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Mentioned in 39 episodes
Empire of AI
Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Book • 2025
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Mentioned in 39 episodes
Mentioned by Speaker 0 when discussing conversations for the series.

393 snips
EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
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as the source of 

's insights on Elon Musk's concerns about Demis Hassabis.

Andy Mills


Karen Hao

391 snips
EP 4: Speedrun
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as the book written by tech reporter Karen Hao.

Andy Mills

372 snips
EP 2: The Signal
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, noting that if you read Karen Hao's book, you probably get the gist of Ilya Sutskever's deposition.

Paul Roetzer

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#179: OpenAI Government “Backstop” Controversy, Microsoft Humanist Superintelligence, Google’s Future of Learning, AI Driving Layoffs & Coca-Cola AI Ad Backlash
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as the book he and Seb Bunny read to discuss OpenAI and Sam Altman.


Preston Pysh

179 snips
TECH004: Sam Altman & the Rise of OpenAI w/ Seb Bunney
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as the book authored by 

on the topic of AI.


Fareed Zakaria


Karen Hao

142 snips
What Mamdani’s Success Reveals About the Democrats
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as the next book to be reviewed, focusing on OpenAI and Sam Altman.


Preston Pysh

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TECH002: Jensen Huang & NVIDIA w/ Seb Bunney - Review of The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt
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as a new book exploring the behavior of AI companies as modern empires.


Hasan Minhaj

70 snips
Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao
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por contar sobre o golpe do Sam Altman.

Fabrício Carraro

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201: Tudo sobre o Gemini 3 e Nano Banana Pro
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, que está quase terminando de lê-lo e o considera muito interessante.

Fabrício Carraro

61 snips
197: Kimi K2 Thinking, Sora 2 no Android, Amazon vs. Perplexity
Mentioned when discussing a factual error regarding water usage in data centers.

59 snips
Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
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as a book he is currently reading, highlighting Karen Hao's behind-the-scenes perspective on OpenAI.

Shane Murray

55 snips
#329 Building Trust in AI Agents with Shane Murray, Senior Vice President of Digital Platform Analytics at Versant Media
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when discussing AI and its ethical implications.


Adam Becker

53 snips
Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker
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referencing Karen Howe's book on AI when discussing the differences between AI technologies.

Ketan Joshi

49 snips
Data Centers Are a Climate Enemy w/ Ketan Joshi
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, discussing a controversy over factual inaccuracies in a new book about OpenAI.


John Coogan

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Gemini 3 Launch, Big Tech Backs Anthropic, OpenAI Adds Fidji Simo | Jonathan Neman, Mike Knoop, Ashlee Vance, Jeremy Epling, Keone Hon, Stephen Balaban
Erwähnt von 

als 

s Buch über OpenAI, Macht und Einfluss in der KI-Industrie.


Larissa Holzki


Karen Hao

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Tech-Journalistin Karen Hao: „OpenAI war nie ein idealistisches Projekt“
Mentioned by Austin Howard as a story that explains why Anthropic exists.

40 snips
Subnet Session with Aurelius: Subnet 37
Wspomniana przez Tomka Onyszko, który zaczął ją czytać po rekomendacji Łukasza; mówi, że jest “krępa”.

40 snips
Brew #51: Co pokazało Apple? Meta - Powrót Metaverse. Opłaty wizowe w USA. Oracle Czarnym Koniem AI.
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, referring to Karen Hao's book about Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Andy Cotgreave

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storytelling with data podcast: #91 Dashboards that Deliver with Andy Cotgreave
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as 

's new book about the dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.


Al Letson


Karen Hao

29 snips
The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy


