Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: How has the public's perception of tech oligarchs changed?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of AI advancements in healthcare?
Are you? I never know. She's co-host of Pivot. She's the host of On with Kara Swisher. It's Kara Swisher. How are you doing?
Hi. How are you doing? How's it going? Thank you, by the way, for being a guest host on Pivot during scot-free August.
It was my honor. I had a blast. I had a blast doing it. I hope I get invited back next August. I also was invited to ask a question to Scott Jennings, which created like a little mini feud.
Chapter 4: How is the relationship between tech leaders and politics evolving?
Oh, my God. What the hell?
It created a feud. He got very upset.
I was like, it's a decent question, although it was a little obnoxious.
It was a little obnoxious.
It was a little cheeky. Speaking of, he invented obnoxious.
If he can't handle obnoxious and cheeky, who can?
Yeah, exactly. Cheeky is not how I describe him. It's smirky.
Smirky.
Yeah, I'm a little cheeky here.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do universities face in the current climate?
That's true. Cheeky and smirky. That should be a podcast you should do with Scott Jennings.
I don't think so. Cheeky and smirky. He brought it up on some random MAGA podcast a couple days later, how annoyed he was.
I know. How silly. How silly.
Anyway, I have a take here I'm going to offer to you that's related to why you're here. I was like, I want to do a 2025 recap pod that focuses on... We're so obsessed with TDS on this show and politics and what's happening with Trump. But I kind of think...
If we look back five, 10 years from now, like the most meaningful thing that will have happened this year is something related to the tech oligarchy emerging. Absolutely.
That's how it started.
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Chapter 6: How does consolidation affect media companies?
Yeah. And so I just have a little list here. The inauguration and all those guys being there. The Valley's embrace of MAGA at some level, we'll listen to you on how big of a level. Musk's rise and then break up with Trump, the crypto corruption, the LLM boom. Those are the kind of things I had.
What would you, of that list or otherwise, would you say is going to be the thing that has the most staying power?
I think these chips deals with China are really problematic and Chinese efforts in AI and what will happen in the next year. I think Trump initially, and actually quite correctly in his first term, was quite wary of China. And remember, he said TikTok will never be sold. And then he changed his mind because one of his big donors was his tech people said, just a second, we own a lot of this thing.
And I just think he was on the right track in terms of
china and he's been sort of captured by people are like if we don't give them the stuff they'll build it themselves and it's a ridiculous logic as far as i'm concerned but it's strange i wonder if he's got business deals there the whole thing is really it's been really eye-raising and whether it's the college campuses you know you would think that he would be more of a like that would go to the america first thing you think you do the xenophobic stuff the chinese flu the stuff he did last time that would seem to make more sense
One of the things also speaking of universities, the cuts to universities, I think it's sort of quieted down, but I was just visiting a number of universities, including around vaccines, around advanced technology. And this is setting back a generation of research and important innovation.
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Chapter 7: What predictions are made for the future of tech and politics?
And tech guys always act like they invented the moon and they just didn't. It was invented on universities, campuses, much of this stuff. And so I think that to me is sort of a traffic accident well down the road, but
So many of these researchers and these different innovators were like, at the academic level I'm talking about, were like, think I'll be moving to Canada or France, who are offering enormous stipends for people to move there. So that to me is one of these slow moving accidents of the Trump administration we're going to pay for.
Did Illinois get any credit, University of Illinois, for Marc Andreessen's work there when he was in the computer science department? No, it's just all him. It was all in the brain.
No, it was not all him by any stretch of the imagination. So anyway, so I think those are two things I think about a lot and the damage he's done to universities and science in general and science and technologies are so interrelated. And I think it's not as exciting. And then, you know, the anti-immigration thing when, in fact, Elon's an immigrant and
Sundar Pichai, all these people standing there are all immigrants, right? Came from another country and thrived and added to value to the American economy. So, you know, Sergey Brin is an immigrant.
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Chapter 8: What cultural impacts are explored through entertainment in tech?
Yeah, those are good. I should have added those to my list. You're right about the universities and the cutting of funding. I feel like it's something I bring up like once a week and I'm always like, I should mention that more. It's hard to, you know, because there is no like a cute thing happening anymore, right?
No, when you talk to these researchers, they're so crestfallen. And, you know, the money is a real thing, like these kind of things. And all for what? You know, for what?
Nothing. We didn't even cut the debt or anything. Right, exactly.
I mean, I get the idea of being angry at the students for being mean, but I just, the cost here is so massive. in order to get rid of DEI, which was directionally correct, even if it was rolled out sometimes excessively.
What do you think about the staying power of this little marriage between MAGA folks and tech CEOs? Is it a marriage of convenience that just goes away as soon as Trump goes away? Or is there something about a pivot to the right that is inherent in what they're doing?
No, it's not a pivot to the right. It's a pivot to give me everything and leave me alone. Right. It's a pivot that where they always were. Right. And a lot of them, you know, except for Peter Thiel, who's been consistent, I will say, has been since college.
His appetite for authoritarianism seems to have gotten a little bit greater, but there's a little bit there always. Yeah.
Always. Go back and read some of his books or his early things. It's all in that genre. He was moving towards it and developing his theories, I guess. And his seasteading stuff, it's all about leave me the fuck alone, right? I think it's a version of leave me. And so when I was dealing with them, like Andreessen or any of them, I didn't ever know their politics. Like they never discussed it.
They were always gossiping about each other, which is what you do in Washington. I mean, you guys must be having a field day with Susie Wiles. Yeah, my old boss. Yeah, well, I think she knows exactly what she's doing, including from a social media perspective, but maybe not. Maybe she's just chatty. So chatty.
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