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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…”
Coogan: The Information Reported Amazon's Jassy Raised AI Jailbreak Concerns With White House
“Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. The risk of jailbreaking fable and getting access to all of Anthropic.”
Berkshire Hathaway to buy $10B of Alphabet in $80B capital raise
“Berkshire's buying ten billion worth of shares at a roughly six percent discount from Monday's closing price. Another thirty billion dollars will consist of underwritten public offerings, and the last forty billion will be staggered common stock offerings Begi…”
Coogan: AI cash requirements exceed private markets' financing capacity
“AI's vast consumption of cash is beyond even the capability of private markets, however.”
Coogan: AI cost per completed task will fall by 50% to 90% next year
“The cost per task completed by AI will decrease very quickly. So even if you're spending half a billion per month on AI or tokens today the same output will be available next year, maybe for a 10th of the cost, maybe next year, it's half the cost.”
Coogan: Sanders and AOC introduced bill pausing AI data centers
“The big news today is, of course Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause all AI data center construction.”
Coogan: Legacy Car Companies Are 10 Years Behind Tesla in Autonomy
“Every car company is, like, 10 years behind Tesla. It's crazy that no one, that they haven't been able to figure out how to just, like, clone FSD into Rivian, and GM has Super Cruise, which is nowhere near as effective, because it only works on certain roads.”
Coogan: AI Models Follow the Fat Protocol Thesis Over Applications
“The models feel like they're getting fatter every month and they're sort of eating away at the edges of what you can do with them.”
Snap Cancels Planned $400 Million Deal With Perplexity AI
“Four hundred million dollar deal with perplexity is no longer happening. I guess that's been pulled back on.”
Apple Was the Driving Force Behind Amazon's Globalstar Acquisition
“Apple clearly agrees, because they are not only declining to work with SpaceX, I actually think they were the driving force in this global star deal.”
Coogan: NASA Safety Panel Considers Near-Term Starship Crewed Landing Unachievable
“A NASA safety panel separately raised questions about how quickly SpaceX's human lander, based on its Starship vehicle, would be ready. A landing operation of astronauts with the Starship lander Within the next few years appears daunting and to the panel proba…”
Coogan: MedVi outsources doctors, pharmacy, shipping, and compliance
“So MedV uses two companies, Care Validate and Open Loop Health to handle the doctors, pharmacies, shipping, and compliance, and we'll get into the compliance thing, but, ah, that's a lot of outsourcing, and of course that outsourcing, ah, takes a toll on margi…”
Coogan: MedVi received an FDA warning letter for misbranding
“So Medvi received an FDA warning letter just two months ago for misbranding violations.”
Coogan: MedVi's scale is aggressive marketing, not an AI breakthrough
“Yeah, in general, I think the story is pushing over-aggressive marketing tactics to the limit more than AI allowing low headcount scaling.”
TBPN retains full editorial independence under OpenAI acquisition agreement
“TBPN will continue to run their programming, choose their own guests and make their own editorial decisions. That's foundational to their credibility. And it's something we're explicitly protecting as part of this agreement.”
TBPN will retain complete editorial independence under OpenAI ownership
“A core part of this is editorial independence. We can say whatever we want because we're live and we don't need to run anything through anyone.”
Coogan: Software and interactive games will become the next meme format
“And I think the next version of this is like software as a meme. S-A-A-M, something like that.”
Coogan: Google research finds 20x hardware reduction to break crypto encryption
“Their latest estimate points to a twenty-fold reduction in the quantum computing hardware needed to break what's known as ECDLP- A mathematical problem that helps secure crypto wallets in transactions.”
Coogan: Cursor hit $2B ARR and is growing 25% month-over-month
“I mean, I just, we just saw this with cursor. Everyone's like, cursor's over, it's dead. And then you see, okay, well, they just hit 20 two billion ARR. Oh, growing 25% month over month.”
Travis Kalanick plots new self-driving venture with Uber and Anthony Levandowski
“The news is Travis Kalanick plots new self-driving venture with Lewandowski and Uber. Kalanick has also been discussing acquiring the startup founded by Anthony Lewandowski, who has been developing autonomous software for mining and other industrial use cases.”
Coogan: ByteDance securing 36,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips via Alawani Cloud
“ByteDance is working with a Southeast Asian company called Alawani Cloud on plans to use some 500 Blackwell computing systems totaling around 36,000 B-two hundred chips.”
Coogan: Nvidia captured over 100% of total AI boom profits
“Nvidia basically captures and did for a while more than 100% of the profits from the AI boom, because so many of the other companies in the AI space were losing money.”
Coogan: No frontier model has been trained on older than 5nm hardware
“No frontier model to date has been trained on hardware older than five nanometer.”
Coogan: Block laid off 40% of staff and nearly 70% of engineers
“Most of you have heard about blocks, 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder. We've lost close to 70% of our engineers.”
Coogan: Private companies should have little say over government product use
“My assumption is that, ah, the private company should have very little say in how the government uses those products”
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…”
Coogan: Supply chain risk labels have only targeted foreign companies
“It's only been used for foreign countries. Kaspersky Labs was a Russian cybersecurity company that was deemed to be a supply chain threat. Huawei is a supply chain risk because of the five G towers that could potentially have back doors.”
Coogan: Amodei used classified contracts to restrict military AI
“He clearly believes that, that the Department of War should not be using AI broadly, and then he was trying to use his contract as a way to sort of enforce that, because he has that leadership position with the most deep integration to classified systems.”
Coogan: History of open source suggests vibe coding will not kill SaaS
“Open source has always been this like pressure on SaaS, And it's always withstood that, and like, yeah, maybe, like, if you can just prompt it, and it feels like emailing your SaaS provider to reconfigure things, like, that is a real pressure, but I think it's…”
Coogan: Keeping kids off social media is a parenting skill issue
“And it does feel like a parenting skill issue a little bit, like, you know, it is possible to keep kids away from social media if you are an, you know, an active parent, but at the same time I don't know”
Coogan: Agentic commerce is just a front end for Shopify checkout
“Agent and Commerce doesn't replace Shopify checkout. It's just a front end to the checkout.”
Coogan: Anthropic reached $14 billion in revenue after 10x yearly growth
“We've all seen the revenue chart, 10 X growth four years in a row, a hundred million, a billion, now fourteen billion.”
Coogan: AI agents will damage SaaS companies relying on switching-cost moats
“At the same time, the coding model is as remarkable as they are. They'll reshuffle the economics of tech. We're seeing this with the SaaSpocalypse. Certain companies will be stronger beneficiaries of AI. Others will be Damaged because maybe their only moat was…”
Coogan: SpaceX is planning an IPO raising up to $50B at $1.5T valuation
“SpaceX is planning an IPO that could raise as much as fifty billion and value the company at 1.5 trillion.”
Coogan: World models will compete directly with Roblox and Fortnite long term
“Definitely competitive in the long term. In the medium term, like, super good for prototyping and communication, and this is a key flow to, okay, you have an idea, and you don't just wanna You know, generate a basic image of the game that you're trying to buil…”
DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation into Deel Over Rippling Espionage Allegations
“The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation. Grand jury subpoenas were sent out in recent weeks.”
OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor admits AI is 'probably a bubble'
“Opening eye chair, Brad Taylor, says AI is quote, probably a bubble, expects a corruption in the coming years.”
Coogan: Blue Owl private credit fund received redemption requests for 15% of shares
“One managed by Blue Owl got redemptions for about 15% of its shares.”
Coogan: SpaceX is hiring BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for IPO
“SpaceX is set to hire Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley to lead its IPO.”
Kuaishou claims its Kling AI video platform is gross margin positive
“Interestingly, Kwai Show claims that Kling is gross margin positive.”
Musk Legal Team Seeks $134B in Damages from OpenAI
“It's gonna be a hundred and thirty four billion dollars in damages is what Elon is seeking. Musk's legal team argues that his early funding and involvement materially contributed to OpenAI's rise, which is now valued at five hundred billion, and he wants a sli…”
Coogan: AI providers will eventually pay Apple to route search queries
“Now my real hot take is that I think it's going to flip at some point. And I think Google or someone else is going to pay Apple To route LLM queries to them, because with the universal commerce protocol, agentic commerce protocol with ads and LLM responses, th…”
Coogan: Declining inference costs and monetization will make LLM queries net profitable
“I think the price of inference will continue to decline, and the value of each query, the monetization of each query will Increase until there's a flippening. And then all of a sudden, every LLM query that's generated is on net across the entire category, gene…”
Coogan: Court ruled Apple fees must match actual link-facilitation costs
“Anyway, the court ruled that Apple can't do that anymore. They can only collect fees that are in line with actual costs of facilitating links.”
Coogan: Founders Fund's SpaceX bet may become greatest VC investment ever
“Well, we should read through some of the history about Founders Fund's investment in SpaceX, because it might be one of the greatest, it might be, it might become the greatest venture capital investment of all time.”
Coogan: Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing IP to Sora
“Disney, which is investing one billion dollars in OpenAI and is going to license their characters for use in Sora.”