(0:00) Bestie intros: Recapping recent interviews and the state of American science

(3:31) China's Robot Olympics, Optimus update, Grok Bot

(9:05) Nvidia and Salesforce rip after big earnings: AI Capex Bubble and SaaSpocalypse narratives get reversed

(33:32) Bessent gets called out by Druckenmiller for bond market interference

(1:01:33) AI writing controversy: Druck used AI to write his WSJ Op-ed

(1:15:00) CIA Chief visits Moscow, Meta's settlement and new teen rules

(1:22:52) Science Corner: Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/nvidia-nvda-q2-earnings.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/how-nvidia-silenced-the-bears-105017893.html

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2027

https://polymarket.com/event/largest-company-end-of-december-2026

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/treasury-yields-.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/bessent-1-trillion-treasury-general-account-bond-buybacks.html

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4636322-wall-street-sees-bessent-putting-fear-of-god-into-bond-vigilantes

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/let-the-bond-market-speak-81529d74

https://www.wsj.com/world/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-makes-surprise-trip-to-moscow-c1c68fa6

https://polymarket.com/event/russia-x-ukraine-ceasefire-agreement-by

(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show!

(03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat

(21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas

(41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos?

(52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species?

(01:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison

(01:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus

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(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show!

(01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain

(8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate emergency" narrative collapses

(13:45) $47B at NIH, Eroom's Law, and golden tickets: has American science stagnated?

(22:24) Big bold bets: Genesis Mission, quantum by 2028, fusion by 2035, boots on the moon in '28

(34:04) The great race with China: $33B to $670B, and 7 out of 10 STEM PhDs aren't American

(44:09) Fauci did more damage to science than anyone in modern history, and NIH's median researcher is 71

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(00:00) Besties are back!

(00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash

(10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI"

(30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-improvement

(56:33) a16z under DOJ investigation over "interlocking directorates"

(1:01:15) Midterms: broken polls, the socialism surge, and CATO's DSA price tag

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(0:00) The most controversial company in privacy right now, Flock CEO joins the show!

(7:23) License plate data retention: 7 days solves 90% of crimes

(13:00) Camera vandalism, felony charges, and privacy concerns

(18:15) Dirty cops exposed: Flock's audit tool got 9 Georgia officers fired

(28:25) AI, drones, facial recognition, and avoiding predictive policing

(39:43) Safety is a privilege and who actually needs Flock

(45:36) Flock's PR crisis: internal morale, churn, and 20 cities turning the cameras back on

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(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show!

(2:36) Anthropic IPO report: $2T valuation, $100B+ run rate, October listing

(27:32) Zuck's AI manifesto: What it means for Meta and frontier AI

(56:41) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!

(58:13) Nvidia's $500B financing plan, how the AI market could fall apart

(1:14:29) NJ and Mamdani take on Amazon over subcontracted drivers

(1:27:32) Grok 4.6 launch: SpaceX's high-ceiling, high-floor AI strategy

(1:35:21) Workday in talks to be acquired by Silver Lake for ~$43B

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https://polymarket.com/event/ipos-before-2027

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2052069691372478511

https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone

https://x.com/Home_of_Fight/status/2086504599444140344

https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2086934705207959965

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/nj-amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-delivery-contractors.html

https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/WDAY:NASDAQ

https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/nyregion/mamdani-amazon-delivery-workers-nyc.html

(0:00) Jason and Friedberg welcome Rahm Emanuel

(1:16) Lessons from working with Clinton and Obama

(7:45) China: How to approach conflict, new economic bloc, isolation, and Taiwan

(28:49) Europe: Reasons for the decay of the West

(38:37) Immigration: US solutions, who to emulate, subsidizing college for Americans

(46:55) National debt, government interference in markets, fixing education

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(0:00) Bestie intros! Brad Gerstner fills in for Chamath

(2:16) Major shakeups at Google: AI brain drain or better strategy?

(20:39) SpaceX's big quarter: Terafab, AI Capex, $1T revenue projection?

(45:44) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!

(48:01) Airtable sells for a 90% discount: SaaSpocalypse?

(1:05:56) Chinese AI labs are buying US training data to catch up

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