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Moonshots 254 — Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos

status · captured added 10 Sept 2026 aired 9 May 2026 organizationoperator-life watch the source episode →

Index card. The material lives at L1: data/research/ai-ecosystem/episodes/moonshots-ep254.md and the transcript beside it. Show: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAqvqhdVgU
Runtime 2:06
Panel Peter Diamandis · Salim Ismail · Dave Blundin · Alexander Wissner-Gross · guest Brian Elliott (Blitzy CEO, also a sponsor)
Structure read 2026-09-10 — 94 citation rows inventoried; named press outlets: 1

Why it is here

The macro/demand-side episode that framed the AI-ecosystem research package: Google's earnings, OpenAI's drift to Amazon, the chip boom. Also the episode Grok hallucinated wholesale — the reason the archive pulls transcripts before trusting any summary.

Entities cited

  • NVIDIA · Google/Alphabet · OpenAI · Anthropic · Blitzy
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