The AI Slowdown Debate | Diet TBPN

Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. TBPN is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com Public - https://public.com Cisco - https://www.cisco.com Console - https://www.console.com CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com Figma - https://www.figma.com MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com NYSE - https://www.nyse.com Railway - https://railway.com Shopify - https://www.shopify.com/ Follow TBPN: https://TBPN.com https://x.com/tbpn https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235 https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive Chapters: 00:00 Weekend Chaos + The US Open’s Wild Finish 03:08 How “Pace the Frontier” Took Over the AI Industry 05:51 Dario’s 3-Step AI Slowdown Plan + US–China Coordination 09:29 David Sacks Pushes Back: Cartels, Antitrust + Regulatory Capture 11:31 Trump Rejects the AI Slowdown + “Whoever Wins AI Wins” 16:27 Third-Party AI Evaluators, Liability + Should We Keep Building Energy? 19:30 Is Slowing AI Actually Good for OpenAI & Anthropic? 24:34 Trump Calls Jensen Huang Live at the All-In Summit