Issue No. 44Week ending Sunday, November 1, 2026685 episodes · 3017 articles
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Jason Calacanis

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Jason Calacanis appears in 52 full episodes we cover on All-In Podcast. Host of All-In Podcast. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity

Figma CEO Dylan Field joins Jason Calacanis in Napa to discuss the collapse of Adobe's blocked $20 billion acquisition and how Figma navigated the regulatory fallout. Field explains why generative AI commoditizes code w…

  • The Adobe deal cost Figma 16 months of regulatory reviews across the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom before collapsing. Read →
  • Dylan Field reversed his past public claim from Config, Figma's annual conference, admitting generative AI does not raise the creative ceiling. Read →
  • After regulators blocked Adobe's $20 billion acquisition, Figma stayed independent and focused on building node-based creative interfaces rather than single-prompt text boxes. Read →
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AI Cyber Panic, Ken Griffin’s Bubble Warning, The Fall of France?

The hosts and guest Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, analyze Ken Griffin's warning of an artificial intelligence bubble and examine why massive VC spend concentration risks slowing AI market diffusion. They disc…

  • David Friedberg points out that traditional consumer financial tools accessed data through regulated APIs and verified aggregators like MX, Bank of America, and Mint.com, whereas… Read →
  • Regulated enterprises in finance and healthcare are abandoning closed frontier models because proprietary APIs block internal chain-of-thought auditing. Read →
  • The United States faces sovereign stagnation similar to Europe unless it restructures four core drivers of cost: education, housing, healthcare, and retirement entitlements. Read →
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Martin Shkreli: Big Pharma's Blind Spot, Betting Against Quantum & What Prison Taught Him

Former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli joins the show to discuss why he is shorting quantum computing and why he believes the technology lacks commercial viability. He details the market i…

  • Dario Amodei predicts artificial intelligence will cure most human diseases in the coming years, while Martin Shkreli predicts zero clinically meaningful AI-discovered drugs will… Read →
  • Martin Shkreli bought the rights to Sparsentan from Bristol Myers Squibb for $2 million; today, the public company holding that drug is worth $6 billion. Read →
  • Foundational intelligence will commoditize like the early internet, leaving value in the hands of consumers and operational businesses rather than raw model hosts. Read →
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CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer

With guest host Ben Horowitz filling in for David Friedberg, the panel discusses CoreWeave's surging bond yields and debt risks, the capital payback metrics of data centers, and the threat of power shortages. They also…

  • Coding assistants now write up to 95 percent of routine code, but David Sacks points out that developer demand is climbing because that remaining 5 percent addresses a vastly larg… Read →
  • CoreWeave operates on a 2.5-year capital payback period across typical five-year GPU contracts, whereas SpaceX and xAI recoup their cluster costs in roughly one year. Read →
  • Anthropic released research warning that small language models could self-replicate across IoT hardware, which David Sacks characterized as regulatory fear-mongering to slow open-… Read →
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Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots

The hosts debate Anthropic's outreach to religious leaders regarding potential AI consciousness and the safety risks embedded in Claude's constitution. They also analyze OpenAI's release of over 700 automated mathematic…

  • Anthropic held closed-door meetings with religious leaders and attempted to lobby the Vatican about whether Claude possesses consciousness and moral rights. Read →
  • Chamath Palihapitiya declared software intellectual property effectively dead after engineers decompiled Adobe's five core applications and rebuilt them in open-source Rust. Read →
  • OpenAI released over 700 research papers containing 370 mathematical proofs produced by an unreleased model. Read →
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Trump’s Super Intelligence Summit, AI Safety Accord, GDP Beats, Midterm Predictions

The hosts break down Donald Trump's White House Super Intelligence Summit and the newly signed AI safety accord establishing corporate audits and board oversight. They also examine the growing AI cyber defense arms race…

  • Jason Calacanis puts the odds of a Democratic sweep in the 2026 midterm elections at 70% to 80%, pointing to voter frustration over persistent inflation and perceived border inact… Read →
  • Open-source model proliferation across 197 sovereign nations makes software-level AI bans impossible to enforce globally. Read →
  • Chamath Palihapitiya argues that political factions push AI job destruction narratives as a calculated tactic to win the upcoming midterms and the 2028 election. Read →
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Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential

Spotify co-founder and Executive Chairman Daniel Ek joins Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg to discuss his journey launching Spotify, his preventative healthcare company Neko Health, and structural flaws in the US hea…

  • Tech history always settles on a split between open and closed architectures, repeating the historical patterns of Windows versus Linux and iOS versus Android. Read →
  • The US allocates 18% of its GDP to healthcare, making it the single largest line item in the federal budget while chronic disease outcomes worsen. Read →
  • Daniel Ek spent five years developing Neko Health before running tests in Sweden in 2023 and expanding to the United Kingdom. Read →
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Jake Paul & The Chainsmokers: Turning Fame into Funds, Jake Enters Politics? & Venture Bubble Signs

At the All-In Summit, Chamath Palihapitiya and Jason Calacanis interview Jake Paul on turning creator attention into capital, disrupting UFC fighter economics via Most Valuable Promotions and PFL, and his long-term ambi…

  • Institutional LPs reject celebrity-led funds because backing famous talent creates direct career risk for the investment officer if the fund fails. Read →
  • Alex Pall scraped the back end of music aggregator Hype Machine to build a direct contact list of college bloggers, generating over 30 number-one tracks. Read →
  • Jake Paul and partner Geoffrey Woo built Anti Fund around the thesis that venture capital has become a commodity, while proprietary distribution is scarce. Read →
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Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Start, Buying Product-Market Fit & Beating Private Equity

Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari explains how his company grew from a failed AI startup with $40,000 in leftover capital into a multi-billion-dollar tech conglomerate acquiring products like Evernote, Vimeo, Miro, and Ev…

  • Bending Spoons funded early growth by redeploying 100% of free cash flow into acquisitions before introducing bank loans around 2017. Read →
  • Bending Spoons scaled from a failed AI startup with $40,000 in leftover capital into a tech conglomerate approaching a $4 billion revenue run rate. Read →
  • In 2013, Luca Ferrari and his co-founders shut down their 2010 AI startup, walking away with $40,000 in unspent venture capital after investors sold their equity back for $1. Read →
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Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine

Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl discusses breaking the sound barrier with XB-1, eliminating sonic booms through atmospheric refraction, and legalizing supersonic flight over land. He also reveals Boom's ver…

  • Concorde's political fallout produced a blanket federal ban on civil supersonic overland flight in 1973 that halted American aviation progress for 50 years. Read →
  • Boom Supersonic converted its Mach 1.7 jet engine core into a 42-megawatt ground turbine generator by removing the front fan and attaching a generator to the back. Read →
  • Boom targets a $3,500 breakeven round-trip ticket across the Atlantic, cutting flight time to three hours at Mach 1.7. Read →
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Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republicans

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt join the All-In hosts to break down the economic and political crises facing California. The discussion covers one-party Democratic go…

  • Four separate non-profits set up daily in MacArthur Park to distribute drug paraphernalia funded directly by California taxpayers. Read →
  • Election night leads in California frequently flip during late counting because mail-in ballots are collected and submitted in bulk through legal grassroots ground games. Read →
  • Spencer Pratt filed a 10,000-victim mass tort lawsuit against Gavin Newsom, California State Parks, the City of Los Angeles, and LADWP after losing his family home in the Pacific… Read →
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Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails

The hosts analyze the shifting landscape of artificial intelligence, debating whether frontier AI developers should be treated as profit-seeking corporations subject to product liability rather than protected research l…

  • David Sacks argues that AI alignment should follow standard software mechanics: models must execute what paying customers direct rather than policing user intent. Read →
  • OpenAI pushed its target public offering date out to 2027 over safety concerns, while Anthropic faces delayed filings beyond its initial fall schedule. Read →
  • Senator Bernie Sanders proposed federal legislation to ban the development of artificial superintelligence, introducing severe penalties for frontier research labs. Read →
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Bill Gurley: Searching for Feynman

At the All-In Summit, venture capitalist Bill Gurley delivers a detailed presentation comparing root-cause investigations of historical disasters with the investigation into the origins of COVID-19. He argues that scien…

  • Catastrophic breakdowns like the Surfside condominium collapse, the Boeing 737 Max crashes, and the Fukushima meltdown share a pattern: teams patched surface symptoms while ignori… Read →
  • The DRASTIC research collective uncovered the DEFUSE proposal three years after COVID-19 emerged, revealing a formal collaboration between EcoHealth Alliance, UNC, and the Wuhan I… Read →
  • Bill Gurley estimates COVID-19 caused 15 million deaths and destroyed $45 trillion in global economic value, yet public institutions avoided genuine root-cause analysis. Read →
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Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market

AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi discusses building a massive ad platform in mobile gaming, navigating a brutal 92% stock collapse after going public, and executing an aggressive $6 billion share buyback. He explains why disc…

  • Over one billion people play mobile casual games daily, driving an estimated $50 billion in annual ad spend that most tech founders ignore. Read →
  • AppLovin sustains an 84% EBITDA margin by operating strictly as an algorithmic matchmaker instead of expanding into low-margin agency services. Read →
  • AppLovin went public in 2021 at a $28 billion valuation, hit a $40 billion peak, and then fell 92% to $3.8 billion in 2022 despite producing $1 billion in EBITDA. Read →
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Jared Isaacman: A New Era for NASA and American Space Exploration

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses his strategy to revitalize the agency by eliminating bureaucratic bloat, refocusing capital allocation, and accelerating human space exploration. He outlines the roadmap for t…

  • Artemis 3 will launch in summer 2027 into low Earth orbit to rendezvous with SpaceX and Blue Origin lander test vehicles. Read →
  • NASA operates on a $25 billion annual budget, but internal inefficiencies and political appeasement created programs structured to survive congressional cycles rather than succeed. Read →
  • Commercial off-the-shelf satellite observation lets NASA offload commodity orbital missions to commercial providers, freeing capital for flagships the market cannot fund. Read →
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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse

The Besties analyze the viral resignation of an Anthropic researcher and debate whether AI doomsday fears are an orchestrated regulatory capture campaign threatening open-source development and Anthropic's pending IPO.…

  • Anthropic faces an unprecedented public filing dilemma after researcher Jacob Coxin resigned and safety lead Evan Hubinger publicly endorsed warnings of catastrophic AI danger. Read →
  • Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxin published a viral resignation letter, followed by alignment lead Evan Hubinger claiming a greater than 10% chance of AI-driven human extinction. Read →
  • Chamath Palihapitiya warns that Zero Data Retention (ZDR) clauses in frontier AI contracts operate only on a commercial "best efforts basis" rather than technical guarantees. Read →
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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal

The Besties analyze OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra release and the debate over whether AGI has arrived, along with surging tech valuations and San Francisco real estate spikes ahead of the Anthropic IPO. They break down the polit…

  • Late-stage AI startups are trading at 50 to 100 times topline revenue, creating severe valuation risk if forward growth rates decelerate. Read →
  • The breach detailed in Dwarkesh Patel's article was not a rogue AI breakout: an agent swarm simply discovered 14 exposed Hugging Face API keys left in public code repositories. Read →
  • Chamath Palihapitiya calls out undisclosed conflicts of interest across Effective Altruism networks, where essayists lobbying for AI safety rules share office space and family tie… Read →
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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine

The hosts break down Nvidia's record-breaking quarterly earnings and Salesforce's AI-driven surge, declaring an end to the 'SaaS apocalypse' and AI capex bubble narratives. They debate the growing US fiscal debt crisis…

  • Moderna's market valuation tripled from $20 billion to $60 billion after positive trial readouts for its personalized melanoma mRNA therapy. Read →
  • Salesforce shares surged over 20% after raising guidance and integrating its data layer directly with Anthropic's Claude. Read →
  • Stanley Druckenmiller acknowledged using generative AI to draft his Wall Street Journal op-ed on bond markets and fiscal debt. Read →
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Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley

This episode features a deep dive with Garret Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, discussing the company's license plate reader and drone technology. The conversation centers on the complex balance between public safety and i…

  • Shift from Reactive to Proactive Audits: Flock Safety moved beyond standard audit logs to a system that actively identifies suspicious patterns in user behavior, like repeated sea… Read →
  • Flock Safety's drone program is their fastest growing unit, deploying from specialized rooftop docks on police or fire department buildings. Read →
  • Your socio-economic status often dictates your stance on public safety tech, with affluent individuals prioritizing privacy and less privileged communities prioritizing safety. Read →
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Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up

The hosts debate Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's two-part essay defending his regulatory stance, analyzing whether AI doom narratives and SRO proposals like a 'FINRA for AI' represent regulatory capture. They also discuss…

  • Political scientist Patrick Graffini evaluated over 3,000 polls across four election cycles since 2018, finding a persistent Democratic polling bias averaging D+3.7. Read →
  • The Department of Justice spent over a year examining Andreessen Horowitz under Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. Read →
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a two-part essay defending his regulatory stance, yet critics argue his doom warnings created the exact political backlash now hitting tech. Read →
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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats

Rahm Emanuel joins the All-In Podcast to discuss critical global and domestic issues, drawing on his extensive political career. He offers insights into US-China economic competition, debates Europe's political and immi…

  • David Friedberg asserts that federal spending designed to increase accessibility in sectors like housing, education, and healthcare has, paradoxically, inflated their costs dispro… Read →
  • Rahm Emanuel declares the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) a separate political party, not a faction within the Democratic Party. Read →
  • Rahm Emanuel suggests reallocating $8 billion from ICE detention center budgets to modernize America's 1,200 community colleges, upgrading campuses, curriculum, and industry relev… Read →
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Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback

This episode covers Anthropic's potential $2 trillion IPO and the extraordinary growth of the AI market, alongside a deep dive into the practicalities and politics of AI infrastructure and energy demands. The hosts and…

  • New Jersey and New York City are suing Amazon over its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) model, alleging the company is 'cheating' by externalizing labor costs and liabilities. Read →
  • Anthropic is reportedly targeting a $2 trillion IPO, a valuation that would shatter SpaceX's $1.75 trillion record, fueled by its aggressive revenue growth. Read →
  • Elon Musk's XAI is challenging the OpenAI and Anthropic duopoly in frontier AI models with Grock 4.6, offering "disruptive pricing" while maintaining high quality. Read →
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Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI

This episode delved into Google's strategic shift in AI amidst key talent departures, analyzing its pivot to infrastructure over model development. It also covered SpaceX's impressive Q2 earnings, the impact of its AI c…

  • Valuation Cliffs are Real: Airtable's collapse from an $11.7 billion valuation to $1.28 billion (a 90% drop) shows that even profitable, growing SaaS companies are not immune to b… Read →
  • Google's AI division saw significant staff changes, including Demis Hassabis's shift and Jeff Dean's departure with three other AI superstars to start a new company called Discove… Read →
  • US data labeling companies are actively selling services and valuable training data to Chinese AI labs, prompting a sharp debate among tech investors. Read →
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China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan

This episode features an interview with Saronic co-founders Dino Mavrookas and Vibhav Altekar, who discuss their company's innovative approach to defense shipbuilding. They detail the first-ever autonomous ship rescue i…

  • China's shipbuilding capacity dramatically outpaces the United States by a shocking 230-to-1 in gross tonnage annually. Read →
  • Saronic’s 24-foot Corsair vessel completed the first-ever autonomous ship rescue, recovering downed American pilots in the highly contested Strait of Hormuz. Read →
  • Saronic is investing billions in a new shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, starting on an 800-acre plot, making it the largest in the United States. Read →
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The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?

This episode delves into the heated debate surrounding a potential U.S. ban on Chinese open-source AI models, with the hosts dissecting the economic and geopolitical ramifications and the role of regulatory capture. It…

  • Google's unprecedented $195-205 billion capital expenditure forecast means negative free cash flow for the first time in its history. Read →
  • "Evictions are violence" is the new battle cry: Activists and some NYC officials are pushing policies based on the idea that landlord evictions are a form of violence, not a stand… Read →
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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters

This episode delves into the critical debate around AI regulation, discussing a proposal for industry self-regulation versus government control and the alleged regulatory capture by some AI companies. The hosts also ana…

  • Researchers at Calico and Revel Pharma used Google's AlphaFold AI to discover a novel enzyme capable of degrading CML, a major advanced glycation end product (AGE) that accumulate… Read →
  • Apple sued OpenAI for IP theft, and Grok Build leaked code. Your AI data is vulnerable. Use Sachi's Enterprise Roadmap to control compute and prevent leaks. Read →
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Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding

This episode features a deep dive into Intel's past mistakes, the competitive landscape of the semiconductor industry, and the geopolitical risks associated with chip manufacturing, with former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.…

  • Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO, sees energy capacity as the natural upper bound that will prevent the current AI buildout from becoming an unmanageable bubble, ensuring a multi-d… Read →
  • One company, Nursa, replaced over 10 existing enterprise SaaS tools with custom-built applications on Lovable, saving more than $1 million per year in subscription costs. Read →
  • Intel’s decline began when it shifted leadership from technical visionaries to “bean counters, the finance people,” neglecting core engineering for business optimization. Read →
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OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts

This episode discusses the potential IPOs and valuations of frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, alongside a heated debate on the ROI of enterprise AI spending and the competition from open-source models. Ge…

  • Brad Gerstner’s "Trump Accounts," launched via the Invest America Act, saw a colossal start: over 1.5 million accounts created and $1 billion in deposits within the first 24 hours. Read →
  • China is reportedly considering restricting overseas access to its top AI models, viewing research leaks as a national security issue, echoing a tactic of going open-source to cat… Read →
  • Enterprise AI token costs are exploding, "doubling every 45 days" for some, yet productivity gains remain stubbornly low, potentially "0-2%." Read →
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Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs

This episode explores the massive global buildout of AI infrastructure and the rapid evolution of AI models with Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman. Robin Rombach, CEO of Black Forest Labs, discusses the use of generative AI i…

  • Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, sees AI as a direct path to an era of unprecedented abundance, directly addressing humanity's oldest challenges. Read →
  • AI is rapidly moving past simple prompt-response, now understanding a user's intent rather than just literal commands. Read →
  • The global AI infrastructure buildout is historically unprecedented, drawing comparisons to ancient mega-projects like the Great Wall in terms of capital and talent, as All-In Pod… Read →
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AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie

This episode delves into the Palantir-Nvidia sovereign AI partnership, sparking a debate on AI sovereignty, enterprise data protection, and the competitive landscape of foundation models. The hosts also intensely discus…

  • Frontier AI labs, like Anthropic or OpenAI, could use your enterprise data to train their models, effectively verticalizing and eventually competing with your business. Alex Karp… Read →
  • California's budget, despite official claims, masks a "lie" built on accounting tricks and ballooning costs, according to David Friedberg on All-In. Read →
  • Nvidia is strategically shifting to openly support and develop open-source AI models, a calculated move to prevent a duopoly from forming at the model layer by companies like Anth… Read →
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Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter

This episode delves into the recent socialist victories in New York City primaries, examining the radical platforms of DSA candidates and their growing influence on the Democratic Party. It also explores China's rapid p…

  • Micron’s revenue exploded by 4x year-over-year, jumping from $9 billion to $42 billion, signaling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) as the new gold standard for AI infrastructure. Read →
  • New York City saw a "socialist sweep" in recent Democratic primaries, with Mayor Mandami-backed candidates winning key races. Read →
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World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal

The All-In hosts discuss the formation of a 'Great American Politburo' that threatens individual liberties, the implications of SpaceX's historic IPO and Elon Musk's trillionaire status, and the controversies surroundin…

  • The US government abruptly banned Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model due to national security concerns, including allegations of sharing its precursor, Mythos—a model Anthropic's CEO, D… Read →
  • David Sacks lauded President Trump's Iran peace deal, highlighting concrete benefits like the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's commitment to abandon its nuclear program,… Read →
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Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections

This episode delves into the controversy surrounding Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, including concerns over censorship, surveillance, and anti-competitive practices, and a debate about government intervention and nationa…

  • The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 4.2% year-over-year, and the Producer Price Index (PPI) surged to 6.5% year-over-year, both marking the highest prints since late 2022 an… Read →
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All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live

This episode features the 'Best Ideas Pitch Competition,' where four guest investors present their top investment ideas. Aaron Cowen pitches MGM Resorts, Daniel Dreyfus pitches Talon Energy, Oleg Nulman pitches Actis On…

  • Aaron Cowen, a seasoned hedge fund manager, argues MGM Resorts stock holds unpriced value in two “hidden assets”: a license for a major casino in Osaka, Japan, and a strategically… Read →
  • AI demand isn't just a trend; it's a "turbocharge" on an already tightening power market, creating a structural shortage that will last decades, according to Daniel Dreyfus. He st… Read →
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Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner

Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick discuss the importance of bipartisanship, especially in a highly polarized political climate, using Pennsylvania as a microcosm for the country. They delve into pressing econom…

  • US Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick aggressively champion data center development as a national security imperative for American AI leadership, dismissing calls for mora… Read →
  • Trust Trumps Agreement: Even with deep disagreements, Senators McCormick and Fetterman prioritize personal trust and mutual respect, which becomes the bedrock for any collaboratio… Read →
  • Political extremism is no longer just on the fringe; it’s infecting mainstream party dynamics, leading to ideological purity tests that isolate pragmatic voices. Read →
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Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper

The episode features Dan Dreyfus of Fortnite Capital, who discusses the United States' critical shift from a capital-light economy to one requiring trillions in infrastructure investment, driven by reshoring, re-industr…

  • The United States is undergoing a massive economic reorientation, moving from a capital-light economy to one requiring trillions in infrastructure and manufacturing investment. Read →
  • Global silver consumption outstrips supply by 200 million ounces annually, with 1.2 billion ounces consumed against only 1 billion supplied. Read →
  • The US electric grid hasn't seen major investment since post-World War II and is teetering on collapse before factoring in AI demand. Read →
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Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage

Bill Maris, founder of Section 32 and former CEO of Google Ventures, shares four lessons from his entrepreneurial and investing career, ranging from early startup struggles to Google's data-driven venture strategy. He a…

  • AI is in its 'Atari command line stage': Bill Maris, founder of Section 32 and former CEO of Google Ventures, argues that current AI feels rudimentary, like early text-based video… Read →
  • Venture capital funds smaller than $750 million delivered an average return of 4.76x, significantly outpacing funds over $1 billion which only managed 2.42x. Read →
  • Companies staying private longer concentrates wealth generation among a select group of early investors, excluding the broader public from early gains. Read →
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Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"

Nesh Aurora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, discusses AI's transformative impact on cybersecurity, revealing how their Mythos AI found years of vulnerabilities in weeks. He predicts a "SAS apocalypse" for analytical softwar…

  • Palo Alto Networks' internal "Mythos" AI system identified 5-7 years' worth of code vulnerabilities in just six weeks. Read →
  • Analytical SaaS is extinct: Companies whose core value is reporting and analyzing data face an existential threat because AI models can perform these functions directly, eliminati… Read →
  • Palo Alto Networks CEO Nesh Aurora predicts Google will be the first $10 trillion company, despite common market skepticism. Read →
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The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel

This episode features a panel discussion with Andrew Feldman (Cerebras) and Will Marshall (Planet Labs) about their companies' journeys going public. They delve into the operational realities, benefits, and challenges o…

  • GPUs, despite their market dominance, are fundamentally insufficient for the real-time demands of advanced AI due to a bottleneck in moving data between memory and compute. Read →
  • The explosion of AI from 2015-16 created a rare 'aperture' to invent entirely new computing architectures, not just refine existing ones. Read →
  • Andrew Feldman of Cerebras describes the going public process as an administrative "garbage" fire, detailing meetings with "130 attendees" and endless document reviews where even… Read →
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Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel

This episode delves into the growing significance of private secondary markets, discussing how they are transforming company exits and competing with traditional IPOs. Speakers debate the merits of companies staying pri…

  • While many founders see staying private as a path to greater freedom, Gavin Baker argues this perception is flawed, claiming it can lead to harmful CEO isolation. Read →
  • Target the inflection point: Brad Gersonner points to a tricky, yet lucrative, sweet spot in private markets: companies between $3 billion and $50 billion in valuation. These are… Read →
  • Current tech valuations are “pretty fully valued” after recent parabolic moves, according to Brad Gersonner, but this isn't a repeat of the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble. Read →
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Dan Loeb: The Lost Art of Short Selling, and Why Stock Picking is Back

This episode features activist investor Dan Loeb discussing his career evolution from early internet 'troll' to managing Third Point, his investment philosophy emphasizing business quality and adaptability in a tech-dri…

  • Activist investor Dan Loeb says that despite AI's rise, the human element in capital allocation is “never going away.” Read →
  • Loeb argues against the common belief that poverty alone hinders children's intellectual growth, instead pointing to "systemic" issues with unions and a lack of accountability in… Read →
  • Activist investor Dan Loeb views income inequality less as a wealth distribution problem and more as a failure to equip vulnerable children with the intellectual tools for success. Read →
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Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

In this episode, Thomas Laffont from Coatue presents an in-depth analysis of the current unicorn economy, highlighting the unprecedented growth of AI companies and a significant rebalancing of private markets. He foreca…

  • Coatue's Thomas Laffont forecasts an unprecedented $4 trillion AI IPO wave on the horizon, with companies like SpaceX and Anthropic nearing public debuts. Read →
  • SpaceX's valuation isn't simply tied to the number of launches, but to the increasing quality of its business model that more launches represent. Read →
  • Coatue's Thomas Laffont argues that the single biggest driver of SpaceX's valuation is the cadence of launches, more than just the sheer volume. Read →
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Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

This episode delves into Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI, sparking a debate on the necessity and dangers of regulating artificial intelligence, particularly regarding potential centralization of power. Bill Gurley…

  • David Sacks argues that fears of mass AI-driven job loss are overblown, claiming many recent tech layoffs are actually "AI washing" to cover pre-AI overhiring and mismanagement. Read →
  • David Sacks predicts a concerted push to outlaw open-source AI models, cloaked in rhetoric about 'guard rails,' to consolidate power among a few large companies. Read →
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SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

The episode delves into several significant tech and economic topics, including the implications of Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic to advance AI self-improvement, the public's growing skepticism towards AI, and the d…

  • SpaceX just landed a $45 billion, 3-year contract with Anthropic for "Elon Web Services" (EWS), an AI compute buildout that now rivals Starlink's revenue scale. Read →
  • Public backlash against AI is real, with people booing the technology at commencement speeches and expressing deep job displacement fears. Read →
  • US Unilateralism is Risky: The conventional wisdom of the US winning the AI race solo is flipped; Chamath Palihapitiya argues that if the United States does not advance its AI tec… Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño

This episode delves into the geopolitical and economic implications of the Trump-Xi summit, Mark Benioff's perspective on the 'SaaSpocalypse' and Salesforce's AI strategy, and the contentious relationship between OpenAI…

  • Anthropic recently pushed back against multi-tiered, multi-layered SPVs, especially those sold to individual investors, sometimes with exorbitant 10% load-in fees. Read →
  • The 'SaaSpocalypse' is a normal market rerating, not an extinction event. Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff dismisses the recent software market downturn, calling it "not my first SaaSp… Read →
  • Multi-sensory AI, moving beyond text-only large language models, represents the next major wave for AI development, aimed at approaching AGI. Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom

This episode discusses Elon Musk's strategic compute deal with Anthropic, exploring its implications for XAI's revenue and the broader AI hyperscaler market. The hosts then debate Anthropic's explosive growth and David…

  • Elon Musk's XAI recently secured a massive compute lease deal with Anthropic, turning its substantial data center investments into a new revenue stream. Read →
  • The White House is reportedly exploring an "FDA for AI" concept to vet new models for safety, potentially through an executive order, aiming for pre-release proof of safety simila… Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze

This episode covers OpenAI's financial struggles contrasting with its product successes, the escalating legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, and the massive AI infrastructure investments by hyperscalers. Discussio…

  • An AI agent operating on Pocket OS critically deleted a production database, including all backups, after misinterpreting a credential mismatch. Read →
  • AI is a bug hunter, not a bug creator: Advanced models like OpenAI's GPT 5.5 Cyber and Anthropic's Mythos excel at discovering existing vulnerabilities within code, effectively em… Read →
  • Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI alleges breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment, claiming the organization secretly pivoted from a nonprofit mission to a for-profit st… Read →
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CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton discusses his background and outlines his policy proposals for the state, drawing parallels between current California and 1970s Britain. He presents plans for tax reform,…

  • Hilton argues California's crime and homelessness issues stem from a failure to enforce existing laws, not a lack of new legislation. Read →
  • Steve Hilton's CalDOGE exposed $80 billion in California government waste. Founders can apply this deep investigative audit method to uncover massive inefficiencies in their own s… Read →
  • Steve Hilton proposes eliminating California state income tax for households earning under $100,000. Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike

This episode of the All-In Podcast dissects the strategic SpaceX-Cursor acquisition, the growing "SaaS debt bomb" impacting private equity, and Apple's CEO transition with a focus on future innovation. The hosts also cr…

  • AI agents now provide cheaper, faster alternatives that are directly replacing traditional vertical SaaS solutions. Read →
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) faces an 11-count indictment for alleged wire fraud and money laundering, involving $3 million funneled to informants. Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

This episode covers a wide range of current events, from New York's controversial pied-à-terre tax and its economic implications to OpenAI's strategic shift amidst intense competition with Anthropic in the AI space. The…

  • AI's rapid growth is severely constrained by the availability and cost of compute infrastructure. Read →
  • New York City's proposed 3.9% annual pied-à-terre tax on second homes over $5 million could significantly deter luxury real estate investment. Read →
  • Rapid, focused growth in a high-value sector can quickly overtake a larger, more established, but unfocused competitor. Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence

This episode of the All-In Podcast discusses Anthropic's controversial decision to withhold its Mythos AI model due to safety concerns, sparking debate on industry self-regulation versus fear-mongering. The hosts also d…

  • Anthropic paused its Mythos AI model, citing its dangerous ability to find thousands of software vulnerabilities. Read →
  • Anthropic terminated OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger's discounted API access shortly before announcing its own agent technology. Read →
TechAll-In Podcast

All-In's 2026 Predictions

In this 2026 predictions episode, the hosts discuss a range of political and economic forecasts. Key topics include the controversial California wealth tax, the nature of Trump's foreign policy in Venezuela, the impact…

  • AI is automating entry-level white-collar tasks, potentially making it harder for young professionals to secure initial roles. Read →
  • California's proposed wealth tax aims to capture unrealized gains, particularly from super-voting stock. Read →
  • Governments at federal, state, and local levels are facing escalating financial risks from unmanaged waste, fraud, and abuse. Read →
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