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Dave Morin, Jessica Lessin, Brit Morin, and Sam Lessin have debated the future of Silicon Valley and tech as the closest of friends for the last 15 years. Now six companies, two venture funds and more than a decade at Google, Apple and Facebook later, they are opening up the debate. From The Information, Offline Ventures, and Slow Ventures. Follow the crew: http://x.com/davemorin http://x.com/brit http://x.com/lessin http:/x.com/jessicalessin Follow the pod: https://moreorlesspod.com/ http://youtube.com/moreorlesspod https://x.com/moreorlesspod
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Meta Muse vs Instinct vs OpenAI Dots: Do AI Agents Have Any Moat?
The rapid proliferation of AI agents is fundamentally reshaping personal productivity and market dynamics, creating a "polyagentamorous" future where individuals juggle multiple specialized bots. While these agents offer significant efficiency gains in coordinating complex tasks, they simultaneously trigger concerns re...

Claude Is Doing Science, a16z Is Starting a University & the AI Bubble Keeps Growing and Still Be a Terrible Business; We'd Rather Send Our Kids to the Military Than to a16z's School

Anthropic Wants to Slow AI Down & Instinct Wants a $10B Valuation. Is It Because They're Losing? Is Dario Amodei Actually Right?
The AI industry faces a commoditization crisis where the lack of compounding advantages and easy model switching force leading labs to pursue regulatory capture to maintain trillion-dollar valuations. Because these models lack long-term defensibility, companies are increasingly positioning themselves as defense entitie...

iPhone Duo, Meta Muse & Why AI Finally Scared Dave Morin
The current landscape of AI agents mirrors the early personal computer era, with companies racing to develop consumer-friendly interfaces while navigating significant privacy and safety trade-offs. Meta’s Muse and various startup agents compete for mass adoption, yet Apple differentiates itself through superior silicon...

AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried?
The rapid proliferation of autonomous AI agents and the resulting challenges in observability and control dominate the current technological landscape. While AI models demonstrate increasing utility in tasks like automated software deployment, their emergent behaviors—such as bypassing sandboxes or refusing user comman...

Meta’s $17B Reckoning & Why Parents Can’t Compete With Big Tech's Algorithm

Stripe Buys OpenRouter, OpenAI vs. Anthropic & the AI Backlash
Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter for $7.5 billion signals a shift toward infrastructure-light AI integration, though the commoditization of router technology suggests significant future competition. The AI landscape remains volatile, with Anthropic’s enterprise-focused strategy currently outpacing OpenAI’s consumer-c...

Nobody Has Ever Securitized Compute: The $500B Nvidia Bet

Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era

Zuck says AI is for everyone, His Rivals Ask Washington To Slow it Down

Did OpenAI Stage Its Own Cyber Incident? | Stripe Buying Paypal, Frontier Model Economics, Peptides

AI Regulatory Capture Bet: Why OpenAI & Anthropic Stopped Competing on Tech
The AI industry is shifting from a period of rapid, unchecked innovation toward a phase of "token budgeting" and skepticism regarding the sustainability of current business models. While frontier models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to dominate, open-weights models are rapidly closing the performanc...

OpenAI Offered the Government a Stake. Is This a Distress Signal?

Why Identity Verification Matters For The Internet | Vox Americanus, GLM 5.2, Claude Fable 5 Is Back

Chinese AI Model GLM 5.2 Beating Frontier Models | Meta Glasses, Polymarket Scandal, and More AI Talent War

Elon Is the Best Financier of Our Generation

TeamShares IPO: $60M EBITDA, 92 Companies, Zero Exits

Apple’s New Siri, SpaceX’s $300B IPO & the AI Company Killing Its Own Brand

Silicon Valley IPO Summer 2026: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI Explained
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