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Ride-sharing giant invested in early by The Chainsmokers and Chamath.

A food delivery platform whose CTO, Andy Fang, successfully implemented open-weight models for lower-level AI tasks without degrading code quality.

CEO of Nvidia who played a key role in drafting the AI safety accord's internal and external audit mechanisms.

A closed-source frontier AI model developed by Google, supported on Nvidia hardware.

An open source AI model developed by Meta.

eXtreme Gammon, a top-tier backgammon software engine purchased by Travis Kalanick, who plans to apply modern machine learning techniques to advance the game's analysis and training capabilities.

The U.S. regulatory agency for campaign finance. Its 2023 rule change allowing Super PACs to fund ground operations is identified as a significant development enabling new political strategies.

Political action committees that can raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but are not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates. Their influence is debated on the podcast.

A procedural rule in the U.S. Senate requiring a supermajority of 60 votes to end debate on most bills. It is discussed as a major obstacle to legislative action that is on 'borrowed time'.

A large union representing federal government employees that sued the Trump administration to block an executive order aimed at downsizing the federal workforce, leading to a Supreme Court case.

A major political and legal issue concerning the President's authority to downsize the federal government. A recent Supreme Court ruling supported the executive's power to plan for such changes.

The highest federal court of the US, which recently struck down an executive order ending birthright citizenship.