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20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips
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- Jul 9, 2026
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AGENDA: 05:00 Washington Just Put Frontier AI on a Leash 06:30 Sam Altman's Wild 5% Government Stake Idea 19:00 The AI Funding Bubble: Why Founders No Longer Fear Dilution 28:00 Alex Karp's Brutal Warning: Enterprises Don't Trust Frontier AI 33:00 Meta's Shock Pivot: Has Zuck Accidentally Built the Next CoreWeave? 41:00 Nvidia's Dangerous New Game: "Compute Now, Pay Later" 45:00 Anthropic & DeepSeek Go After Nvidia's Crown 48:00 Kling vs Sora: Did China Just Win AI Video? 52:00 Is China Secretly Winning the Open Source AI War? 01:02:00 Microsoft & Amazon's $6B Bet: AI Still Needs Humans 01:11:00 Ashton Kutcher Walks Away From Sound Ventures 01:16:00 The New Startup Talent War: No Liquidity, No Chance 01:20:00 Final Thoughts: Who Wins the AI Endgame?