David Sacks, Anthropic, & the White House, Regeneron’s Deafness Cure 4/24/26

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The FDA has approved Regeneron’s gene therapy for a rare form of inherited deafness, and it’s free for Americans. Regeneron CEO Leonard Schleifer discusses the breakthrough treatment, drug pricing, AI’s role in medical innovation, and what breakthroughs might come next. Co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David Sacks was one of the original executives at PayPal, alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. As an AI and crypto advisor to President Trump, the All In Podcast co-host is helping shape AI regulation and policy in the United States. He comments on the government’s complicated relationship with Anthropic and the ongoing feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Plus, a U.S. soldier was arrested for his winning Polymarket bet on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, and Intel reported a blowout quarter. David Sacks - 17:43 Leonard Schleifer - 29:21 In this episode: Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.6	A breakthrough treatment for genetic deafness
0:12.0	approved by the FDA and available for free.
0:15.5	Reganeron, CEO Lens Schleifer,
0:17.4	celebrates and looks to the future.
0:19.8	About 40% of the kids we treated could hear a whisper.
0:23.5	They went from nothing, a jet engine, and then they can hear whisper. That's big news.
0:29.0	It really is big news. When you studied science, Joe, and I studied, this was science fiction,
0:35.7	but this is now a science reality. And tech investor and advisor
0:41.4	to the president, David Sacks, joins us. The feud between his former colleagues, Elon Musk and
0:46.4	Sam Altman, plus getting over the government's beef with Anthropic. If Anthropics' concern here is around
0:53.0	this mass surveillance, I'm concerned about that, too.
0:55.7	I'm a civil libertarian. I don't want the government to be using AI to control the population or to
1:01.7	censor us or to surveil us. I'm still waiting for a phone call for Anthropic. My phone is open.
1:07.9	Plus, the New York mayor versus the hedge funder.
1:11.0	It's not a $15 million second home.
1:13.8	No.
1:14.2	Isn't it a quarter billion?
1:16.3	I think it was even more than that.
1:17.5	A blowout quarter for Intel and the soldier who placed a winning polymarket bet on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro.
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