Featured Guests: Neha Sampat, founder and CEO, Contentstack | Emily Walsh, lead investor, Georgian

The Screen Actors Guild joins writers in strike against the emergence of AI, startups explore sales amidst dry venture markets, and the FTC fails to block US judge's decision in Microsoft-Activision merger.

Featured Guests: Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO, Incredible Health | Bradley Tusk, co-founder and CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, co-founder and CEO, Samooha | Tyler Norwood, U.S. Managing Partner, Antler

Only 1% of venture funding goes to Black founders, the FTC launches an investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT, and are firms facing scrutiny from their limited partners?

Featured Guests: Kamran Ansari, former GreyCroft venture partner & Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Pinterest | Chris Metinko, Senior Reporter, Crunchbase News

U.S. Inflation rate slows to 3%, the lowest it's been since 2021, Elon Musk unveils his new AI company, xAI, and cybersecurity funding is down 63%, a surprise for the historically stable sector.

Featured Guests: Neil Sequeira, Founder and Partner, defy.vc | Jai Das, President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures

An OECD report suggests that 27% of jobs are at risk to be replaced by AI, Sapphire Ventures commits $1 billion to AI investments, and Microsoft’s $75 billion merger with Activision-Blizzard will not be blocked by U.S. courts.

Featured Guests: Nick Lockett, Co-Founder & CTO, Pear Suite | Michael Cortez, Partner, YL Ventures | Himalaya Rao-Potlapally, Managing Director, BFM Fund

Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement, Massachusetts lawmakers have proposed a total ban of the buying and selling of cell phone location data, and anti-ESG sentiment is on the rise according to HSBC survey.

Featured Guest: Patrick Driscoll, General Partner, Chasing Rainbows

A.I. Robots promise not to rebel against humans, the venture decline may not be coming to an end anytime soon, and notable San-Francisco VC firms are moving offices to a national park near Golden Gate, The Presidio.

Featured Guests: Tinia Pina, CEO & Founder, Re-Nuble | Mat Ellis, CEO & Founder, Sixty AI

Women disproportionately impacted by Big Tech layoffs, ChatGPT experiences its first month of decline in user traffic, and Meta's Threads gets over 30 million downloads on day one.

Featured Guests: Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner, Canvas Ventures | Genè Teare, Senior Data Editor, Crunchbase News

VC investments for women founders are still low a decade later, Crunchbase reports venture funding is down 49% in Q2 since last year, and U.S. District Judge issues a preliminary injunction on Biden’s administration blocking them from content moderation on social media platforms.

Meta announces Threads, Twitter’s new rival, Google’s new privacy policy indicates company will scrape entire public internet to train their AI models, and Apple’s Vision Pro experiencing significant production issues leading to likely headset unit cuts.

Featured Guests: Anthony Pompliano, Entrepeneur and Investor | Colleen Konetzke, Principal, Ironspring Ventures

SEC approval "likely" for spot Bitcoin ETF, U.S. manufacturing production lowest it's been since 2020, and Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen says ChatGPT is “awful” at picking stocks.