Featured Guests: Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, partner, Innovation Endeavors | Will Robbins, general partner, Contrary

The FTC has antitrust concerns about Big Tech again, this time due to their partnerships with AI startups, Innovation Endeavors Raises a whopping $630 million dollar fund, and TechCrunch joins the growing list of news companies laying off employees.

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Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem, founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management.

New Hampshire residents receive a deepfaked phone call impersonating president Biden right before the primary vote Tuesday, Silicon Valley darling Brex cuts 20% of its staff, and will the US’s efforts to build AI infrastructure lead to an “AI Industrial Complex?”

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Featured Guests: Larsen Jensen, founder & general partner, Harpoon Ventures | Andy Harrison, CEO & general partner, Section 32 | Kenny Tomlin, co-founder, Court Avenue

Harpoon Ventures, a firm led by a former Olympian and Navy Seal, raises $125 million, the SEC is skeptical of the use and supervision of AI by investment advisers, and an expert marketer joins the show to predict trends in 2024.

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Featured Guests: Oliver Libby, co-founder & managing partner, H/L Ventures | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Vardan Gattani, principal, 645 Ventures | Gené Teare, senior data editor, Crunchbase News

Elon Musk’s newest company xAI is looking to raise $1 billion dollars, Meta and IBM launch an AI Alliance promoting the use of open-source AI models, and November global venture funding numbers continue to disappoint.

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Featured Guests: Michael Cortez, partner, YL Ventures | Chase Roberts, principal, Vertex Ventures

Half of all 23andMe accounts, nearly 7 million, were affected by a hack back in October, venture investments are growing rapidly in middle America, and Boston venture firm OpenView may be shutting down as reports of large layoffs spread.

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Featured Guests: Shalin Mehta, general partner, SEVA | Kevin Hickey, VP of Architecture, Benefitfocus, a Voya Company

Spotify announces another round of mass layoffs, this time resulting in 1500 job cuts, SEVA, a firm with a unique investment strategy, convincingly exceeds its fundraising goal, and Congress continues considering AI regulation as the tech expands in hospitals.

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Featured Guest: Jill Chase, partner, CapitalG

A deeper dive into the story of AI and how it is revolutionizing tech and the venture landscape, and how growth stage is investing into artificial intelligence.

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Featured Guests: Rob Biederman, managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Zach Ullman, principal, Lead Edge Capital

The Sam Altman vs. OpenAI saga may finally be over as the former CEO is likely to take his position back this week, three VC firms just announced very large funds, and while the returns for private equity secondaries have been alright, they've been abysmal for VC.

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Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem, founding & managing partner, Latitude Capital

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, made headlines everywhere over the weekend when it decided to fire its CEO, Sam Altman. Today, we break down the timeline of events that began on Friday. We’re joined by venture capitalists Bradley Tusk and Ansaf Kareem for valuable insight into the ill-considered decision by OpenAI’s board.

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Featured Guests: Tony Wang, managing partner, 500 Global | Isabelle Freidheim, founder & managing partner, Athena

Nvidia, the world’s leading chip maker, has just released its fastest ever offering, online fast fashion retailer Shein may be eyeing a public market listing, and president Biden and president Xi Jinping just had their first productive meeting in over a year.

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