All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

(0:00) Nick Shirley debuts his new video: "Inside California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere"

(11:42) Nick joins The Besties to discuss California's "Stop Nick Shirley Act" and recent fraud arrests

(17:03) How he got into investigative journalism and finding fraud

(23:32) Selective journalism and why Nick is a major threat to mainstream outlets

(27:34) What's next for Nick: Investigating welfare fraud, building his platform

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(0:00) Dina Powell McCormick joins The Besties!

(1:52) Impact of Meta's data center in Richland Parish, LA: $50K teacher checks, revitalizing a small town community

(11:52) How Meta is alleviating data center concerns: pollution, electricity, water, noise, aesthetics; Misinformation campaigns

(19:57) America's Workforce Academy, the job growth in re-industrializing America

(26:58) Meta's recent social media settlement, new rules for teens

(35:25) Meta glasses and Zuck's AI strategy

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(0:00) Welcome Brad Gerstner!

(1:01) Trump Accounts, Every Child a Capitalist & The CAC Scan

(5:07) Can AI revenue pay for the CapEx?

(8:53) The Build Out Issue: Gigawatts, TAM, Token Growth, and Margin Expansion

(12:30) The risks: AI regulation, the nuclear precedent, power limits, and rising rates

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EY helps tech innovators scale from startup to exit to megacap. You build the future. We'll handle the rest. http://www.ey.com

Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com

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(0:00) VP JD Vance joins The Besties!

(1:40) Assessing the Trump Admin so far: Border control, re-industrialization, inflation, Iran, government debt, anti-fraud

(9:28) AI approach: Dealing with Doomerism, "Frankenstein," and AI negativity

(16:23) H-1B abuse and the massive $1T+ of fraud in federal spending

(21:48) Relationship with Israel, rational foreign policy

(25:19) JD Vance's midterms message

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Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com

Keel Infrastructure owns the power, land, and connectivity that HPC and AI run on - backed by secured energy assets and established grid interconnections across North America. https://keelinfra.com/

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(0:00) Satya Nadella joins The Besties!

(0:55) Dario's blog, "pacing the frontier," common sense AI safety

(6:28) The failure of AI CEO messaging, monitoring agents, what will a slowdown mean for new AI products?

(14:22) Economic incentives for frontier lab doomerism, where the AI profits are

(22:45) Microsoft's master plan for AI, how they are allocating capital

(31:00) China's slow down, changing AI perception, data center benefits

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EY helps tech innovators scale from startup to exit to megacap. You build the future. We'll handle the rest. http://www.ey.com

Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com

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(0:00) SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell joins The Besties!

(1:45) Gwynne's SpaceX story, selling rockets, and working for Elon

(6:45) Running modern day SpaceX: AI, Starlink, Rockets, and X

(13:43) Direct to cell with Starlink, retiring rockets, competition

(18:34) Data centers in space

(22:00) Management at SpaceX

(27:37) Elon Musk joins: AI's real risk, model peer review, what he meant by "Dario is right"

(36:53) Elon and Gwynne on their working relationship, Starship's future

(46:16) Terafab, Tesla, Flying cars?, merging Tesla and SpaceX

(52:51) Lying AIs, how to do AI peer review right

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EY helps tech innovators scale from startup to exit to megacap. You build the future. We'll handle the rest. http://www.ey.com

Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com

Keel Infrastructure owns the power, land, and connectivity that HPC and AI run on - backed by secured energy assets and established grid interconnections across North America. https://keelinfra.com/

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(0:00) Jensen Huang joins The Besties!

(1:39) Thoughts on Dario's blog, Frontier Labs calling to slow down AI, and Doomer psychology

(9:58) Sensible AI regulation and RSI

(16:05) Hugging Face acquisition, future of Open Source, and the race with China

(22:58) President Trump calls in live to discuss the Doomer Hoax

(31:29) The AI boom and Nvidia's capital allocation strategy

(40:21) Nvidia's Open Source model ambitions, thoughts on Elon's Terafab

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(0:35) AI Doomsday: Valid concern or Doomer psyop?

(33:40) Steelmanning AI Doomsday scenarios and the impact on Anthropic's IPO

(58:45) OpenAI says it cracked a 200 year old math problem, but did it front-run users with their own data?

(1:19:55) Nike removed from S&P 100 after stock tanks 80%: What went wrong?

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Referenced in the show:

https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126

https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2097705093520863568

https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/2097715871309312220

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2097861539491463331

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZDQKq2F08

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2097861539491463331

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

https://x.com/bgurley/status/2097690522437444050

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2097381286193316203

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2097374640582668336

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2097375276384567642

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nike-loses-spot-p-100-120000497.html

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2096970501017010461

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2096390079132360936

https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/2096519550103691364

(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy 50th Chamath!

(1:17) OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: Have they reached AGI?

(19:01) All-In Summit: Scholarships available!

(19:56) Dwarkesh's Hugging Face hack article sparks a Bernie Sanders AI ban

(37:03) EAs, AI-brained influencers, and the conflicts of interest

(59:26) Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools K-8

(1:18:58) US-Venezuela oil deal

The All-In Summit is only 1 week away! You won't want to miss it: https://theallinsummit.com

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Referenced in the show:

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/03/openai-greg-brockman-says-its-new-model-astra-is-agi

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/axios-interview-sam-altmans-sobering-siren

https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model-end-of-2026

https://polymarket.com/event/us-enacts-ai-safety-bill-before-2027

https://x.com/chamath/status/2095511879951192279

https://x.com/Jason/status/2095521697411514626

https://scale.stanford.edu/research-in-action/understanding-evidence-base-ai-k12-education

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/trumps-seen-the-data-center-polling-and-he-still-supports-them-01061244

https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-middle-school-year/19778716

(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

Come hang with the Besties at the All-In Summit | September 13-15:

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Referenced in the show:

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