Sam Altman’s Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

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4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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In this episode, the mates cover Anthropic Opus 4.7, AI backlash and unrest, the Stanford 2026 AI Index, young workers getting squeezed out, AI-driven store automation, data center bans, satellite wars, transhumanism, and speculative futures like uploads and space colonization. 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 16th, 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	A 20-year-old Texan through a Maltuff cocktail at Sam Altman, San Francisco House.
0:05.0	Suspect was on something called the official Pause AI Discord Server list.
0:09.0	The state of Maine passed the first ever statewide data center ban in the United States.
0:15.0	Social unrest coming as a result of people's fear and people not getting jobs.
0:20.0	Only 23% of the public is optimistic about AI.
0:24.6	99% of the people you bump into on the street are underreacting and unaware.
0:29.6	If you don't want to use it, fine. Let other people use it and get the benefits of it.
0:33.6	Anthropics Opus 4.7 dropped.
0:36.6	It is moderately interesting.
0:38.5	Is it mythically interesting?
0:41.0	No.
0:42.0	The new guidance is use prompts, use prompts for everything.
0:46.2	The problem is it's sort of an outboring effect where I want mythos access.
0:52.4	Amazon and Apple team up to compete against Starlink.
0:56.8	I would bet that Apple, in short turn, ends up pitting Amazon, the new global star owner,
1:02.5	against SpaceX Starlink.
1:04.3	Elon does not stand still.
1:07.8	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:12.6	So as we started recording this episode today, Anthropics Opus 4.7 dropped.
1:18.7	So we wanted to do a quick pickup, insert it here at the top of the show, to discuss what is Opus 4.7?
1:25.7	How is it compared to 4.6?
1:29.6	Mythos, of course, we're here with our resident genius on all benchmarks, Alex Weezner Gross. It is moderately interesting.
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