August 17 2026 (from Gemini) Garrett Langley – Founder and CEO of Flock Safety Scale, Community Footprint & Public Safety Impact : Founded nine years ago, Flock Safety has expanded into roughly 6,000 cities across the United States. Over the past year, the technology helped law enforcement solve over one million crimes and recover more than 10,000 missing persons (including Amber Alerts, abducted children, and elderly individuals with dementia). In a single representative month, the platform assisted in finding 1,125 missing people and recovering over 20,000 stolen vehicles. ALPR Technology Boundaries vs. Competitor Overreach : Flock’s automated license plate reading (ALPR) cameras take still images of vehicles and capture identifying external characteristics—such as license plates, makes, models, colors, roof racks, bumper stickers, dents, and missing hubcaps. Langley emphasizes clear product boundaries that differentiate Flock from competitors: the system does not perform fa...
August 14 2026 Gavin Baker joins the show for Chamath and Friedberg, Sacks back Rahm Emanuel interview debrief Anthropic targeting $2T IPO People guessing it will IPO in October They might buy Decart Elon agreed that Anthropic/Dario didn’t set off his evil detector Which is good coz he cut SBF short when they spoke (~5:40m) Their revenue is growing like crazy even if on the margins OpenAI, Open Source, Grok might be hoping they’re grabbing more share $2T might even be conservative Have been growing ARR 10x YoY for last 3 years Anthropic is very bullish internally - their vision is: there is Anthropic and there are governments Data Centers are a big business - atoms is harder than bits - watch Landman to get an idea of how hard it is Data Center FUD is very strong - because someone made a mistake by a 100000x water usage mistake in a book 3 years ago WSJ just had a story on how Data Center in a small town helped everyone out - better schools, more taxes, better revenues...