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(16:56) - Zuck Op-Ed

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(26:16) - eBay Settles

(31:36) - Joe Weisenthal, co-host of Bloomberg’s *Odd Lots* podcast, discusses social media addiction, online discourse, and the escalating AI race. He examines open-source models, massive infrastructure spending, monopoly risks, and why AI may ultimately deliver meaningful benefits despite economic and social anxieties.

(01:08:22) - Jameson Detwiler discusses his background as a mobility entrepreneur and his role as co-founder and CEO of CHIP, an electric low-speed utility vehicle startup. He explains CHIP’s customizable design, safety features, affordability, and plan to introduce remote-controlled parking before transitioning to full autonomy.

(01:40:10) - Stanley Tang, co-founder and chief product officer of DoorDash, discusses the launch of DoorDash Air, the company’s in-house drone delivery program. He explains how advances in AI, hardware, and operational infrastructure are enabling autonomous deliveries, particularly in suburban areas, as part of DoorDash’s broader multimodal delivery network.

(01:53:37) - Amjad Masad discusses Replit’s latest AI-powered design tools, open-model integrations, enterprise growth, and emerging opportunities in game development, robotics, and industrial design. The Replit founder and CEO also describes a future beyond prompting, where AI agents automate entire workflows, and encourages young people to view AI as an empowering tool for creating businesses and new opportunities.

(02:10:18) - Adam Cohen discusses co-founding Weave, an AI prompt-routing company that helps engineering teams reduce costs by selecting the most efficient model for each task. He highlights Weave’s $13.5 million fundraising round, enterprise focus, potential savings of up to 80%, and plans to expand its San Francisco-based team.

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This is our full interview with Tae Kim.
We discussed why the AI trade is being misunderstood, why Kimi and better open-weight models could increase compute demand instead of reducing it, Meta's AI spending, NVIDIA's open-weight strategy, the race toward RSI, why data center fears are overblown, AMD's expanding AI market forecast, the future of agentic AI, NVIDIA's CUDA moat, and much more.
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Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after.

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(01:17) - Big Companies Are Hiring Again

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(20:19) - NVIDIA $50B Tenant

(23:33) - The Three Anthropic Proposals

(35:00) - Tae Kim discusses negative sentiment around AI and semiconductor stocks, arguing that sensationalized headlines obscure strong underlying demand for compute, memory, and data-center infrastructure. He remains bullish on Nvidia and the broader AI trade, predicting that agentic AI, recursive self-improvement, and growing enterprise adoption will drive substantial investment and revenue growth.

(01:06:32) - Kansas Town Splits Over Nuclear Reactor

(01:10:58) - Ben Zweig, a labor economist and founder of workforce data company Revelio Labs, discusses how AI is reshaping hiring, employment, and workplace tasks. He explains that AI adoption generally correlates with company growth, while creative freelancing and task-based work face greater disruption, and AI-generated job applications are making it harder for employers to identify qualified candidates.

(01:29:22) - Aakash Thumaty, founder and CEO of Takeoff, discusses the company’s rapid growth from near-zero to almost eight figures in revenue and its acquisition by Sierra. He explains Takeoff’s autonomous, revenue-generating AI agents, outcome-based pricing model, deep customer integrations, and how its technology is evolving into Sierra’s new Horizon product.

(01:45:30) - Zuckerberg Backs AI For All

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