Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy | All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

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We had an amazing time in DC last week, and we'll get into that.

But hey, Friedberg, you crushed it on all those incredible speakers last week.

10 days you had to pull off that event, Friedberg, and you did it.

Chamath and I just parachuted in to DC last week for the AI Summit.

Saks was busy working working with POTUS to get all those executive orders done.

Take us behind the scenes, Freeberg.

All of these incredible speakers.

You got Lisa from AMD.

You had Lutnik. I liked him.

Besant, I liked him.

We had to say no to a lot of tech company CEOs that found out about the event and wanted to speak on stage.

So there was a big kind of cutoff that we had to make around making sure that we got our message across.

I think if you watch the content, we talked briefly about it at the beginning, but the focus was really on trying to dispel the negative AI narrative and myth that AI is just here to destroy jobs because there's this big economic boom that's happening, both with respect to new industries that are emerging, which is why we showcased Hadrian and others, but then also the infrastructure needed to support the AI race with data centers, chips, mining, and energy.

And so we highlighted each of those four industries.

And then the the cabinet people found out about it and wanted to get involved.

So we were unfortunately squeezing people on and off stage.

It's kind of crazy to tell the Secretary of Treasury he has to get off the stage because he's passed his 20 minute allocation.

But we had to line everything up so that the president could get his Secret Service detail to clear the stage and get set up in time.

That's why we were rushing everyone.

But man, what a week, what a rush.

It was awesome. Thanks to David Sachs for the leadership and pulling it all together, bringing those folks to the table.

and sacks congrats on getting your eo signed and your action plan published that's pretty cool pretty awesome to meet the president and meet all those cabinet members and have all of this day come together because of the work you've been doing how does it feel sacks how are you doing in the afterglow there i can see that you're in the afterglow you sent me a picture of the four besties with our incredible 47th president how are you feeling right now you're gonna put that on the the screen i mean if we have it i don't i don't know if that's allowed can we allow to put that on the screen i don't

know what the protocol is yeah i think we can yeah i mean i haven't gotten my picture um i did notice that i was unfortunately when they took the picture of the four of us with the president somehow i got cropped out by accident i think maybe they weren't using a wide lens wait jason what was it like for you to meet the president because just for the audience we all stood in line and then we took a photo with the president backstage and then we did a photo with the four of us.

But Jason, when you had your moment with the president, what did you say?

Did you ask him about immigration?

I have your photo, by the way.

I have your photo with the president.

Oh, fantastic. It's on my phone.

Did you bring up solar panels with him?

What was your big moment all about?

I didn't know we were taking a picture.

That was like sprung on me.

So I was like, oh, we're taking a picture.

So my brother, Josh, who runs security for us, was like, they need you in the back to take a picture with the president.

And I was like, like yeah i'm good i i gotta i gotta prepare for uh you know some oh you were gonna pass well i thought he was joking with me so i was like yeah yeah i'm good i'm good he's like no no i'm serious you're taking pictures with the president i was like we are okay so i ran back and uh they put us in line and then i was like i think i'm getting punked here because they kept repeating to me okay jason you're last you're last and they you know and i know you guys like like to put in a joke or two so i you know i just got in line last and it's obviously you know it's it's a big deal to

take a picture with the president so i didn't want to um you know use that time inappropriately or anything so i just said it's a pleasure to meet you just say it already you like it just say it just let's get it just get it get to the end you like him you tried not to you know you're all mr big shot mr big talk and then you got in front of him and you like him just say it uh what i will say is jesus christ i don't like him what a joke you're such a i had a great time i had a great time predictable you're a predictable goon you know you don't even know what good is okay stop riz stop aura farming

you don't know what gooning is okay or no i had a great time meeting him it was a great event farming obviously he's trying to get his riz up to impress his kids but um it was great and i didn't know what to do just say so we can move on i what do you think of his speech after he gave you a shout out jason after the president gave you a shout out i don't know about love he said even jason how many times have you listened to that clip over and over how many times how many times how many people have you shared that with?

I want to also say hello and thank to Chamath and his wonderful wife, Nat.

Thank you very much for being here.

Thank you very much. It was great seeing you again.

Great couple. David Friedberg and even, as we know, Jason Calacanis.

I say even. Thank you, Jason.

that's great i appreciate that yeah he's a good person i mean he called you a good person he called me a good person so here we are president what president's ever called you a good person this one come on i mean it's it's obviously like surreal for all of us i think to be this close to the administration and then for sacks to be part of it what i will say is you have to give a lot of credit to this administration for the velocity they're going what they're are accomplishing, even if you disagree with certain items on the margins, and their ability to engage with leaders doing important work.

And if we compare that to Biden and Kamala, they weren't even letting people come to the White House.

I love this administration.

I love the administration.

I like Trump. This is a cabinet of CEOs.

Let me just say this.

I'm not in love with Trump.

I'm in like with Trump.

That's where I'm at.

I'm not in love with Trump.

I'm in like with Trump.

But what better team has ever been put together?

It is a cabinet of CEOs.

It is a cabinet of managers.

It's a cabinet of people who know how to get done.

And every time I go there, I'm impressed by this cabinet.

I pull my hair out when I meet with members of Congress.

You're pro -Trump, finally, Friedberg.

You've been splitting it.

You've been dancing around the issue.

Are you full 100 % in support of Trump?

You want to sit here and put me on the spot?

I put you on the spot.

I support my president.

I support the president.

Okay. So you voted for him and you love Trump.

You voted for him and you love Trump.

i love what he's doing and you voted for him and i have issues with the spending and that's not been resolved so like i said okay great here we are folks my full -throated endorsement will come around when doge actions are taken seriously and or the white house puts pressure on congress to take action on spending fair enough what is everybody's favorite moment favorite other than trump you know being absolutely amazing great speech he said he's hilarious whatever we'll put Put POTUS outside that, because it's hard to compete with the president of the United States.

Sax, did you have a couple of favorite moments?

Give us a couple of favorite moments.

First of all, I think we should talk about the substance of the speech, because I think this was the first speech that President Trump has given on AI since the AI boom began.

He's spoken about it before, but this was a full -length policy speech. And he declared that the United States was in an AI race.

It's a global competition.

politician. I think the language that he used was reminiscent of how President John F.

Kennedy declared that America was in a space race.

In a similar way, President Trump declared that we had to win the AI race.

I think you could argue that the AI race is more important than the space race.

It's going to reshape the global economy.

It's going to determine who the superpowers are of the 21st century.

President Trump was really clear that we had to win it and that he was going going to support a strategy for winning it.

And then he laid out what some of those key pillars are.

Number one was innovation.

We have to get the red tape out of the way and let our geniuses cook.

And he clearly was very supportive to a lot of the CEOs and entrepreneurs in the crowd.

Number two is infrastructure.

He touted the hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in energy, and power generation, and grid upgrades, and data centers that he's supporting.

And then he also supported AI exports.

He said that we have to make America's tech stack the global standard. So I think those were really important messages.

And then on top of that, I think there was also some parts of the speech that maybe have gotten less attention, but are also important, where he said that it's not only important that we win, he said it's important how we win.

And he sort of mentioned three non -negotiables here.

Number one was that that American workers have to be at the center of the prosperity that we create.

Number two is that the AI models that the government procures and buys must be free of ideological bias, so no woke AI.

And he also signed an executive order to prohibit woke AI in the federal government.

We can talk about that in a second.

That probably was my favorite moment.

That was your favorite moment?

That was my favorite moment.

That was the red meat moment.

I thought that was like— That was the red meat, yeah.

Yeah, that was the red meat for the base.

Yeah. Yeah. The third thing is he did say that we do want to prevent our technologies from being misused or stolen by malicious actors.

And look, we are going to monitor for emerging and unforeseen risks.

So, you know, we're not going to disregard the risk.

But he had this really good line in the speech about how even though I look, it's a daunting technology because it's so powerful.

And like any revolutionary technology like that, it can be used for bad as well as good.

But the daunting nature of it is all the more reason why we have to do it in the United States, why the United States has to be the pioneer and the leader is because we don't want the power of that technology being developed in other parts of the world.

At least other parts of the world are going to have it, but we want to be the ones on the cutting edge who are defining it and leading it.

So I think it was a really important speech, I think.

This idea of an AI race that is similar to the space race, I think, is going to be the dominant frame on AI policy for years to come?

Well, it's pretty clear, you know, this presidency, this term is going to be earmarked, I think, by four key initiatives, AI, crypto, immigration, and tariffs.

I think that feels like what they're locking into as what's important for the next three and a half years.

I think you would agree with that.

And it's just great that you're spearheading and helping the president with two of those four and just the velocity to me is what's super impressive anyway you could take us behind the the scenes of how this stuff is getting done so quickly it feels like there's some operational cadence here that we didn't see in his first term certainly didn't see in the biden term but there's a there's a cadence here that's different.

Yeah. Startup speed.

How is that? He's working at tech speed.

I just think that the president's constantly working.

I mean, he's just so energetic.

I mean, he basically works like two full work days.

I think it's well known that he doesn't need a lot of sleep and he's continues to work late into the night.

And I just think his energy propels everything forward. I also think that there's a very cohesive team at the white house under the chief of staff suzy wiles i think it's very important i think she runs a tight ship and then got the deputy chief of staffs under her and i think most people have been working together for a long time and it's a team that works well together and it just feels very coherent and cohesive to me so i think it's a very effective team it does feel like that the pace is great it means you're going to get more shots on goal You'll be able to try more things and get more accomplished,

just like we see in startups.

Chamath, outside of the president's talk, we'll go around the horn here.

Top two or three moments from the discussions, just lightning round here, rapid fire.

What do you got? Top two or three moments for you, Chamath, just in the discussions that were enlightening to you, inspiring to you, notable to you.

I came out of it very motivated.

I think that the combination of the speech, the executive orders, and the clarity of the the big beautiful bill now give those of us that are in these markets a ton of runway to go and execute and so those things reinforced by the various members of the cabinet I think were very important that was one and then the second thing were the market commentary from from both Lisa Su and Jensen, I thought was really valuable.

And then the third was Chris Wright and Doug Burgum talking about energy.

And I tweeted this yesterday, but we are sort of back to basics almost in a sense where in the absence of power, I think AI is not going to be the thing that we think it can be.

So that's going to create an enormous amount of appetite by the federal government to do deals and get players on the field and that's to me very exciting so yeah i came away really really risk on i guess is the best way to say it i love it freebridge you have two or three moments outside of the president's speech obviously that's the pinnacle there so let's just go below the pinnacle what were the other two or three moments for you that were salient inspiring notable i thought jensen did a great job i don't know what you you guys thought, but he is very compelling and has an incredible vision and view

on where AI is taking us, where it's headed and what the challenges are.

So I really appreciated him taking the time to come and join us.

Last minute, he rearranged his schedule to come out for it.

And it was great. By the way, on the point on energy, which I still think is the biggest unsolved issue right now in America, besides the federal deficit and the debt problem.

month. Chris Wright agreed to rearrange his schedule to come and join us at the All -In Summit in September to continue the conversation.

We didn't get enough time to talk about it, so we are going to hear more from Chris, particularly with a particular focus, which is what I wanted to spend time on, and we didn't get a chance last week, on nuclear and where are we, because he actually is very passionate.

Like he said at the thing, it's where he's spending most of his time right now.

And I think it's very good to hear the deep dive on where we are in the cycle on trying to accelerate nuclear energy deployment in the United States.

Zach, same question to you.

After POTUS, you got two or three moments that stood out.

Let's just talk about the executive orders for a second, because I think it's pretty cool that the president of the United States signed three executive orders at the All In Summit that we just hosted.

I mean, that was pretty amazing.

One of them was to promote AI exports, because we want the American tech stack to become the global standard. The second was around AI infrastructure to make permitting easier, so we can help solve those energy problems you're talking about free work and then the third one was on preventing woke ai in the federal government and that to me is probably my personal favorite because we spent a couple years on the show talking about how we're talking about woke you're really talking about censorship right we're talking about censoring people's views based on bias ideological bias ideological dogmas

we saw what was happening in social media before elon bought x that helped bring things back but we We were on a track, I think, before President Trump's election to repeat that whole social media censorship apparatus in the form of AI bias or AI censorship.

And we saw this with the whole black George Washington and where some AI models were saying it was worse to misgender someone than to have a global thermonuclear war.

And this wasn't an accident because if you go back to the Biden executive order on AI, there was something like 20 pages of language on there encouraging dei values to be infused into ai models so again we were on track to repeat all the social media censorship all the trust and safety stuff in this new world of ai but it would have been even more insidious because at least when someone gets censored you kind of find out about it it's explicit it's not explicit yeah but with ai it would have been worse because you wouldn't have even known it would just be there rewriting history in real time to

serve a current political agenda we've been brainwashing our kids oh and people trust these ais more than they should i mean these things are making a prediction of the next word coming this is not like god -given truth here and so freeberg you wanted to interject that about this one because this is actually i'll be honest sax i'm surprised you're saying this was the most important one to you i like that you clarified it because it was the one that was mocked or kind of like people were like what why is this important i think you made a good case for why it's important freeberg your response yeah But,

Sax, this is not about broadly making, quote, AI non -ideological.

Private companies should still have the right through freedom of speech or freedom of expression or freedom to operate to make AI that does whatever they want it to do.

What the EO was was that the federal government would not procure ideologically biased AI.

Is that correct? Yes, exactly.

No, we're aware. Just to make sure that the federal government is not trying to instruct private companies how to operate.

It's simply saying, if you want to sell to us, these are the rules of the road.

Yes, that's true. So we were very careful about the First Amendment issues.

And you're right that if a private company wants to put out a biased AI product, we're not going to tell people they can't use it.

Right. And it could work.

It could be successful.

People might like it.

We're just saying that the federal government is not going to spend taxpayer money buying AI models that have compromised their accuracy and quality because they're beholden to some ideological agenda.

Which is similar to the approach with the universities, right?

Hey, listen, you could have a biased university.

We're just not going to fund it.

We're not participating.

I think it's quite reasonable in that way.

And I would just say that, you know, we were a lot more careful about this than the Biden administration was when they required that DEI be inserted into all these models.

They didn't distinguish between public and private money or government procurement versus private models.

So they just they were trying to suffuse DEI into everything.

And what we're looking for here is just neutrality.

Right. We're looking for a lack of ideological bias.

The first step was to get rid of that Biden EO, which the president did his first week in office.

This goes a little bit further, and it's a little bit of a shot across the bow of these Silicon Valley companies saying, look, you need to play it straight.

You need to be ideologically unbiased.

As the default. As the default, when you sell to the government, you can't insert your values at the expense of accuracy.

Look, at the end of the day, accuracy and truth -seeking is the standard, right?

That's the goal. That's the goal.

So, we don't want the quality, accuracy, and truth -seeking to be sacrificed because of these ideological biases.

Are you still seeing that?

When you say these Silicon Valley companies, is this still kind of a widespread concern or widespread deployment from your point of view where you're sitting?

Are you still seeing a lot of the models being trained on ideological systems that are preferential to one group and not to another?

other? I think it was a much bigger concern six months ago.

I think there's been such a huge vibe shift since President Trump's election and taking office that like the woke stuff is sort of going away on its own.

But I and I think that's the trajectory we're headed.

But it was something I think it's important enough to make sure that there's an era.

It's like, look, this is make sure this thing doesn't come back from the dead.

I think there's been a huge vibe shift since President Trump's election.

And woke has definitely fallen out of favor.

And it seems to be going away on its own.

But we could still get Orwellian outcomes with AI.

And I do think it's very important to just keep underscoring that what AI models should be focused on is the truth, is on accuracy.

And we don't want ideological agendas to sacrifice that.

And I think that even though this is a less salient issue now than six months ago, precisely because of the vibe shift, I still think it's important to underscore this point that we don't want - Would you go so far as to make it?

We don't want AI taking an Orwellian direction.

Yeah, would you go so far as to limit free speech and make it non -ideologically biased?

Like, would you make that law if you could?

No, I wouldn't. Because, again, the decision about the federal government procuring versus what these private companies can choose to reflect as their, quote, values in their systems. No, he just, you already answered that.

He would not. Yeah, no, look, we understand the difference between public procurement and private speech. and again in a way that the biden administration did not because they were saying that all ai models yes had to be adhered to a specific ideology to the cei stuff yes it was an ideology they wanted embedded in it you're saying don't put an ideology but just to be clear here i want to make one point this is the defaults anybody who wants to could when they start their prompt or they set up their preferred language model could say i'm an atheist here's what i believe leave. Please speak to me with this in mind.

Or I'm a Catholic. I'm a Protestant, whatever you want.

Here's my belief system.

Please never reference these three subject matters in this way.

So this is the default.

I think it's a great thing.

You've explained it perfectly.

I think that's a great example, J Kal.

I do think we'll end up seeing religious AI.

I think we'll see AI that's tuned to people's religious beliefs.

I would back that as well.

I have one of the the startups we did was doing a learning app and they were struggling and they just made a prayer app and their prayer app went parabolic.

And now they're just like printing money.

So there is definitely a huge market here.

Check out what were your highlights?

It was great to be, you know, included in everything.

So I appreciate that.

We had, no, I mean, your invitation finally didn't get lost in the mail.

No, but here's the thing.

I think this could have been a non -all in thing.

It could have just been, And, you know, you could have done it and just invited who you wanted to.

So I like that it was under the all in umbrella and that we didn't censor anything.

And we went right at hard topics.

I'm a moderate. I know people want to make me into like a stupid lib, but I am an independent moderate.

And there were moments in time when we had great debate, too.

This wasn't just a love letter to the administration.

One of the great moments was J .D.

Vance. It was just great that he wanted to come chop it up and just hang with the besties.

And he came out and he went right at me.

he was like, hey, you treated me like a beep at the thing.

We had a big debate and he went right at me.

And then I was like, okay, it's on.

You want to talk about stuff?

And he said, yeah, let's get into it.

And that's what I love about JD.

JD to me seems like the politician of the future.

I know this is like the Trump's administration.

So you like him? No, no. I'm in like with Trump.

I'm in love with JD because he's young, he's opinionated, and he likes to mix it up.

He's on Twitter all day long.

He engages people on Twitter.

He engages people in other groups.

I'll leave it at that.

And we had a really, I think, honest discussion about immigration and we got back to the high -skilled immigration question.

That's the third rail for MAGA and for the country right now, immigration, recruiting.

You mean you brought it up right off the bat?

No, no. He said he wanted to talk about - So you're a hobby horse.

No, you brought it up.

No, no, no, no, no. He's your hobby horse.

He said, I want to continue the debate.

And I said, okay, let's continue the debate.

So here we go. He was super spicy and he made a great super spicy point.

that I want to point out here on Amplify.

If companies are going to be laying people off, and there was an incredible chart that came out, it was in the Financial Times, and they showed male college graduates versus non -college graduate males.

And there was usually a huge gap in unemployment between those two.

In other words, if you had the college degree, you had a much better chance than the non -college degree male.

And now, those two things have flipped, or they're like neck and neck.

If you have a college degree, you have no advantage as as a man coming out in this, you know, 20 to 27 year old range.

This is men. Women are actually doing better, more women in college than men, yada, yada.

But he's very attuned to this.

And he said he's got big concerns right now.

So this is again, why I love JD, because JD is very tuned into the fact that people are asking for more H -1B visas.

And that typically is to save money and supposed to be very skilled people.

But why is Microsoft weighing off 9000 people then asking asking for more, you know, H -1B visas.

This is a really honest, truth -seeking question.

And it's hard for this administration to talk about this issue, because I know you got Steve Miller, Bannon, whatever people, all the way on one side who wanted to deport 20, 30 million people, Tucker, you know, and then you have other people who are more moderate.

And I thought that was like a really great moment in time for America and for us as a podcast to challenge and have a really important discussion.

And he made some great points there.

Number two, we had a great debate i think about energy uh no disagree you disagree okay i disagree with the because i think you challenged him with i think you challenged him with things that were not facts and not true and i'm happy to debate that with you offline i think he was caught off guard but i think it was pretty like well no rough and inappropriate hundred p if you think it's inappropriate that's fine i want his favorite moments were all the ones where he got no no no it was the ones where we had to debate that's what you're describing no no where there were debates when you got into

with the vice president you got into it with the secretary of energy those are your moments when you got to okay great so okay fine i like when there's a little conflict a little debate about an important issue and when i walk the audience which was you know 90 republican gop maga etc people said that was a great moment i really like that debate because he kept saying like non -reliable energy and whatever and i was like you're talking about solar and i think there was a little misinformation there.

No, it's not misinformation.

When you put it with a battery, right now, Texas is 30 % some days wind and energy.

I could tell you, I live in the great state of Texas.

Texas is roughly 5 % solar, just so you know.

What's that? Texas is roughly 5 % solar.

Right. And wind puts it up to 25 to 30 % on the top days.

It's coming from that.

My point about that is, and it's cheaper to put in a solar and battery farm than a new coal plant.

It is 100%. We can pull up the stats.

It is twice the cost to do solar than it is to do nat gas.

It takes 4 ,000 acres.

No, no. I said coal.

I said coal. Nat gas takes 20 acres.

I said coal. I said coal.

The big advocacy with these guys is to use nat gas, to use methane.

Oh, no. He was saying clean coal, clean coal, clean coal.

He said it 50 times.

These methane plants are half the cost of solar.

They can get stood up in less than two years to generate a gigawatt.

And instead of being 4 ,000 acres of solar, you can get it done for, you know, call it 20 acres.

Now talk a little bit about pollution.

And that's a big part of why they're doing this.

Well, a big part of methane is that it's actually cleaner than coal, which is why they're using it.

Cleaner than oil. Cleaner than oil.

And the two various ways of getting energy.

Now science guy. Now do solar batteries and nuclear.

I'm trying to give you the facts about why it is cheaper and faster, which is what he was making an advocacy for, right?

It's not about, like, solar, yes, you're right, it has a lower carbon footprint when you're running it.

But at the end of the day, what these guys are focused on, and a big challenge for America, is how do we scale energy production in the States?

And scaling energy production, I personally think we need to fix the regulatory roadblocks in nuclear, and Chris Wright's been very vocal on this.

Yeah, we all agree on that.

But the fact is this nat gas supply that we have in the United States and the fact that we can deploy nat gas energy production very quickly is what makes it such a reliable source right now if the U .S. wants to have a chance at scaling from one terawatt to two faster than we're currently projected to do.

And that's the reason.

It's not about like solar is being bad, solar is bad.

That's not the argument.

It's just like, dude, we've got to get moving fast and we've got to have reliable energy if we're going to meet the demand.

I just want to point out in our debates when there's bad faith moments.

I think it's a bad faith moment for when I say coal versus solar.

And then you say, no, you're wrong.

It's solar versus nat gas.

And that's what he was doing.

This is what politicians do.

Here on All In, we like to do, you know, fact based, truth first stuff, not bias stuff.

And so solar, you're comparing, you know, solar and how fast it is versus how fast it is to go to nat gas.

Of course, it's faster to go to nat gas if we have those available.

Let's put that aside.

It's an important debate.

The fact that you and I are debating it is important.

And I also thought Lisa from AMD was fantastic.

I haven't heard from her.

By the way, I just want to point out that when I got back to the conference, so I left for a time to go back to the White House and then I came back.

The first thing everyone said to me when I got back was, did you see J.

Kyle being a jerk to Chris Wright?

Everyone was like all dizzy about that.

Yeah, a jerk. He's a civil servant.

He has to answer hard questions.

You didn't talk to him in a way that you would...

Basically, everyone thought you were a jerk to Chris Wright, and you were kind of a jerk to JD.

And what are your favorite moments?

JD called me an asshole.

What are your favorite moments from the conference you're reminiscing about?

JD came out and said you were an asshole to me.

Anyway, the point is, one thing you're going to get here at the all -in podcast...

This is what everyone was saying.

Not two out of three.

Two out of three with everyone saying this you almost derailed the whole thing no way you're a civil servant mr sacks you're a civil servant you're all civil yeah i've been putting up with you for five years of this podcast questions it was perfect training for government services beyond the podcast being interrupted by you for five years yes that's why i'm so ready well you work for us all of you and you're all going to take our questions and you're all going to take our questions on september 7th 8th and 9th when we have the all -in summit in uh los angeles by the way by the way one thing i'll

say is yes chris wright's chief of staff came to me afterwards and i said i'm sorry i heard jake hell is a jerk to to secretary wright he's like oh no chris loved it he loves mixing it up okay of course he's coming to he's coming to all -in summit and on september 8th so can't wait to debate him more so can't wait to mix it up so he he likes mixing it up so kudos okay and so did So did J .D.

Vance, the vice president to you.

Stop calling him J .D., by the way.

Well, I mean, listen, I just want to say vice president J .D.

Vance and I have been directly communicating.

We have a week. Yes.

No, you haven't. David Sachs, your worst nightmare.

Oh, my God. Your nation is ruined.

What the fuck? We let Jake Allen to Washington.

And now look what's happening.

think. Listen, I want to level set with everyone.

We, I am going to ask whatever question I want to whatever guest we have. And nobody's stopping.

The only way you're going to stop me is by writing me a huge fucking check to buy me out of this podcast and replacing me with some mid.

Or if the Secret Service keeps you off stage, which might be an option.

Secret Service keeps up to date.

But the truth is, this is one of the great things about this administration sex is that they love to mix it up.

They like great debate.

You know who didn't like great debate and ran from it, Kama Lama ding dong.

She wouldn't even come on this podcast. You know who doesn't like debate?

We get that Bernie's Biden who didn't even know what a podcast is.

Tim Waltz, who doesn't know you.

You definitely you definitely have your moments.

But Tim Waltz doesn't own an equity.

He literally doesn't own one share of any company doesn't own his home.

And Tim Waltz is on there giving a hard time about the Trump savings accounts.

i mean i don't even know if that's a camo hat though which you loved you thought that was good in the election i thought he might be able to speak to like the middle of america and then i find out like when they do the the deep oppo research that the guy doesn't own one stock the guy doesn't own his home he's financially illiterate and we're making him the vice president the government he's been employed by the government his whole life i mean have you there it is there it is that's what jay cal thought would win them the election you're never going to live that down i remember when you tweet

you thought that was it you thought that was the master stroke i thought the master stroke that was going to win them the election hey listen no stracanus does not bat a thousand no strict no even no stracanus cannot bat a thousand but it did come out by the way that nancy pelosi wanted to do the speed run primary i remember you saw that just not to rehash too much stuff sax i want to um say there was one point of of difference if you want to get into it around the content part of it where, and this is something that the press was having a field day with and they really keyed on, which was, hey,

respecting IP, respecting copyright.

What's the feedback been so far on that, which was a pretty spicy part of President Trump's speech?

Well, I think what the president said was just very pragmatic.

He said we had to have a common sense approach towards intellectual property.

And he said, if you have to make a deal with every single article on the internet, every single website, every single book, every piece of IP in order to train an AI model, it wasn't feasible.

He said, look, I appreciate the work that went into people creating these works, but you're not going to be able to negotiate a deal for every single one of them.

And if we require our AI models to do that and china doesn't and they won't they're just training on everything whether it's you know pirated or not then we're going to lose ai race so i think he took the side of a fair use definition i don't know if he used the term fair use but effectively he was taking the side of a reasonable fair use what did you think of that part dave freiberg you have any thoughts or tremol on that part i think he's absolutely right i've said this before if something's in the internet if something's in the open domain, and I strongly disagree with the idea that AI getting

trained is the same as AI replicating copyright material.

If AI outputs text or outputs audio or outputs video that contains copyright material, it is 100 % in violation of copyright.

And he said that, by the way.

Yes, and if the AI is learning, it is understanding patterns, it is understanding reasoning, it is understanding concepts by reading copyright material, just like humans do.

A writer, an author reads a bunch of fiction, learns good techniques, learns good concepts, learns good theory from reading all those books and then goes and writes his or her own book.

They are not violating copyright material in the same way that I, well, Friedberg, what if it's all in New York Times?

If it's behind the open internet percent, you're a hundred percent correct.

That should be paid for or licensed.

I'm talking about the open internet.

I'm talking about open material.

I'm talking about stuff that's in the open domain.

Common crawl. There's a thing called common crawl.

Now, if there was, if somebody stole 100 books, let's say, and put them on their website, and it was a pirated Russian website with 1 ,000 books on it, and you accidentally crawled it, you would be obligated to take that out then.

I think we all agree.

Correct. Okay. Correct.

That's what a lot of the lawsuits around.

I think we're reaching something.

I just want to say, This is such an important point, especially to me as a content creator and somebody who spent his career in this.

I've been thinking about the endgame.

I'm here in Park City.

I was just giving a keynote.

I wanted to show you something I made, Saks, because I think we have to get to the endgame here.

So in my talk, I talked a little bit about how can we get through this fight and then maybe getting to a solution.

So I had my team mock up the New York Times website here and chat GPT doing a deal with them.

So here you see you're on the New York Times website and you ask it a question powered by GPT.

You ask it, hey, you might ask this question.

In fact, you log in with your chat GPT credentials and it could be Grok, it could be Gemini.

Give me the earliest mentions of Putin.

You know, know, if you were a fan of Putin or something.

And it would then go through that and give you your Putin references.

And then I made another one.

And then obviously, this would be an exclusive to ChatGPT.

It would be one of those things where, you know, they get an exclusive.

And then here on the Disney Plus channel, imagine you could make yourself into a Jedi Knight, and you could then upload your photo.

You know, kids might really get into this.

You upload your photo.

You talked about this, Freeburg, a couple of times of the future of narrative storytelling.

You up your your photo and then it makes you into a Jedi Knight there's there's Darth Calacanis so that looks to me like you're infringing on their trademark what's that are you infringing on their their copyright this is fair use this is fair use it's a perfect example of fair use for editorial you're also infringing on some osempic that's absolutely I am definitely infringing on some osempic here guys I'm past osempic I'm on to peptides now man I'm on the Wolverine protocol are you yeah i started doing the i mean i don't you and vinnie what could go wrong don't don't take a podcaster's advice

on your health care rule number one take chamath's advice because he's got six percent body fat which i think attributes to much of your pomp and circumstance around your privates i think it has to do with the lack of fat but i'm gonna leave it at that First of all, it's 11 and a half, but that's right before I go on summer vacation.

Then it ends up at 12 or 13.

Did you go get that gelato?

What was that place we went that we love?

Lolo Mi. I've gone there every day, every day so far.

Did you do two or one?

Be honest, two or one?

I've been doing – No, no, per session.

Do you do two or one?

Per session, two. I start with the medium and then I finish with the small.

Exactly. This stuff is so good.

I've never tasted any gelato like this.

It's incredible. I mean it's just unbelievable.

We have to license it for the United States and put it on the all -in brand.

We have to license it from them.

It's really incredible.

But Chamath, just generally speaking or anybody who wants to have at it, Freedberg, Sachs, what do we think about the endgame here?

Because there's some major lawsuits here.

They're going to get settled in the next year or two.

What do we think about sort of the future I've shown here today?

I think what Sachs just highlighted is exactly right.

Look, we've got to have a common sense approach here or we're going to lose the AI race.

I mean, one of the key determinants of AI quality is the amount of data that you have. It's very simple, right?

There's a few building blocks.

There's energy, there's chips, and there's data, and there's algorithms. And if you lose on any one of those dimensions, then you're in trouble.

So, look, you just can't have a situation where China can train on the entire Internet and our AI models are hamstrung by needing to contract, negotiate contracts with every single website.

site but right now that's like europe elon owns x right he owns twitter from now x does sam altman have the right to use x in his corpus it's publicly available no it's not no it is not a public endpoint it's not a public i just honestly i don't know there's i don't know the answer to that there's some edge cases here we're gonna have to come up it's not about whether it's behind a paywall or not it's whether these apis exist and whether you're at you're actually contractually allowed to use them or not the terms of service correct the terms of service it's published on every website what the terms

of service are with respect to the content I think it would be okay to let people opt out you know so we already have this with common crawl you could put in the footer of the website you put in robots .txt and you opt out of common crawl common crawl is like this non -profit organization that basically archives the entire web every few months funded by gil elbaz formerly of google yeah formerly of google great fan of the pod shows up to our summits.

Great guy. And all of open AI was built off of Common Crawl originally.

But they're very clear, by the way.

They say, you have to clear copyrights.

You don't get to just use Open Crawl.

Can I go out on a limb?

I don't know if you guys saw this Amazon deal with the New York Times for $25 million.

Did you see that today?

No. I didn't see today.

Explain it, please.

I think that the New York Times licensed Amazon all of their content, including The the athletic and a bunch of other things for training, 20 million, sorry, 20 million a year.

Okay, I read that. And I thought, this is the peak of these deals, these deals will only go down in terms of dollar value from here.

And it, it actually brought me to this point where I was thinking to myself, is it even realistic to believe that patents and copyrights actually exist in five years and i went through this exercise of like if a computer studies the periodic table and also understands the laws of physics the laws of biology the laws of chemistry and then independently derives some material that is otherwise patented what will happen and then separately if two competing ais invent a new material from scratch How will the international courts deal with this?

And if you take all of these examples to the limit, at the limit, the idea that there are copyrights, enforceable copyrights, I think is a very fragile assumption.

So I'm actually thinking more that we have to spend some time understanding the landscape of a world that doesn't have copyrights and patent protections.

questions and instead, what is the surface area in which you compete?

What is trade secret?

What does that mean in a world of AI?

I think it's quite an interesting thing to think about.

Patents are a totally different piece.

I think that's a fascinating string to pull on.

I will tell you, I will take the other side of the bet.

If we want to make a polymarket on this, I will guarantee that this will be the beginning of the deals and the deals will go up from here.

I'll tell you why. The reason The New York Times made that deal is to make it apparent that what OpenAI has done has damaged their business because now they have a customer.

Their customer is Jeff Bezos at Amazon and Jassy.

Now, they can show damages because now, those damages could give them an injunction against OpenAI.

OpenAI has got to take it out of their crawl, of their construct, and that's going to be really expensive for them.

It's not doable, but it's going to be expensive.

Let's think on a societal basis of what we want as a society?

Do we want a society in which journalists, writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors cannot make a living?

Podcasters? Or do we want a world in which they can?

And I think technologists...

But you're assuming that copyrights...

As a technologist, we typically think if we can crawl it, it's ours.

What I can tell you as an artist is if I make it, it's mine.

And you need my permission because it's my art.

And I think the industry will do better if they respect them because now the New York Times can hire are more fact checkers.

But can I just ask you a question?

Sure. But why do you have to connect the two as immutable things?

Meaning why can't somebody make something still, you know, let's just say it's a song, but that song can now be made by multiple AI models.

But if they make the song, there's a reasonable claim that even if they don't have the copyright, more people will want them to perform the song than some random AI.

So can't you make a living without having the copyright?

Which is the choice of the artist. Some artists were very well known for not wanting their art to exist in some mediums. As a perfect example, the Rolling Stones for a long time thought they would be sellouts if they had their music used in commercials.

And when they did Start Me Up with Windows, that was a really big concession from them.

And that's up to the artist to make that decision.

You make a valid claim.

Hey, yeah, you go on tour, you make more money.

But that's the artist's decision, not the technologists or the people stealing their content.

And by the way, $20 million a year is $100 ,000, $200 ,000 highly paid journalists, fact checkers at the New York Times.

They're going to get 10 of those deals.

And it's going to create a golden age of journalism and content.

And we should be happy about that.

I told you this example, Jason, but at Beast, we did a licensing deal of our content to allow open ai to learn yeah to run training runs on our videos and at the board the thing that we kept talking about was i was i was really concerned like let's just do a couple year deal max sure the reason is we have no idea what this looks like in five or ten years and there's just as much chance to your point that we get it wrong is right now that was about six months ago and so So the intuition that I had back then was maybe we should keep the deal term as short as possible.

But now when I see how important AI is in the global landscape and what China is doing, I think on the margins that this idea that these copyrights will mean something.

In my mind, I am underwriting the value of these things going to zero.

And I'm asking myself instead for my businesses, how are we actually building a real defensible moat and not a piece of paper that we can use to sue somebody.

Friedberg, you want the last word here?

We've got to move on to some other topics.

I just want to be clear that nobody is losing their copyright.

Copyright is the right not to have your work copied.

And if an AI model produces outputs that copy or plagiarize your work, then that's a violation of the law.

And I think the president specifically said that.

we're not allowing copying or plagiarizing.

The question is whether AI models are allowed to do math on the internet, you know, pattern recognition, basically, that's what it is.

And it's and J. Cal, I think you're conflating the two.

And I don't want to interrupt that.

I understand this. I understand the distinction.

And I think that this idea that like, I can't, for example, go to the library, rent a book, read it, and then learn some of the good techniques on how to write a good book should be restricted to humans in this AI context.

Like this is exactly what they're doing.

They're identifying patterns, and then they're building predictive algorithms that allow them to output stuff that starts to fit within different kind of, you know, variable settings.

Do you guys think it's possible that if you allocated enough compute at the problem, you could write Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park de novo without ever having read it?

Yeah me too I don't know what that would mean Well this is my point I know who Michael Crichton is and I know what Jurassic Park is They need to deal with this issue I don't know what it means to say can AI write that But you guys remember the Ed Sheeran Lawsuit?

Do you remember that lawsuit?

I did but let me just make one point here on this Because you're saying I don't understand it I spent my career in it I understand it much better than you do And I understand it from lawsuits and being in the weeds on it I understand it from first principles Which you do not And I will say, what we're talking about here is the definition.

It's the definition of a derivative work.

And the output matters.

So if you were to take my knowledge and then create a derivative work from it, and you used a percentage of my work, and that's where this will get into the nuance, is what percentage of the original work is used in the derivative work?

And under what context?

A commercial context or a non -commercial?

This is clearly a commercial one.

If OpenAI was a non -profit right now, we'd be having a distinctly different discussion because it would there would be you wouldn't be competing with me as the copyright holder to use this new medium and create the derivative works and it has to change substantially so if it's a if it's a cliff notes when china has the only models that are able to meet your stringent definitions of copyright well no here's the thing i think the china fear the china fear is bullshit i'll be totally honest here just because china steals ip does not mean you get to steal from Americans.

In America, we have rules.

And when you go to China, and by the way, we've spent the last 30 years, the major issue with China is not Taiwan.

It has been respecting copyright.

The technology industry itself, let me finish, the technology industry itself has leaned on our government for 30, 40 years, including Microsoft, including Google, to make sure our trade secrets are not stolen, our IP is not stolen, our movies are not stolen.

That is the key issue with China.

So just because China's a thief does not mean American companies get to be Have you seen the latest batch of Chinese open -source models or open -link models?

They steal everything.

Does that mean you should be able to steal Windows?

Should you be able to steal X .com?

Jason, let me ask you a question.

We don't think it's stealing.

Elon has said this pretty clearly, but Grok 5 and for sure Grok 6 will not use Common Crawl.

It will not use the internet, okay?

It'll just be an enormous amount of synthetic data.

And back to what Friedberg and I just agreed upon, if you synthetically go and try to generate all this content to learn across, you're invariably going to produce something that's already been created.

I mean, that's like some sci -fi level.

I understand. But that's what's happening now.

It's happening now.

If somebody happens to GROK five or GROK six, is that violating copyright?

It didn't even know that it existed on the output.

Yeah, that's fine. If it on the output created a similar work, they would need to then take it down.

And so that would be a really interesting new – that's a new space we're going to have to contend with.

So what you've described, if it does happen, is a new concept that we would have to address in a new way.

I'll give you a Science Corner example.

There's this EVO 2 model that they published at the ARC Institute, which Patrick Collison, you know, is the main funder.

Yes, we had him on. So that EVO 2 model, they just ingested all the DNA data they could find in the world, trillions and trillions of base pair of data that they ingested.

tested and then they looked at patterns in DNA.

And that's it. They had no context for what the DNA represented.

They had no context for the concept of genes, none of the structured understanding of what that DNA does, what it is.

And you know what it did?

They fed in the BRCA gene variant and the thing output a warning saying, I think that this is a pathogenic variant to DNA without having any context.

This is the breast cancer allele.

And it didn't have any knowledge and it wasn't trained on that at all.

It had no knowledge that there are pathogenic variants for cancer and it identified that this was a genetic variant that can cause some sort of pathogenic outcome in the organism.

So that's a great example where there's a lack of understanding at the human level on what really drives some of the patterns in nature, the patterns in society, the patterns in behavior that are kind of emergent phenomena perhaps that these AI models are starting to identify.

And I think to Chamath's point, we may end up seeing this in things like entertainment as well.

All right. This has been an amazing debate.

We got to move on. And you know what?

We're going to have more amazing debates September 7th through 9th in Los Angeles at the All In Summit.

The lineup is stacked.

Alibaba's co -founder Josiah, Tama Bravo co -founder, Arc Invest, Cathie Wood, Uber CEO Dara, Sequoia's Rolof Botha, YouTuber Cleo Abram, and many, many more coming.

main sacks you get the last word here go well no i was just i was just highlighting this tweet that i saw we're talking about chinese open wave models or basically open source models so basically all the leading american models are closed source and all the leading chinese models are open source this is kind of behind these have played out yeah it's a pretty good technique for catching up is to open source because then you get the larger open source developer community helping you out that's great but the point is just that these open source models are catching up pretty fast we're ahead in many

other aspects our chips are a lot better our data centers are better and so on and i'd say our closed source models are better but they have this one area of open source models so again if you hamstring our ai models access to data by creating a whole bunch of new requirements for contract negotiations like we could really lose the ai race this is a really big deal it's not a made -up concern i don't know why you think it's made up i never said that it's made up i think it's an opportunity for america to actually have a distinct advantage, which is that $20 million from Amazon alone is 1 % of the New

York Times revenue.

That's going to go directly to the bottom line.

It's going to allow them to hire more journalists.

Then that protected site will be giving in real time something these language models are going to have to go hack and steal.

That real -time data is going to be a distinct advantage for Gemini, OpenAI, Amazon, whoever chooses to do it.

We can create a flywheel here.

Sort of quasi romantic notions about like journalism and the need to save the New York Times.

It's also all this stuff.

It's like, I mean, you can say all the derogatory things you want about me personally, Sax.

That argument doesn't work.

No, no. You just said I have this whole nostalgia or whatever.

Yeah, you do. You're nostalgic for journalism as it used to exist. When I know I've beat you in the debate is when you make it personal like that.

It's not personal. I'm not being nostalgic.

I'm trying to create a sustainable, a sustainable advantage for America.

and you are our public servant and you're brain AI, you will take my feedback.

You're trying to create, we're going to ignore your feedback.

We're going to ignore your feedback.

We're throwing it in the trash.

No, you take it and I will be showing up at the White House for my tour.

You have this crazy idea that we're going to win the AI race by tying one hand behind our back so that you can subsidize journalists.

So you can subsidize the New York Times broken business model.

You said before, you want more training data?

Data? Pay for it. Pay for more training data.

You're the czar. Take it back to POTUS.

All right. Let's keep moving here.

We have to keep moving.

We have a great, this is great debate.

Great debate here on the All In podcast. It's not going to stop folks.

It's just you yelling.

It's just you yelling, saying things that don't make sense, but you can say that.

You only have like three topics, Dracal.

I don't know what's going on with you.

You can personally attack me like that.

You know what it is?

It's like, we got to let in more immigrants, number one.

High skilled immigrants.

immigrants ai is going to put everyone out of work by the way no sense of perceived contradiction between those two things number three we need to like subsidize here comes the personal attacks i you know the audience says no it's the same time when the three of you guys attack me when the audience i can create an ai on me like this and the three of you gang up on me and you personally attack me audience comes up to me they say wow you really nailed and beat have i done that today no not yet not yet a little bit of the olympic but you've just been eating yeah that's That's true.

He's been strangely uninvolved in just eating.

He's emaciated. He's 11 % body fat.

Let him eat. Let him cook.

All right, listen, you and I, Sacks, will do more debate and it's going to be amazing.

Allin .com slash yada, yada, yada for tickets.

Get in there, folks.

We have to get to the docket.

We're an hour in and we still have all the news.

We should talk about this AI privacy issue that Sam Altman mentioned.

All right. That's a great segue because I saw that as well, David Sacks.

And as our civil servant working on AI, this is something where you could have have any additional contributions.

More work we can give you.

All right, listen, here it is.

AI user privacy is becoming an issue because friend of the pod, Sam Altman says there is no legal confidentiality when using his product, ChatGPT.

Here's a 30 second clip.

Again, friend of the pod, FOP, Sam Altman on Theo Vaughn.

People talk about the most personal shit in their lives to ChatGPT.

Young people, especially like use it as a therapist, a life coach uh having these relationship problems what should i do and right now if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems there's like legal privilege for it we haven't figured that out yet for when you talk to chat gpt so if you go talk to chat about your most sensitive stuff and then there's like a lawsuit or whatever like we could be required to produce that and i think that's very screwed up i think we should have like the same concept of privacy for your conversations with ai that we do with a therapist or whatever

okay sax this is bringing up something super important what's your take on it okay well i think this is an interesting topic because like copyright this is an area where we have existing law but it does make you rethink whether those laws are truly applicable or make as much sense in this new world so the existing law the existing example is search history you know the government can get a copy of your search history they can subpoena yeah every true crime story starts with the person's search for how do i kill my husband slowly with poison and then they yeah that's right exactly the point is though

that i think sam is right about the legal treatment right now which is that your chat history isn't any different than the search history in the eyes of the law but it is much more personal it's much more interactive than your search history you are using it like you said you could use it as your doctor you could use it as your therapist you could use it as your lawyer and so the ability for the federal government to be intrusive is so much greater than with your search history so i don't know what like the right policy should be yet but i i will say it does make me uncomfortable yeah there's

a market can i make a recommendation to my guys are yeah yes please Why don't we let AI models get bar certified and get medically certified?

So if the AI models, it turns out, are actually proving to be more accurate, more thoughtful, more responsive, more reasonable, whatever it is, whatever metric we're using, and they pass the same criteria as one would need to pass to qualify for the bar or to qualify for a doctor certificate, why don't we do that for the AI?

If that then happens, then the same privilege accrues to the AI as it does to the individual human that does it.

And now if you extrapolate from where that takes us, if we're suddenly giving AI the same sort of privileged rights that we give to privileged humans, where is that going to take us ultimately with respect to the overall rights for AI?

Well, they have responsibility.

Hold on a second. I just want to point out here.

Once again, you have a mind -blowing concept here.

I've never heard anybody vocalize that.

Could they actually be certified in that knowledge?

And if they pass the test, it makes sense they would.

But then you also get responsibility.

So, with great power comes great responsibility.

I will tell you this.

You can turn this stuff off, but this is an opportunity.

I'm going to send a note to Elon.

And it sounds crazy today, but I guarantee if you put it on Polymarket, there will be a date when this happens.

Let's do it. That's a great Polymarket.

Shout out a shame. Let's get that up there.

I just want to point out, and I'm going to email Elon about this when I get off the pod.

This is an opportunity to create the signal equivalent of an LLM.

All of your chat should be encrypted.

All of it should be, by default, encrypted by default on Grok.

Make it so that Grok can't even see it.

They don't have it.

When you try to subpoena it, you can do what Tim Cook does, which he says, I don't have it.

If you want to try to backdoor it, you can.

That's a market opportunity.

I can tell you, I only use the Brave browser.

and brave search for this reason, I don't want my search history saved somewhere or whatever.

You can take control of this as an individual, but the defaults matter and you have to do the work.

It's a great market opportunity, Chamath.

I don't even want to know what you're talking to ChatGPT about.

What's in your ChatGPT logs?

What's in there, Chamath?

How to extend? How to get the extra centimeter?

What's in there? What's in there?

I keep asking it to find me a moderator.

numerator oh great i keep asking it to find me a participant who's not a douche my god you are so deep in your villain era and you're leaning into it and i'm so here for it from up i love your villain you know i i am so why are you going into your villain era i am so risk on right now it's like it's liberating actually it's amazing it's really amazing Is there any blowback to how outlandish you've become this year?

Any blowback at all?

Has it had any negative consequence on business or hiring or anything?

No, but outlandish how?

How have I been outlandish?

You're just filter off.

You're filter off. And I think it's great.

I think the over two windows back.

It's absolutely fantastic.

We're seeing here. I asked ChatGPT about my future and my IQ.

It's very interesting when you ask ChatGPT to analyze you.

I suggest everyone do it.

Well, actually, yeah, when you just ask ChatGPT or whatever, what do you know about me?

And it's scary how much it already knows.

It's scary. There's this great personality test. You can put this personality test into Grok and this guy like made this prompt and it goes and it tells you all your personality based on your Twitter X history.

It is wild how accurate it is.

What does it say about you, TK?

I'm actually curious.

It says the same thing about all of us.

We're all like network, narcissist, ENTJ.

You can literally run the Myers -Briggs against your chat history.

But I like your mind -blowing concept there, by the way, of them becoming certified in some way.

Okay, fresh economic news.

It's time for the administration to take their victory lap.

GDP growth was 50 % higher than expectations in Q2, as the Fed held rates at 4 .25%.

In Q1, GDP declined 50 basis points.

That's probably due to the imports.

People were stockpiling goods.

that's the most pointless chart ever okay and then yeah it is i agree it's a little bit yeah it's distorted by one of that i wanted to have both i wanted to have both as bar charts this one you're totally on drugs just say it it's okay what drugs are you on i'm not i i'm out we're all friends you can tell us is it really just out all right that's it i'm taking it out oh my god i took it out and now let's get back to the here okay the fed cap rates unchanged for the fifth straight meeting.

This time, two out of 11 Fed governors dissented from Powell's decision.

Two of the dissenters were both Republicans nominated by Trump.

So it seems like the Fed is becoming a little polarized now, too.

First time in 32 years that more than one governor dissented.

And yeah, even one person dissenting is rare.

Here's a 25 second clip of Powell explaining how GDP factored into the cut decision.

Nick, please play the clip.

recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity has moderated gdp rose at a 1 .2 pace in the first half of this year down from 2 .5 percent last year although the increase in the second quarter was stronger at three percent focusing on the first half of the year helps smooth through the volatility in the quarterly figures related to the unusual swings in net exports the pce index and then i'll throw this over to you, Sachs, for the official position here.

For June dropped on Thursday, PCE is the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation over CPI.

PCE rose 30 bps in June, in line with estimates.

And if you remember, we talked about in a previous episode, CPI rose a bit, 13 % or 30 bps from May to June.

So we're not close to the 2 % target.

And that's what the Fed keeps saying.

We're not there yet and the economy is el fuego sex you note i don't know if you notice the sex but people are talking about the qdp the second quarter print which was amazing for gdp you were talking about it a bunch of month on the socials he keeps referencing the first half so he's trying to blend those two together i think because of the the tariff differences or you know maybe to smooth it out as he said what's your take on this the gdp boomed in you know three percent which is pretty great but it's the problem no the problem that jerome powell has is that he's trying to smooth it because it

allows him to justify his political decision okay but the reason why you have to segregate q1 and q2 q1 was before tariffs and q2 was after tariffs so i think you have to segregate these two things and if you look at the run rate from q2 what you're probably going to see in Q3 and beyond is more similar to Q2, which is to say a large surplus, good GDP expansion, and moderating inflation.

So why does the Fed not cut?

Because at this point, not cutting is the only thing that you can do to slow the Trump administration down going into the midterms if you wanted to politicize the job.

If, however, on the other hand, you just take the data as is, and you ignore Q1 because it was pre -tariff and you start to look at Q2 and you project forward. If you inject 100 basis point cut into the economy, this thing is going to go gangbusters and Trump is going to look like an economic genius going into 2026.

So I think that again, in the absence of politics, you cut.

Okay, Sachs, what's the take from inside the administration and around it?

I know you're not speaking for the president on this issue, but you're in the administration.

So I'm assuming you're - Yeah, look, I'm not speaking for anyone.

But obviously the the 3 % number is way ahead of expectations.

It's a fantastic number.

It just feels like, you know, everything's humming on all cylinders here.

One thing you didn't mention, but I think is relevant, is the new trade deal with the EU.

We're about to get to that, by the way.

That's the next story.

Oh, okay. Well, I mean, I would include that because, I mean, I think it was a deal that just got announced where the EU is going to open its markets to U .S. products, no tariff on U .S. products, but they will pay a 15 % tariff coming into the U .S. They're going to be investing $600 billion in the U .S. They're going to be buying $750 billion of U .S. energy.

And then some very large number, I guess they didn't specify a number on defense products, basically American military products, hundreds of billions, which is the follow -up to their commitment to raise their contribution to NATO to 5 % of GDP up from, I guess it was was for like 2 % before.

So, I mean, this is a huge deal for the United States.

I think it's a huge win for the Trump administration.

And the deal is so good that what I'm seeing from European sources on X, European publications, just commenters, is that they were like outraged.

They felt like they got taken to the cleaners here.

And you see a lot of that on X by European European side.

A lot of the European leaders are saying that Ursula chickened out.

So, you know, all those stupid taco memes are going away now because people are realizing that Trump's willingness to raise tariffs on these countries as a threat to renegotiate better trade deals is working.

It's working extraordinarily well.

Just this EU deal, one way to think about it is you add it all up, it's about $2 trillion.

It's effectively $2 trillion of stimulus stimulus into the US, but without money printing?

Yeah, over the next three years.

So it's non inflationary.

It's not insignificant.

Friedberg, your thoughts on the Fed, the GDP print, and maybe you could get into the granular details of that print.

If you pull up the schedule of data, so this is the national income and product accounts data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

So this is where the inflation print comes from.

I think I think there are two lines worth taking significant note of.

The first is the furnishings and durable household equipment line.

So in June, the cost for furnishings and household stuff jumped 1 .3 % month over month.

On an annualized basis, right, that's almost 15 % year over year, if it were to continue at that level.

And then the second one is this recreational goods and vehicles that jumped 0 .9 % month over month.

Neither of those categories have jumped that much in kind of recent history.

So part of the argument that's being made is that what we are seeing in these jumps is actually some of the first effects of the tariffs and the cost of goods that are being imported, because these are largely imports having an adverse effect on the consumer.

And so I think this is kind of a wait and see moment on some of these categories that are predicted to have a tariff price effect starting to show through.

So I think this is where a lot of folks are keeping a close eye on it.

It kind of provides a little bit of the support for the economists that are saying we should keep rates steady, because if we are seeing a significant inflationary effect here, it's worth noting that there's something that we need to be thoughtful about in rate policy.

I think this is a really good point.

If you look in this debate, which is obviously highly political, we're at inflation 2 .567%.

Spending is increasing, obviously.

Stock market at an all time high, unemployment trending down again.

So we're at like 4 .1%.

And people are just YOLOing into crypto and they're doing sports betting, Bitcoin at an all time high.

I think the Fed now is in a position where cutting rates seems like putting kerosene on the fire.

If Trump tanked the economy in Q2, he probably would have gotten the rates.

But now I don't think it's reasonable.

As you're saying, Dave, the reasons to not cut are building because the the economy's on fire.

So maybe the shock and bore approach to tariffs, which is now becoming a playbook.

I had a nice talk with Letnick about this, who I love, by the way.

He really described to me how they're doing this.

And the shock and bore playbook is basically Trump says something completely outrageous, shocking.

Everybody goes crazy.

The media loses their mind.

Business leaders lose their mind.

Letnick told me that what he does is he sets the table and proposes to something reasonable, because you know, now I'm a big, you know, direct contact with all the administration sacks, thank you for that.

And he described it, Trump comes in, sees all the stuff, and then he starts making these micro tweaks.

So it's on the finish line, it's in the red zone, five yard line, Trump comes in, and then he sticks it to them again with three or four extra asks, and then they wrap it up.

And that this is becoming really effective.

So it was chaotic at first. It seemed nonsensical.

But they've put the Fed in a really bad position because they've never seen this before.

They've never seen this before.

So now they're going to be in this defensive position of what if we cut it and the market rips?

To your point, Chamath, you just said the market will rip the second they cut that.

And a cynical view of this is the market rips as we go into the midterms, which is the same claim the Republicans made about the cuts that Biden Biden did in September right before the election.

So there is some level of politics and gamesmanship going on here.

But you have to hand it to the Trump administration for what they're doing with this sort of 2 .0 playbook.

If this was Sachs premeditated, and we all just didn't understand it, fine.

The outcome here is this administration has to live or die by the results of these, $600 billion from the EU, $550 billion in investment from Japan.

You put those two together, IS, Letnick, is that, at the event, is that going into the sovereign wealth fund?

And how does that get spent?

And he said, at the discretion of the president, and he's advising him to spend it on putting more nukes in.

So that's fascinating.

We have a trillion dollars now that we can put into nuclear power plants and these small modular reactors, and that's what Lutnick said he wanted to spend it on.

He's going to advise the president to spend it on, but now we've got them investing in our country.

It's absolutely brilliant if it works out.

Look where we are. April 2nd was Liberation Day, and the media went crazy.

They were predicting a Black Monday, the market crash.

They basically tried to spook the markets and create fear.

fear. They said that we're going to go into a recession or depression.

And now look at where we are.

It's just a few months later.

All the markets are at all -time highs.

Trump has extracted trillions of dollars in these trade deals that people didn't even know he had.

Was it premeditated?

Tell us the truth. Was it premeditated?

Hold on. President Trump has extracted trillions of dollars from other countries using powers that other presidents didn't even know they had.

100%. 100%. Was it premeditated?

Because it was chaotic.

The market didn't make those those moves because of the media, by the way.

The market made those moves because they were scared.

And we just had a 3 % GDP growth print.

So I don't see how things could be...

What I think happened is that President Trump saw an opportunity here that other people ignored.

It's like when a CEO comes in to a company, a new CEO comes in, and that company's been mismanaged for a decade, but it's got wonderful assets on its balance sheet.

It's got a market position that's still very strong.

This has been underutilized.

And he came in and understood that the United States had tremendous leverage in all these trade negotiations.

Actually, they weren't even trade negotiations then, in all these trade relationships.

And he was able to essentially renegotiate all of them.

And look at the results.

I mean, they're just staggering.

And, you know, everyone said that, oh, Trump's going to chicken out, he's not going to hang tough.

It's all these other countries that have folded like, I don't know, lawn chairs.

I mean, they have all capitulated.

It's really remarkable.

But you're not answering my question.

Was this premeditated?

Give us some insight here.

I don't know what this is.

What are you talking about?

When they came out and it was like, oh, 100 % tariffs, 200 % tariffs, the market was not making that reaction based upon the media.

They were making it based on Trump was saying.

So was it premeditated this shock and bore, shock and reasonable negotiating strategy?

Or do you not know?

Well, you're not privy to it.

Look, I'm not speaking as an insider here, but we said at the time that all that was happening and Larry Summers was on the pod preaching doom is that all of that was an opening bid.

It was all a start to a negotiation and we had to see where it ended up and that the administration still had to stick the landing.

Okay. But I got to say, based on EU, Japan and South Korea, I mean, this is looking really good right now.

Well, listen, it's the top five that are like 90 % of the negotiation.

reconciliation. As Trump said, there was another little note he did in the keynote when he kind of drifted into his different things he wanted to talk about, where he said, I don't even need to know about the bottom countries.

I've never even heard the names of some of these countries.

He's just got to nail the what, the top five, the top 10, and we're done.

And this administration has to stick the landing as well, because these are handshake deals right now.

They have to be inked, they have to be approved.

So there's a lot more work left to be done, but I am cautiously optimistic.

There's one other piece of it as well.

There's one other piece of it.

So we talked about about the the um you know the fact that europe has zero percent tariffs on american products but even after this deal that the european products coming into the u .s will have a 15 tariff and we're not including the 600 billion dollars of european investment in the u .s we're not including the 750 billion of sales of american energy to europe okay just talking about the tariff that 15 and what we're seeing now across the board is generating about 300 billion a year year of additional tariff revenue that goes to help balancing the budget.

So $300 billion a year over 10 years is $3 trillion.

That is a big number.

It's incredible, yeah.

So I don't know if that completely satisfies Freeberg, but that's a big help.

Freeberg, do you think that there is a chance that inflation is going to tick up because of all this?

There's a lot of money being pushed into the system again.

So could we see a three handle on inflation in the next six months?

Or what's the probability of that in your mind?

that's the big concern everybody has i don't i don't know i don't know i think the big question if you look at each of these categories one way to think about it is how much margin is the seller making if they're making 30 margin and we charge a 15 tariff does their margin go down to 15 or do they take their margin down to 20 and raise the price by five percent what's the right balance.

And what will happen is that now with this effective, you know, tariff, which is a sort of tax on the system attacks on the market, market will find its kind of new equilibrium, where the buyers are willing to pay x and the sellers are willing to sell it y.

And I think every market is going to be a bit different.

So I think in some of these categories, we will see significant inflation, where there is a very thin margin that the seller has in selling.

And in some of the categories where there's a monopoly, and they have a big margin, they're going to eat it, because they don't want to have competition and they don't want to see pricing competition emerge.

So I think we'll see it vary by category and we'll see how it goes.

All right, listen, this has been another amazing, amazing episode of the number one podcast in the world, according to Jensen Won from NVIDIA and me.

And great job, everybody.

Great job, everybody.

It's a classic - Great job, everyone, even J -Cal.

Even Jason, great job.

And actually, I want to thank Freebird because Freebird did most of the work to organize the AI Summit.

Let's give him a big shout out.

There's me and the president.

Great job. I mean, guys, can we just make a note here?

One of us can run for Manchurian candidate president in eight years.

And look at me and the president.

I put on the red tie out of respect.

I put my blue suit on out of respect for the president.

Does it not look like I'm running?

PresidentJason. Hmm.

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That photo could be like that famous photo of uh bill clinton meeting jfk you know that could be that could be the thing that i'm in like that image that propels you to the presidency i'm in like thank you for giving me that and for putting me in touch with each member of the administration directly thank you for that and we had a wonderful tour of the white house the next day what a wonderful tour some of us had at the white house the next day but in all honesty no i was did you no i was taking the pictures that was my joke because it was all of you guys were there what i'm giving you a tour

we could have gotten you a tour i mean listen i love jd you asked for a tour i did ask i'm i'm not the kind of guy to ask i'm a guy some of us have actual meetings to do bro i mean it's all good it's all good i got a lot going on i got a lot to announce who could happen in the coming weeks but sax do take us behind the scene here and i think it was hilarious so i don't mind getting trolled by the president it was great but how did you how did that go about behind the scenes that he know don't tell him leave it leave it what did you do i mean because that looked like it was workshopped or is he

just just naturally I mean he's obviously naturally comedic but did you put that in with him did you have to clear that with him hey dunk on J Cal whatever well they asked me for the names of you know my co -hosts and so they could do shout outs so I gave him the list oh no and I just I said and I put even Jake house but I mean he went for it no he he got we went through it so he got the joke he got the joke we went through he got the laugh he got it he heard the laugh he heard the laugh and he doubled down i thought it'd be funny but no we went through everyone's names beforehand and uh i mean talk

about eq the guy's eq is off the charts man he just he's actually i suggested i suggested the name j cal and he's like no no give me his full name he thought it was more courteous ah he's actually a very yeah courteous man yeah he wanted to use your full name not just i think what he probably realized was for my parents who were just over the moon so thank you for that it meant a lot to my dad who's that's lovely yeah he's been struggling a bit and it it really let me get a little choked up here but my dad's been struggling a bit and i got to see him in brooklyn after that and we were on a tech

stream and it meant a lot you know because for a kid from brooklyn to get a shout out from the president of the united states is you made it i mean it's just your father your father should be really proud of you thanks man appreciate it i appreciate it boys all right listen for your sultan of science the amazing dave freeberg who put that event together in 10 days and then jumped right in he's got to run a hollow at the same time so i just want to give our mvp of the week shout out to the hill and valley guys for partnering oh yes jaco jacob jacob hellberg did a great job love jacob i love jacob

and dellian and christian thank you thank you guys they were our partners on the event hill and valley did a great job yeah i love those guys But yeah, I'm giving the MVP of the week, of the besties, to you, David Freeburg.

You put a lot of work into this, and we appreciate it.

You're running a hollow, and then you went right into working on the all -in summit, which we'll be at in a couple weeks.

Chamath, thank you for buttoning up.

We're getting a little complaints from the HR department about the buttons, and so we've now renegotiated that.

I'm going to unbutton three buttons now and walk around forte.

Perfect. And, Sachs, I will see you at the White House.

JD and I will be in the commissary, so we'll invite you to lunch with us.

Actually, in the mess.

Yeah. And you know what?

Letnick's joining us as well.

And who's our energy guy, Chris?

Chris said he wanted to jump in on that.

So maybe you can join us.

I'll invite you now that I am deep into the administration.

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The All-In Summit: A Deep Dive into AI Policy and Presidential Vision

The AI Race and Policy Framework

The Fair Use Debate and Economic Realities

Energy, Geopolitics, and Economic Growth

Privacy and the Future of AI

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