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Tea, the viral dating safety app built to help women share red flags about men, just suffered another massive data breach. The initial leak exposed 72,000 sensitive images (selfies and photo IDs used for verification). The second security issue has revealed over 1.1 million messages including chats where users shared phone numbers, discussed abortions, and talked about cheating partners.

Elon Musk just confirmed a $16.5 billion chip deal with Samsung, locking in production of Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips from Samsung’s new Texas fab. The deal marks a major comeback bid for Samsung in the AI chip war after falling behind rivals like TSMC and Nvidia. Featured Guest: Jimmy Yun, investor, 8VC

It is inevitable that humanoid robots will be in our homes within the next 15 years. Many are afraid, but they shouldn't be.

Trump just flipped the AI playbook, ditching regulation for raw acceleration, with an ambitious plan to supercharge data centers, wipe legal barriers, and root out “woke” algorithms. Chinese hackers recently breached the United States nuclear weapons agency using a Microsoft SharePoint flaw, exposing how fragile America’s cyber infrastructure still is. And how Europe may be poised to have a “sputn...

OpenAI is racing to build a 5GW AI infrastructure empire with Oracle, which will cost $30B a year and create enough juice to power 4 million homes. Stargate, its $500 billion dollar SoftBank partnership, however, is lagging behind, and is still yet to secure a single data center deal. Featured Guest: Jake O'Shea, principal, Antler

We interview the CEO of Medium for the story of how he helped the company claw its way back from millions of losses and near-collapse. Featured Guest: Tony Stubblebine, CEO, Medium Read Tony's article 'Fell in a hole, got out.' on Medium: https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Netflix just slipped generative AI into its new sci-fi series The Eternaut to cut costs and speed up production. It marks the first time AI-made visuals have appeared in an original Netflix show and reignites fears about machines replacing human creatives. Featured Guests: Pratima Arora, chief product officer, Smartsheet Watch our full interview with Augustus Doricko at Rainmaker's facility in...

OpenAI has launched Agent Mode, a major upgrade to ChatGPT that enables it to take real-world actions like browsing, coding, using APIs, and handling complex tasks on its own virtual computer, with safeguards against prompt injection, data leaks, and risky actions. Featured Guest: Ben Narasin, founder & general partner, Tenacity VC

The CEO of Firestorm Labs joins us to discuss the company’s $47 million dollar series A funding round to scale its battlefield-ready 3D printing platform. And driven of course by AI, U.S. startup funding has jumped 75.6% so far in 2025, even as VC fundraising has fallen. Featured Guests: Dan Magy, CEO and co-founder, Firestorm | Elliott Parker, founder and CEO, Alloy Partners Watch our recent inte...

Trump and Senator McCormick just announced a plan for $90 billion in private investment to supercharge Pennsylvania’s AI and energy sectors, creating thousands of jobs. And we talk to Bradley Tusk about his recent Ted Talk in which he made the case for why you should be able to vote on your phone. Featured Guests: Doug Clinton, co-founder and managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Bradley...

Cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, which recently fueled conspiracy theories after the Texas floods, just teamed up with Atmo, an AI weather firm to squeeze more rain out of the sky with drones. And Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, fresh off a scandal for spewing antisemitic garbage, is now under Pentagon contract and officially for sale to every federal agency in America. Featured Guests: Augustus Dori...

Wall Street just hired an AI engineer named Devin who writes code like a human, and he might soon have thousands of clones replacing junior developers. And Trump’s new “One Big Beautiful Bill” promises more American rare-earth mining but kills the clean energy incentives that made those mines worth building. Featured Guests: Anshul Gupta, co-founder, Actively AI | Josh Dorfman, co-founder, CEO, an...

On today’s show, Elon says that Grok 4 is smarter than PHDs in all disciplines, the Pentagon takes on China in the battle for mining rare earths, and Amazon considers dumping billions of more investment dollars into Anthropic.

On today’s show, Nvidia just became the most valuable country in history hitting $4T in market cap, Trump unveils the latest tariffs rates on countries

On today’s show, how will the big beautiful bill affect venture capital? We have more job movement news, people getting hired, people leaving companies. And the Moa bird, that’s been extinct for hundreds of years, is being brough back to life.

On today’s show, Elon Musk announces he is starting a new political party in America. Mark Zuckerberg’s hiring streak continues by adding one of Apple’s top AI talents, and we recap what happened with the flooding in Central Texas and if cloud seeding played a role in it.

Tech CEOs are no longer being shy about it: they’re saying AI is coming for your job, my job, everyone’s job, with predictions that 50% of white collar workers will be replaced. And after a failed attempt to block states from making their own AI laws, Washington is now under pressure to finally write national AI rules before America becomes a regulatory patchwork mess. Featured Guests: Rob Biederm...

Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey are launching a Tolkien-themed bank to serve crypto and defense startups left behind after SVB’s collapse. And a new study warns that AI in fintech and healthcare apps can be tricked into leaking data with just a sneaky prompt. Featured Guests: Jake O'Shea, principal, Antler | Gareth Shepherd, managing director, Voya Investment Management

The US Senate just removed the AI regulation ban from Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill. " Yesterday, Figma filed for an IPO and intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “FIG.” And Cloudflare may have just changed the game for content creators and AI bots. DOWNLOAD PUBLIC:  ⁠Public.com/venture⁠ Invest in everything—stocks, options, bonds, crypto. You can even earn some o...

Microsoft introduces AI-driven diagnosis system to advance healthcare. Mark Zuckerberg announces his new “Superintelligence Labs” team at Meta with some exciting hires. And Oracle signs record-breaking $30B cloud agreement, outpacing its current cloud revenue. Featured guest: Jaimal Soni, co-founder and CEO, Insight HealthDOWNLOAD PUBLIC: ⁠⁠ https://public.com/venture⁠ Invest in everything—stocks,...

The feud between Meta and OpenAI heat up as Zuck steals more OpenAI employees to join his Superintelligence team. President Trump says he has found a buyer for the US operations of TikTok. And we give you a quick recap of everything big that happened in the month of June. DOWNLOAD PUBLIC: ⁠⁠https://public.com/venture⁠ Invest in everything—stocks, options, bonds, crypto. You can even earn some of t...

Jeff Bezos is making moves in Washington—meeting with Trump just weeks after Elon Musk’s falling out with the former president. Meanwhile, Reddit is cracking down on AI-generated content to protect the human feel of its platform. And in a major shift, the FHFA is pushing to count crypto as a real asset in the U.S. mortgage system. Featured guest: Ben Narasin, founder and general partner, Tenacity...

OpenAI says China’s AI push is targeting developing nations, Bumble announces massive layoffs, and Spirit Airlines tries to block a controversial airline alliance. Featured guest: Parker McKee, Partner, Pillar VC DOWNLOAD PUBLIC: ⁠ https://public.com/venture Invest in everything—stocks, options, bonds, crypto. You can even earn some of the highest yields in the industry—like the 7% or higher yield...

Automakers, tech giants, and others push back against Trump’s proposed 25% chip tariff. It’s reported that the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow and Natanz actually only set Iran’s nuclear program back about 3-6 months. Sam Altman leaks emails between him and IYO founder Jason Rugolo ahead of their legal battle over OpenAI’s IO.And we got a special funding announcement from a compa...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively courting top AI talent with compensation offers exceeding $100 million as he builds a new Superintelligence team. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives has quietly banned WhatsApp on staff devices, citing security risks. And tensions in the Middle East flared as Iran fired missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating against recent American...