The Information’s Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lessin talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the erupting political debate in Silicon Valley, Sam Altman’s internal warnings about ICE, and Anthropic CEO’s AI Essay. We also talk with David Levy of Porch Capital about Nvidia’s deepening ties to CoreWeave and the future of edge inference, Erin Woo about the massive legal trials facing social media giants, and we get into Pinterest’s major layoffs and AI shift with a previous clip of Pinterest CEO Bill Ready.

Articles discussed on this episode:

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/social-medias-reckoning

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/pinterest-cut-15-staff-part-ai-shift

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-ceo-says-ice-going-far-internal-memo

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