E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more

<p>(0:00) Bestie intros: Friedberg fills in as moderator!</p> <p>(2:45) Wagner Group rebellion</p> <p>(23:15) SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action</p> <p>(51:03) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B, Inflection raises $1.3B</p> <p>(1:09:35) IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users, Byju's seeks to raise emergency $1B as founder control in jeopardy</p> <p>(1:26:38) Science Corner: Understanding the NANOGrav findings</p> <p>Follow the besties:</p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/chamath">https://twitter.com/chamath</a></p> <p><a href= "https://linktr.ee/calacanis">https://linktr.ee/calacanis</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/DavidSacks">https://twitter.com/DavidSacks</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/friedberg">https://twitter.com/friedberg</a></p> <p>Follow the pod:</p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/theallinpod">https://twitter.com/theallinpod</a></p> <p><a href= "https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast">https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast</a></p> <p>Intro Music Credit:</p> <p><a href="https://rb.gy/tppkzl">https://rb.gy/tppkzl</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg">https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg</a></p> <p>Intro Video Credit:</p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect">https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect</a></p> <p>Referenced in the show:</p> <p><a href= "https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html"> https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html"> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia"> https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings">https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings</a></p> <p> <a href= "https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570">https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center"> https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html"> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html"> https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html</a></p> <p><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674426520100814848">https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674426520100814848</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361"> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06"> https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai"> https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi"> https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/social-app-irl-which-raised-200-million-shuts-down-after-ceo-misconduct-probe"> https://www.theinformation.com/articles/social-app-irl-which-raised-200-million-shuts-down-after-ceo-misconduct-probe</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-backed-messaging-app-irl-says-it-has-20-million-users-some-employees-have-doubts-about-that"> https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-backed-messaging-app-irl-says-it-has-20-million-users-some-employees-have-doubts-about-that</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/byju-s-seeks-to-raise-1-billion-to-sidestep-shareholder-revolt"> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/byju-s-seeks-to-raise-1-billion-to-sidestep-shareholder-revolt</a></p> <p><a href= "https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/prosus-byjus-markdown">https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/prosus-byjus-markdown</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/shaig/status/1673836979903950851">https://twitter.com/shaig/status/1673836979903950851</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.ft.com/content/b8a4214f-7f64-4d3a-97c4-4731f2effb0d">https://www.ft.com/content/b8a4214f-7f64-4d3a-97c4-4731f2effb0d</a></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1674469606746992651">https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1674469606746992651</a></p> <p><a href= "https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy"> https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628"> https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628</a></p> <p><a href= "https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116">https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116</a></p> <p> </p>