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The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI

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The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349

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Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato

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What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347

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Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346

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Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345

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Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344

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Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338

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The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy

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A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342

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VCs Would Bet on Open-Source AI Over OpenAI and Anthropic | E2341

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Elon's New Hyperloop, Trump's AI Rename, and a Model That Won't Talk | E2340

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Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339

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90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics

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Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337

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The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336

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Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play

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Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335

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Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334

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Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

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VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333

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Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332

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Breaking down Nvidia's Hugging Face and Poolside bets | E2331

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Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330

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You Can't Fire a VC From Your Board: Here's Why | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

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China wants you to cheer for the robots taking your job | E2329

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Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328

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Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics

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Neurosymbolic AI outperforms chatbots and product search | E2327

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Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326

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What we'll learn from Anthropic's $2-$3T IPO | E2325

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These robots could cut delivery costs by 80% | Next Unicorns

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Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323

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How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322

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Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321

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How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320

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Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319

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Banning Chinese robots isn't regulatory capture | E2318

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While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317

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Why quantum has been "10 years away" for 30 years | E2316

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Why this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315

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The AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314

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The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313

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A Startup Is Trying to Buy PayPal… Craziest Deal of 2026! | E2312

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Jason turned $11 and one tweet into 1.1M views | E2311

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Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310

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Why Data Is the Next $1 Trillion Market

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$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308

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Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307

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Chamath on why young people need more agency, risk, and adventure

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Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305

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Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table

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The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303

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Why SpaceX Buying Cursor Changes Everything

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The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon…

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SpaceX IPO Day: What Wall St. and the media missed | E2300

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Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299

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The AI Tutor That Makes Kids Actually Think | E2298

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Anthropic wants to slow AI down and Bernie wants 50%: JCal Reacts | E2297

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The project SpaceX's first employee raised $500M for

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This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295

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How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026: Ask Jason | E2294

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The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery

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From hypercars to cruise missiles: Lukas Czinger on the future of US defense | E2292

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Avi Patel on the startup that copied Kled and why he called out General Catalyst by name | E2291

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Why does Gen Z hate AI?

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The Self-Driving Startup Nobody Saw Coming | E2289

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How Many Startups Will Survive OpenAI? | E2288

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How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)

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Cerebras's IPO goes vertical, and the death of OpenClaw? | E2287

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5,000+ Tech Workers Laid Off This Week. It's Just The Beginning. | E2286

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The end of Venture Capital? (VC Roundtable) | E2285

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Naval's GP, Ankur Nagpal, Breaks Down The Viral "USVC" Fund | E2284

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FLASHBACK: The future of remote work, juggling APIs, and dream integrations with Wade Foster of Zapier | E2221

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Can an AI Agent Legally Own a Company? Christian van der Henst's Wild Experiment| E2283

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Mastering AI Video Marketing w/ Magnific CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela | AI Basics

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The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

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China Kills Meta / Manus Deal (Story Of The Year) | E2281

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Naval's $500 VC fund, the Maduro Polymarket scandal, and NYT defends theft and murder | E2280

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The Defense Tech Startup YC Kicked Out of a Meeting is Now Arming America | E2280

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SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279

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Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278

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3D-Printed Homes for $99K: ICON's Jason Ballard on the future of housing | E2277

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This 22-Year-Old Built TikTok for Mobile Games, and It's Growing Fast | E2276

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Bittensor's (alleged) $10M rug pull (feat. Mark Jeffrey) | E2275

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Bittensor Drama! TAO down 15%! | E2274

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Anthropic's Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can't have it | E2273

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3 AI Agents That Actually Replaced Human Jobs | E2272

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AI Rebuilt Every YC W26 Startup. Should Founders Be Scared? | E2271

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How 3 CEOs Use AI to Run $10B in Companies | This Week in AI

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Venture Roundtable: SpaceX IPO, AI's PR Crisis, and the Defense Tech Bubble | E2270

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The 5-Step Framework for AI Agents That Improve While You Sleep | E2269

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The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268

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This Bittensor Subnet Could Cut Drug Discovery Costs in HALF | E2267

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$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6

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Compliance Startup Scandal... Is Delve Guilty? | E2266

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The Drone Company Everyone Thought Was Illegal (Now Worth $4B+) | E2265

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How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev

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Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?

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One Genius Rule That Made This Coffee Brand Famous | EP 2262