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All In Podcast Episode 237 Recap and Notes August 1 2025

August 1 2025

  • Jason pitching nicotine pouch product

  • All In AI Summit in DC recap

    • Lot of tech company CEOs wanted in on the event and had to rejected because there wasn’t enough room
    • Trump shoutouts to Besties
    • Cabinet of CEOs
    • Trump speech
      • Regulation and cutting red tape

      • Infrastructure - data centers, power, energy

      • AI exports

      • No woke AI (EO)

      • AI race declaration (like Space race speech by JFK)

      • Speech + EOs + BBB reinforce motivation to go execute on AI priorities for US

      • Energy will be a huge thing to focus on - its crucial for AI

      • Jensen Huang is visionary

      • Private companies are still free to train and infuse their models with whatever ideology they want (DEI, etc) - but the EO clarifies that the federal government will not procure anything like this

      • JD made a strong point about male employment (even college education isn’t helping you get a leg up right now)


  • AI and copyright

    • Why hamstring AI progress in the US to subsidize journalists?
  • AI Summit 2025 has stacked line up

  • AI Chatbot privacy issues

    • Sam Altman on Theo Von explained how little protection you have when talking to ChatGPT etc about your private stuff
    • Can the AI models be “bar certified” or “medically certified”? Then same privilege can be extended to AI for privacy
  • Economic signs are positive

    • GDP increases high - 3% lately
    • Fed doesn’t cut rates
    • Q1 and Q2 are different, before and after tariffs
    • EU trade deal should help
      • $600B investments in US
      • $750B US energy purchase
      • 15% tariff
      • Follow up to their commitment to raise their NATO contribution to 5% of GDP up from 2%
      • This is effectively $2T stimulus to US economy without money printing
    • There is some economic data (how much is being spent on furnishings, cars, etc) that indicates maybe rates should be steady
    • Are rates not being cut because of politics? If they are cut, markets will rip and that will help Rs in the mid terms

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