E265: March 27 2026
- Anthropic on a generational run
- Jensen called Opus 4.5/6 an inflection point (similar as Michael Dell)
- Anthropic releasing features out the wazoo - incredible pace
- Company made an early bet on coding/agentic coding - working really well for them
- They make the best coding products
- People pitting Anthropic and OpenAI just for drama
- Both companies seem to be accounting revenue differently and the businesses are quite different
- Emil Michael apparently smeared in article about his involvement with Anthropic and potential rivals - classic deflection by leftists
- OpenAI losing share?
- Risk is low because its very well established
- Could become the default consumer AI app - like how people pay for phones and electricity - OpenAI could be there
- Could be new platform like smartphone App store
- Google has a strong position here - they could release their own OpenClaw - people already trust them
- Impact of AI on valuations
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One thing that can help is looking at how the market values cash flows
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High Asset Low Obsolescence - HALO portfolio - like anti-AI portfolio - might be interesting to look at
- Example: Natural Gas, etc
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Questionable how much brand matters now
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- Liquidity Summit
- Dan Loeb
- Sarah Friar
- Bill Ackman
- Andrej Karpathy
- Crazy AI productivity
- autoresearch is a great project
- All your ideas are available to you here right now
- Meta loses lawsuits
- New Mexico online predators case
- LA jury held Instagram and YouTube liable
- Tort lawsuits cost ~$900B a year in America
- We need to hold parents accountable also - they are responsible for their kids
- We never talk about our responsibility - we want to blame the government for not protecting us and blame the companies for hurting us
- As a counter - the corporations know about the harms that people don’t but they continue to profit knowingly
- Tort lawyers are some of the biggest political donors in the US - they donate to Democrats in local elections, Republicans in national elections and help elect judges - so there is a lot of money in this business
- Should Spotify be held liable if you get depression after listening to a playlist of sad music you created?
- Trial lawyers are trying to create the next Big Tobacco
- They have figured out a way around Section 230 protections and are going to hurt these companies with death by a thousand cuts
- Sacks and Friedberg join PCAST
- President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

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