Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Elon’s Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs

(0:00) The Besties welcome Travis Kalanick and Keith Rabois!

(3:02) Travis on Pony.ai / Uber rumors and the state of Cloud Kitchens

(18:51) xAI launches Grok 4, learning "The Bitter Lesson" in AI

(40:36) How Grok can catch ChatGPT in usage, OpenAI's product excellence

(46:27) Perplexity and OpenAI building AI-native browsers and taking on Chrome

(58:01) Elon's "America Party": is now the right time for a third party, and could he make an impact in 2026?

(1:13:12) SCOTUS backs Trump over federal government RIF plans

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/uber-travis-kalanick-self-driving-car-deal.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5fJikPmfM

https://grok.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTA90BYo30

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/elon-musk-agrees-that-weve-exhausted-ai-training-data

https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1943192643439337753

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

https://x.com/chamath/status/1943177837956968499

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-an-ai-powered-web-browser

https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1942969263305671143

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1941584569523732930

https://polymarket.com/event/will-elon-register-the-america-party-by

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/presidential-approval/highslows

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651278/support-third-political-party-dips.aspx

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-implement-plans-to-significantly-reduce-the-federal-workforce

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