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Featured Guests: Richard Dulude, co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC | Derek Xiao, investor, Menlo Ventures

Disney invests $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, Apple’s Vision Pro, its first new product in nearly a decade, is hated by social media comment sections but loved by tech reviewers, and will China and the US find a way to cooperate regarding AI?

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Featured Guests: Joey Mak, CEO, Chicago:Blend | Parker McKee, principal, Pillar VC

The CEOs of Meta, Tik Tok, and X face the music during a spirited US Senate hearing, Chicago emerges as one of the most diverse venture markets, and vertical AI applications may be the hottest investment of 2024.

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Featured Guests: Rob Biederman, managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Zach Ullman, principal, Lead Edge Capital

The Sam Altman vs. OpenAI saga may finally be over as the former CEO is likely to take his position back this week, three VC firms just announced very large funds, and while the returns for private equity secondaries have been alright, they've been abysmal for VC.

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Featured Guests: Neil Sequeira, Founder and Partner, defy.vc | Jai Das, President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures

An OECD report suggests that 27% of jobs are at risk to be replaced by AI, Sapphire Ventures commits $1 billion to AI investments, and Microsoft’s $75 billion merger with Activision-Blizzard will not be blocked by U.S. courts.

Featured Guests: Nick Lockett, Co-Founder & CTO, Pear Suite | Michael Cortez, Partner, YL Ventures | Himalaya Rao-Potlapally, Managing Director, BFM Fund

Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement, Massachusetts lawmakers have proposed a total ban of the buying and selling of cell phone location data, and anti-ESG sentiment is on the rise according to HSBC survey.

Featured Guest: Patrick Driscoll, General Partner, Chasing Rainbows

A.I. Robots promise not to rebel against humans, the venture decline may not be coming to an end anytime soon, and notable San-Francisco VC firms are moving offices to a national park near Golden Gate, The Presidio.

Featured Guests: Tinia Pina, CEO & Founder, Re-Nuble | Mat Ellis, CEO & Founder, Sixty AI

Women disproportionately impacted by Big Tech layoffs, ChatGPT experiences its first month of decline in user traffic, and Meta's Threads gets over 30 million downloads on day one.

Featured Guests: Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner, Canvas Ventures | Genè Teare, Senior Data Editor, Crunchbase News

VC investments for women founders are still low a decade later, Crunchbase reports venture funding is down 49% in Q2 since last year, and U.S. District Judge issues a preliminary injunction on Biden’s administration blocking them from content moderation on social media platforms.

Meta announces Threads, Twitter’s new rival, Google’s new privacy policy indicates company will scrape entire public internet to train their AI models, and Apple’s Vision Pro experiencing significant production issues leading to likely headset unit cuts.

Featured Guests: Anthony Pompliano, Entrepeneur and Investor | Colleen Konetzke, Principal, Ironspring Ventures

SEC approval "likely" for spot Bitcoin ETF, U.S. manufacturing production lowest it's been since 2020, and Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen says ChatGPT is “awful” at picking stocks.