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John Coogan & Jordi Hays · Technology

TBPN

TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted to Spotify immediately after airing. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” TBPN has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. Diet TBPN delivers the best moments from each episode in under 30 minutes.

Episodes

Snap Launches Specs, Paramount Eyes Nashville, Japan's Monks Turn to Investing, New Clip from 'The Social Reckoning' | Aaref Hilaly, David Gross, Max Junestrand, Chase Lochmiller, Jesse Zhang, Nilam Ganenthiran & Leonard Tang, Joe Weisenthal

The post-AGI economy marks a transition from intelligence scarcity to abundance, necessitating investment strategies that span both the foundational model layer and practical, real-world applications. Bain Capital Ventures’ latest fund focuses on this shift, supporting companies that bridge the gap between advanced AI ...

METR and AI Regulation, Zuck Pushes Back on AI Slowdown, Fed Hikes Rates | Diet TBPN

The current discourse surrounding AI regulation has become prematurely polarized, creating extreme camps that overlook practical implementation strategies. Drawing parallels to nuclear industry oversight, effective regulation requires separating high-level advisory roles from the technical, operational tasks performed ...

Third Party Evaluators, Fed Hikes Rates, Zuck Pushes Back On AI Slowdown | Jeremy Allaire, Tomasz Tunguz, William Layden, Justin Beroz, Eli Wachs, Sean McCarthy, Tom Mueller

The evolving landscape of AI regulation highlights the tension between independent evaluators and industry-led safety initiatives. While some advocate for third-party oversight to mitigate existential risks, others emphasize the necessity of internal corporate accountability and liability. The macroeconomic environment...

Interest Rates Spike, Politicians Take Sides on the AI Safety Debate, Time’s AI Cover | Diet TBPN

High interest rates persist as a byproduct of war-driven energy inflation and the massive capital expenditure required for AI infrastructure. While historical conflicts like the Gulf War initially spiked rates before they subsided, current AI-driven investment creates sustained upward pressure on real rates by siphonin...

High Interest Rate Phenomenon, Driscoll's China Bet Backfires, Who Votes on AI Safety? | Stephen Colbert & Josh Kline, Jim VandeHei, Steve Menneto, Matthew Wilson, Rune Kvist, Tyler Bahl, James Cadwallader

High interest rates, fueled by geopolitical instability and energy price shocks, are creating significant economic headwinds, complicating the Federal Reserve's path toward monetary easing. While AI dominates public discourse, its immediate economic footprint remains concentrated in massive capital expenditures for com...

The AI Slowdown Debate | Diet TBPN

The debate over "pacing the frontier" in AI development centers on proposals to implement third-party safety evaluations, establish industry-wide regulatory standards, and coordinate with international powers like China. Proponents argue that slowing development is necessary to manage existential risks and ensure safet...

The AI Slowdown Debate | Nico Wittenborn, Scott Keogh, Mitchell Green, David Rosenthal & Ben Gilbert, Faraj Aalaei

The rapid advancement of frontier AI models has ignited a contentious debate regarding the necessity of regulatory oversight and the pacing of development. While industry leaders advocate for safety standards and third-party evaluation, critics warn against potential regulatory capture and the stifling of innovation. P...

Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN

The AI 2040 proposal outlines a strategy to mitigate existential risk by implementing a government-controlled slowdown of frontier AI development. Rather than halting progress, this plan advocates for strict compute caps, physical security measures like Faraday cages, and bandwidth-limited connections for R&D facilitie...

Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Washington on AI Risk, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Thijs Simonian, Alex Heath & Guy Oseary, Mitesh Agrawal

The AI industry faces increasing pressure from "doomer" proposals, such as the AI 2040 plan, which advocates for compute caps, air-gapped data centers, and international monitoring to slow the path toward artificial superintelligence. While these measures aim to mitigate existential risks, they spark debate over potent...

AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN

The startup and technology landscape is currently defined by rapid AI advancement, significant corporate consolidation, and evolving mobile hardware. AI safety concerns, including potential economic disruption and the mitigation of dual-use risks like biological weapon development, remain central to industry discourse....

YC Demo Day, Spoon = Bent (Again), iPhone Duo Reactions | Garry Tan, Om Buddhdev, Karen Serfaty, Antonio Li, Edward Ge, Alfredo Gonzalez

The Y Combinator Demo Day highlights a significant shift toward hard tech, with 25% of the current batch focusing on physical hardware, a 40-fold increase over recent years. AI-driven intelligence on tap now enables small teams to accelerate research, product development, and supply chain management, significantly redu...

Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN

The Apple iPhone Duo marks a significant shift in mobile hardware, potentially redefining user screen time and interaction models through its foldable design. This development coincides with a broader industry focus on personal AI agents, exemplified by Meta’s launch of Muse, a tool designed to integrate into daily con...

Apple Unveils iPhone Duo, Muse AI Agent, Keith Rabois Joins | David Cahn, Mikey Shulman, David Perell, Jim Reilly, Fletcher Richman

The rapid evolution of AI and its integration into consumer and enterprise technology defines the current landscape, highlighted by the launch of the iPhone Duo and Meta’s Muse AI agent. These developments spark debate over the future of personal superintelligence and agentic workflows. Industry experts, including Sequ...

OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN

AI progress in mathematics, particularly the achievement of International Math Olympiad gold medals and the pursuit of solving Millennium Prize problems like Navier-Stokes, serves as a critical benchmark for cognitive capabilities, though its immediate practical impact on engineering remains debated. While these techni...

Math Wars, GG Navier Stokes, Greg Brockman Joins | Dan Wright, Eric Seufert, Scott Wu, Sahir Jaggi, Andrew Borovsky, Harry Mellsop

The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence is shifting from theoretical benchmarks to practical, agentic applications that reshape professional and physical landscapes. Recent breakthroughs in complex mathematics, such as the solution of Navier-Stokes equations and International Math Olympiad performance, demons...

Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI

OpenAI’s recent breakthrough in solving the Navier-Stokes problem marks a significant milestone in AI capability, demonstrating the potential for models to generate new scientific knowledge and accelerate complex research. Beyond theoretical mathematics, the focus has shifted toward "Astra," an agentic system capable o...

Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson Debate | Hunter Somerville, Bar Winkler, Bridgit Mendler, Carina Hong & Ken Ono

The launch of Astra GPT-6 dominates the current tech landscape, with its advanced 3D modeling capabilities in Blender signaling a shift toward more complex, agent-driven workflows. While traditional benchmark scores are becoming less resonant, the ability to translate simple prompts into playable 3D games or architectu...

Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN

Astra GPT-6’s recent launch highlights a shift from abstract benchmarks toward practical, complex tasks like 3D modeling and game development, signaling a new era of AI capability. While industry debate persists over whether these advancements constitute true artificial general intelligence, the focus is increasingly o...

Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN

The AI industry is experiencing a massive wave of model releases, including Anthropic’s Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Meta’s MuseSpark 1.3, signaling a shift away from traditional benchmarks toward practical, agentic capabilities. NVIDIA’s $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face cements the platform as the ...

Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal

Steve Ballmer orchestrated a sophisticated salary cap circumvention scheme to secure Kawhi Leonard for the Los Angeles Clippers, funneling millions through shell companies and fraudulent consulting agreements. This operation utilized entities like Aspiration, a scoreboard manufacturer, and an insurance provider to bypa...

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