, the president has kind of, you know, thrown down that gauntlet in his, I think the speech he gave last week or two weeks ago, um, you know, where he said that, you know, Washington probably needs to deal, deal with that as…
- ▶ 1:37:16 Marc Andreessen It's, you know, it's obviously a very different political regime in Washington, but, you know, this is, this is not an, you know, by their own statements, this is not an administration that believes in total laissez-faire.
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 26:05 Marc Andreessen And by the way, the president has kind of, you know, thrown down that gauntlet in his, I think the speech he gave last week or two weeks ago, um, you know, where he said that, you know, with Washington probably needs to deal with, deal…
- ▶ 31:40 Marc Andreessen It's, you know, it's obviously a very different political regime in Washington, but, you know, this is, this is not an, you know,
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:10:57 unnamed speaker One of the articles yesterday covering it was the screen, screen grab of him, you know, saluting a crowd in DC or whatever when he originally had the, the allegations.
- ▶ 2:24:54 Ben Thompson Whereas you go back to, like, the Civil Rights era, there was years of groundwork that went into, like, the Million Man March, uh, you know, on Washington DC, and there was a structure in place that ultimately manifested in large crowds.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 1:13:49 Jordi Hays Washington. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 56:10 John Coogan I think are in order, but please get us up to speed on what's actually happening and where, uh, where things are in Washington. 2 times in the scene
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 5:27 Chris Dixon In Washington, they like to say, if you are not at the table, you're on the menu. 2 times in the scene
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 0:13 John Coogan He's leaving Washington. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:48 John Coogan Democrats took credit for Musk's decision to leave Washington, arguing that the extensive litigation and public pressure surrounding Doge forced his hand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 Chris Dixon They say in Washington, they like to say, if you are not at the table, you're on the menu. 2 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 1:56:38 unnamed speaker And so he was running around like the whole DMV area looking for an engineer that could help him build some of these circuits and the hardware and the code and such. 2 times in the scene
We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
- ▶ 4:26 unnamed speaker How has, uh, just the mood around Silicon Valley and Washington changed over your career?
- ▶ 6:01 unnamed speaker Whatever the agenda is, I think the conference is focused on how tech meets Washington and like how we play nice together in the future.
- ▶ 15:38 unnamed speaker What was your kind of DC playbook?
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
- ▶ 0:27 Adam Kovacevich Um, so I, uh, have been doing tech policy in D.C. for 20 years or so. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:37 Adam Kovacevich This is like high season for antitrust right now in DC where I live because the, the, the FTC trial is going on downtown next week, the, the remedies phase of the other Google case starts and then this, and then this one comes down.
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 9:57 unnamed speaker Cultural transformation in Washington right now. 3 times in the scene
The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN
- ▶ 0:09 Calley Means A lot of, a lot of the tech folks have been brushing off the suits these days and coming to DC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Calley Means Yeah, so, so, so I've been an entrepreneur for more than 10 years, but I grew up in D.C., started my career, you know, early on as a lobbyist in the food industry, and we used to weaponize this nanny state argument, um, and say, you know,…
- ▶ 9:54 unnamed speaker And then you get into Washington and it feels like, you know, you, you, you mentioned you started your career.
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 2:22 unnamed speaker Tech is trying to send to DC these days. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 unnamed speaker Silicon Valley is asking for or pitching in DC these days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:46 Delian Asparouhov D.C., what a wonderful place.
- ▶ 20:31 Delian Asparouhov You guys in DC.
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 1:02 Aaron Ginn I have a foundation in DC public policy, think tank. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:13 Aaron Ginn And, and so the Chinese basically invented this narrative and story planted in DC, uh, created this line within the state department that like, well, they couldn't invade Taiwan.
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 1:22 Samuel Hammond Um, we are a tech policy think tank in Washington, DC, originally founded to bridge Silicon Valley and the DC culture. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:31 Samuel Hammond And you know, if there's any sort of big meta narrative or theme to a lot of the right, the tech rights move into DC, it's been, you know, since
- ▶ 27:34 Samuel Hammond Now, TikTok is in our building in DC, so I can, uh, I can try to plan a bug for you if you want.
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