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19 Juni 1h 24min

Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections

(0:00) Besties are back! (0:19) Anthropic gets massive backlash over secret Fable nerfing and privacy concerns (29:16) The AI regulatory capture trap, pragmatic safety solutions (37:59) Nationalizing ...

13 Juni 1h 42min

Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner

(0:00) PA Senators Fetterman and McCormick join the Besties (0:33) Bipartisanship in 2026, rejecting extremism (6:37) All-time unpopularity in the Senate, the filibuster question, tribalism (13:33) Fi...

10 Juni 43min

Dan Dreyfus: America's Critical Minerals Crisis is Here

(0:00) Dan Dreyfus Presents: The Future of Critical Minerals (0:33) America's "Capital Light Era" is over, rapid supply/demand shocks (5:40) Impact of China cutting off the US from critical minerals (...

10 Juni 24min

Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage

(0:00) Bill Maris joins the Besties! (0:33) Four critical lessons from a career in technology (5:58) Building Google Ventures with data and machine learning (9:51) Why small VC funds beat big ones on ...

9 Juni 28min

Nikesh Arora: Mythos is Real, Analytical SaaS is Dead, and Google can be a $10T company

(0:00) Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins the Besties! (0:47) Claude Mythos found years of vulnerabilities in Palo Alto's code in weeks (5:15) Are cyber defenders losing the race against AI att...

8 Juni 31min

Inside the Private Stock Market Boom: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI & the Rise of Secondaries

(0:00) Brad Gerstner, Gavin Baker, and Kelly Rodriques join the Besties! (0:47) Secondary Markets are Booming & Competing with IPOs (3:10) Why Companies are Staying Private So Long? (9:22) SPVs, the F...

7 Juni 39min