Meta’s “Sensual” AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor’s dreams became memes + OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It’s a Friday TWiST and Jason and Alex are FIRED UP about this internal Meta doc laying out appropriate vs. inappropriate AI behavior… You won’t BELIEVE with what Zuck approves for 8-year-old users.
PLUS… AI job displacement is HERE, at least in the Big Apple… Jason’s getting kind of paranoid about the surveillance state… AI remains frothier than ever through new Cohere and Cognition rounds… and why we’re dubious that Sam Altman REALLY plans to spend $1 trillion on OpenAI data centers.
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(0:00) Intro - How Opendoor became a meme stock
(06:58) When companies have less value than cash on hand… what gives?
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(19:13) New York’s not adding jobs… Jason and Alex dig in and offer some theories.
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(26:56) AI job displacement is HERE and it’s happening, folks…
(30:05) Why Jason predicts unemployment will be 20% higher 1 year from today… add it to the TWiST Calendar
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(33:02) Wait, Meta AI is having “sensual” chats with children? WHY?
(40:00) Will there be fallout to the Meta exposé? Legal? Staffing? Otherwise?
(47:47) AI remains frothier than ever with new Cohere and Cognition rounds.
(52:33) Sam Altman says he’s going to spend $1 trillion on data centers… Jason’s dubious.
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| 0:00.0 | You can't trust Zuck. |
| 0:01.6 | Zuck can't trust Zuck. |
| 0:03.7 | Zuck should understand he's made the wrong decision about Instagram, |
| 0:07.0 | kids on Instagram, |
| 0:08.9 | banning Trump from the platform. |
| 0:11.0 | You know, |
| 0:11.1 | every decision he could make, |
| 0:12.7 | he makes the wrong decision on these social issues. |
| 0:16.2 | Therefore, |
| 0:16.8 | he needs an abudsman. |
| 0:18.0 | He needs a group of people on that board or around him. |
| 0:21.1 | That's not Mark and Dresen. |
| 0:22.6 | We're not Peter Thiel. |
| 0:25.1 | This week in startups is brought to you by Bolt. |
| 0:29.0 | Don't be left behind. |
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