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

Peter H. DiamandisMay 9, 20262h 7m
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Google Earnings and White House AI Vetting0:00Moonshots Podcast Introduction1:02Recent Events and Upcoming Moonshots Gathering2:00White House AI Model Vetting Discussion7:31Pentagon AI Agreements and Google Employee Protests14:30Google Earnings Deep Dive18:31Google Compute Constraints and Edge Models24:32OpenAI Shifts from Microsoft Exclusivity32:00OpenAI Misses Targets, Delays IPO37:02Labs Partner with PE Firms for Enterprise AI45:34Skeptical Views on OpenAI and Anthropic's $10B and $1.5B Investments50:06Advice for Businesses on AI Adoption53:01March Towards AGI and Consciousness54:30China Blocks Meta's Manus AI Acquisition1:03:01Blitzy Raises $200M at $1.4B Valuation1:08:31Blitzy's Headcount Expansion and Forward Deployed Engineers1:14:52AI Chip Boom and Data Center Demand1:17:32Ocean-Based AI Data Centers: Panthala1:19:30Orbital Data Centers: StarCloud1:24:30Farmland Data Centers and Backlash1:27:31AI Driving GDP Growth1:31:00Job and Investment Advice1:34:00Sam Altman Rethinking UBI1:38:01Universal Basic Income and Alternatives1:39:04Insurers Dropping AI Risk Coverage1:45:00AMA with Mates1:49:01Closing Remarks and Outro2:04:34End of Episode2:07:30
In a Nutshell

Google's Q3 earnings smashed records with $109.9B revenue (22% YoY growth) and Google Cloud at $20B (63% growth), fueled by AI, amid compute shortages forcing edge models open and a White House push for pre-release AI model vetting by a Trump-era executive order working group. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 matches Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmarks at 5x lower cost, while partnerships with PE giants like TPG ($10B) and Blackstone ($1.5B) target enterprise AI deployment; OpenAI delays IPO to 2027 after missing user/revenue targets. AI drives infinite compute demand (chip/energy stocks soaring, ocean/orbital data centers emerging), AGI progress (80-90% there per leaders), and economic shifts toward Universal Basic Compute/Equity over UBI, with Blitzy raising $200M for autonomous enterprise coding.

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Google crushed earnings: Alphabet reported $109.9 billion revenue, 22% year-on-year growth, $62.6 billion profit. Google Cloud hit $20 billion revenue with 63% growth. AI drove results across Google ecosystem.

White House considering process of vetting all models before release. Trump administration flipped from open position to proposed executive order creating working group with tech leaders and government officials to preview models.

The capabilities of the AI are going to grow exponentially, continues to grow exponentially. They're incredibly valuable to the military. So, the government ultimately has to preview these things, right?

It has to, but it can't gatekeep. That's where we're going to end up falling behind from a geopolitical perspective.

I'm more worried about the Frontier Labs self-policing more aggressively than the government ever would and stifling competition that way. I think that's a far scarier future.

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Special guest: Brian Elliot, CEO of Blitzy (sponsor). Big news week for Blitzy.

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