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Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China

What does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China? Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an early Hugging Face investor during his time at Lux Capital, joins Eric Newcomer to unpack NVIDIA’s open source strategy, the competition with OpenAI and Anthropic…

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Gambling With the Entire Human Race

AI researchers are warning that their own technology could wipe out humanity. The labs are racing ahead anyway. In this episode of the Cerebral Valley Show, we break down the extinction warnings coming out of Anthropic and debate whether Silicon Valley’s “p(doom)” predictions deserve to be taken se…

Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem

Renee Jones on how billion-dollar startups escaped public scrutiny, why founders became more powerful than their boards, and what happens when private markets operate in secrecy. Renee Jones, Boston College Law School professor, former SEC official, and author of Untamed Unicorns, joins Eric Newcom…

Meta Makes AI Look Friendly. Anthropic Makes It Look Scary. | Cerebral Valley Show

AI agents are getting more powerful, Anthropic is pushing the frontier, and the debate over how far AI scaling can really go is heating up. In this episode of the Cerebral Valley Show, Eric Newcomer, Max Child, and James Wilsterman dig into Muse and what the latest generation of AI agents can actua…

Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI

Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, the future of jobs, and why he believes the AI boom is keeping America out of a recession. The LinkedIn co-founder joins Eric Newcomer to explain why America needs to keep building AI while being careful about how powerful new systems are released. He shares why nobody can …

The Fight Over Whether Claude Has a Soul

Anthropic’s leaked financials, AI bubble fears, and the fight over whether Claude has a soul. Eric Newcomer, Max Child, and James Wilsterman debate what Anthropic’s reported losses and unverified revenue growth figures could mean for its IPO and the wider AI boom. Are normally bullish AI insiders r…

Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom

OpenAI’s revenue confusion, Apple’s AI missteps, and Nvidia’s investments raise a bigger question: how much depends on the AI boom continuing?Big Technology founder Alex Kantrowitz joins Eric Newcomer to examine OpenAI and Anthropic’s businesses, the market’s sensitivity to their growth, and the co…

Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks

Mercury CEO Immad Akhund on the AI startup funding frenzy, agents that spend money, and the future of banking. Immad joins Eric Newcomer to discuss building Mercury to $1 billion in annualized revenue, competing with JPMorgan Chase, and developing financial tools for AI agents. What happens when an…

Did Elizabeth Holmes Just Fool Everyone Again?

Elizabeth Holmes is back in the spotlight, and her new documentary has people questioning whether she's managed to fool everyone all over again. We break down the bizarre film and why it might be working in her favor.In this episode, we debate whether Nathan Fielder's *You Can See Everything* is ac…

129: Eric Newcomer, Ex-Bloomberg Reporter, Almost Didn’t Quit. Then He Built a Media Empire

To build a media business as an independent journalist, you need more than a great newsletter. You need to see what your audience wants before anyone else does, then move fast. If you’ve ever talked yourself out of a big leap, waited for the perfect launch date, or wondered when your solo project b…