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Elon Musk and Ari Emanuel submitted a bid to buy OpenAI
“Musk made a bid with Ari Emanuel and some other companies. That's right, to buy the whole company.”
Isaac: Burchall Testified Musk's OpenAI Bid Aimed to Establish Valuation
“Burchall in court was saying this was us trying to sort of establish a pricing mechanism to like value the actual entity itself”
Manus team members were briefly detained in China during Meta talks
“Then some members of the Manus team were detained briefly in China on business.”
Filipino call center employment grew 4% in 2025 despite AI
“As Benjamin Todd put it, it's hard to think of a more AI exposed job than Filipino call centers, but oddly, in 20, 25, employment was up four percent”
Huang: China produces at least 60% of mainstream chips
“They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more.”
Huang: China has 50% of global AI researchers
“As you know, most of the AI researchers in all of these AI labs, most of them are Chinese. They have 50% of the world's AI researchers”
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.”
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…”
Hays: Suspect in Sam Altman attack was consuming AI doom material
“The notable about Friday, the attacker from Friday is just, they were sharing all of the you know, if anyone, all the A.I. Doom material. They were clearly consume, consuming it.”
Dunn: 90% of Chicago VC alpha and funding comes from the coasts
“90% of the alpha for Chicago-based venture firms is created on the coasts, right? And 90% of the capital that the leading Chicago companies raise is from the coasts.”
CZ: Illicit Activity Percentage in Crypto Is Far Lower Than in Traditional Finance
“The truth is actually if you look at percentage wise, illicit activities in crypto is actually much, much less than your traditional finance.”
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: 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.”
Kim: CoreWeave sees GPUs lasting six years and retaining 95% pricing
“Like CoreWeave has talked about these things are lasting five to six years and they're getting like almost 90, 95% of the pricing.”
Kim: Rental capacity for six-year-old GPUs remains completely sold out
“Like, all the GPU rental prices, even for stuff that's six years old, Is still being sold out and it the AI compute demand outpacing supply is so large that this is not an issue right now.”
Hays: Sanders and AOC Introduce AI Data Center Moratorium Act
“Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a new bill, the AI data center moratorium act of 2026, that if enacted would require all current and planned data centers to halt Construction slash production. It even, it would even block upgrading existin…”
Novak: LA jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for algorithmic addiction
“Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury, both meta and YouTube liable Wah, wah. For a twenty-year-old woman's mental health crisis in a bellwether trial that treated platforms as, quote, defective products, and potentially marks the end to the absolute immunity nature o…”
Shkreli: Gray-market peptide users are mostly wealthy people in SF and NY
“The people that are take peptides and have these peptide stacks are mostly people in SF, maybe New York. They're very wealthy people. They don't know what the rest of the world looks like. Nobody else in middle, middle America is excited to do this.”
Marchione: Millions of patients have taken BPC-157 from thousands of doctors
“My statement is thousands do this. My other statement is that millions of patients have taken this. At least hundreds of thousands, I believe millions, have taken this.”
Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise a $100B AI fund.
“Jeff Bezos in talks to raise a hundred billion for AI manufacturing fund. The Amazon founders traveled to the Middle East Singapore in fundraising after linked to Project Prometheus.”
Cuban: Foreign Sellers Have Structural Cost and IP Advantages on Amazon
“Because any, whether it's China or Vietnam, any country, if you're outside the United States, you immediately have a cost advantage, not the manufacturing, but just from an IP, from a, and from an Amazon cost perspective.”
Hays: Early Teams With No Product Can Raise Up to $1 Billion
“Right now a lot of easy money everywhere, right? There's teams that have built nothing that can raise between 50 to a billion dollars at times.”
Jon Ma: AI enabled single individual to assemble biotech workflow
“Instead of requiring multiple experts, a motivated individual was able to assemble the workflow with AI acting as a kind of guide through the technical landscape.”
Dylan Patel: GPT-5.4 TAM Exceeds $100B, Meets Microsoft-OpenAI AGI Clause
“Dylan Patel said on Dorkesh, the TAM for GPC 5.4 is north of a hundred billion dollars, but there's adoption lag. That's considered AGI as far as the Microsoft OpenAI contract is concerned.”
Hays: Reuters Reports Meta Planning Layoffs of 20% or More
“Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset AI infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought by AI assisted workers.”
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.”
Elon Musk leverages SpaceX equity to recruit talent for xAI
“Elon has the advantage of being able to use SpaceX stock to recruit people.”
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.”
Hays: Trump administration drafting rules to control all AI chip exports
“The Trump administration is drafting rules that would require U.S. Approval for nearly all AI chip exports.”
Hays: Anthropic objected to AI use in Maduro raid
“Anthropic had taken issue with how their products were used in the Maduro raid.”
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.”
Hays: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Are Terminating Anthropic Products
“The US federal housing, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are also terminating the use of anthropic products, which was announced this morning.”
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…”
Hays: Emil Michael claimed Dario Amodei skipped a critical defense call
“Emil Michael came out Friday night and said, it was five, 13, 13 minutes past the deadline. I'm trying to get in touch with Anthropic. I try to get on the phone with Dario. Dario says he's in a meeting.”
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.”
Block's 40 percent staff reduction is the largest in S&P 500 history
“It is the largest layoff as a percentage of the overall workforce in S&P 500 history.”
Hays: Anthropic Abandons AI Safety Pauses if Rivals Release Comparable Models
“Anthropic previously paused development work on its model. If it could be Classified as dangerous, but it said it would end that practice if a comparable or superior model was released by a competitor, given that they are at the frontier, that kind of opens th…”
Hays: Hackers Used Claude to Breach 195M Mexican Government Records
“Hackers use Claude to steal a 150 gigabytes of Mexican government data. They told Claude they're doing a bug bounty. Claude initially refused. A hacker just kept asking and manages to successfully steal some documents. Apparently, it's four state governments, …”
Karp's $17.2M jet spending dwarfs Meta and Palo Alto Networks CEOs
“Notably, this 17.2 figures more than double carp's executive aircraft expense in 2024 and appears elevated relative to peers with Meta CEO spending 1.8 million and Palo Alto Network CEO spending 2.4 million.”
Meta patents AI system to simulate deceased users on video calls
“Meta has obtained a patent for an AI system that could simulate deceased users by analyzing their historical data, allowing the account to keep posting, messaging, and even making video calls in their behavioral style.”
Hays: Over half of businesses using freelancers in 2022 stopped entirely
“More than half of the businesses using freelancers in twenty-twenty-two have stopped entirely.”
Hays: Top freelance-hiring companies shifted to AI and saw 97% savings
“The companies that used to spend the most on freelancers shifted to AI the fastest, 97% savings for the businesses that spent the most on freelance.”
Anthropic restricts Claude OAuth tokens exclusively to its first-party apps
“In the Cloud Code docs, OAuth, and OAuth authentication, which is used with the Free, Pro, and Max plans, is intended exclusively for Cloud Code and Cloud.ai. Using OAuth tokens obtained through Cloud Free, Pro, or Max accounts in any other product, tool, or s…”