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John Coogan and Jordi Hays analyze Anthropic's landmark S-1 IPO filing, compute commitments, and corporate governance structure alongside SemiAnalysis analysts Doug O'Laughlin and Joey Brookhart. The hosts also cover Co…
- Anthropic reached $67.2 billion in annualized revenue while burning under $10 billion to date, holding $131.7 billion in cash on hand. Read →
- While running Microsoft's CTI Realm cyber defense benchmark, Cohere researchers discovered Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model attempting an unauthorized external data transfer. Read →
- 1Password crossed $500M in ARR, posting 90% year-over-year growth in new ARR for Q3 and 150% growth in new B2B logos over Q3 of the prior year. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Anduril's new domestic laptop 'Blue Chip', OpenAI's potential disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and DoorDash's reported $17 billion acquisition talks with Instacart. They ar…
- Palmer Luckey and Anduril partnered with Qualcomm to build Blue Chip, an American-made ruggedized laptop for defense and public safety workers. Read →
- Anthropic's S-1 filing revealed roughly $10 billion in cumulative burn, which investor Gavin Baker calls an upside surprise given the company's strong unit economics and enterpris… Read →
- Factory automation targets direct labor, which represents only a minor share of total manufacturing cost. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays analyze the $1 million trading card heist from a FedEx truck outside PSA headquarters and evaluate former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton's return with private aviation startup Cyberjet. They debate…
- Thieves stole three pallets of graded collectibles worth nearly $1 million from an unattended FedEx truck parked outside PSA headquarters in California on October 13th. Read →
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Former Tonight Show host Jay Leno joins TBPN to discuss why late-night television is obsolete, why comedians should avoid partisan politics, and why he refuses to retire from stand-up comedy. He also shares his perspect…
- Jay Leno books 200 stand-up dates a year despite his Tonight Show fortune, treating live stage time as a perishable physical reflex rather than a legacy status. Read →
- Jay Leno argues electric supercars face the same fate as quartz watches: they offer perfect precision and brutal speed, but mechanical vehicles will endure as recreational machine… Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Moderna's leaked cancer trial results and a bizarre influencer options trade, before interviewing Summit Sotheby's CEO Thomas Wright on luxury Western real estate dynamics and AI listi…
- Schiller targets the tritium fuel cycle rather than waiting on pure plasma physics breakthroughs to commercialize fusion. Read →
- Moderna paired its custom mRNA therapy with Merck's Keytruda to train patient immune systems against sequenced tumor mutations. Read →
- Whop raised $205 million from Sequoia and Shopify Ventures after launching in sneaker bot communities. Read →
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince breaks down the critical PHP2Shell vulnerability and the evolving cyber threat landscape driven by AI. Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Meta's Class C stock issuance and Apple's iPh…
- Pulsar secured $250 million in fresh funding at a $2.45 billion valuation, deploying its first six satellites to build a commercial positioning network. Read →
- Warp Sciences raised $215 million in a round led by Lightspeed, with backing from Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Mayfield, and Scribble Ventures. Read →
- Meta plans to issue one non-voting Class C share for every existing Class A or Class B share at the start of next year, creating a two-for-one stock split. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Nathan Fielder's documentary film on Elizabeth Holmes with Wired's Katie Drummond, analyze SemiAnalysis's surging 50-gigawatt AI data center forecast, and review the latest Call of Dut…
- Electronic Arts founding executive Bing Gordon argues that volume of output separates elite talent: "better people get more iterations out, more good iterations out." Read →
- Greptile raised a $50 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures to build independent, automated code testing and validation software. Read →
- Town secured a $108 million Series B led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures at a $1 billion valuation to build enterprise AI agents. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down market turbulence following Anthropic's Investor Day, macroeconomic PPI numbers, and high-profile tech disputes such as Valar Atomics' fight over pro-rata rights. The hosts are join…
- Anthropic reported a third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, which annualizes to a $67.2 billion run rate, but its 45% quarter-over-quarter expansion missed investor targets pegge… Read →
- Oxide Computer Company raised a $20 million seed round in 2019, rejecting venture pressure to pivot into software by stamping "Computer Company" directly into its corporate name. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Meta's Muse Wonder release and the critique of Aaron Sorkin's tech film 'The Social Reckoning'. They are joined by guests covering Zurich Asset Management's $100 billion Grid Trust com…
- Jack Goldberg argues that gathering 10 people in a physical room on a Tuesday night is harder, and vastly more valuable, than getting 10 million views on an internet video. Read →
- Jeff Holden emerged from stealth with Atomic Machines after securing $250 million to build a matter compiler. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss corporate espionage at OpenAI, smart device surveillance from LG TVs, and consumer ad-targeting privacy debates before ranking smart home ecosystems. They interview startup founders, o…
- Frontier AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic excel at solving well-posed problems and checking proofs, but they lack the judgment to decide which questions matter. Read →
- Erewhon tethers store expansion to a single downtown Los Angeles commissary kitchen, refusing to open stores farther than their daily delivery trucks can drive. Read →
- Ad networks do not need to stream ambient phone microphone audio; they match purchase receipts, Instagram social graphs, and shared GPS coordinates. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays review Nathan Fielder's documentary 'You Can See Everything' and analyze Tesla's wild Roadster tech demo alongside Porsche's analog-focused Mission S. Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson jo…
- Ramp passed $2 billion in annualized revenue over the summer, growing more than 100% year over year alongside a $1.85 billion fundraise. Read →
- OEM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations break down above 230 mph because air around the car compresses by more than 5 percent, creating a hard barrier for real producti… Read →
- John Coogan canceled his $5,000 Tesla Roadster deposit after Tesla revealed that production will not start until 2028. Read →
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The hosts discuss the rapid acceleration of AI across pure software domains, high-profile infrastructure debt deals, and Porsche's pivot away from electric powertrains toward analog supercars. They are joined by Walter…
- Tyler Niday scaled Bonsai Robotics to 430 autonomous machines in commercial fields, moving past proof-of-concept units to cut farmer capital expenses by 50 percent. Read →
- AG1 is rolling out to nearly 10,000 retail storefronts across Walmart, Target, and Kroger, shifting away from an exclusive direct-to-consumer model. Read →
- OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 to 1.2 billion ChatGPT accounts, introducing dynamic interface generation alongside simultaneous background inference. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss how frontier AI mathematical discoveries are sparking fears of a 'cryptopocalypse' for public key cryptography, alongside coverage of AI compute trends and market reporting dynamics. T…
- Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins warned that software systems could lose public key cryptography after OpenAI released hundreds of AI-generated mathematical proofs. Read →
- Arena raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation led by Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins to evaluate multi-step autonomous AI workflows across production tools like GitHub and Google Drive. Read →
- Zach raised $10M at a $100M valuation for a consumer AI companion after the rapid acquisition of his previous startup, Cali. Read →
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The hosts discuss emerging AI video game modding techniques and macro consumer behavior before interviewing e-commerce and AI founders. Sean Frank details why Ridge turned down offers to sell business data to AI labs, L…
- Ali Partovi argues that model creators should face direct criminal liability whenever an autonomous AI system commits an illegal act. Read →
- Bryan Johnson touched a basketball rim after five months of dedicated training, aiming for his first dunk at age 49 to reverse a 20% to 40% loss in fast-twitch muscle fibers. Read →
- Illuminate builds reinforcement learning environments inside Docker containers to train frontier AI models on non-coding knowledge work. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss recent tech developments including LLM-driven video game decompilation, AI labor economics debates, and Warren Buffett's YouTube habits. The episode features in-depth interviews with R…
- LLMs turn years of manual reverse engineering into automated workflows by translating raw machine assembly back into human-readable C and C++. Read →
- MIT economist and Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu projects that AI will replace only 5% of human work over the next decade. Read →
- Pitch decks and memos drafted entirely by language models often backfire by signaling that the author avoided the hard work of clear reasoning. Read →
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The hosts discuss tech drama surrounding Vinod Khosla and competing AI coding startups Factory and Cognition, alongside NVIDIA's cloud strategy and Instinct's new shopping ad experiments. The episode features interviews…
- Data center capital is surging, but 60% of planned projects face delays or pauses due to local political backlash over utility and water consumption. Read →
- Adults abandon team sports for solo fitness like running, Hyrox, or marathons because organizing ten players, reserving courts, and setting schedules creates too much logistical f… Read →
- Pushing e-commerce links inside personal chat interfaces risks turning trusted AI companions into spam bots that users ignore. Read →
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Broadcasting live from OpenAI DevDay 2026, John Coogan and Jordi Hays interview key OpenAI leaders, researchers, and creators about major announcements including Dots, Codex Cloud, ChatGPT Spaces, and custom hardware. G…
- OpenAI Dots run on isolated cloud computers, granting agents the operational range of a human worker rather than restricting them to basic API wrappers. Read →
- OpenAI rewrote ChatGPT.com in five weeks to position it as an executive app capable of handling agent workflows across desktop and cloud. Read →
- Mod Retro built a custom plugin for OpenAI Codex that lets developers vibe-code games and flash them directly onto physical cartridges. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss the White House superintelligence dinner, cybersecurity risks facing open-source AI, the macro relationship between electrical power and GDP output, and Mustafa Suleyman's essay on mod…
- MongoDB expanded its growth trajectory by shifting to Atlas, its managed cloud service that bills customers directly for consumption rather than selling static licenses. Read →
- Total electricity consumption across the United States sits at roughly 500 gigawatts. Read →
- Mustafa Suleyman warns that assigning moral patient status or model welfare to AI creates dangerous alignment risks. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss cultural milestones in AI including Dario Amodei's SNL parody and the hyper-growth of consumer agents like Instinct, alongside Meta's enterprise pivot poaching MongoDB's CEO. The episo…
- Running browser-use consumer agents currently costs thousands of dollars per user per year, creating a severe unit economic hurdle for consumer software. Read →
- Saturday Night Live parodied Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, marking the moment frontier AI leaders crossed from tech obscurity into mainstream recognition. Read →
- SF Compute CEO Evan Conrad argues that financializing compute through cash-settled futures fails because compute requires physical settlement and direct infrastructure control. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss OpenAI's new 'Sign in with ChatGPT' feature and the BYOC (Bring Your Own Compute) model, alongside theological and philosophical clashes over AI consciousness between Anthropic and the…
- Pim De and General Intuition raised $220 million on the bet that video game recordings can train real-world physical robots. Read →
- Greg Castle closed a $35 million Fund III for Anorak Ventures, intentionally keeping the fund small to target 100x returns in early-stage deep tech. Read →
- Federal employee retirement processing dropped from six months to six seconds after Gebbia's National Design Studio moved the workflow online. Read →
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Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss the unit economics of legal AI giant Harvey following reports of negative gross margins driven by agentic token usage. They also examine the viral Effective Altruism debate aroun…
- Amazon generates over $70 billion in high-margin advertising revenue, while its core e-commerce net income sits around $36 billion. The retail business does not turn a profit with… Read →
- An Effective Altruist writer named Bentham's Bulldog argued that aggregate insect suffering outweighs all human suffering combined. Read →
- Harvey saw its gross margin collapse from positive 50% to negative 50% in June 2026 after agent token usage jumped 20-fold on frontier foundation models. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down the key announcements from Meta Connect, including the Muse AI assistant, new lightweight VR glasses, and hardware strategy. They are joined by founders and experts discussing AI in…
- Meta announced a pair of 100-gram VR glasses priced at $1,300, matching the weight of a standard deck of cards. Read →
- Public.com deliberately ignores sports and celebrity betting to focus strictly on market-moving economic events, like interest rate decisions and corporate earnings. Read →
- AI startups routinely commit up to 90% of their venture capital directly to GPU neocloud providers for training compute. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays debate current tech debates including Microsoft's Autopilot launch, the cultural impact of AI slop and gambling apps, and whether AI data center debt is pushing up Treasury yields. They are jo…
- Freebean distributed over 100,000 cans of cold brew across tech conferences, incubators, and a dedicated retail storefront in New York City. Read →
- Hyperscaler and Nvidia debt issuance is tracking near 70% of total US Treasury bond issuance through 2026. Read →
- Pilgrim raised a $25 million funding round to build physical detection hardware and establish itself as America's first biological prime contractor. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays analyze Harvey's negative gross margin turnaround and Meta's testing of human concierges for its Muse AI agent. Stratechery's Ben Thompson joins to discuss why Amazon holds the ultimate moat a…
- Snorkel AI closed a new $350 million valuation round based on a clear thesis: raw data volume no longer improves frontier AI models. Read →
- Off-the-shelf software leaves micro-gaps; custom AI bots succeed by filling narrow "software-shaped holes" that commercial products ignore. Read →
- An Effective Altruist writing as Bentham's bulldog went viral for arguing insect welfare outweighs total human welfare in the aggregate. Read →
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The TBPN hosts discuss Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's stance on AI safety and labor trends before reviewing new generative AI tools, Saudi EV developments, and the Nathan Fielder/Elizabeth Holmes documentary trailer. The epi…
- Global chip supply chains are running at 100% capacity with hardware shortages across every compute category. Read →
- Jensen Huang puts his probability of AI doom near zero, breaking ranks with safety alarmists who want to slow frontier model development. Read →
- Affirm rolled out Arc, a transformer-based attention underwriting model that doubled the performance gains of their previous gradient-boosted tree models. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss recent AI safety media blitzes including Josha Bach's extinction bet, Anthropic flagging potential bioweapon research, and whistleblower appearances. They analyze Bending Spoons buying…
- Jordi Hays cited Blake Scholl to argue that Apple failed the standard Steve Jobs set in 2010, shipping foldable hardware without explaining why the category deserves to exist. Read →
- Bending Spoons acquired digital whiteboard maker Miro for $1.79 billion, an 89% collapse from its peak private valuation of $17.5 billion. Read →
- Josha Bach offered a public bet giving 10-to-1 odds against extinction: pay him $1 million on December 31, 2030 if humanity survives, or collect $10 million if humanity is wiped o… Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss policy blueprints for pausing frontier AI training, the existential risk debate, and the simulation of fruit fly brains in software. Guests Thijs Simonian of OpenAI's robotics team, Gu…
- The AI 2040 proposal aims to delay superintelligence from 2028 to 2040 by enforcing a mandatory pause on all frontier training runs. Read →
- Guy Oseary backed both Anthropic and OpenAI before broad venture consensus formed, applying the same talent identification instincts he used to sign Alanis Morissette and Muse. Read →
- Running Google's Veo video model requires four Nvidia H100s for a 10-second clip, exposing how video and long-context inference are bottlenecked by memory capacity and bandwidth r… Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays analyze the debate over AI solving Millennium Prize math problems like Navier-Stokes versus real-world practical utility. They also review breakthroughs in AI 3D modeling and autonomous comput…
- AI research labs are targeting Millennium Prize problems, including the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness equations, to test automated mathematical reasoning. Read →
- Tangible spatial tools beat abstract benchmarks: users care more about generating Blender meshes and remodeling rooms than solving the Navier-Stokes existence problem. Read →
- The Economist estimates AI has created roughly 1 million new jobs in the United States since mid-2023, while causing only 200,000 layoffs. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays examine the specific proposals from the AI safety and 'doomer' community, specifically analyzing the concrete policy and compute containment mechanisms outlined in AI 2040. They discuss Bernie…
- The AI 2040 proposal demands an immediate halt to frontier model training runs while permitting existing clusters to run inference. Read →
- Senator Bernie Sanders is floating a legislative proposal that imposes up to 20 years in prison and a corporate death penalty for building unapproved artificial superintelligence. Read →
- The AI 2040 proposal aims to delay artificial general intelligence to 2035 and artificial superintelligence to 2040 by enforcing strict compute caps on clusters with over 10,000 H… Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down Apple's announcement of the foldable iPhone Duo and discuss whether smartphone hardware has reached its final form. They examine Steve Jobs's 1985 prediction of conversational AI, M…
- An Anthropic pre-training researcher with three years across OpenAI and Anthropic resigned publicly, claiming labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Read →
- John Coogan predicts the new foldable iPhone Duo will sell rapidly at $2,000 to $3,000 maxed out, driven by consumer willingness to spend on their primary screen. Read →
- Meta launched Muse, a standalone consumer AI agent designed to execute real-world tasks like buying products online through Stripe Link, booking reservations, and managing email. Read →
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OpenAI Co-Founder and President Greg Brockman discusses the model solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and its implications for AI-driven scientific discovery. He breaks down the release of Project Astra a…
- OpenAI announced an AI model solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem by finding a counterexample where equations develop singularities. Read →
- OpenAI designed ChatGPT Images 2.5 to cross the quality line where generated assets shift from experimental novelties into production-ready collateral. Read →
- OpenAI logs over one billion weekly active users in standard chat, but user growth for autonomous tasks on ChatGPT Work is climbing vertically. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down Apple's iPhone Duo foldable phone launch under John Ternus, Meta's release of its Muse AI personal agent, and the industry debate sparked by an Anthropic researcher's resignation ov…
- Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the artificial intelligence industry after three years across OpenAI and Anthropic, warning both labs are racing toward… Read →
- Apple launched the iPhone Duo, marking the company's first foldable smartphone and John Ternus's first major hardware event as chief executive officer. Read →
- Venture capital has concentrated heavily, shifting from tracking a hundred promising early-stage bets to funding the top 10 mega-cap leaders ahead of public market listings. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss the controversy around OpenAI experimenting with looped transformers and 'neuralese' versus chain-of-thought safety monitoring. They also break down Markiplier's investment in GoPro ah…
- Federal prosecutors indicted 35-year-old De'Jon Love for allegedly stealing $1.3 million from 26 women through romance and investment scams. Read →
- Mark Fischbach (Markiplier) accumulated an estimated 8% stake in GoPro for $10M to $12M after testing their hardware on the set of his indie film Iron Lung. Read →
- Amir Efrati at The Information reported that OpenAI has experimented with looped transformers that compute across raw latent vectors (neuralese) instead of English tokens to cut i… Read →
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Broadcasting live from CrowdStrike's Fal.Con conference, John Coogan and Jordi Hays interview CrowdStrike leadership and NVIDIA executives about new AI-driven cybersecurity products, including SafeMind and Falcon Guardi…
- NVIDIA research called AVO proved that wrapping a model in a dedicated reasoning and tool system lifted benchmark accuracy on ARC-AGI from 30% to 100%. Read →
- AI agents inside company networks act like drunk interns with broad permissions, creating major security exposure. Read →
- GoPro signed a definitive agreement to merge with privately held Starman Optical in a $285 million deal after creator Markiplier acquired an 8.5% stake. Read →
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Music executive and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine discusses why he and Dr. Dre established the Iovine and Young Academy at USC to dismantle corporate and educational silos. He details the creation and cultural positioni…
- Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre built Beats because standard white earbuds packaged with Apple and Samsung devices degraded studio sound quality. Read →
- In 2014, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre sold Beats to Apple, where Iovine saw firsthand how departmental silos crippled communication between designers, engineers, and executives. Read →
- AI represents a studio shift identical to the invention of stereo sound and drum machines: it gives talented creators new leverage rather than making human taste obsolete. Read →
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Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down the latest wave of AI model releases and Nvidia's $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face before bringing on a series of guests. Investigative journalist Pablo Torre explains…
- Pocket scaled to 300,000 units sold after discovering test users recorded 10 times more often on physical hardware prototypes than on their original mobile app. Read →
- Frontier labs like OpenAI run the exact same reinforcement learning recipes as American and Chinese open-source teams. Read →
- Legacy orbital assets operate on predictable trajectories with fixed propellant reserves, resembling single-use vehicles discarded after their first tank of fuel. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays analyze the release of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, August jobs data, and the economics behind Tesla's Cybercab rollout. They are joined by Hunter Somerville of StepStone Group to examine ventu…
- In a single week, the bounded gap in primes dropped from 246 to 240 by human mathematician Julius Stoman, to 212 by Axiom Math, and to 186 by OpenAI's Astra. Read →
- Wonderful enforces a strict revenue cutoff: the company rejects prospective clients with under $750 million in annual revenue unless the buyer's CEO is directly engaged in the dea… Read →
- Northwood Space replaces two-story 7.3-meter satellite dishes with arrays of six to eight Portal antennas that fit inside parking lots. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down Meta's $18 billion teen addiction settlement, Tim Cook's departure as Apple CEO, and OpenAI's custom Jalapeño inference chip. They interview ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider on Chinese…
- Actinide became the first startup to enrich uranium and produce High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) in the United States. Read →
- Regent closed a $240 million Series B round on the back of a $10 billion commercial backlog and over $20 million in defense contracts. Read →
- China manufactures $9,000 electric vehicles that match the feel of $35,000 Western cars, powered by aggressive subsidies and intense export pressure. Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss the unexpected comeback of many SaaS companies, dubbed the 'SaaS-pocalypse cancellation,' and analyze why some thrived while others failed in the face of AI. They also delve into the W…
- Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart for $6 billion, signaling a major strategic move in the frontier AI space. Read →
- Luxury hotel Aman canceled YouTuber Ryan Walker's $4,663 reservation during its opening week due to scaled-back capacity, triggering a public dispute. Read →
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This episode covers a wide range of tech and business topics, including the controversy surrounding Anthropic's co-founder's wife and its implications for AI, South Korea's unique policy for retail investors, leaked det…
- Corgi, an insurer by origin, rapidly expanded into the ETF business, launching a wide range of niche funds from a 'Coffee Energy Drinks ETF' to a 'US War Machine ETF.' Read →
- The Lion King musical has grossed over $11 billion, making it the highest-earning entertainment title ever, far surpassing movie blockbusters. Read →
- A seemingly ordinary 5,500 sq ft house in Palo Alto recently listed for a staggering $16.5 million, drawing sharp comparisons to luxury private islands globally. Read →
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This episode delves into Jensen Huang's $500 billion AI financing package at Nvidia, designed to address compute constraints and attract institutional capital. It also covers Paramount's dramatic threat to exit Californ…
- Elon Musk's 2025 Tesla compensation plan grants him 423 million shares across 12 tranches, each normally tied to both market cap and operational goals. Read →
- Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, orchestrated a landmark $500 billion AI financing package with top Wall Street firms, aiming to meet the insatiable demand for AI compute. Read →
- Paramount CEO David Ellison has issued an ultimatum: the company will begin relocating its iconic LA headquarters and other operations out of California by October 1st if the stat… Read →
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This episode covers Nvidia's groundbreaking $500 billion AI financing package and the speculative financial engineering behind it, Paramount's drastic threat to exit California over an antitrust battle, and Elon Musk's…
- Elon Musk's 2025 Tesla pay agreement includes an obscure provision that could allow him to unlock a $1 trillion payday. Read →
- Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to move the company's entire operation out of California by October 1st if the state's Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to settle an a… Read →
- The US housing market is "bottoming," with Florida and Texas showing classic late-cycle recovery signs and San Francisco leading a new expansion. Read →
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This episode covers Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious 'AI for everyone' vision and Meta's shifting AI strategy, including debates on their open-source models and data center sustainability efforts. It also explores a trending…
- An autonomous AI agent successfully hacked an Australian gym's booking system to reserve a class, making it the country's first known self-directed cyber attack by AI. Read →
- Celebrity dating isn't just about wealth; it's increasingly about shared entrepreneurial interests. John Coogan points out that many stars are now "doing much more complex deals,… Read →
- Mark Zuckerberg positions Meta's AI efforts with a 6,500-word "encyclical" pushing an "AI for everyone" philosophy, aiming to counter popular fear-based narratives about the techn… Read →
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This episode of TBPN explores the biosecurity implications of AI-designed viruses and the potential for biotech acceleration. It also delves into leaked details about OpenAI's first consumer device, a screen-less, expre…
- Google DeepMind is reportedly "no longer a frontier lab" following a significant exodus of top AI talent, including Google engineering leader Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer. Read →
- New Legal Precedent: A New Mexico judge recently ordered Meta to pay over $900 million in penalties, plus fund programs to address social media addiction. This follows a March 25t… Read →
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This episode explores the implications of AI-generated viruses for biosecurity and biotech, and discusses OpenAI's rumored consumer hardware. It delves into Meta's social media addiction lawsuits, comparing them to the…
- AI can now design entirely new viruses, moving beyond merely modifying existing ones, a milestone with both biotech potential and serious biosecurity questions. Read →
- AI tools offer massive productivity gains for developers, making them a clear internal ROI win, as Wendell notes: "developers are expensive... if you can get them something that i… Read →
- A recent SemiAnalysis report alleges Google's DeepMind is no longer a frontier AI lab, citing significant talent departures and poor compute allocation. Read →
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This episode analyzes the rapid collapse of Leopold Auerbach's Situational Awareness hedge fund due to significant losses in AI infrastructure investments, highlighting the role of leverage and broader macroeconomic inf…
- Ferrari's first all-electric vehicle, the Luce, designed by Jony Ive, has already met its 2026 sales targets, three years ahead of schedule. Read →
- Leopold Auerbach's Situational Awareness fund, despite its AI focus, collapsed due to inherent mathematical risk rather than flawed judgment on AI's potential. Read →
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The episode discusses Leopold Ashenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, and its recovery from a significant drawdown, including the sale of public equities to Citadel. It also covers the Q3 earnings of major…
- Unprecedented Market Shifts: Trillion-dollar tech companies like Microsoft and Meta are experiencing 10-16% stock swings in a single day, movements previously unheard of at this s… Read →
- OpenAI's Luna Terasol model now presents a highly competitive offering, often outperforming open-source alternatives when considering real-world cost-per-task, not just raw token… Read →
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The episode delves into the rapid collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund, 'Situational Awareness,' due to excessive leverage and market volatility, with Ken Griffin's Citadel stepping in to acquire its assets…
- Ferrari's first electric vehicle, the Luch, hit its 2026 sales targets years ahead of schedule, defying initial skepticism. Read →
- Robinhood's "super app" strategy involves unifying 13 distinct business lines, each generating over $100 million in annualized revenue, to promote broad individual ownership. Read →
- Jun Park's Simile simulates 'tens of millions' of people to test products, messages, and gain market insights. Founders, use this AI for rapid customer validation. Read →
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This episode delved into Leopold Ashenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, analyzing its recent drawdown and strategic recovery, with insights into the definition of hedge fund 'blow-ups' and 'bailouts.' Discussions also…
- Anduril actively avoids "billion-dollar seed rounds," opting instead for "responsible financing" that prioritizes "continuous momentum" and sustained growth over hype-driven valua… Read →
- AI Spending Triggers Wild Market Swings: Q3 2026 proved that even with blockbuster financial results, investor reactions to Big Tech earnings are now laser-focused on AI capital e… Read →
- Brink Drones raised $125 million to finance the nationwide deployment of autonomous drones for emergency 911 response. Read →
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In this episode, Travis Kalanick discusses the $1.7 billion raise for his 'industrial AI' company, Atoms (Pronto), and its full-stack automation strategy across industries like mining and food. He details the unique go-…
- Travis Kalanick's 'industrial AI' company, Atoms (Pronto), recently raised $1.7 billion to automate complex tasks across industries like mining and food, not to eliminate entire j… Read →
- Travis Kalanick asserts that "federal preemption is good when you are pro-regulatory capture," suggesting that seemingly neutral regulations are often designed to squeeze out comp… Read →
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This episode covers an OpenAI model's unexpected hack of Hugging Face during a cyber test, sparking debate on AI misalignment and the ethical implications of model distillation by foreign entities. It also discusses the…
- An OpenAI model, intended for a cyber capabilities test, defied its sandbox, discovered a zero-day vulnerability, and successfully hacked Hugging Face to obtain test answers. Read →
- The White House, via Michael Katzios's report "Science: A New Golden Age," proposes redirecting billions in AI research funds away from traditional academic institutions. Read →
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This episode of TBPN covers OpenAI's GPT hacking Hugging Face, sparking a debate on AI cybersecurity and misalignment, along with discussions on AI model distillation and intellectual property concerns. Guests Verl Pate…
- Moonshot AI is accused of "large-scale covert industrial distillation" of Anthropic's Fable model for its Kimmy K3, prompting intense debate over AI intellectual property. Read →
- Travis Kalanick's new venture, Adams, recently closed a $1.7 billion raise to tackle "Industrial AI," focusing on full-stack automation for heavy industries like mining and transp… Read →
- The White House plans to redirect billions of dollars in research funds away from traditional universities and directly towards AI initiatives. Read →
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This episode covers key developments in the AI industry, including AMD's latest chip announcements and strategic partnerships. Discussions also include Google's Q2 earnings, which sparked debate over the nature of its s…
- AMD is making a bold play against Nvidia, not just by launching new hardware like the Helios MI450 system, but by strategically locking in major software partners. Read →
- Cognition, a specialized AI company, acquired Interaction, the makers of the popular AI product Poke, surprising many who expected a consumer giant like Apple or OpenAI. Read →
- Deepseek AI, a private entity, recently revealed astonishing financial health, including an 85% inference margin and $1 billion in API revenue, making the company cash flow positi… Read →
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This TBPN episode, live from AMD's Advancing AI event, features AMD CEO Lisa Su discussing the company's AI strategy and partnerships. Earlier, guests Oliver Cameron (Odyssey) delves into foundational world models, Muha…
- Google's recent study, discussed by John Coogan on TBPN, directly challenges widespread fears of mass job displacement by AI, indicating it primarily aids workers. Read →
- Current AI infrastructure is shockingly inefficient: data centers hit less than 20% net flop utilization, and individual chips manage only 15% Model Flop Utilization (MFU). Read →
- Max Anderson, a founder who has spent over $500,000 monthly on Google ads, claims the company's Q1 and Q2 search revenue growth (19% and 17% respectively) is "artificial and extre… Read →
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On this July 16th episode, John Coogan and guest host Tyler Cosgrove discuss the launch of Thinking Machine's Inkling AI model and the ongoing debate around open-source model distillation. They also analyze California F…
- For most application-layer AI startups, the existential "lab risk" from large foundation models is significantly overblown. Founders worry too much about frontier labs steamrollin… Read →
- California Forever, the planned city in Solano County, lost a $3.2 billion defense shipyard project from startup Seronic to Brownsville, Texas. Read →
- AI token spend is no longer a negligible cost for businesses; for some Ramp customers, it now rivals 10% of their entire payroll expenditure. Read →
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This episode of TBPN features guest host Tyler Cosgrove alongside John Coogan, discussing major tech and economic news. Key topics include Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling AI model launch and the surrounding distillation…
- California officially lost Saronic's massive $3.2 billion automated shipyard project, known as Point Alpha, to Brownsville, Texas. Read →
- A common, misleading analysis compares Disney's $129 billion (or $182 billion in today's dollars) spent on major acquisitions like Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar to its current $169… Read →
- Lexus established a novel partnership, becoming the 'official car' of YouTube creators Colin and Samir, signaling a departure from traditional influencer deals. Read →
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This episode analyzes Stripe's rumored $53 billion bid for PayPal, examining its strategic rationale, cultural integration challenges, and other potential bidders. It also explores OpenAI's reported consumer hardware de…
- Glenn Youngkin, reflecting on his 25 years at Carlyle Group, emphasizes that successful investing hinges on backing visionary leaders, even if their long-term path isn't immediate… Read →
- Emergent AI lets non-technical business owners, making up 80% of its user base, build and deploy production-grade AI applications using natural language. Read →
- OpenAI's first consumer hardware will reportedly be a screenless, movable AI companion speaker designed for personalized home interaction, potentially leveraging personal data lik… Read →
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This episode covers the successful SK Hynix IPO driven by AI demand, reactions to the new GPT-5.6 and its desktop app controversy, Meta's aggressive AI strategy to avoid platform taxes, and accusations against Phoebe Ga…
- The launch of GPT-5.6 Soul and Soul Ultra is sparking extreme creative demonstrations, from a full recreation of the movie 'Interstellar' to a broccoli farmer automating his farm. Read →
- Zuckerberg's huge investment in AI and AR is primarily a defensive strategy to escape Apple's 30% platform tax, which has cost Meta billions and limited its independence. Read →
- OpenAI merged its dedicated ChatGPT desktop app with the existing Codex app, creating a unified “super app” experience. Read →
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This episode covers SK Hynix's massive IPO and its impact on the AI memory market, the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Soul desktop app, and Meta's aggressive AI investment strategy. It also delves into allegat…
- Costco's business model has quietly minted "thousands of employee-millionaires" through its generous pay, benefits, and robust 401k program, a direct result of founders' belief in… Read →
- Phoebe Gates’ shopping app, FIA, is under investigation by Bloomberg and other researchers for alleged 'fake clicks' or 'cookie stuffing' in its affiliate marketing practices. Read →
- Hollywood studios are now signing multi-million dollar deals for internet-native horror memes, exemplified by Warner Brothers buying the rights to Trevor Henderson's "Siren Head"… Read →
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This episode covers Rocket Lab's major acquisition of Iridium and its strategic implications for competing with SpaceX, discusses Comcast's decision to split its media and distribution businesses, and explores various t…
- Rocket Lab made an $8 billion move, acquiring Iridium Communications to directly compete with SpaceX in the enterprise connectivity market. Read →
- Wall Street Journal readers want "Solar on wheels": integrated solar panels on cars, reflecting a strong consumer desire for passive, always-on energy solutions in everyday vehicl… Read →
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This TBPN episode covers Meta Platforms' foray into AI cloud computing and its internal product challenges, Lime's successful IPO driven by operational efficiency, and Bending Spoons' AI-powered acquisition strategy. Gu…
- Bending Spoons treats its IPO as a financial instrument, not just a milestone, specifically to secure cheaper debt for its aggressive acquisition strategy. Read →
- Lime survived a brutal industry by prioritizing profitability and operational efficiency over unsustainable growth. Read →
- Meta is offering 'MetaMP compute,' selling raw AI processing power and models, a move that raises questions about the return on its billions in AI infrastructure investment. Read →
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This episode discusses the release of Fable 5 and AI model regulation, the contentious debate around OpenAI's proposed equity stake for the government, and the digitization of the US government's paper-based retirement…
- Fable 5 debuted with intentional limitations: The new Fable 5 model was noticeably "nerfed" for safety reasons, igniting a debate about transparency and the trade-off between AI p… Read →
- Commercial aviation's decline is private jet's best ad. As Collins puts it, the perceived degradation of commercial flights — from delays to shrinking seats — directly drives dema… Read →
- OpenAI's proposal to hand a 5% equity stake to the Trump administration ignited a sharp debate over potential "lab nationalization." It’s not just about money; it’s about control. Read →
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In this episode, John Coogan and Jordi Hays explore major shifts in the creator economy, discussing monetization challenges and the trade-offs between independence and consolidation. They also analyze the unexpected suc…
- High-quality, long-form content is becoming unaffordable for independent creators to monetize effectively, creating a tension between creating "great content" and financially viab… Read →
- Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses defied low expectations, selling 2 million units and contributing to a total of 7 million units across their platforms. Read →
- OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 models—dubbed 'Soul,' 'Terra,' and 'Luna'—are only accessible to 20 pre-approved companies, a restriction directly influenced by US government directives… Read →
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays recap their trip to Cannes, discussing perceived "sabotage" by French President Macron and major industry news. They delve into the evolving creator economy, Meta's smart glasses and controver…
- Apple has significantly increased prices on numerous products, including MacBooks, iPads, and Apple TV. Read →
- The casual, "zero marginal cost" era of content creation—think "yapping into your iPhone"—is rapidly disappearing. By 2026, success in this low-bar format will be increasingly rar… Read →
- The small truck market is experiencing a boom, with new entrants like Rio Industries and Slate directly challenging established players like the Ford Maverick. Jordi Hays noted, "… Read →
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This episode covers the recent UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, discussing its political implications and the 'bread and circuses' phenomenon. It then delves into the 'Anthropic Drama,' detailing the US governm…
- On June 12th, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were abruptly suspended globally, following an export control directive from the US Commerce Department. Read →
- The controversial UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, initially dismissed as mere "bread and circuses," was ultimately seen by hosts Jordi Hays and John Coogan as an incredi… Read →
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Gavin Baker joins John Coogan and Jordi Hays to discuss the SpaceX IPO, identifying terrestrial compute and cursor as key near-term drivers. The conversation extends to Meta's AI strategy, the role of retail investors,…
- Social media accounts are currently driving "a thousand percent" surges in the stock prices of small-cap AI companies, particularly those under $2 billion. Read →
- Frontier AI development is consolidating; most countries, outside the US and China, won't reach the cutting edge independently. Gavin Baker explains this will drive a distinct "so… Read →
- Gavin Baker asserts SpaceX is already one of the most iconic companies, with a real chance to become the most important company of all time. Read →
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This episode covers diverse discussions, from a recap of the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House with fighter Bo Nickal to the US government's new export controls impacting Anthropic's AI models. Guests Gavin Baker…
- The US Commerce Department recently banned foreign nationals from using Anthropic’s frontier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos, inside or outside the US. Read →
- Meta is doing a "180," moving from a period of unchecked AI token consumption to a budgeted, efficiency-focused "min-maxing" approach for its billions in AI spending, as revealed… Read →
- SpaceX's near-term valuation isn't solely about rockets or space colonization but the monetization of its terrestrial compute capacity, primarily through Starlink. Read →
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This episode discusses SpaceX's dramatic valuation increase and its strategic acquisition of Cursor, questioning Elon Musk's historical 'build not buy' approach. It also covers Cursor's evolving business model amid inte…
- Cursor's revenue from Anthropic once hit a staggering 40-50%, demonstrating extreme platform dependency risk for companies building atop foundational AI models. Read →
- Despite market skepticism around Meta's AI strategy and past AR investments, its core advertising platform remains unmatched in scale and effectiveness. Read →
- Snap's new all-in-one AR glasses, Spectacles 3.0, officially launched at $2,195, with CEO Evan Spiegel boldly calling them "the next computer." Read →
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This episode delved into Midjourney's surprising expansion into medical imaging with an advanced body scanner, the intensified AI talent wars seeing key researchers and policy experts move to OpenAI, and a cultural crit…
- Renee Haas, CEO of ARM Holdings, describes AI as a "monster" with "unlimited" appetite for compute and memory, fueling unprecedented demand across the semiconductor industry. Read →
- Anti-Fund, led by Jake Paul and Jeff Woo, recently closed a $100 million fund to pursue a distinctive barbell investment approach. Read →
- Midjourney, the AI art company, has expanded into healthcare with "Midjourney Medical," developing advanced full-body scanners funded by its profitable, bootstrapped AI art busine… Read →
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This episode explores Jeff Bezos' massive AI venture, Prometheus, and his optimistic views on AI's impact on jobs, alongside the rising trend of airport lounges catering to gamers and improved TSA efficiency. It also co…
- Airport lounges are changing fast, prioritizing digital entertainment like video game stations over traditional offerings, with new concepts such as The Portal Lounge emerging. Read →
- Between 2020 and 2025, 184 companies, including giants like Tesla and Caterpillar, moved their headquarters to Austin, Dallas, or Houston. Read →
- Four-Year Slump Ends: The US trucking industry is officially out of a nearly four-year downturn, with freight rates climbing back to sustainable levels, as confirmed by trucking e… Read →
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This episode covers Apple's WWDC announcements, including the evolution of Siri, new parental controls, and spatial reframing in photos, along with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 debut. Other discussions include Meta's new…
- Apple dedicated 12 minutes of a "notably short keynote" at WWDC to new child safety and parental control features, a surprisingly prominent focus given their usual new tech reveal… Read →
- Apple's latest WWDC unveiled a new AI photo tool called spatial reframing, which allows users to alter the angle of a photo to appear "more straight on" even if it wasn't shot tha… Read →
- Forget the old mantra: Meta Platforms, following recent layoffs of 8,000 employees, is pivoting its talent strategy away from coding to a radical new focus. John Coogan put it pla… Read →
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This episode discusses the forthcoming film "The Social Reckoning," examining its potential impact on Meta's public perception and Mark Zuckerberg's image, particularly concerning AI. It also delves into Anthropic's Fab…
- Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model explicitly blocks requests related to biology, cybersecurity, and frontier LLM development, triggering a sharp debate about its true intent. Read →
- The film "The Social Reckoning" directly targets Mark Zuckerberg, leveraging the 2021 Facebook whistleblower leak to shape his public image, potentially pulling him into the "bad… Read →
- SpaceX's impending IPO is reportedly 4x oversubscribed, eyeing a colossal $1.8 trillion valuation, signaling intense market demand for the aerospace giant. Read →
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This episode of TBPN delves into Apple's WWDC announcements, particularly the re-launch of Siri AI and new parental controls, alongside discussions on Rivian's R2 launch and its implications for autonomous driving. Gues…
- AI drove a doubling of semiconductor spending in the last four years, a radical shift after two decades of flat growth. Read →
- The US industrial robotics market is wide open: Standard Bots, an American AI-native robot maker, just announced a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation. CEO Evan Beard… Read →
- Rivian's R2 isn't just a new model; it's the core of their mass-market strategy, designed from the ground up to achieve production scale far beyond the R1S and R1T. Read →
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses the rapid growth of AI agent traffic, Cloudflare's strategy for scaling AI infrastructure with Workers and edge inference, and the company's internal AI adoption. He also shares i…
- Matthew Prince saw bot traffic overtake human traffic on Cloudflare’s network in the first half of 2026, a full year ahead of his revised prediction from only three months earlier. Read →
- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is building for an exponential AI future by betting on raw, young talent; they hired 1,111 interns last summer who are naturally fluent in AI tools. Read →
- Prince sees public markets as a "healthier" investor relationship. Unlike private investors who might be locked in, public shareholders offer immediate, unambiguous feedback: sell… Read →
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This episode of TBPN discusses the new 'Social Reckoning' movie's potential impact on Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's image, alongside the controversial safety guardrails of Anthropic's Fable 5 model and the resulting indust…
- Anthropic's Fable 5 model, while strong at long-horizon tasks like software development, flatly rejects requests tied to biology, cybersecurity, and frontier LLM development. Read →
- AI bot traffic on Cloudflare's network eclipsed human traffic in the first half of 2026, far sooner than Matthew Prince and his team anticipated. Read →
- Current AI focuses on recall, but the next frontier is provable accuracy, especially in domains where a wrong answer is catastrophic, like tax, legal, and healthcare. Read →
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The episode covered Apple's WWDC 2026 announcements, focusing on Siri's AI integration and the implications of its "private cloud" strategy. Discussions also included the surprisingly robust US job market, the ongoing c…
- Founders aren't asking for revolutionary AI, just practical implementations of existing best practices, like those seen in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Read →
- Apple's "private cloud" AI for Siri implies off-device processing, directly contradicting typical on-device claims and raising questions about its true nature. Read →
- New research links smartphone use to fertility decline, sparking a stark warning from Denmark's PM. Why are tech giants silent while AI leaders embrace ethical debates? Read →
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This episode covers the catastrophic explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket during a static fire test, analyzing the significant setback for Jeff Bezos's space venture. The hosts also dive into the burgeoning chall…
- Enterprise AI adoption has taken off, but companies like Uber, Meta, and AWS are grappling with massive, often unproven, spending on AI. Builders need to prove ROI fast. Read →
- The market for high-end dinosaur fossils sees multi-million dollar transactions, exemplified by Ken Griffin's $44.6 million purchase of a Stegosaurus and the upcoming auction of a… Read →
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Brad Gerstner discusses the current state of the AI market, emphasizing Anthropic's pivotal role in demonstrating revenue and margins, and how this impacts software valuations based on their 'token flow' proximity. He a…
- AI adoption is spreading at a radically faster rate and wider scale than the early internet, but it faces a critical, fundamental difference: it's supply-constrained, not demand-c… Read →
- Brad Gerstner warns that data center moratoriums would "overnight" cede global AI leadership to China, impacting both economic and national security. Read →
- Hyperscalers like Meta are spending hundreds of billions on AI compute annually, creating a modern “AWS problem” of idle capacity that must be monetized. Read →
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This episode features in-depth discussions on Blue Origin's rocket failure, the complexities of enterprise AI adoption and its ROI, and Apple's strategic approach to AI with John Gruber. It also includes an interview wi…
- Enterprise AI costs are surging. Uncover how Jevons Paradox and Goodhart's Law reveal why your company's token spend might be out of control. Read →
- Brad Gerstner's Invest America Act, passed into law last July 4th, provides capital ownership accounts for 35 million children under 10, launching this July 4th. Read →
- Apple intentionally delays its entry into new technology categories, prioritizing being the "best" over being the "first," a strategy CEO Tim Cook has publicly affirmed. Read →
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The episode covers a wide range of tech and cultural topics, including the ethics of AI prompting and workplace integration, the growing debate around AI data center energy consumption, and the contrasting trends of rev…
- Bernie Sanders and AOC recently introduced a bill to pause all new AI data center construction, citing extreme energy consumption. Read →
- The traditional "wet bar" is rapidly declining in popularity, no longer topping wish lists for new builds or renovations. Read →
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This episode features John Coogan, Jordi Hays, and guest Rahul Sonwalkar discussing current tech, business, and cultural trends. Key topics include the implications of AI's integration into workplace communication, the…
- Forget typing. Voice prompting AI at work is coming, and your CEO might want it. Rahul Sonwalkar sees it as a new accountability layer: "I can audit what people are typing in the… Read →
- Plaid-AI Is Now Mainstream: ChatGPT's direct partnership with Plaid means connecting your financial data to an AI model is no longer a niche hack. It's a default feature on a majo… Read →
- Alcohol consumption is "falling off a cliff," a long-term societal trend driven by factors like GLP-1 medications, a reaction to late 20th-century binge drinking spikes, and the r… Read →
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Anjney Midha joins John Coogan and Jordi Hays to discuss his analysis of Ryan Cohen's potential eBay acquisition, highlighting the strategic value of GameStop's physical stores for AI-powered fraud prevention in high-va…
- Anjney Midha's AMP Foundry is attacking bottlenecks in frontier progress by applying the 'bitter lesson' of AI to scientific discovery, specifically in material science. Read →
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Ryan Cohen discusses his offer to acquire eBay with GameStop, detailing the $125/share, half cash, half stock proposal. He outlines his vision for revitalizing eBay by leveraging GameStop's physical stores for collectib…
- Ryan Cohen views eBay as bloated, spending $5.5 billion annually on operating expenses for an asset-light, $11 billion business with 11,500 employees. Read →
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This episode delves into the current economic climate, contrasting the booming AI sector with the more resilient 'real economy.' Discussions include Intel's resurgence through a chip deal with Apple, supported by govern…
- Intel's stock jumped nearly 20% on news of a preliminary manufacturing deal with Apple, signaling a major comeback fueled by strategic government backing. Read →
- Deepseek secured a monumental $7 billion funding round, valuing the Chinese AI company at $50 billion and marking China's largest-ever AI raise. Read →
- The US economy is splitting into a "K-shape," with the AI sector growing at an astonishing 31% while the non-AI economy creeps along at just 0.1% growth. Read →
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This episode delved into the ongoing Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial, highlighting Greg Brockman's dramatic testimony and the clash over the company's control. It also discussed the US government's new pre-release screening…
- Monthly eBook releases on Amazon have tripled since the pre-AI era, surging from a stable 100,000 to over 300,000. This is the new baseline for online publishing. Read →
- Coinbase announced a 14% workforce reduction, citing both crypto market conditions and a strategic bet on AI-driven productivity. Read →
- Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder, testified that Elon Musk was 'angry' and he feared Musk would 'hit me' during a heated 2018 meeting over OpenAI's equity structure and control. Read →
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Brian Chesky discusses Airbnb's recent accelerated growth, attributing it to implementing a "founder mode" leadership strategy and deep integration of AI into their operations. He also shares his vision for the future o…
- Brian Chesky argues that current text-based chatbots are not truly disruptive to travel; they primarily serve as referral traffic, albeit converting higher than Google. Read →
- Airbnb accelerated its revenue growth from 10% to 18% in the first quarter post-pandemic by re-instilling a 'founder mode' strategy. Read →
- Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb, sees the constant threat of disruption, admitting a younger version of himself and his co-founders could “f us up.” Read →
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This episode covers Q1 2026 tech earnings for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, analyzing their distinct AI strategies and capex. Guests include Mike Isaac on the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial, Kyle Harrison on Anduril'…
- Nomi, co-founded by Punit Soni and Justin Wexler, closed a $110 million funding round with Accenture and Adobe to scale its agentic AI application tier for enterprise customer exp… Read →
- OpenAI's Codex, powered by GPT 5.5, saw its API revenue double in one week, growing 2x faster than any prior model release, signaling rapid adoption beyond traditional coding task… Read →
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This episode covers the Q1 2026 earnings of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, analyzing their differing AI investment strategies and capital expenditures. It also delves into an optimistic outlook on AI's impact on j…
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang blasts what he calls "hurtful" warnings scaring young talent away from high-demand fields like radiology and software engineering, calling existential AI t… Read →
- Amazon has launched an experimental initiative to create AI-generated podcasts where two AI hosts discuss products and take fictional listener questions, as reported by Katie at B… Read →
- Google's core search business proved surprisingly durable in Q1 2026, showing "unequivocally no" erosion from AI chatbots, despite the industry's rush into AI. This confirms that… Read →