Iran's AI Supply Chain Threat, Claude vs. SaaS, and Elon's $60B Cursor Bet | EP #249

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 154 minutes

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In this episode, the mates center on the Iran oil shock as a broader system shock, Anthropic’s Claude Design and the “unhobbled” frontier-lab threat to vertical software, the AI job transition, UAP disclosure, the power and geopolitics of data centers, China’s solar and robotics push, and the future of entrepreneurship and agency. 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 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 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 April 21st, 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	Having this global geopolitical dependency on one narrow, volatile geographic region is completely unacceptable.
0:08.0	This Iran war is not really just an oil shock, it's a system shock.
0:12.0	TBD, whether, you know, what direction the U.S. goes on that.
0:15.0	It's almost easier to predict what happens after it ends, which is to say.
0:20.0	We're seeing all of a sudden the Frontier Labs beginning to compete with the vertical
0:25.2	businesses built on top of large language models.
0:27.9	You're going to get this board of startups building in an AI native mode, and the big
0:33.2	companies will struggle to adopt.
0:35.2	SpaceX negotiates the right to buy cursor for $60 billion.
0:39.3	Is this just Elon's normal play?
0:42.3	This is actually what a Dyson swarm probably looks like.
0:46.3	This is where it's all coming down to.
0:48.3	This is like the final countdown of whatever stage of the singularity we're in.
0:58.2	Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:03.7	Everybody, welcome to another episode of Moonshots.
1:05.9	WTF just happened in tech this week.
1:10.3	Your opportunity to hear about what's going on in the world at a hypersonic speed here to help prepare
1:11.7	you for the future with my incredible moonshot mates our resident genius AWG. Alex, good to see you
1:17.3	in your normal haunt. It's good to be haunted. And of course our exponential investor DB2, Dave, back at MIT, I see. Yes, back from Sam Fran for
1:32.0	one day and then off to New York tonight. Yeah, you know, it's funny. We talk about the three-day
1:37.9	work week, the four-day work week. I think this is invented the nine and ten-day work week for us.
1:46.6	You know what, Alex is constantly reminding us there's only going to be one singularity in our
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