20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | The Ultimate Stock Picks: What to Buy | The Data Centre Arms Race: Is the Capex War Stalling | The Era of Public Company Deceleration is Dead
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What is the billion-dollar supply chain war between Anthropic and the Pentagon about?
And I think the consensus is in law, Anthropic will probably win a good slug of this case, which is different than saying they're going to win the fight. The idea that you can just have all this shit for free is at some point going to stop because someone's going to have to cover their nut. I think getting rid of juniors is where we get budget for these data centers in part. This goes on really cold. You can have dispossessed urban poor forever and nothing happens. But if you piss off the 20-something-year-old middle class, the overeducated elites, they tend to cause trouble. OpenAI and Atropic have the most amount of surface area to attack of any company in the world right now.
Why are leading companies losing deals to OpenAI?
The era of gentle deceleration has ended. It's dead. This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and it's my favorite show of the week, Rory O'Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, analyzing the biggest news in tech this week. First on, Anthropic sues the US government for being labeled a supply chain risk. Oracle and OpenAI end plans to expand flagship data center.
Will Anthropic's Claude eclipse ChatGPT in the AI landscape?
Meta moves in to absorb the surplus AI data center capacity. Then CrowdStrike, they beat expectations but trade down. And then finally, we have our stock picks. What to buy, what to sell, public market predictions coming up. But before we dive into the show today, are you a founder working nonstop to raise your next round?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the billion-dollar supply chain war between Anthropic and the Pentagon about?
0:00–0:36
2
Why are leading companies losing deals to OpenAI?
0:36–0:58
3
Will Anthropic's Claude eclipse ChatGPT in the AI landscape?
0:58–1:19
4
Is the AI hype cycle finally dead in the data center arms race?
1:19–2:05
5
Why will we soon need data centers in space for persistent AI?
2:05–2:41
6
What factors are contributing to the vanishing of entry-level jobs?
2:41–3:24
7
What is agent-led growth and why is it crucial for startups in 2026?
3:24–4:10
8
Why is the era of gentle deceleration in public markets considered dead?
4:10–1:14:08
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