Phil Mercer
speaker
6,555 appearances
112 recordings
5 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Phil Mercer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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from the employee that had resigned, one of his colleagues, a current anthropic researcher, weighed in as well.
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The specific line that everyone's talking about online on social media is the likelihood in the next decade that AI wipes out humanity.
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Could you just explain that bit very quickly, Shep?
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Mike Shepherd, for the reporting.
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Thank you very much.
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Let's stay with private markets and startups.
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Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup Covenant is emerging from stealth after raising more than $250 million from three different funding rounds.
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The defense tech firm has already signed military contracts across the U.S.
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and Europe and says it can make cheaper, heavy payload, long-range cruise missiles.
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Covenant President and Chief Growth Officer Abby Denberg is with us.
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Really interesting reading about government.
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Let's start with the technology that you're working on.
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What is this most akin to in terms of what's already out there in the American defense industrial base?
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Abby, that looks to me, all the way over here from Cupertino, but also from the description, sounds to me very similar to a Tomahawk missile.
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Is that fair?
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it's $250 million out the gate.
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That's a lot of money to come out of stealth.
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I go back to the note that it's three separate rounds that happened over time.
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But talk about the experience of raising those funds and coming out of stealth right now.
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Why this moment?
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