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

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 128 minutes

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In this episode, the mates welcome Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott to discuss Google’s blowout AI-driven earnings, White House model vetting, Pentagon deals with frontier labs, compute scarcity, the rise of private-equity-led enterprise AI, ocean and space data centers, OpenAI’s changing cloud strategy and delayed IPO talk, AGI definitions, AI risk/insurance, and the growing role of AI in GDP and infrastructure. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Brian Elliott, Co-Founder and CEO of Blitzy. Learn about Blitzy AI Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: https://www.fountainlife.com/peter _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Substack Website Xprize Connect with Brian LinkedIn Blitzy.com Connect with Dave: Web X LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack Spotify Threads Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on May 6th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Google has crushed their earnings.
0:03.0	Alphabet reported $109.9 billion,
0:06.0	22% year on your growth, 62.6 billion in profit.
0:10.0	Google Cloud hit 20 billion revenue with 63%.
0:13.0	Growth AI drove results across the entire Google ecosystem.
0:17.0	The revenue just goes up and up and up and up,
0:19.0	and everyone's like, how's that possible and the way that's possible.
0:22.6	The White House is considering a process of vetting all the models before the release.
0:30.6	The capabilities of the AI are going to grow exponentially, it continues to grow exponentially.
0:33.6	They're incredibly valuable to the military.
0:35.6	So the government ultimately has to preview these things, right? It has to, but it can't get keep. That's where we're going to end up
0:42.1	falling behind from a geopolitical perspective. I'm more worried about the frontier labs, self-policing
0:47.0	more aggressively than the government ever would and stifling competition that way. I think that's a far scarier
0:51.8	future. This is the future that we're going to live in forever hereafter.
0:57.3	Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:02.4	Everybody, welcome to another episode of moonshots here with my extraordinary moonshot
1:06.9	mates, our resident genius, Alex Suisner Gross, AWG.
1:12.5	Good to see you back in your normal haunt. Thank you, Peter. Yeah, awesome. And Dave, listen, I just want to thank you. Think Link Studios,
1:21.5	Link Ventures for being a supporter of this pod. We love the work that you're doing. And we'll soon have Salim Ismail. He is on
1:31.4	some global junket and will be joining us in a little bit. But this is a podcast to help you
1:36.9	understand how fast the world is changing and how to take advantage of it. You know, this is the
1:41.3	news and the technology that really impacts our lives,
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